Science & Technology Biographies

Champion swimmer, trailblazer, and film idol—the adventurous life of our first Hollywood superstar, by the bestselling author of Sister Viv, Mrs Kelly, Hudson Fysh, Banks, and Banjo. Born into a daring, musical family in 1886, Annette Kellerman was a force of nature and made for the stage—her first love—and encouraged to defy social norms from a young age. After being...

Lust, science, adventure — Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific knowledge. Fabulously wealthy, Banks was the driving force behind monumental voyages and scientific...

Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science – and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory. ‘A luminous and illuminating contribution to the cause’ Literary Review For decades, Marie Curie was the only woman in the room at international...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The powerful story of an inspiring doctor who made a difference by helping to create a program to care for Boston’s homeless community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains “I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am left in awe of the human spirit and inspired to do better.”...

A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar is a deeply moving narrative that explores the enigmatic life of John Nash, a mathematical prodigy whose groundbreaking work laid the foundations for game theory. Set against the backdrop of mid-20th century academia, the biography delves into Nash's extraordinary intellectual prowess and his eventual descent into schizophrenia. With an unparalleled talent that saw him...

An Exquisite Legacy is a compelling biography that delves deep into the life and achievements of George Vernon Hudson, one of New Zealand's most celebrated naturalist-artists. Written by his grandson, Dr George Gibbs, a prominent entomologist himself, this book offers an intimate and richly detailed portrait of Hudson's extraordinary dedication to the study and illustration of New Zealand’s insect fauna....

Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk — NEW STATESMAN Wonderful ... both frank and fearless — TELEGRAPH BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR Fascinating — GUARDIAN TOP TEN NATURE MEMOIRS From Mexico to the Arctic ice, grey whale mothers swim with their calves. Following them, by bus, train and...

Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and the endeavours of Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert to establish the fundamental rules of mathematics inspired some of the most brilliant minds of their generation to convene in post-World War I Vienna. This assemblage, known as the Vienna Circle, consisted of intellectual giants like Kurt Gödel and Rudolf Carnap, who sought to advance the...

On October 28th, hours after completing a $44 billion takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk tweeted to his millions of followers, "The bird is freed." Musk's takeover of Twitter was one of the most audacious and remarkable deals in tech history. The Battle for Twitter takes readers back to the very beginning and explores how we reached this point. It examines...

Spaceman by Mike Massimino is a compelling memoir that takes readers on an extraordinary journey from the dreamscape of childhood fantasies to the curtains of outer space. It chronicles Massimino's evolution from a six-year-old entranced by Neil Armstrong's iconic moonwalk to a tenacious individual determined to break through NASA's barriers and actualize his aspirations. Massimino's path was fraught with challenges....

The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat’s Last Theorem is the most important mathematical development of the 20th century. In 1963, a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across the world’s greatest mathematical problem: Fermat’s Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can understand but...

The brain weighs just three and a half pounds, but it governs every aspect of our lives. A fascinating and wide-ranging account of what neurosurgery is really about – the past, present and future. - Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm Since its inception in the early twentieth century, brain surgery has maintained an air of mystery. As the...

In the 1930s, the pioneering Danish scientist Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of Earth. Analysing data from earthquakes, she determined that the heart of the planet is a solid inner core. Her discovery overturned the widely accepted theory of the core being fluid, but she trusted her calculations: "If I am right, and I know...

The south-western Pacific is the only region in the world where all tuna stocks have a 'healthy' status. It supports the acknowledged best researched and managed tuna fishery on the planet. With skipjack tuna being the most important renewable natural resource in the region, the fishery is crucial to the economic and wider social wellbeing of Pacific Island peoples, who...

An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880. 'When the lights come out at sundown along the...

Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment's brightest stars. Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overlooked. Yet his Theory of the Earth revolutionised the way we think about how our planet was formed and laid the foundation for the science of geology. He was in his time a doctor, a farmer, a businessman, a...

