Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire 18th century. This title includes Franklin's reflections on such questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women.

The precociously bright son of a Swedish pharmacist, Axel Munthe worked under Jean Martin Charcot, and in 1880, became the youngest doctor in French history. By the 1890s, he was world-famous for his healing powers, believed by some to be supernatural. This book tells his life-story.

Paul McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least understood. But, behind the implied glamour of life in the employ of great English clubs like Manchester United and Aston Villa, McGrath wrestled with a range of destructive emotions that made his success in the game little short of miraculous. This is his story.

Alistair Darling's number one Sunday Times bestselling memoirs now available in paperback updated with a new introduction.

Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.