Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968 when he was 20. Over the next 50 years he met her many t..

Czechoslovakia October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the threatened nation's most prestig..

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Growing up in Yorkshire and with farming blood in his genes James Greenwood always knew he would bec..

Famous for his portrayal of the iconic hardman Grant Mitchell and as the maker of various documentar..

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Small in stature but immense in reputation and talent there was more to Eric 'Winkle' Brown than met..

Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food ranging from rural Berkshi..

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

Emily Soldene's life spanned the entire Victorian era. As both leading lady and a formidable impresa..

When Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a p..

'...Cooper delivers a frank conversational-style examination of the importance of black female frien..

'This is not quite a memoir. Rather it is the view from old age. And a view of old age itself this p..

Regarded as one of the finest journalists of her generation Mamie Baird Magnusson's whole life was a..

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology a..