Under her Skin
This is the story of the extraordinary life of Professor Fiona Wood. Fiona was born into a loving family in a coal-mining district of the North of England. Her parents made great sacrifices to ensure the...
Biographies
Jérome Lejeune
The short biography of the scientist passionate about the truth, committed to trisomy 21 patients to cure and defend their lives. He risked his professional career and lost his Nobel Prize to defend the...
Mawson, A Life
A biography covering the full range of Sir Douglas Mawson's life and work, his character and attainments, his virtues and faults, his place in the past and his significance for the present.
A hero...
Confessions of a Convert
Robert Hugh Benson, a former Anglican priest, narrates his conversion to Catholicism. As the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, this caused much controversy in England. In his testimony, he confesses that...
Madame Curie
It is an extraordinary biography written three years after Maria Curie's death that became a worldwide bestseller. Eva, her youngest daughter, wrote the book with a double objective: to honor her mother's...
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 was murdered in 1917. It details the good...
A Song for Nagasaki
A biography of the Japanese radiologist who survived the atomic bomb in Nagasaki. Takashi Nagai (1908-1951) was a married Japanese scientist with two children. He generously promoted modern medicine in his...
Amerigo
It is a magnificent biography focused on The story of a historical mistake as the subtitle points out: Why America is called America and not Colombia? Zweig explains the reasons why Amerigo Vespucci gave...
Like Any Other: A Girl Named Montse
Montserrat Grases (Montse, to her friends) was born in Barcelona, Spain. At the age of 17 it was discovered that she had bone cancer. Less than a year later she died. Montse's life was simple and short, but...
Long Walk to Freedom
Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. A great book written with clarity and engages the reader from the beginning to the end. He had an extraordinary life: he was a true leader in South Africa who fought against...