A story, in which the author takes us on a journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage …
Through the story of his grandparents and parents, and his brothers' involvement in the violent Mau Mau uprising, Ngugi deftly etches a tumultuous era, capturing the landscape, the …
Containing a 100-page study of Stalin - Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible - Amis's memoir addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought, that is the indulgence of …
This is a specially edited shorter version of the title published in 1990. It takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers and is a study of both a culture …
An account of the life of Francisco de Goya from 1792 when he was 47 and contracted a serious illness which left him totally deaf. Through times of war and political turmoil he …
Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter. Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German …
This title is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. It is an …
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure.
