The intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in British royal history.

Wallis Simpson is known as the woman at the centre of the most scandalous love affair of the 20th century, but in this “unputdownable…lively and detailed” (The Times, London) biography, discover a woman wronged by history with new information revealed by the latest research and those who were close to the couple.

Life has always been made difficult for those marrying into England’s royal family. In 1936, just months into his reign, King Edward VIII proposed to Wallis Simpson, a divorced American woman. Gossip ran wild, and that cacophony of speculation and distrust both hid the real Wallis and forced Edward into abdicating so that he might marry the woman he adored.

Now, Anna Pasternak’s The American Duchess tells a different story: that Wallis was the victim of the abdication, not the villain. Warm, well-mannered, and witty, Wallis was flattered by Prince Edward’s attention, but like everyone else, she never expected his infatuation to last. She never anticipated his jealous, possessive nature — and his absolute refusal to let her go. Caught in Edward’s fierce obsession, she became the perfect scapegoat for those who wished to dethrone the troubled king. This is Wallis Simpson’s story as it has never been told before.

The heart-breaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya – the tragic true story that inspired Doctor Zhivago.

‘Doctor Zhivago’ has sold in its millions yet the true love story that inspired it has never been fully explored. Pasternak would often say ‘Lara exists, go and meet her’, directing his visitors to the love of his life and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. They met in 1946 at the literary journal where she worked. Their relationship would last for the remainder of their lives.

Olga paid an enormous price for loving ‘her Boria’. She became a pawn in a highly political game and was imprisoned twice in Siberian labour camps because of her association with him and his controversial work. Her story is one of unimaginable courage, loyalty, suffering, tragedy, drama and loss.

Drawing on both archival and family sources, Anna Pasternak’s book reveals for the first time the critical role played by Olga in Boris’s life and argues that without Olga it is likely that Doctor Zhivago would never have been completed or published.

Read more about Anna’s quest to write Lara in this article by Elizabeth Kiem…

Why do so few of us find true love? Why do we spend our whole lives looking for fulfilment, for intimacy, for joy? Call Off The Search attempts to answer these questions with a rawness and honesty never before experienced in the self-help genre.

Written by Anna and her therapist husband, Andrew Wallas, this is a frank and fearless journey to the heart of a modern relationship.

After years of searching, disappointment, heartbreak and divorce, Anna and Andrew found each other. With the joy of their profound connection came the agony of past heartbreaks and unresolved pain. Rather than hide, ignore it or walk away, Anna and Andrew embarked on a terrifying quest right to the core of themselves and each other.

Never before has a husband and wife deconstructed their own relationship with such candour for a book of this nature. With brutal honesty and intimate detail, Anna and Andrew draw on their own relationship to get to the heart of why so few of us ever find true happiness and fulfilment. They discuss their own marriage in explicit detail whilst confronting themes of revenge, sexual comparison, sabotage and hatred with insight and wisdom.

The book is diagnostic and engaging, identifying key themes and traits which we all recognise. The couple’s dual narrative provides a unique insight from both male and female perspective along with practical ways to free ourselves from the burden of inner pain.

Jaw-droppingly honest and at times “laugh out loud” funny, Call Off The Search is unlike any other relationship, self-help or spiritual book. It is compulsively readable, completely gripping and essential reading for anyone looking to understand their relationship and themselves.

Considered the scoop of the decade, this is an account of the five-year love affair between Princess Diana and Captain James Hewitt, as told to Anna Pasternak by Hewitt.

The book tells the story of how they met, how they fell in love and how they struggled against a passion they knew was ultimately hopeless.

Once the disintegration of the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana had become public knowledge, the world quickly learned of the affair; and not knowing the truth, the world quickly condemned James Hewitt. Anna sets the record straight: that his love, support, and encouragement played a vital role in helping Princess Diana through her marriage breakdown, enabling her to develop the inner strength she displayed after her separation from Prince Charles. Theirs was a love that arose through force of circumstance. This book tells the story of a woman’s journey to find herself, as it were, through adversity.