Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before - and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with...

Distinguished historian, Anne Sebba, has written a full biography of Wallis Simpson, the most vilified woman of the twentieth century. ‘That woman’, as she was referred to by the Queen Mother,...

Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year-old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853.Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie – as...