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The untold story behind Peter Pan The shocking account of J. M. Barrie's abuse and exploitation of the du Maurier family.

This biography visits the 40 million copy selling late novelist Maeve Binchy in the land of her birth, and of her novels, and sets out to discover the emotional contours which define her as a writer and person. Paperback edition.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary

For the first time ever, a fascinating look at the remarkable life of Barbara Taylor Bradford. From the cobbled streets of Yorkshire to the sweeping avenues of Manhattan, Barbara's own story is as dramatic a tale as any one of her bestsellers.

Born to an impoverished young Englishwoman in 1906, illegitimate and unwanted, Catherine Cookson lived a life marked by cruelty and neglect. At 22, reeling from a broken love affair, she left home in search of a new life. After five years in a workhouse laundry, she was finally able to buy a house of her own. But her struggle had barely begun. Following the loss of four babies, a nervous breakdown, and confinement in a psychiatric hospital, sh...

J M Barrie has long been a controversial figure, as D H Lawrence observed in 1921, 'Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die'. The five nervous breakdowns, two suicides, one attempted suicide and numerous deaths that are associated with him blacken the reputation of a man adored by generations of children.

Neverland" offers a fascinating account of the psychological web in which [J.M.] Barrie trapped the tragic du Maurier family (David Lodge), who became the inspiration for the Darling family in Barrie's immortal "Peter Pan.