Biography

TV stars Noel and Sue beat all the odds to stay together and become Britain's biggest family with 22 children. Meeting as youngsters, Sue first fell pregnant at a young age and the teenage lovebirds, both adopted as babies, were determined to bring up their first baby and build a family together. Their love story continued to blossom - and their children kept on coming! The couple confess to having had an addiction with a difference - a positive addiction...

Beth Mead is one of the world's most talented footballers - Golden Boot winner and Player of the Tournament at the UEFA Euro 2022, England Player of the Year 2021-22, Arsenal Player of the Season 2021-22, and nominee for the 2022 Ballon d'Or. But long before this, Beth was just an ordinary kid from Hinderwell, North Yorkshire who wanted to play football. From being placed in the local boys' team as a child because her mum wanted her to run off her...

Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise. Tackling ministerial briefs on flood response and prison violence, engaging with conflict and poverty abroad as a foreign minister, and Brexit as a Cabinet minister, Stewart learned first-hand how profoundly hollow and inadequate our democracy and...

Far more than mere eye candy, these in-control, hard-working, and pioneering ladies were an early and earnest manifestation of Girl Power in the British film industry. This book will provide an invaluable celebration of the highly talented and forever decorative screen sirens that bewitched Carry On heroes Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Leslie Phillips, Bernard Bresslaw, Jim Dale, Peter Butterworth and, yes, even, Kenneth Williams. Through never-before-seen...

Written by her daughter Ruth and rich in social history, this is the story of a real-life woman police sergeant at the top of her game, guiding her WPCs through the immense societal changes of the early 1960s.

From growing up in a Catholic household in Islington to appearing on British television screens in 'Birds of a Feather', Linda Robson's life has been a rollercoaster. Sharing her ups and downs on 'Loose Women', Linda has offered her audiences a glimpse into her life, but how did she become the beloved television figure we see today? Linda's memoir recounts the twists and turns of her journey into the spotlight and five decades spent acting on television,...

An unbelievable tale of romance, sacrifice, loss, and resilience, 'Lovers in Auschwitz' is a saga of two young people who found themselves trapped inside a waking nightmare of the Nazis' creation, yet who nevertheless discovered a love that sustained them through history's darkest hour.

In July 1860, 52 years after a federal law banning the importation of slaves to the country and on the eve of the American Civil War, a slave ship docked in Mobile Bay, Alabama. Concealed in its hold were 108 surviving captives from West Africa, who had been kidnapped from their homes and transported in appalling conditions across the Atlantic. The Clotilda would be the last slave ship to land on US soil and thus serve as the final act of a terrible,...

On 9 October 1986, nine-year-olds Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway went out to play on their Brighton estate. They would never return home; their bodies discovered the next day concealed in a local park. This devastating crime rocked the country. With unique access to the officers charged with catching the killer, former senior detective Graham Bartlett and bestselling author Peter James tell the compelling inside story of the investigation as the...

This is an autobiography of English character actor, voice-over artist, and musical comedian, Bernard Cribbins.