The thousands of New Zealand men who fought in the First World War went through hell. And right beside them was another fighting force, armed with ...

The world is familiar with Mozart the composer, but in his private life he lived a variety of other roles: husband, father, son, and cousin, among ...

How would you like to be unable to speak intelligibly? How would you enjoy having an awkward gait that makes you prone to falling and causes people...

This book begins where most love stories leave off: at the beginning of real life. The transition from being a young couple in love to a couple of ...

Recover the stories of long-overlooked American women who, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home, became commercial photographers and...

In this much-anticipated second volume in the Extraordinary Women Anthology series, Diana French follows up on Gumption and Grit with more stories ...

From women who fought alongside the men in dastardly high-sea robberies, to an Irish heroine who plundered British ships, to women unfortunate enou...

Kwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her husband’s concubine; sick of her mother-in-law’s endless carping about the money s...

The Hogarth Press is perhaps most famous for its association with Virginia Woolf, as she was both a partner in the Press and its most important aut...

In the first ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist Marjorie Cameron, one of the mos...

Writers on the Air brings to print for the first time Donna Seaman's vibrant author interviews from her Chicago-based radio program, Open Books. In...

In his new series: 'Wild West Heroes and Rogues', Marshall Trimble recounts the mystique surrounding the lives of the famous and not-so-famous West...

On 1 February 1940, a thirty-three-year-old Jewish woman arrived alone in New York Harbor bearing, in her womb, the person who would eventually bec...

CD Audiobook + mp3 file. "Yes, I Would..." comprises a series of imaginary letters written to Lady Mary Montagu, whose famous Embassy Letters were ...

Ehud Diskin's mother wanted him to play it safe when he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces. Instead, he volunteered for one of the IDF's mo...

During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make...

Even before Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, I always saw him as an enigmatic hero, writes the author Dr. Shaul Weber. This enigma only intensified ...

Robin Hyde's extraordinary but short life (1906-39) included a precocious early career as poet and parliamentary reporter. As a journalist, she jug...

Born in the small, northern community of Whitehorse, before the building of the Alaska Highway, Joyce Yardley"™s childhood was full of friends, fam...

One of the most famous poets in the history of Turkish literature, Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is well-known as a Sufi saint-poet who has exerted a great ...

Worker, mother trade unionist and activist Zelda D'Aprano shows, in her autobiography, the same spirit she evidenced when chaining herself to the C...

Baer’s biography of the former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952) is the first historical study on the Communist politici...