One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece and a bestseller in France.

This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. 'Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!'

The first full biography of Socrates, the maverick and revolutionary genius of Brazilian football, authorised by his family

A Doctor's Sword is the story of the incredible life of Aidan MacCarthy, an Irish doctor who survived Dunkirk, Japanese POW camps and the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It is a story of survival, forgiveness and humanity at its most admirable.