Biographies & true stories

After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S ME...

'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' Guardian Hailed as a m...

Russell Brand grew up in Essex . His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 and left school at 16 to study at the Italia Co...

'Coveney is the only writer who could get under Smith's skin, capturing her steeliness and vulnerability' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY From her days as a...

The headlines of Royal infidelity and divorce that are the bread and butter of today's tabloid press is nothing new. People have always been captiv...

'A powerful and moving book - it's quite a battle he has faced' Nick Robinson, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme 'It really is an interesting read' Da...

The most dynamic day-to-day chronicle of the band ever compiled. Organised by year, each chapter of the book gives an overview of the band's fortun...

The inside story of the world's most notorious cults. The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless fascination. Their secrets, r...

'This is a gripping memoir from one of our country's greatest jury advocates, offering a fascinating, no-holds-barred tour behind the scenes of...

Book Description One Two Another is a collection of the very best lyrics by lead singer of The Charlatans, Tim Burgess, with added commentary ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of...

The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what do we really know about him? While...

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery. Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mez...

The twenty-year journey, intimately told in his own words and pictures. Ever since a sixteen-year-old boy called Robert Peter Williams joined a boy...

As featured in the BBC drama Four Lives. On 18 June 2014 Sarah Sak's son, Anthony Walgate, was murdered by serial killer Stephen Port after they m...

SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS.'excellent' Donald McRae, The Guardian'Gatland is the master' Si...

"Telling Stories" by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is one of the decade's most revealing rock books. "Clear, honest. An unusually frank and well-wr...

Review Beautiful, honest and massively comforting -- DAWN FRENCH Immensely moving and disarmingly witty -- NIGELLA LAWSON Will strike a chord wi...

'Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining' John Banville 'Excellent ... read this book' Literary Review 'The best single-volume life of the autho...

Review Simon Sebag Montefiore's thrilling portrait of Stalin's youth ... A remarkable book ... Montefiore gives a brilliant account of the 190...

Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significa...

Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two...

Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change. 'Richly humane, viscerally political, g...

Review "A vivid and witty memoir of the friendship between Thorn and Lindy Morrison of the Go-Betweens, two women in a cultural world dominated by...

A landmark recording James Brown intended as a late '69 release, but instead was edited into half the LP 'Sex Machine'. This 50th anniversary relea...

Review Outrageously wonderful . . . hilarious . . . it is nice to read a book where someone truly enjoys being themselves. She has promised us 'un...

'Wise, beautiful, heartbreaking, raw' The Times 'A beacon of hope to all of us who will be bereaved' Kathryn Mannix 'An unforgettable and achingl...

Review Humorous, moving and fascinating -- Clare Mackintosh I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearte...

55 profiles by 55 different writers, politicians, journalists and academics of every prime minister there's ever been, from Robert Walpole to Boris...

Chrissie Wellington is the world's No 1 female Ironman triathlete, a four times World Champion, having recently won the her fourth title in October...

Product Description Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough...

About the Author Jason Draper is a brand consultant and long-standing music journalist. As former Head of Curation at Universal Music Group an...

A memoir by the master pianist, conductor and internationalist Daniel Barenboim - 'the closest thing that classical music can offer to Nelson Mande...

Product Description THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Radio Times, Daily Herald and FT Book of the Y...

The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa. "Th...

Review Such fun. An illuminating story for every stitch in your wardrobe and pigment on your wall -- Simon Garfield, author ― Just My TypeFun ...

Product Description 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in...

At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into mor...

Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is c...

When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish - internationally famous, a daring and pioneering a...

This work presents an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes, but the course of li...

'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .' So begins the first letter that a ni...

Shortlisted for the 2017 Cross Sports Autobiography of the Year 'Full of illuminating anecdotes, piercing insights and unsparing self-analysis fr...

Madonna: singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, not to mention one of the most renowned cultural icons of the last three decades. Since her fi...

Product Description 'A leading new voice on racial justice' LAYLA SAAD, author of ME AND WHITE SUPREMACYA REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK...

Conspiracy theories are legion. Conspiracies are rare. And of the few that do exist, fewer are ever discovered, let alone explained. This story is ...

The Sword of Albion concludes the most comprehensive and intimate life of Nelson ever written, one that teems with a glittering array of sailors an...