Grant is a distinguished actor with a fine narrative voice in his memoir - Withnail of course is here, but also his 40-year marriage to Joan Washington, and his aching grief at her death in ... read more
Maine 1919: a return to the world of his bestselling classic The Cider House Rules. Esther, a Jewish orphan, is adopted by the Winslow family. The novel follows her life as she retraces her ... read more
A memoir from childhood in Port Talbot to his time at RADA under the mentorship of Laurence Olivier, and on through his illustrious career and frequent battles with sobriety. Hopkins writes ... read more
What binds these 'tales' is that each narrator is intimately connected to some conflict: WW2, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Twin Towers.... Swift's skill and his consistent sensitivity to in... read more
Sociable, intriguing and entertaining: Princess Juliane-Henriette-Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg escaped her early, abusive marriage to the Grand Duke Konstantin to live in Germany and Switzerland. H... read more
The veteran journalist lifts the curtain on Biden's behind-the-scenes diplomacy with Russia, Ukraine and the Middle East amidst the fevered politics of the approaching presidential election.
A woman goes missing; decades later, her children still have no answers - but the East Anglian village where they grew up begins to offer up its secrets.
Recently outed as 'Deep Miaow', we understand that Larry, the Downing Street cat, has been an important source helping Gimson with his researches. Clearly a descendant of Tobermory.
Argues that today's Sino-American rivalry in micro-processing is as important in geopolitical terms as the economics of oil was at the time of the first Gulf War.
The witness to her friend's murder begins to question what she saw, or what it meant... and realises that if she helped put an innocent stranger behind bars, then the killer is one of her fr... read more
Grant is a distinguished actor with a fine narrative voice in his memoir - Withnail of course is here, but also his 40-year marriage to Joan Washington, and his aching grief at her death in ... read more