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Biographies
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Writers and Their Teachers (Hardback)€29.99By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers.
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LeBron€23.99The first definitive biography of basketball legend LeBron James, by the acclaimed author of Tiger Woods.
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George III : The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch€22.99Andrew Roberts's magnificent new biography takes entirely the opposite view. It portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty.
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G-Man : J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (Hardback)€44.99When he became director of the FBI in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was a dazzling wunderkind buzzing with big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater, riddled with scandal, into a modern machine.
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Chums : How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK€11.99A damning look at the university clique-turned-Commons majority that will blow the doors of Westminster wide open and change the way you look at our democracy forever.
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The Mandela Brief : Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid (Paperback)€15.99Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression.
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Quartet : How Four Women Changed the Musical World (Hardback)€23.99Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette.
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Lead Sister : The Story of Karen Carpenter€26.99When the Carpenters first toured Japan, a journalist mistakenly referred to Karen as the 'lead sister' of the band. This designation stuck and Karen liked it so much that she had a T-shirt custom-made with the slogan, which she wore while drumming on the band's 1976 world tour.
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A Small Town in Ukraine : The place we came from, the place we went back to€21.99Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets).
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Vita Nuova : A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text€12.99A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary.