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Nell's dream of traveling on a transatlantic steamship is about to come true. Although not in the way she expected. Life is hard, and with only three women working amongst a crew of eighty, there are challenges Nell had not foreseen. While she struggles to cope with the constant attention of her colleagues, not to mention their criticisms, there are some who will do whatever they can to support her.

"Remarkably shrewd and surprisingly amusing" WILLIAM BOYD, Guardian "A winning blend of detail and readability" IAN RANKIN, Guardian "This is a deeply stylish, astute and illuminating biography of a fascinating writer" FRANCESCA WADE, author of Square Haunting "Like a Spark novel, the moment my...

Originally published in six volumes, which sold more than one million copies, Carl Sandburg’s Abraham Lincoln was praised as the most noteworthy historical biography of Sandburg’s generation. He later distilled this monumental work into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction, as well as the most distinguished, authoritative biography of Lincoln ever published.

Growing up in an Illinois prairie town, Sandburg listened to stories of old-timers who had known Lincoln. By the time this single-volume edition was competed, he had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our 16th president.

The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921...

A deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eye. Allan Pinkerton, the world's most famous private detective, has been an enduring source of fascination since the nineteenth century. But the details of his impact, business empire, and private life have been incomplete. Drawing on overlooked primary sources, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones provides an authoritative account of the man and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (PNDA).

As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it. The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes...

For hundreds of years, the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has been one of the world's most precious literary possessions. In 1902, the distinguished American artist Howard Pyle undertook to retell this classic. His four-volume work on King Arthur has long been...

He helped shape OPEC. He helped guide a young Qatar into the modern age. He built a fortune across continents. Then he watched much of it disappear. The Economist is a novel inspired by the extraordinary, never before told true story of Dr. Mostafa Hassan, a young Fulbright scholar who came to...

Judea is one of the most important regions in the modern world. As the center of two of the world’s great religions and extremely important to a third, its history has been littered with wars, insurrections, and religious revolutions. To say that it has had a turbulent past is to understate...

Han var Danmarks statsminister i otte år, men hvem er personen bag politikeren? Det svarer journalisterne Niels Lunde og Henrik Qvortrup på i deres bog om Poul Nyrup Rasmussen fra 1997. ”Nyrup” er historien om Poul Nyrup Rasmussen og Svend Aukens nære venskab og politiske parløb i...

Mogens Glistrup har gennem mere end tredive år spillet rollen som dansk politiks ’enfant terrible’. Han besidder en evne til at udfordre det danske velfærdssamfunds hellige køer, men også en trang til at provokere, som ofte vækker vrede og forargelse. Og prisen har været høj...

Hans Engell havde kurs direkte mod Statsministeriet, da hans politiske karriere stoppede brat ved mødet med en betonklods. En bøde for spirituskørsel knuste hans drøm om at blive Danmarks statsminister. Han ødelagde det for sig selv, siger mange konservative i dag. De var parat til at tage...

The never before told story of radical suffragette Kitty Marion. Historian Fern Riddell finds a hidden diary and uses Kitty's own words to tell the story of her sensational life and explosive actions. Kitty Marion was sent across the country by the Pankhurst family to carry out a nationwide...

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.

His two companions were dead, his food and supplies had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp. On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The...

Bloomsbury presents Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism by Mark Hussey, read by Richard Trinder. 'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' – THE TIMES 'Revelatory' – GUARDIAN 'Restores Clive Bell vividly to life' – Lucasta Miller ______________ Clive Bell is perhaps better known today...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The riveting story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality, from the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and the host of the Revolutions podcast. "Immensely compelling." —The New York Times Few in...

Annakarin Svedberg har under nästan ett decennium besökt och levt i Indien. Hon finner en stark vänskap i Indiens premiärminister Indira Gandhi. Detta är skildringen om kvinnan som benämnts som världens mäktigaste, sedd genom författarens ögon. En rakt igenom intensiv och fängslande berättelse. Annakarin Svedberg, född 1934 i Halmstad, är känd för sina ovanliga kvinnoskildringar. De är ofta sensuella och lustfyllda. Svedberg anses vara en av de som först skrev om kärlek kvinnor emellan.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this 'riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult' (Los Angeles Times). On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln...

Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher—history’s most famous theorist of “warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed”—and the age he embodied. Ross King, the New York Times bestselling author of...