SHORTLISTED, AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR WINNER, AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS SOCIAL IMPACT BOOK OF THE YEAR A dedicated doctor. A devastating diagnosis. A chance for a medical revolution. Skin cancer is this country's most common cancer, and melanoma the deadliest form of it. Richard Scolyer, together with his colleagues at Melanoma Institute Australia, devoted years to...

One night, Virginia Eubanks received the kind of news we all fear. Her beloved partner had been brutally beaten just steps from their house. In the weeks, then months and years that followed, they faced a cascade of setbacks: police disinterest, suspended health insurance, inadequate medical care, lost income, lost friends, endless paperwork, and a serious case of post-traumatic stress...

Who was Nikola Tesla? Find out in this comprehensive volume that includes Tesla’s autobiography and scientific writings, as well as other works that examine his life and career in detail. Nikola Tesla came from a humble upbringing in what is now Croatia and reached the heights of science and technology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth...

AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND CHURCH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025 'The definitive backstory of one of the towering figures of 20th-century science' – Guardian 'Brilliant and inspiring. A landmark biography' – Adam Rutherford Francis Crick was a restless, relentless thinker, as fascinated by Beat poetry and psychedelics as the genetic meaning of...

Meet the bold men and women of past and present whose appreciation for plants defied convention, broke barriers, and changed how we understand and protect the natural world. From groundbreaking botanists who redefined science to everyday gardeners whose work sparked social change, Rebel Gardeners profiles the individuals who turned their work with plants into movements that continue to grow today....

One hundred and fifty years ago, the telephone burst onto the world stage like magic, a supernatural instrument bringing voices from afar. Instantly, the ability to speak across vast distances began to transform every part of life: from business organisation to military tactics, from news gathering to sex work. Telephones, though an extraordinary invention, became so ubiquitous - in offices...

A revolutionary pioneer of Australian rock, an emergency physician, and a decorated flight surgeon with the Marines – Deniz Tek is a man of many lives. In this raw yet reflective memoir, the Radio Birdman co-founder traces an improbable journey from his childhood in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to the high-intensity stages of Sydney's punk rock venues and the cockpit of...

Stories full of infectious, hospital-grade humour and loads of heart, from Australia's favourite nurse. Showering in gumboots. Bomb threats. Tables of turds. Welcome to the life of a nurse. Nurses are our number-one unsung heroes. They're the ones in the trenches mopping up bodily fluids, holding hands, keeping things ticking - and always with a smile on their face. In...

Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American helicopter in Iraq. What followed was an unravelling of everything Dean thought he knew...

Life In His Hands is the remarkable true story of Charlie Teo, one of Australia's most celebrated yet controversial neurosurgeons. His pioneering 'keyhole' techniques have earned him praise around the world, but in his home country, he is regarded by some in the profession as reckless and even dangerous. His stock in trade is 'inoperable' brain tumours—those malignant cancers that...

Oliver Sacks is a neurologist, a man of humane eloquence, and a genuine communicator – Observer Oliver Sacks, one of the great humanists of our age – who describes himself in these pages as a 'philosophical physician' and an 'astronomer of the inward' – wrote to an eclectic array of family and friends. Most were scientists, artists, and writers, even...

Oliver Sacks is a neurologist, a man of humane eloquence, and a genuine communicator Observer Oliver Sacks, one of the great humanists of our age - who describes himself in these pages as a 'philosophical physician' and an 'astronomer of the inward' - wrote to an eclectic array of family and friends. Most were scientists, artists, and writers, even statesmen: Francis...

At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie Cawley, is dealing with her own emotional crisis, breathing into a paper bag between patient sessions. In this lively and honest memoir of training to be a psychotherapist, we meet the patients grappling with...

'I loved this witty, insightful journey into the world of psychotherapy' - Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path At the psychologist's clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie Cawley, is dealing with her own emotional crisis, breathing into a paper bag between...

A story of friendship like no other... breathtaking in its tenderness and inspiration. The Hon. Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO Two incredible women, an unlikely friendship, and a united mission to save the lives of some of the world's poorest and most desperate women. Healing Lives reveals the untold tale of Mamitu Gashe, Dr Catherine Hamlin's protégée, and the inspiring...

