Mark Bostridge's Florence Nightingale is a masterful and effortlessly enjoyable biography of one of Britain's most iconic heroines. Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been misrepresented and misunderstood. As the Lady with the Lamp, minister[...]

The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolc[...]

A selection of the powerful and poignant wartime letters of Vera Brittain and her friends If war spares me, wrote Vera Brittain to her brother, Edward, in 1916, it will be my one aim to immortalize in a book the story of us four. Seventeen years later, Vera was to achieve her aim with the acclaimed [...]