Biography

The first biography in over a century of Adrian IV , the only English pope in the history of the Catholic Church

The fascinating story of the Princesses of Hesse, four sisters at the heart of twentieth-century politics

A revealing, intimate biography of England's greatest - and most private - country writer, by his close friend Ian Collins.

A major new biography of French polymath Blaise Pascal and how his philosophy can help us live well today.

As a sportsman, priest and bishop, David Sheppard played a significant role in British public life during the second half of the twentieth century, achieving household-name status in two entirely separate fields. There has been no previous biography.

The Reverend George Austen has so often been painted as just a quiet, country clergyman. This book reveals he was anything but and that the parsonage Jane Austen lived in was a very lively and literary place.

The harrowing, moving and poignant account of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: a girl who was only five years old when she was sent to an extermination camp.