Mary Essinger 
Mary, Quite Contrary 
a Second World War girlhood and what happened next

One of the greatest and most beloved golf books ever written is triumphantly back in print, with a new introduction by Golf in the Kingdom author Michael Murphy, a new afterword, and never-before-see …

Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy is the first full account of Ward s life and work. Drawing on unseen archival sources, as well as oral interviews, it excavates the worlds and words of his …

A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years. An autobiography usually requires a justification. The great autobiographies those …

Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade”s designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history …

Martin O’Neill is one of the most brilliant, successful and intriguing of the new manager/coaches to emerge from British football. Alex Montgomery’s acclaimed biography brings O’Neill’s story right …

Reg Harris, whose statue overlooks the Manchester Velodrome, is the legend who all track cyclists want to emulate. He was a poor, working-class boy born in the Depression who escaped the Lancashire …

He Liyi belongs to one of China’s minorities, the Bai, and he lives in a remote area of northwestern Yunnan Province. In 1979 his wife sold her fattest pig to buy him a shortwave radio. He spent …

One dusty summer day in 1935, a young writer named Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov was released from the Siberian labor camp where he had spent the last eight years of his life. His total assets amounted …

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Some people are born to be a certain thing. And I was a born fighter. At the age of eight, Michael Bisping began his training in martial arts. By the time he was 15, he wa …

Herbert S. Parmet”s Eisenhower and the American Crusades is a major assessment of the American presidency during the critical period of America at mid-century. The book follows the career of General …