As an artist and persona, Jim Morrison epitomized the late 1960s, bridging a burgeoning counterculture and popular culture, while acting out the iconoclastic rage, rampant libido, and spectacular flameout of a tumultuous era. The music he created with The Doors has sold over 50 million records worldwide??with over 13 million in the last decade alone, […]
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan […]
Subtitled “A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words,” this is a remarkable account of the life of W.C. Minor. Not a famous name, but a quite extraordinary man. Minor was an American Army surgeon and millionaire who contributed enormously by post to the first, epic edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) […]
Jim Corbetts classic stories of hunting the man-eating tigers of India have thrilled generations of readers and made him famous world-wide. Born in India in 1875, Corbett was at home in the jungles from an early age, killing his first leopard when he was only eight. Tigers were his most sought after prey but, in […]
In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities, hypochondria has always seemed to me to be the only rational position on life.” So begins this caustically funny and informative account of living with cancer from a self-professed coward whos nevertheless unafraid to take on the myths and taboos of the illness. First diagnosed with cancer […]
George Soros was once described as “the only private citizen [of the U.S.] who has his own foreign policy.” In this penetrating biography, Michael Kaufman explores the multifaceted life of a man who instead describes himself as “a financial, philanthropic, and philosophical speculator.” Like Intel chairman Andrew Grove, whose memoir Swimming Across touches on some […]
A literary exploration of the Beats encounter with India in the 1960s, a journey that inspired and influenced generations of Americans and Indians alike In 1961, Allen Ginsberg left New York by boat for Bombay, India. He brought with him his troubled lover, Peter Orlovsky, and a plan to meet up with poets Gary Snyder […]
The ??Bonnie & Clyde?? adventures of the worlds most notorious dope smugglers. Howard Marks??s story has passed into hippie folklore. At one time, the world??s then most wanted man had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines and 25 registered companies. But this is only half the story. Intimately involved throughout was Marks??s wife Judy. Now, for […]
The charming wartime love story of Wren Maureen and Soldier Eric is told through her letters to him as he fought abroad during World War II. In 1941, as the Second World War raged on, 20-year-old Maureen Bolster began writing to her boyfriend Eric Wells. He was stationed in the Middle East while Maureen remained […]
Now for the first time ever an uninterrupted, no-holds-barred account of life with Jordan is presented by the man closest to her. Katie Price is never far from the limelight and her immensely successful biographies have emphasised her popularity across the generations. Revelations about her rise to fame and her intimate relationships have had the […]
When Lutfullah, member of a distinguished Sufi family of Malwa, and a master of languages, visited England in 1844 in the company of Mir Jarar Ali Khan, son-in-law of the Nawab of Surat, he recorded his observations on various matters connected with the British government, culture, and society in what has come to be regarded […]