Biography

This is the story of James Herriot's formative years at veterinary college. It shines a light on his calling to work with animals, his early friendships and his quest for veterinary knowledge.

'Young Lawrence' focuses on the story of T.E. Lawrence in his twenties, before the war, during the period he looked back on as his golden years. Using first-hand sources, museum records and Foreign Office documents, Anthony Sattin sets these adventures against the background of corrosive conflict...

In 'Young Prince Philip', Philip Eade recounts the prince's extraordinary upbringing in Greece, France, Nazi Germany and Britain, where he inhabited a strikingly colourful milieu yet was beset by continual turbulence and a succession of family tragedies.

In 'Young Prince Philip', Philip Eade recounts the prince's extraordinary upbringing in Greece, France, Nazi Germany and Britain, where he inhabited a strikingly colourful milieu yet was beset by continual turbulence and a succession of family tragedies.

Most people today think of Winston Churchill as simply the wartime British bulldog - a jowly, cigar-chomping old fighter demanding blood, sweat and tears from his nation. But the well-known story of the elder statesman has overshadowed an earlier part of his life that is no less fascinating, and ...

Revisiting the bomb-sites and boozers of his childhood and adolescence, Ray Winstone takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of a cockney heartland which is at once irresistibly mythic and undeniably real. Told with its author's trademark blend of brutal directness and roguish wit, 'Young Winst...

Revisiting the bomb-sites and boozers of his childhood and adolescence, Ray Winstone takes the reader on an unforgettable tour of a cockney heartland which is at once irresistibly mythic and undeniably real. Told with its author's trademark blend of brutal directness and roguish wit, 'Young Winst...

One of modern football's most brilliant players - and one of its most iconic and mysterious figures - Zinedine Zidane's football career is the stuff of legend. A World Cup-winner with France, he became the world's most expensive player in 2001 when he moved from Juventus to Real Madrid for £46mil...

Over the course of almost half a century, puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew has worked with the greats - from David Bowie in 'Labyrinth' to Michael Caine in 'A Muppet Christmas Carol.' But the role that defined his career was 'Rainbow's' Zippy, who he operated for more than twenty years. 'Zippy and Me' is...