Bonhoeffer
by Eric Metaxas | 
At My Mother's Knee... And Other Low Joints
by Paul O'Grady | 
Like the Roman
by Simon Heffer |
Memoirs
by Pablo Neruda | 
Unbreak My Heart
by Toni Braxton | 
R. E. Lee
by Douglas Southall Freeman | 
The Way It Was
by Eliot Weisman | 
Amazing Faith
by Michael Richardson | 
John Wayne
by Scott Eyman | 
Albert Camus
by Catherine Camus | 
Max Perkins
by A. Scott Berg | 
Once Blind
by Kay Marshall Strom |
Genius in Disguise
by Thomas Kunkel | 
Ben Hogan
by James Dodson |
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
by David Brainerd |
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
by Hermann Hagedorn | 
Becoming Richard Pryor
by Scott Saul | 
Fante
by Dan Fante | 
The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte
by Syrie James | 
Koestler
by Michael Scammell |
As a boy, John Mortimer wanted to be an actor, as a young man a writer, but at his father's suggestion he also pursued a career in law - in which, as a defending barrister, he found himself establishing profound but short-term friendships with those accused of various crimes, including murder. The chief lesson he learned from all this was to refrain from judgment, a quality he maintained in his other life. For alongside his work as a lawyer, Mortimer indulged a passion for writing. As this second career took over his life, it brought enriching yet frequently volatile friendships: with Tony Richardson, John Gielgud, Harold Pinter, David Niven, and Neil Kinnock, among others, from the worlds of theater, film, the law, and politics. John Mortimer brought his two worlds together in the character of Rumpole, for whom his creator is frequently mistaken. Murderers and Other Friends is John Mortimer's summing up of himself through his friends. With wit, wisdom, and tenderness he has written the story of the second part of his life, of the strangely assorted characters that enriched it, and of his family at its heart.