Biographies & true stories

On the eve of the 2016 Olympic Games, the biggest moment of her life, Lizzie Armitstead's career was thrown into turmoil. After being cleared to ri...

Dear Leader contains astonishing new insights about North Korea which could only be revealed by someone working high up in the regime. It is also t...

For many, Ernest Hemingway remains more a compilation of myths than a person: soldier, sportsman, lover, expat and, of course, writer. But the a...

HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023 'Jaw-dropping' -Val McDermid 'A police memoir like no other' -Kerry Daynes, be...

Product Description With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinati...

Discover a captivating journey through the pages of this enthralling book published by Pan Books. With its rich narrative and compelling characters...

Review The remarkable thing about Thought Economics is that it isn't just thought-provoking, but genuinely thought-generating. It is a watersh...

About the Author Dr Christopher Catherwood is a leading Churchill scholar. He is Emeritus Archives By-Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge, Fello...

Unstoppable and deadly, this is the gripping story of some of the most feared soldiers in the warThe daring, courage and skill of the highly-traine...

Product Description 'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity autobiographies shy away from: it seeks the truth and, more of...

Chiltern publishes beautifully crafted editions of the World's finest literature. These extraordinary and unique cover designs have evolved from cl...

Product Description A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the Origin...

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naive, beautiful and sexually voraci...

'One of the funniest books of the year' - Guardian A collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects o...

When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life...

Please note that the individual books listed below, as per their original ISBN and cover image, will be dispatched together as a collective set. T...

Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she...

'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year' Max Hastings, S...

'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that ...

To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 19...

About the Author Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy o...

Tutu: The Authorised Portrait is a celebration of eighty years of the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an icon whose humanity and compassion have t...

Book Description A collection of highlights from Jennifer Worth's Call the Midwife and featuring PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED NEW WRITING from Jennifer ...

'"Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?"' Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how...

'Excellent . . . A celebration of peculiarity' VOGUE 'Humour-packed, irreverent, eccentric' ELLE Have you ever wondered what it would be like tal...

Review Readers who fell in love with Rodriguez's chronicle of life in Afghanistan [The Kabul Beauty School] will surely revel in this candid, inti...

After a life of sex, drugs and the Communards, recounted in his acclaimed memoir Fathomless Riches, the Reverend Richard Coles devoted himself to G...

This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Q...

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POLITICS Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality explores all that we know about the world's l...

Review Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism. ― Carl Jung He speaks of what he has ...

Review "Solomon's eloquent prose empathetically conveys the tragedy of Winehouse's demise... For readers who know the songs, but not so much the a...

Product Description A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organised crime from an American investigative journalist. Soon to be...

Product Description The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon. Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his sense fo...

Alan Sugar was born in 1947 and brought up on a council estate in Clapton, in Hackney. As a kid he watched his dad struggle to support the family, ...