Item category 1: Biographies & Memoirs

Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid poverty to becoming one of the biggest names in comedy began with a crime: his birth. Born to a black Xhosa mother and a white Swiss father at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison, Trevor was kept indoors for most of his early ...

In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the epitome of the volcanic creative forces which brought about the Industrial Revolution - and brought modern society into being.