Biographies & True Stories

Let Me Take You By The Hand is a fascinating and eye-opening exploration of the life of London's streets, and is essential reading for those who re...

Product Description A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its car...

Product Description Who had the most commercial success in their lifetime, Ernest Hemingway or Agatha Christie? Whose work has the most adaptatio...

Review In clear, nimble, and dexterous prose, Underwood launches a capacious quest toward the unknown and maps the limits of knowledge via art...

Review Winder is a highly knowledgeable guide to this slippery subject. His book is also beautifully written in an enviably easystyle. There i...

Review There is much more than science in this book ... This is ultimately an uplifting book about the way life ought to be, both at a persona...

Alice Herz-Sommer, 1903-2014 The pianist Alice Herz-Sommer survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attended Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem,...

Review This is BRAVO TWO ZERO meets ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Tom Read's story had me on the edge of my seat. It also made me cry. - An...

Review Jam-packed with beautiful colourful photographs and helpful tips, this is just right for aspiring eco-friendly gardeners ― Publishers W...

Review A new collection of some of the legendary writer and critic's greatest travel and travel-adjacent pieces, from investigations into Mexi...

Review Packed with hilarious anecdotes ― Daily Mail Product Description 'If you were expecting to read Razor's views on politics the...

Review Glorious ― Daily Mail Product Description 'Written with both charm and elegance, The Real Crown Jewels of England is a triump...

Review Astonishingly bold ― Daily MailPerfect timing ― Financial TimesPopular science at its best ... sparkling and clear. The subject is deep...

Product Description Thomas Derale, a mild-mannered businessman from Chicago, embodies leadership's greatest secret: his companies make fortunes, ...

While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by ne...

'I was beginning to love my thief, a man I barely knew, but whom I had trusted and even liked, and who had taken my savings, amongst many other cri...

Review A brutally honest and funny handbook for women looking to trust their own instincts. You'll read it in hours. ― STYLIST A brutally honest ...

He is one of the most controversial sportsmen in history and a legend of Open Era tennis. But after reaching the top of his game - what came next? ...

The third title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flowe...

The only biography to include the findings of the archaeological dig in the Leicester car park. Not many people would claim to be saints, or altern...

"My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so...

"I am a work in progress. There are times when I feel in control and like I know what I'm doing...and there are times (quite a few)(actually lots) ...

In MY HEROES the 'world's greatest living explorer' (Guinness Book of Records), writes about the people who have inspired him - from explorers to p...

Charlotte Crosby is one of the nation's best loved and funniest TV stars. Here in BRAND NEW ME Charlotte talks us through an incredibly busy year,...

There is only one Arsene Wenger - and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story. In this definitive autobiography, the world-r...

Product Description 'Smart. Informative. Overdue' Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google Political risk - the probability that a political action cou...

Product Description A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A love letter to police officers and the most vulnerable people they protect and serve' CHRISTIE ...

* ADAPTED AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BY SPIKE LEE * NOMINATED FOR SIX 2019 ACADEMY AWARDS & WINNER OF 'BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY' BAFTA * WINNER O...

Whether you're becoming a mum for the first time or you have children who are growing up faster than you could have ever imagined, motherhood can f...

Described by an admirer as 'the High Druidess of fashion, the Supreme Pontiff, Perpetual Curate and Archpresbyter of elegance, the Vicaress of Styl...

What is the relationship between the mind and the brain? In Living in a Mindful Universe, Dr Eben Alexander, author of the international phenomeno...

The New York Times bestseller Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would d...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLERHenry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devast...

The junior doctor ...back on the wards After a year on the streets treating outreach patients, Max Pemberton is back in the relative comfort of hos...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Riveting and often shocking' Sunday Times 'Dripping with jaw-dropping revelations' Telegraph 'Absorbing' New Yo...

The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. The marriage...

The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic uni...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2017 The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith St...

ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'This House of Grief, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with In Cold Blood' ...

'The book is filled with that most distinctive of all her qualities: her voice' The Times Home Work, the second instalment of Julie Andrews' inter...

*The Sunday Times bestseller* Fact: Did you know, over its lifespan, your sofa will witness roughly 293 arguments and 1,369 cuddles? Hiya, my nam...

The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton. They were the closest o...

Verity Holloway's nineteenth-century cousin Thomas Holloway's patent medicine empire was so ubiquitous, Charles Dickens commented that if you'd mur...