From his early days at Oxford, Stephen Hawking's brilliance and good humour were obvious to everyone he met. At twenty-one, he was diagnosed with ALS, a disease that limited his ability to move and speak, though it did nothing to limit his mind. He went on to do groundbreaking work in cosmology and theoretical physics for decades after being told...

Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it is also nothing less than the story of the birth of modern science as we know it. Europe's greatest scientist during the latter half of the seventeenth century, Christiaan Huygens was a true polymath. A towering figure in the...

The story of the voyage that changed human understanding forever. In 1831, Charles Darwin set out on an expedition to South America, brought along as a gentleman companion for Captain Robert FitzRoy. Initially conceived as a Christian mission, the voyage would change drastically as the Beagle sailed through the Pacific, with Darwin’s observations becoming the building blocks of his revolutionary...

Gripping and darkly comic, Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time — Elon Musk — and the company that owns our world's best hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the mission-driven team Musk surrounded himself with, this is the full story...

Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis. Working in A&E is a challenging job, but nurse Louise Curtis loves it. She was newly qualified as an advanced clinical practitioner, responsible for life or death decisions about the patients she saw, when the unthinkable happened and the...

Technology is evolving at the fastest rate we've ever seen, but it may be the slowest rate we'll ever see again! What does this mean for the future of the human race? Do we resist these changes or embrace them? Australian biomedical engineer, inventor and visionary Dr Jordan Nguyen has lived a life of curiosity and wonder—exploring positive opportunities in...

Polly Morland and Richard Baker have more than done justice to the original John Berger book - and produced a work that stimulates the eye and mind in equal measure. Alain de Botton A Fortunate Woman is a compelling, thoughtful and insightful look at the life and work of a country doctor. Funny, moving and not afraid of the dark,...

Including a preface by HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Anne. The Australian doctor saving the lives and dignity of thousands of women in Africa, one surgery at a time. From Ethiopia to Sierra Leone, Tanzania to Togo, Dr Andrew Browning has been helping women affected by obstetric fistulas—a debilitating condition resulting from obstructed childbirth—for nearly two decades. Andrew began his...

As a nurse for nearly fifty years, Keith Cox provided expert care and comfort to countless people facing the unimaginable. With insight and sensitivity, A Caring Life takes us behind the scenes of his remarkable nursing career and the moving stories of hope, determination and loss that underpinned it. Along the way, he shares lessons gained from a career spent...

A visceral personal memoir of being seriously unwell—and the consolations of philosophy during sickness. Being a patient is part of being alive. Disease and serious illness often strike randomly, and when they do, we quickly become subject to the impersonal forces of biochemistry and pharmacology. We rarely think about sickness beforehand and are often totally unprepared for it when it...

The untold story of Albert Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine and became a controversial public health advocate for children worldwide. “Introduces readers to a passionate, driven and irascible scientist through the story of his life’s work.”—Adrian Woolfson, Wall Street Journal Jonas Salk may be the name most associated with the polio vaccine, but it was Albert Sabin’s oral...

In this powerful follow-up to her bestselling memoir, In Shock, a doctor asks: What does it truly mean to heal? In the aftermath of her own critical illness, physician and writer Dr. Rana Awdish finds herself oddly estranged from her own body. Medicine has conditioned her to view sick bodies as broken objects, not as sites of meaning, mystery, and...

The powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic - and of the ordinary heroes who risked their lives to race in pursuit of progress. A non-stop flight across the Atlantic might seem routine today. But it is only possible because of those who went first. Vivid and compelling - John Lancaster A delectable serving of escapist nostalgia...

From the bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker comes the astonishing true story of Joseph Bell, the Scottish surgeon whose extraordinary talent for detection inspired Sherlock Holmes. Edinburgh, 1878. A medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle squeezes into the Royal Infirmary's packed operating theatre, hoping to catch a glimpse of the celebrated professor whose uncanny powers of...

This book is the only scientific biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Indian American chemist, Har Gobind Khorana. It begins with the story of Khorana's origins in poverty in rural India and how he managed to emerge from that to be trained in chemistry in Britain and Switzerland before immigrating to Canada and the United States. Science was the dominant focus...

