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

Youngest of the world religions, the Baha'i Faith focuses on social and spiritual teachings in tune with the issues of today such as the need for world peace and equality of men and women. This readable, informative introduction examines key aspects of Baha'i history and offers clear explanations of... More

In July 1953, recently graduated as a doctor at the University of Buenos Aires, Che Guevara decided to set off once again to explore the Latin American continent His principal interest was in archaeology and politics, and his first stop was Bolivia, which had recently experienced a far-reaching revo... More

This book explains what a supercomputer is and why such a machine is needed to solve challenging problems in science and engineering. The architecture of super computers which distinguishes them from other computers is explained and the need to vectorise programs to make effective use of supercomput... More

Reissue of the sequel to the massive worldwide bestseller Princess Readers of Princess Sultana’s extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women’s lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Dau... More

‘The facts are as stated here . . . I have set down of good and bad whatever is known.’The Babur Nama, a journal kept by Zahir Uddin Muhammad Babur (1483–1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire, is the earliest example of autobiographical writing in world literature, and one of the finest. Aga... More

This is a funny and moving memoir about a daughter's turbulent relationship with her mother - and how a child of one's own can turn everything upside down. 'Life is a series of losses. I've decided to be very zen about it. I have lost two husbands, my parents, my brother, countless friends; it is ju... More

The split between man and maker has long been widening, and many acknowledge that the wedge is scienceIs God dead? Are religion and faith merely opiates of the masses? Is science responsible for driving a wedge between man and his maker? Till about four hundred years ago, belief in divine power domi... More

This long-awaited omnibus contains all the stories from Roald Dahl's world-famous books—Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch—plus eight further tales of the unexpected… 'Roald Dahl is one of the few writers I know whose work can accurately be described as addictive.... More

This long awaited paperback edition describes the key events in Rumi's magical life story: his unusual childhood, his relationship with his father, and his intense, though controversial, affection for a wandering dervish.... More

More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile-the great Nigerian novelist's first book in more than ten years-is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders. In thre... More

In this stunning, emotionally charged memoir, Ken Dornstein interweaves the moving story of his own coming-of-age with the promise of greatness his brother never lived to fulfill. The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is a heartbreaking but profoundly hopeful book about finding beauty in the midst of trag... More

You've probably heard of Spartacus...He is dead famous for: *being quite a good gladiator *giving the Romans the run-around *looking an awful lot like Kirk Douglas But have you heard that Spartacus: *fought for the Romans as well as against them *once camped his army of rebel slaves inside a volcano... More

On 30 January 1948 Mahatma Gandhi, Father of a NEWLY LIBERATED INDIAN NATION, WAS MURDERED BY A HINDU EXTREMIST. Since then, many lies have been passed off as truths, half-truths have been mixed with true incidents and passed off as whole truths. Gandhi was responsible for the partition ; Gandhi s... More

As President Bush prepared to invade Iraq, a Wall Street Journal correspondent for fifteen years, Asra Q. Nomani embarked on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fellow Muslims on the hajj. On a journey perilous enough for any American reporter, No... More

Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the 20th century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and was imprisoned several times as a result of h... More

In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father's empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulfi lling the soothsayer Aristander's prediction that the... More