The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Brutal World of Victorian Medicine
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The gripping story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine...
The Second Amendment and Gun Control: Freedom, Fear, and the American Constitution
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The Second Amendment, by far the most controversial amendment to the US Constitution, will soon...
Faberge: From St Petersburg to Sandringham
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In 1907 Edward VII commissioned Peter Carl Faberge - court artist-jeweller to imperial Russia - to...
Graham Sutherland: Life, Work and Ideas
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A compelling biographical study of a leading twentieth-century British artist, 'Graham Sutherland:...
On Artists and Their Making: Selected Writings of Maurice de Sausmarez
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Born in 1915, the painter Maurice de Sausmarez was an important figure among mid-20th century...
A E Housman: A Single Life
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A E Housmans poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted....
A Man Walks on to a Pitch: Stories from a Life in Football
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'When a man walks on to a pitch there's always a chance something magic can happen, that's what...
A Still Untitled, (Not Quite) Autobiography
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Actor Ron Moody has enthralled generations with his masterly performance as Fagin in both the stage...
A Very Dangerous Woman:: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy
Jeremy Dronfield and Deborah McDonald
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Spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century's greatest writers, the...
A.E. Housman: A Single Life
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A.E. Housman's poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often...
