History and Biography General

When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the farm – they could no longer afford his fees.

Born in the then British Guyana in 1927, at 95 ‘Aunty Joyce’ has accumulated a wealth of experiences, memories and wisdoms of a life impressively immersed in education – both learning and teaching.

This moving memoir chronicles a profound, epistolary friendship between Suzanne Michal and Robert Poyson, who has been on death row. They never meet or speak in person, yet their connection deepens through a heartfelt exchange of letters.

Black Beauty is a novel that changed our world. Intended to 'induce kindness' in a Victorian audience who relied on horses for transport, travel and power, it remains a dearly loved children's classic.

This play is a historical drama about the pioneer 'Pilgrim Fathers' who, guided 'by divine purpose' though escaping religious persecution, founded the Plimouth settlement, New England, in the 1620s.

Adam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really thought, and what the implications of his ideas are, remain fiercely contested.

On 1 January 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a 'Declaration by United Nations' with 24 other states.

After a decade of yearning for parenthood, years marked by miscarriage after miscarriage, Hala Alyan makes the decision to use a surrogate. ...