IMAGINE WAKING UP IN A TRAIN STATION IN INDIA WITH NO IDEA WHO YOU ARE OR HOW YOU GOT THERE - In 2002, at age twenty-eight, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No mone
On 11th April 1919, less than a year after the assassination of the Romanovs, the British battleship HMS Marlborough left Yalta carrying the Russian Imperial Family into perpetual exile. The Russian C
Three ex-lovers, an illicit affair, a secret pregnancy and some sultry summer heat - It all adds up to the ultimate villa holiday. When her old flame Sam rings up one day and invites her on a villa
Crimson China is a novel that traps the reader at the outset, shining a light on a tragic, hidden world that runs in parallel to our own. It is a story of identity and culture, of the irrepressibilit
In The Last Resort, journalist Douglas Rogers tells the eye-opening, harrowing and, at times, surprisingly funny story of his parents'' struggle for survival in war-torn Zimbabwe.
For some years, the biographer Roger Lewis has been entertaining his friends with a letter at Christmas, which they have been begging him to publish. So here for the first time is a book-length versio
Blue Peter, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in October this year, means something to children of every generation from the 1960s onwards - whether it''s the theme tune, the pets, the sticky-back
Chocolate Cake with Hitler is a gripping fictional retelling of the harrowing story of Helga Goebbels, twelve-year-old daughter of the Nazi Party''s head of propaganda.
No one is more responsible for Britain''s current obsession with celebrity culture than the late, great gossip columnist Nigel Dempster (1941-2007). For a quarter of a century, as the editor of the Da
This is a genuinely enlightening read, combining practical housework advice with touching recollections from the author"s Yorkshire childhood and hilarious scenes from the daily sit-com of family life
This book is the story of Andy Merrifield''s slow and thoughtful pilgramage across the Auvergne with only a donkey for company, after he turns his back on New York and city life.
Whatever your thoughts about Eton, they are likely to be strong: a symbol of class and privilege or a bastion of outdated ideas. Old alumnus Nick Fraser draws on his own experiences, the anecdotes of
Those endless afternoons where you struggled to remember the third person singular present indicative of volo (vult) may be a long time ago. But, if you have the vaguest memory of the ablative absolut
In this witty, intriguing, accessible account, Nicola Shulman interweaves the bloody events of Henry''s reign with the story of English love poetry and the life of its first master, Henry''s most glam
We have long known that good friends can be our main source of moral support, the generous suppliers of love, humour and understanding. As Virginia Woolf put it, "Some people go to priests; others to
