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* From the author of OTTO and THE HACIENDA, a memoir about falling in love with a country, with a man and with a dream - out now in paperback

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A love story like no other, Mozart and the Whale is the story of two extraordinary individuals - both savants with Asperger's Syndrome - and their moving and hugely inspiring struggle, heartbreak and eventual triumph.

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Drawing on the couple's love letters and Mary Anne's own formidable archives, Daisy Hay reveals the heady mix of romance and power that fuelled their influence - and chronicles how the Disraelis crafted their unconventional marriage into an enduring love story.

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'I have long wanted to write a book about my life and the extraordinary years I spent with my husband Howard Marks.

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With the cooperation of Benchley family members, and using diaries and correspondence and much archival material, Gehring has written a fresh and lively biography of humorist Robert Benchley.

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In less than a decade Frank Murphy rose from Mayor of depression-torn Detroit to Governor General and High Commissioner of the Philippines, Governor of Michigan, Attorney General of the United States, and one of the most libertarian Supreme Court Justices in American history. Professor Howard bases his biography of this colorful Irish New Dealer ex

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An assessment of the life and legacy of Dwight L. Moody, including evaluation of his theology, preaching, revivalist strategy, church music innovation, and global missionary work.

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Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her day, Dora Jordan lived a quite different role off-stage as lover to Prince William, third son of George III. Unmarried, the pair lived in a villa on the Thames and had ten children together until William, under pressure from royal advisers, abandoned her.

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Alice Keppel was a manipulative woman, whose relationship with Edward VII placed her at the centre of high society. Her daughter, Violet, was fascinated with her mother's power. Yet when she fell in love with Vita Sackville-West, she threatened to break all the moral rules of her mothers world.

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Gretel helped to protect fugitives hunted by the Gestapo, hid her Jewish doctor in her cellar and passed to the resistance secrets learned from her work on the Enigma encryption machine.

Finally arrested in 1945, she was liberated as the British Army advanced towards Hamburg. After the war, Gretel fell in love with a British officer.

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Through Virginia Woolf's, a feminist and a bohemian, extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, this title chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. It explores the hidden history of service.

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The irrepressibly entertaining Jacki Weaver writes generously and wittily on her life, her loves and her passions.

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Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory is a comprehensive study of Alis identity and superlative impact framed in terms of the disciplines subfield of Africana cultural memory studies. This critical approach challenges us to itemize Alis influential legacy with precise conceptual value wherein his mythological structure is illuminated as an inheritance.

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Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory is a comprehensive study of Alis identity and superlative impact framed in terms of the disciplines subfield of Africana cultural memory studies. This critical approach challenges us to itemize Alis influential legacy with precise conceptual value wherein his mythological structure is illuminated as an inheritance.

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At the pinnacle of his boxing career during the 1960s and early 1970s, Muhammad Ali seemed to be a cultural symbol of the times. This book describes Ali's life from his birth, with an emphasis on his career through 1975. It covers such topics as his boxing matches, his religious conversion to Islam, and his efforts to promote world peace.

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Yet, despite numerous official reports of abuse from social workers and health boards, their suffering continued ...

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But how else do you cope when your mentally ill mother has killed your little brother and sister by scalding them with boiling water

This is a harrowing true story of how one little girl endured the most tragic of childhoods.

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The voice of motor racing and the man responsible for introducing millions of viewers to the previously inaccessible world of Formula 1 -- tells the story of his incident-packed life.