Unimpressed by the world of debutante balls Monica Dickens shocked her family by getting a job. With..

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Joan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. As an 8-year-old she ..

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In 1895 nine American heiresses travelled across the Atlantic to bag themselves husbands and titles...

Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food ranging from rural Berkshi..

Heavily in debt and earning peanuts as a 'trolley dolly' Saskia Swann desperately needed to get her ..

At the outbreak of WW2 the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. Edward VIII had abdicated the..

In 1939 Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from London and sent to the Sussex c..

The SAS is staffed by the toughest and most resourceful soldiers in the world - only the cream of th..

Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that ..

A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non-fic..

I Am I Am I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's l..

In July 1956 Marilyn Monroe arrived in London to make The Sleeping Prince (later released as The Pri..

1917. As a war raged across the world young American women flocked to work painting watches clocks a..