Bolter's Grand-daughter reveals a life packed full of movement, people, energy, flowers, scents and landscapes

It reveals the subtle transformation of Thesiger from a youthful explorer-traveller to a world-class photographer who has left a priceless archive of some 38,000 negatives.

Redmond has developed an entertaining but effective screen formed from a hoard of hilarious anecdotes and runaway stories

This book is stuffed with a lifetime of reading, selective drug-taking, chanting, eastern travel and dancing, all undertaken in the search for God.

And since my reading of Artemis Cooper’s page-turning biography, Leigh Fermor has acquired yet another fan.

The resulting memoir, only now published ten years after her death, is a work of loving devotion and a true reflection of Lesley Blanch in her own words.

… what makes him remarkable is his restless quest for the perfection of his craft continuously sharpened by a vast capacity for work

This biography is both funny and erudite as it chronicles a fascinating caste of dangerously charming spies, poet-scholars, scheming Oxbridge academics, dashing majors and clever queens.

the honesty with which she chronicled her change of sexual identity has made Conundrum arguably her most famous book.

He has a historian's eye for continuity, a chemist's interest in the telling detail, a merchant-like enthusiasm for the roller-coaster laws of supply and demand combined with a salesman’s appreciation of a winning pitch.