The third volume of Helen Forrester's poverty-stricken childhood and adolescence in Liverpool during the 1930s recounts Helens transition from poverty to fledgling romance and personal liberty.

Love, corruption, violence and the dangerous politics of aid in the Sudan, by an exciting new writer.

The extaordinary life of Sir Thomas Malory, author of the 'Morte d'Arthur'.

The memoir of Hugo Hamilton, which details his life as a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family's homesickness for a country they can call their own.

Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th century in his ground-breaking new biography 'The Age of Wonder'.

A biography of a brilliant, largely forgotten, maverick - a major figure in the 17th-century cultural and scientific revolutions.

The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship -- and quarrel -- between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism.

An account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America's novelists.

A study in vanity and ambition, madness and resignation

A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City!