Biographies & true stories

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STA...

The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science...

Product Description The warm, funny and entertaining memoir of much-loved TV personality and loveable posh boy, Jamie Laing.Funny, charming, and ...

Five brutal murders shocked London in the summer and autumn of 1888. They have never been forgotten. The Jack the Ripper case has never been solve...

'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair, use a scalpel to nick the skin then apply a...

Wherever she went, in public or in private, she was shadowed by her Scotland Yard personal protection officer, Inspector Ken Wharfe, whose job it w...

The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix do...

'A generation-defining collection published posthumously...Her voice is relevant, sharp, fresh, unfiltered and poetic, with a dry wit. You can dive...

'Kerry's an incredible writer and this memoir is so raw, vulnerable and honest' MICHELLE OBAMA Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activi...

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

'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS 'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL 'Heartfel...

With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners a...

Discover the man behind the movement in this intimate biography of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society of Kr...

Product Description "Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down" VICTORIA HISLOP"Masterful, original and painfully gripping" PHILIPPE SANDS"A heart...

Review A powerful account of fatherhood . . . a complicated story, told with fearless honesty. The prose is rueful, spare and matter-of-fact, but ...

Uncovered in full for the first time is one of the last great untold stories of the Second World War; an epic tale of two Englishmen, who were amon...

'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am Malala Zarifa Ghafari was three years old when th...

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

"A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudice" The Guardian 'Breath-taking courag...

Product Description This is no ordinary parish, and no ordinary priest - a true story of poverty, haunting, exorcism, birth, death and murder. Se...

Review Sedaris is one of the writers whose discovery you wish on friends, because it means they have a wealth of brilliant writing to discover . ....

* A MOST-ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ SELECTED BY * Washington Post *Buzzfeed * Bustle * The Advocate * LitHub * Bookriot * Electric Literature * and mo...

Product Description Everyone's favourite purple bear is back and bolder than ever in this laugh-out-loud page turner from Ben Bailey Smith an...

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK 'Every page of this incredible memoir by Christie Tate had me thinking, “I wish I had read this book when I was 25. It w...

Product Description 'Enthralling ... will leave true-crime readers with more to ponder than they bargained for' - The Herald From the UK's leadin...

An international bestseller on original release, Cry of the Kalahari is the story of the Owenses's life with lions, brown hyenas, jackals, giraffes...

AS SEEN ON LORRAINE AND FEATURED IN THE TIMES 'Stacey Heale ... has such a muscular take on grief, and her ideas around how we live with profound ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Imagine if all the worn-out, untrue, painful chapters of our lives started to quiet, and the beautiful, unique...

The third instalment in Craig Revel Horwood's frank and funny autobiography takes the reader through the highs and lows of the Strictly Come Dancin...

First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the cha...

Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but a...

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown In The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence, Dr Amanda Brown reveals stories of her time spe...

Product Description 'Darkly comic, beautifully written and full of surprises'Daily Mail 'Really funny. David is a great writer' Paula Hawkins, Go...

Product Description From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as re...