Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography: Revised edition
The acclaimed classic biography, fully revised, becomes the definitive.
Biography and non-fiction prose
George Eliot: The Last Victorian
This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England’s last great visionary and the first modern.
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth
The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too.
Morecambe and Wise
The dual biography of the great British comedy double-act and the rise and fall of mass audience television by the respected biographer of Cary Grant .
Pushkin’s Button
A wonderful piece of literary detective work that charts the colliding lives of Russia’s greatest poet and the man who killed him in their duel – cultural history that reads like a thriller.
Cole Porter: The Definitive Biography
The definitive biography of Cole Porter – the urbane American composer of musical comedies and of over 1000 songs – which reveals the darker side of the star whose life and work epitomizes the romance of Café Society.
The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls
The crystal skulls are a mystery as profound as the Pyramids of Egypt, the Nazca Lines of Peru, or Stonehenge.
Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Trelawny
‘A wonderful adventure story about a man who invented himself in the image of the Byronic hero and lived to the hilt the final passionate and violent flowering of Romanticism in the cause of Greek independence.’ STELLA TILLYARD
Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman
Revealing and richly informative account of the dramatic life of one of the century’s most famous screen actresses, Ingrid Bergman (1915–82), a controversial woman whose affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini led to her being banned from the USA for seven years.
The Queen of Whale Cay
A fascinating biography of the woman champion motorboat racer of the 1920s who in the ’30s bought and became ‘ruler’ of an island in the British West Indies.
J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
A lavishly-illustrated study of Tolkien’s paintings and drawings, set in the context of his writings.
Monica: From Fear To Victory
The autobiography of tennis superstar, Monica Seles, describing for the first time her extraordinary rise to the peak of her profession and how she was devastated by a brutal stabbing, but fought back against injury and depression to play again.