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Psychiatric thinker Sabina Spielrein (portrayed by Keira Knightley in the film "A Dangerous Method") is examined in terms of her dramatic life story, and key presence between the ideas of Jung and Freud.

Our best friends, gal-pals, bromances, Twitter followers, Facebook friends, long distance buddies and WhatsApp threads define us in ways we rarely openly acknowledge. There is so much about friendship we either don't know or don't articulate: why do some friendships last a lifetime, while others are only temporary? How do you 'break up' with a toxic friend? Can men and women really be platonic? And maybe the most important question: how can we...

Drawing from a range of sources including the journals of Victorian cycling club members and the writings of H.G. Wells, this is the story of the excitement that greeted the emergence of bicycles into everyday life in the late nineteenth century.

Filled with lust, envy and corruption, this debut novel is the story of an extraordinary young woman at the centre of a genuine art scandal.

Ike and Kay is a thrilling tale of wartime romance, brimming with love, duty, sacrifice and heartbreak, set against the backdrop of the most tumultuous period of the twentieth century.

This exploration of the gun trade's centrality to the expansion of the British Empire sets out from the very human story of gun maker Samuel Galton's condemnation by his fellow quakers for his profession.

Rainsongs is a novel about memory, faith and love, "a compelling story freighted with heartbreak and loss" (Shena Mackay), and a meditation on the fragile, improbable ways that history, landscape and unlikely intimacies can offer quiet redemption.Newly widowed Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote cottage on the west coast of Ireland to a virtually abandoned village. Looking out her window towards the Skelligs, Martha recalls her ten-year-ol...

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Gives an account of the hardships, the author experienced during his epic solo journey on foot across Africa, from the Skeleton Coast to the Indian Ocean through Namibia, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania. This work describes his brushes with danger in the form of lions and snakes, land mines and bandits, that arise when walking across Africa.

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Effie Gray is a compelling portrait of the extraordinary woman behind some of the greatest paintings of the Victorian era.

Recommended for readers of Peter Ackroyd and Hilary Mantel, I, Hogarth charts the painter's life story, carefully blending the facts of his life with fiction, from a childhood in debtor's prison to his death in the arms of his wife.

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Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the most obvious, but it is also the most mysterious. This title explains how gravity worked - and how apparently simple gravitation has four separate components - but it predicted everything from black holes to gravity's effect on time.

A remarkably fresh journey through the annals of war and a powerful tribute to the proverbial unknown soldier

The first volume of a biography which covers Sasson's life up to the end of the First World War. For her research the author used previously unseen private letters and papers.

Based on original research, this sensational dual biography of two popular geniuses conjures up the early 20th century and the fame, personality and competing beliefs.

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In the illuminating and entertaining One Kiss or Two? Andy Scott goes down the rabbit hole to take a closer look at what greetings are all about. Through in-depth research and his personal experiences, and with the help of experts, Scott takes us on a captivating journey through a subject far richer than we might have expected.