Subject: Biography -- 20th century (Keywords)

This title includes ten riveting, in-depth biographies of pioneering world leaders of the last century, including Churchill, Roosevelt and Gorbachev.

In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet.

This survey of great contemporary artists is the perfect introduction to the exciting world of art today. Artists working after the Second World War faced a confounding array of challenges, as stylistic barriers were broken, technology advanced, and issues of sexuality and race came to the forefr...

Alan Davies recounts the story of A.J. Cronin's Scottish childhood as the son of a Protestant mother and Catholic father, his subsequent medical career and his rise to literary promenance.

Lillian Beckwith's childhood is the subject of this book. She takes us back to the years before the Second World War, to the Great Depression and her father's grocer's shop in a Cheshire town. All are humourously described in this affectionate memoir.

Jane Bingham looks at the major adventurers and explorers of the 20th century, giving biographical information, quotes from and about the subjects and considering their legacies.

As the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous man who never was, Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favourite writers. Writer, doctor, cricketer, public figure and family man, his life was no less fascinating than his fiction. Russell Miller has been granted unlimited access to Co...

Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than 30 years, having started sleuthing on behalf of society's finest in 1905. Her exploits grabbed headlines throughout the world but, beneath the public persona, she was forced to hide vital aspects of her own identity in order to thrive in ...

Although Christie lived to a great age, and was prolific, she remained elusively shy and determinedly private. Granted sole access to family papers and other protected material, Morgan has created a revealing biography of the world's bestselling author.