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

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

Katherine 'Kitty' Marshall was destined to break with convention. Brought up in a socially active fa..

Richard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements buying fan..

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

In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. She worked with an order of nursi..

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

For over six decades Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire. Beside her for more than twenty of those y..

A story about the triumph of hope love and determination Coming to England is the inspiring true sto..

In 1930 at the age of twenty-seven Liesl Herbst was the Austrian National Tennis Champion a celebrit..

Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren and to maintain and increase power in Europe ..

An inspiring insight into one of the oldest extreme sports this is the definitive story of fell-runn..

We all want to be successful in life and to be remembered for our achievements - but how can we do ..

In 1895 nine American heiresses travelled across the Atlantic to bag themselves husbands and titles...

In this compelling investigation Michael Smith explores the critical moment in a spy's life: that sp..