Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes

In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and...

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

Huo Yuan Jia became the most famous martial arts fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately...

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Comedian Harmonists tells the story of a famous, German male sextet, five vocals and piano, the "Comedian Harmonists", from the day they meet first...

Unbeknownst to the 19th-century Greek "primitive" painter Theofilos, other painters around the world at the time were also exploring non-academic...

A story of ambition, love, betrayal and greed.

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

A biography of President Harry S. Truman.

The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn

Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is...

Was have Vasily and Vasilisa seven children. They lived together, the village respected the working family. But one day something happened to the...