Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

Biographies & Memoirs

McKenna, Neil

Historical

Faber & Faber Non-Fiction

'They flee from me that sometime did me seek,' wrote Thomas Wyatt, yet the poet who introduced the sonnet and the epigram into English literature was also a survivor who abandoned Catherine of Aragon for Anne Boleyn, and dissociated himself from Thomas Cromwell when his star sank. This remarkable biography sets Wyatt's enigmatic verses against the lethal power politics of the court of Henry VIII to create a rich and nuanced portrait of a complex, elusive and fascinating figure.

Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest

Brigden, Susan

Arts & Literature

The dramatic and controversial history of the world's leading tournament. Brian glanville's classic account is a celebration of the great players and matches from uruguay in 1930 to south africa in 2010 - and a bold attack on all those who have mismanaged the 'beautiful game'.

The Story of the World Cup by Glanville, Brian (2014) Paperback

Glanville, Brian

Sports & Outdoors

She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

Part investigation, part travelogue, part elegy. A writer`s search for her mother`s story.

emma-brockes

Community & Culture

Brockes, Emma

"Nobody describes a naval battle better than Taylor…a flawless demonstration of the biographer’s craft." ―Jan Morris, The Guardian Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless at age eight, with a penniless mother and five siblings, Pellew fought his way from the very bottom of the navy to fleet command. Victories and eye-catching feats won him a public following. Yet he had a gift for antagonizing his better-born peers, and he made powerful enemies. Redemption came with his last command, when he set off to do battle with the Barbary States and free thousands of European slaves. Opinion held this to be an impossible mission, and Pellew himself, leading from the front in the style of his contemporary Nelson, did not expect to survive. Pellew’s humanity, fondness for subordinates, and blind love for his family, and the warmth and intimacy of his letters, make him a hugely engaging figure. Stephen Taylor gives him at last the biography he deserves. 8 pages of illustrations

Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain

History

Taylor, Stephen

Europe

Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would become and told in hindsight, Castor's Joan of Arc: A History takes us back to fifteenth century France and tells the story forwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no one-not Joan herself, nor the people around her-princes, bishops, soldiers, or peasants-knew what would happen next.

Joan of ARC: A History

Born in 1947, David Hare is one of Britains foremost playwrights and screenwriters. With warmth, humour, and characteristically dazzling prose, this memoir vividly evokes his Anglo-Catholic upbringing in a suburban Hastings as vanished as Victorian England, against the backdrop of a time in which faith in empire, Christianity, hierarchy and deference were being swept away. It also charts his early struggles to become a writer - and the high price he and those around him paid for that decision.

The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir

HARE, David

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-04-01 Pages: 384 Language: English Publisher: Faber &amp; Faber Have the triumphs of Richard Branson. one of thew worlds most popular and most publicity-seeking businessman. turned to dust over the last decade The image remains pristine: a charismatic high-school dropout turned billionaire. whose stratospheric rise and daring exploits have won him millions of enduring admirers and made him a model for aspiring entrepreneurs throughout the world But is this story still credible Over the last decade. has Branson. matched the expectations perpetuated by Virgins relentless publicity machine Or have we all been seduced by a brilliant showman In his most explosive book to date. Tom Bower. bestselling biographer of Simon Cowell. Bernie Ecclestone. Conrad Black and Robert Maxwell. dares to explore the reality . of the Branson empire In doing so. he unravels the...

Branson. Behind the Mask

Bower, Tom

Shadows on the Road

MICHAEL BARRY

Individual Sports

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