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The daughter of sharecroppers who fled the South, Dickerson, a widely admired African-American journalist, offers a powerfully compelling, unsparing memoir--a meditation on self, on family, and on society. A "New York Times" Notable Book.

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An edgy, candid report from the front lines and a captivating coming-of-age story by a young veteran.

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From humble beginnings in a small-town Salvation Army family to a career as a court chaplain, who gave comfort to some of Australia's most notorious criminals, including accused child killer Kathleen Folbigg , Major Joyce Harmer's life has been one of enormous contrasts. This is the inspiring story of a quiet achiever.

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Following in the train of her sister, the charismatic Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Harriet became one of the most glamorous and influential women of the Regency age.

At a time when marriage was an aristocratic woman's only career choice, Harriet made an excellent match, to Frederick, Viscount Duncannon.

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Previously published in hardcover by Dutton, 2013.

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More true stories from a Suffolk country estate

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This reference book includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries for Fitzgerald's works, characters, family members, friends, and acquaintances.

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Max Crawford was one of Australia's pre-eminent historians. This biography considers Crawford as an historian and a public intellectual. It relates his experiences as a student at Sydney and Oxford, a struggling teacher during the Depression, as the head of the History School at the University of Melbourne, and a Cold War victim and accuser.

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From the Oscar-winning co-star of Little Miss Sunshine, a reflection on what theater--specifically the improvisational sort--has taught him about both craft and life.

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"An Indian Irish Kiwi" is a personal memoir covering the author's family history, her life journey up to the 2020 pandemic.

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Peter Somerville-Large grew up with his brother Phil in a nursery world at the top of a smart house in Dublin. This biography takes the reader back to the sensations and excitements of children, and paints a picture of a world at once so recent and yet now vanished.

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This subtle intellectual biography juxtaposes Ralph Waldo Emerson's revolutionary spiritual thinking with his elitist ideas of race and property--a contrast so sharp as to make his personality seem almost incoherent." Writing in (he great modern tradition of French anglicisles, Maurice Gonnaud compares Emerson's taste for solitude and the lyric ard

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The rich and revealing story of a tumultuous journey from Left to Right and from poverty to prominence-by one of the most influential female conservatives in the country

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A vivid and moving portrait of the inimitable Lily Budge, who overcame poverty and class to become the 13th Countess of Galloway, and one of Scotlands most colourful eccentrics.

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She was a lover who scandalized the world with her tangled affairs and a writer whose erotic chronicles defined sexual liberation for a generation of women. Although her famed diaries seemed to reveal all, they didn't. This richly detailed, critically acclaimed biography captures the painful truths that Anais Nin did her best to hide. Photos. **Lightning Print On Demand Title

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When she did declare herself - as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of the murdered Romanovs - she became the centre of a storm of controversy that still continues after her death in 1983.

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A look at the family that answered many questions about when and where humankind began. From Louis Leakey's breakthrough discovery that human beings evolved in Africa millions of years ago, Morell chronicles how the Leakeys changed our understanding of our relationship to the primates.

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Picture the perfect family
Now forget it & read this.

An achingly funny novel on modern motherhood and married life, as told through the e-mail correspondence of two sisters.