Biographies & true stories

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

George Alagiah's personal testament about Africa, updated in a new Abacus edition As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to G...

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

WINNER OF THE GOOD READS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018 T...

This is the image of Catherine of Aragon who has always suffered in comparison to the heir - providing Jane Seymour or the vivacious eroticism of A...

A Rough Trade Book of the Year After the success of his memoir, Telling Stories, Tim set himself a quest. He got in touch with people he admires, ...

'With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world's favourite natural history broadcaster documents some of his expeditions from the late 1950s...

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...

** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year ** A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's cel...

A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with fathers at their heart, curated by the founder of the...

'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...

'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 NEW EDITION OF THE TRUE CRIME CLASSIC The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her l...

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...

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

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

Updated and expanded edition of the fullest ever collective investigation into Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders.This volume collects not...

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...

"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...

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...

A FINALIST FOR THE US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023 FOR NONFICTION 'Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... In his moral clarity an...

WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND 'This is one o...

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...

In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Ferm...

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...

Product Description New York Times Bestseller! Everyone has a memoir in miniature in at least one piece of clothing. In Worn Stories , Emily Spiva...

Review All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon ... If only all literary lives were as succinct ― TIME OUT From his unique positio...

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...

Review Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what what you would expect from Tim Harford -- Bill BrysonHarford is a fine, perce...

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 The Father Christmas of knowledge -- Giles CorenPraise for Go Figure:Books like this make you wary of ever guessing the answer to anyth...

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