Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling 'Angela's Ashes'. 'Angela's Ashes' was a publish...

The book that inspired the major new motion picture "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders...

Tony Blair learnt the precepts of governing the hard way: by leading a country for over ten years. In that time he came to understand that there ar...

READ FORMER BRITISH ARMY SOLDIER SHAUN PINNER'S EXTRADORDINARY FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINEFor fans of Bravo Two Zero, Touching the Voi...

In the stirring first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his i...

"At once the diary of a young Jewish girl under the German Occupation of Paris, a work of exceptional literary quality, and a powerful historical d...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING COLIN FIRTH, NICOLE KIDMAN AND JEREMY IRVINE During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on th...

The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Th...

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the...

For 250 years the Bryan Rostron’s family spread across the globe, helping to expand the British Empire and paint the map red. This is a personal re...

Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa, at ni...

Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the brakes. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the h...

A collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity, that advocates for linguistic decoloniz...

For more than 1,000 years the British monarchy has dramatically shaped national and international history. Kings and queens have conquered territor...

POLITICIAN • PRISONER • PARENT A portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laurea...

Nadia Kamies has written a profound and moving meditation on what it meant to grow up ‘coloured’ in South Africa under apartheid. The photographs f...

When John Kgoana Nkadimeng travelled from Sekhukhuneland to the Witwatersrand in 1944, he was one of thousands of migrants seeking work in town. Bu...

'At first we did not understand what war was. You can't understand it until you see it and hear it.' As Russian forces build up beyond the Ukrainia...