Klaus Carl 
Virgin Portraits 

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Ordinary but for one thing: it was already becoming known as inspiration for Anne of Green Gable …

Following Antonietta and Loris”s first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple was divided by a distance far greater than could ever h …

On October 7, Israeli territory around the Erez border of Gaza Strip was invaded in a surprise attack by Hamas’s Al Qassam Brigades. In response to this, the people of Gaza have been subjected to …

This book examines how nineteenth-century Bengal witnessed women writers like Krishnabhabini Devi, Prasanyamoyee Devi, Swarnakumari Devi and Abala Bose interrogated social stereotypes. It presents th …

A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains.On the 8th of June, 1924, George …

One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy. ”The real story of Obama”s America” Sunday Times Every day, …

During the course of the First World War, staff of the Great Western Railway”s Audit Office sent letters and photographs back to their employer in Paddington, which were in turn collated into …

How much more fun in life could I have had if I”d just stopped worrying so much and stopped beating myself up? In this book, Cherry reveals the things she wishes her mother had told her, through a s …

Historians have made widespread use of diaries to tell the story of the Second World War in Europe but have paid little attention to personal accounts from the Asia-Pacific Theater. Writing War seeks …

Part scrapbook, part memoir, this wonderfully colourful and eloquent diary brims with vivid observations, providing a rare snapshot of what life was like on the Home Front during the First World War. …