The Last Hayride

By John Maginnis(Paperback / softback)

Edwin Edwards is one of the most investigated, reviled, and successful figures in American politics. Follow him on his wild and hilarious campaign odyssey through the back roads of Louisiana politics and past federal investigators, ward-healing preachers, nervous bodyguards, and high-rolling pols and pretenders, all scrambling for a place on the Last Hayride.

The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchess - In Her Own Words

By Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan(Paperback)

For fans of Downton Abbey, this is the riveting real-life story of the Vanderbilt heiress who married the Duke of Marlborough in 1895. A fascinating insight into upstairs-downstairs life and the highest circles of Edwardian aristocracy.

The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance

By Leonie Frieda(Hardback)

An epic saga of the Italian Renaissance from the author of CATHERINE DE MEDICI

The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill

By Mary S. Lovell(Paperback)

*The story of one of the most famous of all British families - the Churchills

You Can't Say That: Memoirs

By Ken Livingstone(Paperback)

From his eccentric South London working class childhood to running one of the biggest cities in the world, Livingstone is one of the very few politicians to have scored a major victory over the Thatcher Government and has championed issues as diverse as the environment, gay rights and anti-racism. This title tells his story.

Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I

(Hardback)

Around the year 1049, William, Duke of Normandy and future conqueror of England, raced to the palace of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. The count's eldest daughter, Matilda, had refused William's offer of marriage and publicly denounced him as a bastard. Encountering the young woman, William furiously dragged her to the ground by her hair and beat her mercilessly. Matilda's....

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India

By Joseph Lelyveld(Paperback / softback)

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments--his success in seizing India's imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country's minorities, outcasts, and rural....

Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

(Hardback)

An intimate and fascinating memoir by Clint Hill, who spent four years as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's Secret Service agent. Even today, decades after JFK's presidency and Jackie's death, the public continues to be fascinated with the former First Lady. Clint Hill will forever be remembered as the agent who jumped onto the car after President Kennedy was shot and....

Ronald Reagan: A Biography

By David J Woodard & J David Woodard(Hardback)

Ronald Reagan's story reads like a Hollywood script complete with a small-town boyhood, movie stardom, financial success, and unmatched political popularity. This book tells Reagan's true-life tale in an engaging and easily accessible manner.....

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Charlie's Place: The Saga of an American Frontier Homestead

(Paperback / softback)

Charlie's Place is the story of an Oklahoma homestead, settled during the Land Rush, lost during the Great Depression and restored seven decades later. It is an American tale of pioneering, loss and restoration. The narrative revolves around two memorable figures, Charlie Hasbrook and his grand-daughter, Nadiene Malone. The book follows the events that led Hasbrook to ride in the....

Night Madness

By Richard Pyves(Paperback / softback)

"Night Madness "is the true-life story of an RCAF tail -gunner's 35 odds-defying missions over war-torn Germany during WWII. Despite skies dark with Messerschmitts and flak from anti-aircraft fire, he would make it through the war intact, only to face a new battle with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome caused by memoires of the raids and participation in the now-controversial bombing....

Putin

(Hardback)

Putin is the highly personal biography of Russia's leader, a man many regard as the world's most interesting politician. Intelligent books about Putin are few and far between because, of all the world leaders, he has managed to remain a mystery. This book goes some way to revealing the man behind the enigma.

Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror

(Paperback / softback)

At once a confessional, an adventure story, and a chronicle of Kiriakou's life in the CIA, "The Reluctant Spy" stands as an important, eloquent piece of testimony from a committed American patriot.

Michael Mallin: Sixteen Lives

(Paperback)

Mallin was second in command of the Irish Citizen Army under James Connolly and commanded the garrison at St. Stephen's Green in Dublin during the Easter 1916 Rising, with Constance Markievicz as his second in command. This biography is an entertaining, accurate and well-researched portrayal both of the man and the uprising.

Joseph Plunkett: Sixteen Lives

(Paperback)

Joseph Mark Plunkett (1887-1916) from Dublin was one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, the designer of the military plan and the youngest signatory of the Proclamation. A recognised poet, he was already dying of TB when, aged 28, he married Grace Gifford in Kilmainham Gaol, just hours before he was exectuted on May 4th, 1916.

Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times

(Paperback)

This second edition in paperbackoffers in a single comprehensive volume the misdeeds and scandals that occurred during Mahathir Mohamad two decades as prime minister of Malaysia and afterwards. It includes Mahathir's response to the first edition and engages with the debate about Mahathir's legacy.

James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation

(Hardback)

James Madison is remembered primarily as a systematic political theorist, but this bookish and unassuming man was also a practical politician who strove for balance in an age of revolution. In this biography, Jeff Broadwater focuses on Madison's role in the battle for religious freedom in Virginia, his contributions to the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,....

Pathfinder Cranswick

By Michael Cumming(Hardback)

Wilberforce: Family and Friends

By Anne Stott(Hardback)

Casts a fresh light on the abolitionist William Wilberforce and his friends in the Clapham sect by looking at their private lives as revealed in their family correspondence. Stott explores themes of the family, women and gender, childhood and education, sexuality, and intimacy.

Captain Jack Crawford: Buckskin Poet, Scout, and Showman

(Paperback / softback)

Jack Crawford (1847-1917) entertained a generation of Americans and introduced them to their frontier heritage. A master storyteller who presented the West as he experienced it, he was one of America's most popular performers in the late nineteenth century.Dressed in buckskin with a wide-brimmed sombrero covering his flowing locks, Crawford delivered a "frontier monologue and medley" that, as one New....