British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world's most translated author: her heroes, private detective Hercule Poirot and amateur sleuth Miss Marple, are known the world over. But who is the woman behind her bestsellers? A biographical search for clues, the unraveling of an iridescent personality whose existence and works were shaped by the tragic history of the 20th century: the eventful life of the Queen of Crime.
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering h...
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...
Before Avicii, there was Tim. Through his own words, witness how a prodigious musical talent became ...
Paulo Coelho is the world’s most translated living author, his books having sold over 165 million co...
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced...
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...
A detailed investigation into the political and economic interests that, since the beginning of the ...
Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who ...
Finally, 33 years later, the whole truth behind the attempted coup d'état that shook Spain on the af...
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atroc...
The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he app...
A reckless joyride into the darkest corners of popular music that delves deep into the mind of Mick ...
Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also...
An account of the life and work of Spanish actress Penélope Cruz: a long journey that began in the w...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet int...
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accide...
Pop culture writer and aspiring novelist Vanessa Sills lands the interview of a lifetime with the il...
A joyful tale filled with music. The rise of radio. The jazz big bands. The legendary clubs and ball...