C. S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
Alister McGrath is a Christian professor of Theology, Religion and Culture at King's College; and senior researcher at Harris Manchester College. In this biography of...
Dostoievsky, An interpretation
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948) was a Russian philosopher, exiled by the Soviets in 1922 on one of the famous “philosophers’ ships”. He eventually settled in France,...
Life is Blessing- A biography of Jérôme Lejeune
This stunning biography written by a daughter of Jerome Lejeune describes an atmosphere in Paris at that time which was hostile to scientific truth. Prof. Lejeune won...
Four Sisters
The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
A well-researched and very readable biography of the four daughters of the last Tsar of Russia, who...
The Wright Brothers
At the beginning of the 20th century, two brothers, Wilbur and Orville, while running a bicycle store in Ohio, U.S.A., built a device capable of powered flight, with...
Dickens
For a serious Dickens fan, this is a very enjoyable account of his life. Ackroyd, one of England's leading literary biographers, and a novelist of some note himself,...
Mozart's Journey to Prague
The book recreates a fictional episode in the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Set in 1787, the story follows the composer and his wife, Constanze, on their journey...
St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
Few theologians, philosophers and saints have been more commented and been the inspiration to more books than St. Thomas ... Oceans of ink, tons of commentaries,...