Novelistic Biographies

Ronnie Kasrils’s memoir reflects on compelling questions as to whatturned a white youngster from a modest background into a lifelongrevolutionary of note. A tiny minority who abandoned a life …

This is an account of the life experiences of a South African of Indian descent who was fortunate enough to be a part of some of South Africa’s most important changes in the transition from apartheid …

The autobiography of Cardiff Blues, Scarlets, Wales, Lions and Barbarians player Matthew Rees, the most-capped hooker ever for Wales. Lots of insight behind the scenes on his rugby career, but also …

Frank Henson grew up in poverty on the Whitehawk estate in Brighton. He didn’t know his father and got into trouble at an early age. In the swinging sixties he became a paratrooper, then a …

Everybody knows about Charles Darwin, and many know about others in his family, from Erasmus Darwin and Tom Wedgwood, the first photographer, to composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and poet and radical …

Maria Calo was thirty-three when her husband, Geoffrey, died tragically from a brain tumour.This memoir, Imaginary Letters, is literally that: a collection of more than fifty poignant, profound, …

Be FIERCE, be BOLD, be INSPIRED … DREAM BIG! 100 people, 100 ways to change the world. The ultimate empowering guide, Dream Big! Heroes Who Dared to Be Bold introduces fearless men, women, boys and …

In this revealing book Shane ‘Kiwi’ Martin details his tough childhood and upbringing in small town New Zealand, his decision to ‘cross the ditch’ and how he eventually joined one of …

"Going to jail I consider a sacrifice I make for the people of this country. My struggle will continue, wherever I am sent and whatever is done to me. I pledge, and I will not be silenced, I …

From Russia’s Iron Curtain to Burma’s Bamboo Curtain, Sikkim to South Korea, this biography follows the struggle of a young girl whose life was a cross-continental roller coaster ride that soared and …