Biographies & true stories

'They call me a madman but compared to Pete Way, I'm out of my league.' - Ozzy Osbourne There are rock memoirs and then there is this one. A Fast ...

An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure...

'A CHILLING new memoir by the daughter of mass murderer Fred West and his wife Rose describes the savage cruelty of her upbringing in 25 Cromwell...

I was a good girl who was just 'helping Daddy' in the hell that I called home.Scarlett is just 8 years old when the horrific abuse at the hands of ...

'Beautifully written, passionate and moving, this is the book everyone should read about COVID-19' Kate Mosse 'Hard to put down' Rachel Clarke 'G...

WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday ...

A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar w...

'Always the leader and always the best' Bear Grylls 'Fiennes has so much to fit in, it's a wonder to grasp the full breadth of a lifetime of adve...

In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired by the hit song Prince wrote about their legendary love story, Mayte Garcia for the first time shares the...

Women's Football Superstars is packed with photos of the game’s most popular teams and players, plus hundreds of quickfire facts and incredible rec...

Product Description A vibrant and richly detailed guide to fossils for readers with a passion for the natural world and those that inhabited it lo...

"The number one Sunday Times bestseller - with a new, fantastically festive front cover! Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book ...

The inside story of a thoroughly modern monarch told by the maker of ITV's upcoming documentary on Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee. This bestselling a...

From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires - th...

'A compelling personal account of the dramas of a singular British band' Neil Tennant The trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Bes...

Product Description THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Coming November 2020 as a major motion picture from Netflix starring Amy Adams and Glenn Clo...

Product Description Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in ...

A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal ...

Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five...

Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, a...

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked...

Review A searing literary work that will help many of us see trauma in a different light. In strong and powerful prose Debora Harding shows us...

A new and dynamic reappraisal of Winston Churchill, and his finest hour in 1940-1. Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifity years after his death he...

A timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling about our sex, known as a gender identity, and that thi...

'A thorough, objective telling of McCartney's story - in and out of the most famous band ever.' ESQUIRE The first biography written with McCartney...

Product Description The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller'Tim Harford could well be Britain's Malcolm Gladwell'Alex Bellos, author of Alex's Adven...

The phenomenal Number One bestseller about best friends James and Bob. Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway. When James Bowen found ...

This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand...

Product Description Lenny McLean - an infamous name, but forever a legend. He is arguably one of the most notorious and feared prize-fighters this...

Christopher Berry-Dee is back. In Talking With Serial Killers: World's Most Evil, the bestselling author delves deeper still into the gloomy underw...

Product Description THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERHi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside cover f...

For fans of the hit Netflix docuseries The Last Dance. During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil J...

Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before dying peacefully...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘These rollicking gabfests … bring together nearly everyone … who made the series a creative and cultural landmark’ ...

'Harry Leslie Smith is a vital and powerful voice speaking across generations about the struggle for a just society' Jeremy Corbyn THIS A CALL TO ...

The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' Barack Obama Maya Angelou's volu...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much as this one. It was very difficult...

Total Competition is the most compelling, comprehensive and revealing insight into what it takes to get to the top in Formula One that has ever bee...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, held the hand of a you...

John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was...

Product Description Summary: 100-piece puzzle honors the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing Deluxe, oversized circular floor puzzle: ...

THE MASSIVE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A powerful, heart-warming and inspiring memoir from the UK's most famous and beloved vet, Professor N...

Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Loo...

Review Had me at the first sentence -- Nigel SlaterZingy, fresh, and unexpected: Annie Gray, the queen of food historians, finds her perfect s...

When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preser...

Product Description Spike Lee is a world-renowned, Academy Award–winning filmmaker, a cultural icon, and one of the most prominent voices on race ...

Authorised biography of Brian Eno - the 'Father of Ambient Music' A sonic alchemist to the stars, Brian Eno's address book is a veritable who's who...

The writer Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this honest account of her ten-year transition from man to...