Filled with the twists pathos and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist's extraordinary ..

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..

“So you lot want to be pilots? Bloody hell Stalin’s had it now!” were the withering words of t..

I Am I Am I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's l..

1917. As a war raged across the world young American women flocked to work painting watches clocks a..

As Hitler’s bombs threatened London during World War Two eight-year-old David Merron was removed f..

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..

As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology a..

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

In his first book David Jason told us about himself from his early years training as an electrician ..

On 17 August 1860 wealthy widow Mary Emsley was found dead at home killed by a blow to the head. Wha..

At the age of 21 Monica Baldwin - the niece of Stanley Baldwin - entered one of the most strictly en..

Brenda Ashford is 91 years old and spent 62 years working as a Norland Nanny.Brenda began training a..

Johnny Johnson is 92 years old and one of very few men who can recall first-hand the most daring and..

It's 1950 and when Laura and Billy Hopkins return to Manchester from their honeymoon they're in seve..