One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed him that he had been awarded a key grant. Also, the officer said, he and his colleagues thought Kandel would win the Nobel Prize. "I hope not soon," Kandel's wife, Denise, said when she heard...

Surgeon on the Edge is a literary memoir about the cost of becoming a surgeon and the even greater cost of leaving. Frances Mei Hardin, MD—a former ENT surgeon turned writer and entrepreneur—invites readers into the interior life of modern medical training: the devotion, the brutality, the prestige, and the quiet unraveling that happens when a person learns to outrun...

Leadership Lessons Surgery Never Taught—the Nonclinical Skills That Save Careers Surgeons and health care professionals are trained to fix the human body, but they are poorly prepared for the nonclinical realities that accompany their careers—complications, harsh criticism, difficult personalities, leadership failures, and the silent weight of moral injury. Most try to push through by imitating senior colleagues who were never...

Leadership Lessons Surgery Never Taught-the Nonclinical Skills That Save Careers Surgeons and health care professionals are trained to fix the human body, but they are poorly prepared for the nonclinical realities that accompany their careers—complications, harsh criticism, difficult personalities, leadership failures, and the silent weight of moral injury. Most try to push through by imitating senior colleagues who were never...

In this beautifully illustrated hardback, Jon Balchin explores the achievements of 50 of history's greatest scientists, showcasing their profound impact on our understanding of the cosmos and the natural world. Featuring luminaries like Einstein, Hubble, Franklin, and Hawking, this book demonstrates how their work has shaped our lives, advanced medicine, and unravelled the complexities of nature and humanity. With stunning...

This captivating biography delves into the pioneering work of J. Robert Oppenheimer, from his early scientific achievements to leading the Manhattan Project and his complex legacy as the mind behind the atom bomb. The brilliant theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, is now known primarily for his work on the development of the atomic bomb from 1942-45 at Los Alamos in...

The first history of women astronomers in English to cover individuals from antiquity to the modern day. Features 30 in-depth biographies and 99 brief portraits of women astronomers, space explorers, and astrophysicists. For the last four hundred years, women have played a part far in excess of their numerical representation in the history of astronomical research and discovery. It was...

They ignored young army virologist Robert Redfield when he warned Americans that the sexually transmitted HIV virus affected heterosexual women and men just as it did gay men. They ignored Redfield when he called for the importance of early diagnosis for HIV infection. They ignored Redfield for a decade when he warned Americans that the country was not prepared for...

When I think of my hell days, I think of crime scenes. Familiar sites, made uncanny with violence. In the fluorescent tedium of a call centre in 2018, acclaimed novelist Laura Elizabeth Woollett finds herself meticulously plotting her own death. Until her period arrives, and equilibrium with it. After years of dismissing these monthly turns, she's diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric...

An inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revolutionary, by the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature. George Forster was a man out of time—he journeyed to the far reaches of the known world and challenged the worldviews of eighteenth-century Europe with radical ideas about equality and freedom. Celebrated during his lifetime, he knew Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, Mary...

The remarkable true story of the trailblazing men and women of Britain's blood transfusion service in World War Two. The Lifesavers were a little-known band of men and women at the forefront of groundbreaking battlefield care in the Second World War. As part of a new and pioneering service, unconventional and iconoclastic, they pushed and pulled blood from hundreds of...

The untold story of an iconoclastic scientist: a psychiatrist who dedicated his career to documenting consciousness after death. While Ian Stevenson (1918–2007) was an academic psychiatrist with a serious demeanour, right down to his three-piece suits and wingtip shoes, he made his name researching an unusual topic for a behavioural scientist: the afterlife. For over four decades, Stevenson travelled the...

The explosive story of the tech giant Nvidia – the producer of the only chip anyone involved in AI wants – and its charismatic, uncompromising, complicated CEO, Jensen Huang. WINNER OF THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 A SUNDAY TIMES, ECONOMIST AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 This is the story of the company that...

