Why I Became an X Troop Commando
Born in Germany in 1922, Colin Anson’s (Claus Ascher) childhood was marked by the trials of Nazism. His father was arrested by the Gestapo…
Biography
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Illustrating Playing with Fire: A Q&A with Jo Walker
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Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
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Astrid Lindgren: A Life in Pictures
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Whistler’s Mother by Daniel Sutherland & Georgia Toutziari, An Extract
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International Women’s Day: The Remarkable Women of Yale Books
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What Are Brothers For? – Warner Bros, An Extract
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The Curious World of Samuel Pepys & John Evelyn, by Margaret Willes – A Who’s Who
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Yitzhak Rabin, by Itamar Rabinovich – An Extract
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Illustrating Playing with Fire: A Q&A with Jo Walker
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Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
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Astrid Lindgren: A Life in Pictures
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Whistler’s Mother by Daniel Sutherland & Georgia Toutziari, An Extract
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International Women’s Day: The Remarkable Women of Yale Books
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What Are Brothers For? – Warner Bros, An Extract
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The Curious World of Samuel Pepys & John Evelyn, by Margaret Willes – A Who’s Who
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Yitzhak Rabin, by Itamar Rabinovich – An Extract
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Six People Who Shaped Madrid
by Luke Stegemann, cultural historian and author of Madrid: A New Biography — Unsurprisingly given its 1200 years of settlement and its role in…
When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Turned Black – 50 Years in 50 Books
When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black is the lost memoir of Britain’s first Black Olympic medal winner. After winning Olympic…
Everything Black – an extract from ‘Black Dignity’ by Vincent W. Lloyd
Why Black dignity is the paradigm of all dignity and Black philosophy is the starting point of all philosophy Black Dignity: The Struggle against…
Staff Pick: Our Favourite Books of 2021
Happy New Year! Yale University Press, London staff recommend their favourite books of last year. Find out what we chose and why. January’s Staff…
150 Years of Gilgamesh
The year 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the rediscovery of the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh. The epic had been forgotten for around two thousand…
Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols – An extract
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all keep on reading over the coming…
Mrs Delany: A Life by Clarissa Campbell Orr – An Extract
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all keep on reading over the coming…
Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist
In autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while…
Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior – Catherine Hanley
Was Matilda a power-hungry she-wolf, as history portrays her, or a woman ahead of her time, fighting for the continuation of her family line?…
Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
‘Tis the season to be cosy! Winter has arrived and what could be better than curling up with a cuppa and a book? Whether…
Astrid Lindgren: A Life in Pictures
Astrid Lindgren created one of the most beloved and groundbreaking characters in children’s literature: Pippi Longstocking. To mark the publication of Jens Andersen’s biography Astrid…
Whistler’s Mother by Daniel Sutherland & Georgia Toutziari, An Extract
Discover the woman behind the portrait. Anna Whistler, the subject of the iconic portrait, Whistler’s Mother raised one of the finest artists of the nineteenth century….
Like Grandmother, like granddaughter: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castile
Arguably the most successful woman to wield political power in the middle ages, Blanche of Castile is today not so well known as her…
Francis Barber & Mr Foote’s Other Leg
Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Jamaican manservant and heir, Francis Barber, has been gaining attention over the past year. In spring 2015 Yale released the biography…