Biographies & Memoirs

Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland was one of the most successful writers of romance novels of all time, with estimated worldwide sales of one billion copies in thirty-six languages. Cartland published her first novel, Jigsaw, in 1923, aslightly naughty society thriller that became a bestseller. S... More

Shashi Tharoor began reading books—Enid Blyton’s Noddy series—when he was three. By the time he was ten, he had published his first work of fiction, Operation Bellows, a credulity-stretching saga of an Anglo-Indian fighter pilot. In between were years when he read a book a day. And in the year... More

Richard Feynman was one of the most inspirational men of our times. He won the Nobel Prize, wrote equations on napkins in strip joints, cracked safes for fun while working on the atom bomb, upset those in authority, and touched countless lives. He also wrote hundreds of witty, eccentric, and moving ... More

In this book Peter Neville presents a new assessment of lifeand times of the famous leader, Mussolini. This study places the Fascist movementin its historical context and assesses its theoretical base. It examines theformative influences on the young Mussolini, his turn away from Socialism by1914, h... More

The autobiography of Pandit Rajmani Tigunait. Provides tremendous insights to Eastern culture and traditions.... More

This engaging, entertaining book reveals all the secrets about this wildly gifted man, from his prescient inventions and his lost art to his animal rights activism--not to mention his enemies and allies in the dark, turbulent world of his time. Young Adult.Thanks To The international bestseller The ... More

The Rope In The Water is the story of Sylvia Fraser's three-month pilgrimage to India in search of "something larger than myself, something deeper, something more." Travelling 12,000 kilometers across deserts and through jungles, she visits sacred sites such as the twilight city of Varanas... More

This new biographyof the most celebrated African American in history provides a thoroughre-examination of both the man and the Civil Rights Movement, showing how Kinggrew into his leadership role and kept his faith when the movement weakenedafter 1965. Drawing on recent scholarship on the Civil Righ... More

1. THE BLACK PANTHER OF SIVANIPALLI The author, more famous for hunting man-eating tigers, finds in a wily panther a real challenger to his hunting acumen.2. THE TIGER ROARSHailed as the best of all of Anderson's books, the celebrated author reminisces about the man-eating tigers he had tracked down... More

1. TALES FROM THE INDIAN JUNGLE Ace hunter and wildlife chronicler Anderson recalls real-life jungle tales, some macabre and some incredible, of adventures in pursuit of man-eating tigers and leopards.2. MAN-EATERS AND JUNGLE KILLERSCalled upon to rid the affected locality of the prowling man-eater... More

For Khushwant Singh who wrote his own obituary in his twenties, death is not sacred but he reflects on it increasingly these days. In Death At My Doorstep, a collection of obituaries written over the years, he presents the dead in death, as in life - good, bad or ugly. Be it on the twilight hours of... More

Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil and has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today. Prior to his career as a bestselling author, he was a playwright, theatre director, hippie and popular songwriter for some of Brazil's most famous pop stars. Renowned for The Alchemist, he has sold... More

The Nehrus are a dynasty without precedent in the modern world; nowhere else and at no other time in recent history has a single family wielded such enduring and pervasive power over the country - and the electorate - they serve. From Jawaharlal Nehru to his daughter, Indira Gandhi, and from there, ... More

To reach for the stars is the dream of millions but there are very few who are able to realise it. Kalpana Chawla, India's first woman astronaut, was one individual who possessed the necessary grit, determination and courage to make this dream possible.Kalpana Chawla's untimely death on February 1, ... More

Born into a conservative family in a provincial town in Haryana, Kalpana Chawla dreamt of the stars. And through sheer hard work, indomitable intelligence and immense faith in herself, she became the first Indian woman to travel to space, and even more remarkably, to travel twice. In this well-r... More

This is a moving memorial to his mother's life by Albert Cohen, the internationally renowned author of Belle du Seigneur. Cohen left France for London to escape the Nazis in 1940. In 1943 he received news of his mother's death in Marseilles. Unable to mourn her, he expressed his grief in a series of... More

Paul McGeough provides a firsthand account of the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the Islamic world and of the current state of affairs with Iraq in particular.... More

The author, an Indian novelist, recounts his experiences traveling in the U.S. during the late fifties... More

What does it take to succeed in today's competitive world? Is it luck? Talent? Why do some people emerge as successful while others - who seem to work just as hard - never make it? Are special skills required? Tactics is based on fifty interviews with men and women who have been outstandingly succes... More