An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from "the father of the iPod and iPhone" and the creator of Nest. The New York Times Bestseller. An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from "the father of the iPod and iPhone" and the creator of Nest. Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road,...

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female...

“So many memoirs make you feel that you've been sealed up inside a wall with a monomaniac. A really good one, like Autobiography of a Face, makes you feel there is more to ask and learn. You are not just seeing the writer; you are not trying to see yourself. You are seeing the world in a different way.”--Margo Jefferson...

A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post NPR Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder.​ "At one point, Miller dives into the ocean into a school of fish...comes...

Like the "funny, brilliant, bawdy" (The New Yorker) Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, this book’s many stories—some funny, others intensely moving—display Richard P. Feynman’s unquenchable thirst for adventure and unparalleled ability to recount important moments from his life. Here we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed...

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new foreword by the author • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.” — USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.” — Lucy Kalanithi NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian...

A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Women's Prize for NonfictionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER National Indie Bestseller A New York Times notable book of 2023Vulture's #1 book of 2023One of Slate's ten best books of 2023A Guardian best ideas book of 2023One of Time's ten best books of 2023Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award...

An anniversary edition of the award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman's struggle to recapture her identity--with a new note to readers by the author. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post,...

"Choi's true-crime biography adds much-needed detail and perspective to Noguchi's unusual and compelling story." -Booklist L.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial "Coroner to the Stars," who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Natalie Wood, and hundreds of other notable personalities. Choi, an award-winning historian and professor, deftly blends Los...

Inspired by the adventures of world travellers but unwilling to rack up her fossil fuel consumption, Elspeth sets out with a deep curiosity to explore the world that exists in her own garden. Told over the course of four seasons, Journeys to the Nearby is inspired by the beauty in the small moments of discovery. After spending the winter holidays...

The authorised biography of a polymath racecar engineer. This biography of Bill Sadler tells the story of an innovator who set the racing world astir with his boldly inventive cars. His original creations—including the Formula Libre and the Sadler Mark V—brought him racing victories at tracks such as Watkins Glen and the Brighton Speed Trials throughout the 1950s and early...

Lust, science, adventure — Joseph Banks and his voyages of discovery The extraordinary life of one of the world's most famous and notorious adventurers Sir Joseph Banks was a man of passion whose influence spanned the globe. A fearless adventurer, his fascination with beautiful women was only trumped by his obsession with the natural world and his lust for scientific...

Meet the History Heroes who led us into space! Puzzle your way through the planets in this fact-packed jigsaw puzzle! Get to know 17 inspiring people who shaped our knowledge of the solar system, from scientists and mathematicians to astronauts and authors. Spot Galileo with his trusty telescope, Neil Armstrong taking his famous first steps on the Moon, Katherine Johnson...

Fifty of the world’s most creative people share their stories, their inspirations, and their unique takes on science and education, all inspired by the Exploratorium science museum. What do music visionary Brian Eno, kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen, science writer Mary Roach, Mythbuster Adam Savage, and Pulitzer-winning journalist Thomas Friedman have in common? They are all game-changers: scientists, artists, entertainers, and...

Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and plants. But today, Franklin is remembered more for his political prowess and diplomatic achievements than his scientific creativity. In this incisive and rich account of Benjamin Franklin's life and career, Richard Munson...

Jane Ward Tost defied 19th century societal constraints to become one of England's leading naturalists and taxidermists. A peer of John Gould and John James Audubon, Jane's artistic talent and technical expertise captivated museum visitors around the globe. But Jane's incredible achievements were not easily won. She lived a highly eventful life, showing remarkable resilience in the face of profound...

Timed to release for the 15th Anniversary of the Columbia space shuttle disaster, this is the epic true story of one of the most dramatic, unforgettable adventures of our time. On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on re-entry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at...

Life with the Durrells is seldom straightforward. Dive headfirst into family adventures with this collection of laugh-out-loud short stories from the much-loved author of My Family and Other Animals. Notable tales include The Picnic, a hilarious account of an ill-fated Durrell excursion which should have been a relaxing, jolly affair, and The Entrance, the critically acclaimed Gothic horror story. Packed...