James Williams 
Author Under Sail 
The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907

Nuala O”Faolain”s first memoir Are You Somebody? became a literary sensation and an international bestseller when it was first published by New Island Books in 1996. It launched a new life for its …

Real talk about transgender experiences from Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik In this fabulous, fashion-forward guide, transgender icons Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik discuss the ins and outs of being transgend …

What was it like to be married to Scotland”s most famous prisoner?Sara Trevelyan was independent, clever, and privileged. She was a qualified doctor who campaigned for penal reform. She fell in love …

**A Guardian book to look out for in 2024** ”An exceptional book: a mediation on family; an interrogation of movement and borders; a reflection on how someone can become separated from their o …

Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl …

Rather than try to discover the meaning of life, you simply need to live it. On the 24th of January 2020, Deidre, a fifty-nine-year-old civil engineer receives an unanticipated diagnosis of Stage 4 …

Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman”s life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith”s deadpan patter belies the startling …

A special commemorative edition with an introduction by acclaimed author June Caldwell. Are You Somebody? is the incredibly candid story of Nuala O”Faolain, born one of nine children into the …

First published in 1978. This biography aims solve the problem of the lack of access to information regarding American engineers and technologists of the nineteenth-century, whilst also providing opp …

First published in 2002. In this title, Edward B. D”Auvergne chronicles the life of Pierre Loti, written with fervent sympathy. We journey with Loti from Brittany to Constantinople, from China to …