Difinitive biography
- From the established expert on the subject comes this new biography of one of the world's most successful writers.
- The iconic French novelist is revealed, by Butcher, in all his humanity: this biography brings Verne to life with extraordinary vividness and Butcher's.
- Laura Jackson has interviewed members of Queen, many of their close friends, and several of the world's leading rock musicians to turn the spotlight on the.
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Stirling Moss - The Definitive Biography, Volume 1
A biography worthy of Britain's greatest racing driver.
Stirling Moss is one of the greatest sportsman of all time. He was successful in all forms of motor sport but most particularly in Grand Prix racing. The 'Beckham of his era', Moss not only dominated the back pages of the newspapers but regularly made the front pages with his glamorous, jet-setting lifestyle in the '50s. He raced hard; he played hard. He was the James Bond of motorsport.
Here, at last, is a serious biography worthy of the great man, a sporting icon who was a hero to many a schoolboy. One such was author, Philip Porter. Debunking myths, correcting many mistakes and adding much new information, including previously unrecorded races, this is probably the most deeply researched motoring biography ever written.
Porter is the author of around 30 books, including several on motor racing and four written with Moss, but this is the book he always wanted to write. Two years' research has gone into this first volume of two, that digs far deeper than any book previou
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From Booklist
Butcher has researched the so-called--wrongly, he maintains--father of science fiction for 20 years and newly translated six Verne novels from the best available sources. He utterly contradicts the impression Herbert Lottman's Jules Verne (1996) gave of the novelist as stodgy, unadventurous, and boring. His Verne is almost too interesting. A deferential but determinedly independent son, a diffident suitor and husband, and a clueless and abstracted father, Verne doggedly pursued fortune as well as fame yet let his publisher Hetzel grab the profits through contracts that committed Verne to a grueling workload and allowed Hetzel to ham-handedly alter the manuscripts before publication. An ardent sailor for 30 years, Verne afforded his hobby thanks to proceeds from others' theatrical adaptations of his best-sellers, especially Around the World in Eighty Days--ironically, since he craved success as a playwright, not a novelist. And he didn't write science fiction, or about science at all, he said, because he didn't know, like, or trust science. His novels made him "the m
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The 50 Best Biographies of All Time
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Crown The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, by Tom Reiss
You’re probably familiar with The Count of Monte Cristo, the 1844 revenge novel by Alexandre Dumas. But did you know it was based on the life of Dumas’s father, the mixed-race General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, son of a French nobleman and a Haitian slave? Thanks to Reiss’s masterful pacing and plotting, this rip-roaring biography of Thomas-Alexandre reads more like an adventure novel than a work of nonfiction. The Black Count won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2013, and it’s only a matter of time before a filmmaker turns it into a big-screen blockbuster.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, by Craig Brown
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