Biography

He's climbed Everest not long after a heart bypass operation, he's run seven marathons on seven continents, he's hauled loaded sledges across both polar ice caps and he's circumnavigated the Earth - Ran Fiennes truly is the world's greatest explorer, and this book celebrates his 80th birthday by ...

Containing never-before seen images and fresh insight into his influences and early life, this book seeks to answer questions about the forces which shaped George Wyllie's unique worldview. The voyage begins with Wyllie's Glasgow childhood - a period 'disadvantaged by happiness' - and moves on to...

The most powerful woman in American political history, Nancy Pelosi, tells the story of her transformation from housewife to House Speaker - how she became a master legislator, a key partner to presidents, and the most visible leader of the Trump resistance.

Here is the true story of the world's most prolific art thief, who accumulated a collection worth over $1.4 billion. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Car...

Stephane Brietwieser stole over 300 art pieces in the course of 200 heists. While travelling around Europe and working as a waiter in the mid-90's, Stephane orchestrated cunning heists almost fortnightly. His routine nature and relentlessness led the Guardian to call him 'arguably the world's mos...

As a young medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle studied under the vigilant eye of Dr Joseph Bell. He observed as Dr Bell identified a patient's occupation, hometown and ailments both imagined and genuine from the smallest details of dress, gait and speech. Although D...

Admired for his willingness to grapple with even the most dislikeable of characters, Derek Jacobi has worked continuously throughout his career, starring in roles ranging from the lead in 'I, Claudius' to Hitler in 'Inside the Third Reich' and Francis Bacon in the controversial 'Love Is The Devil...

This title tells the complete life story of arguably Britain's greatest mountaineer, whose career has spanned six decades of climbing peaks, across all continents and still being able to summit The Old Man of Hoy aged eighty years of age in 2015.

Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain. In science, he is known for his important work in meteorology, climate science, magnetism, acoustics and bacteriology. ...

'I've a body out the back for you' - imagine having that sentence said to you. And then imagine it actually being pertinent. Welcome to Evie King's world. What happens if you die without family or money? The answer to this very three-in-the-morning question is that Evie, or someone like her, will...