Jesus: A Biography from a Believer

Paul Johnson

The definitive life of Jesus from the bestselling author of "A History of Christianity." Few figures have had such an influence on the world as Jesus of Nazareth. Paul Johnson's brilliant and powerful reading of Jesus' life at once captures his transfiguring message and his historical complexity. With ...

A Writer's Notebook

W. Somerset Maugham

From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and exhilarating ...