Biographies & Memoirs

In contemporary Indian cinema, Aamir Khan has always taken the lesstrodden path, and also delivered box-office hits. Known for his selection of films, he has constantly re-invented himself, and re-defined the approach to filmmaking within the Hindi film industry over the last two decades. I’ll Do It My Way: The Incredible Journey of Aamir Khan is a filmography that presents Aamir’s evolution as an actor, focusing on 21 landmark films. It retraces Aamir’s rise to stardom as an actor with a dif. ..More

Four Meals for Fourpence. ..More

Stuart Broad: Bowled over. ..More

‘A treat from first to last: ruefully funny, endlessly self-deprecating, riven with ironies .. I relished this memoir’ –Independent Blissfully funny’ India Knight, Sunday Times 'Entertaining, bracingly honest and, yes, thought-provoking' -New York Times Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. It was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it’s about a bitter clash of cultures, a. ..More

Nelson Mandela. ..More

Introducing Machiavelli. ..More

A compelling and dramatic account of the sinking of the Titanic as seen through the eyes of those who survived. ..More

On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles from civilization. Of its 93 passengers, only one survived: Juliane Koepcke - here is her fascinating story of survival against all the odds.. ..More

The Moment. ..More

Wine to Water. ..More

In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo summer and disappeared forever. That winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a desolate seaside cave. Her disappearance was mystifying. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? What did her work, as a 'hostess' in the notorious Roppongi distr. ..More

The first full-length memoirs of a Namboodiri woman, the work reveals little-known facets of a Namboodiri woman's life lived behind closed doors. Told without a trace of self-pity, the work throws interesting sidelights on the social history of a largely insular community.. ..More