Biographies & true stories

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Product Description "Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as te...

Empress of Rome is the fascinating biography of one of the most perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wif...

'I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi' Diego Maradona FULLY UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE 2022 WO...

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

Review 'Fascinating' ― The Times 'A compelling, first-hand account' ― Daily Telegraph 'Full of detail and charm' ― The Times '[An] oddly endear...

Home is where the heart is. But home is also the most common site for murder. The grimly fascinating new book from the UK's leading criminologist D...

Review our fascination with the Great Train Robbery shows no sign of fading. It's Britain's real-life Wizard of Oz - no matter how familiar the ta...

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 Blues Brothers hit theatres on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage; but Aykroyd, who conceived and wrot...

In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the 'greed gene...

'This is a wonderful, rather special book: funny, warm and loving but also thought-provoking and deeply moving. Absolutely unforgettable - ironical...

The fascinating true story behind one of the original literary scandals - how Truman Capote (author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's ) b...

'Firefighters are a unique breed. It takes a certain kind of individual to enter a burning building to rescue someone they have never met before.' ...

From a famous actor and an experienced journalist, a wildly entertaining debunking of cryptocurrency, one of the greatest frauds in history and on ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIETTE BINOCHE AND ANTONIO BANDERAS THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR LA TIM...

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 beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming ...

'Refreshing and honest ... this isn't your standard mum memoir' Psychologies Magazine How to hold it together, even when things are falling apart....

'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLAND Barnes Walli...

From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanu...

Shortlisted for the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize 'Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which ...

'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the ear...

A New York Times Critics' Pick for 2023 Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi ...

Review The Cuban conundrum is that little is what it seems ... In its tragic absurdity, Close but No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with ...

Review Eye-opening from start to finish. Pacy, original and frequently chilling, Hutton offers a fascinating new take on the story of the Home Fro...

'A hugely fun tale of how the super-rich buy their super-prime lairs - I was absolutely boggled throughout. Toto, I have a feeling we're not on Rig...

'Jaw-dropping . . . Read then pass it on' STYLIST, Book of the Month 'I was utterly floored by The Chain. It has the pace of a thriller and the wei...

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' ...

As Captain Scott lay freezing and starving to death on his return journey from the South Pole, he wrote with a stub of pencil his final words: ‘For...

'Kwajo's voice is leading the call for change on behalf of a generation who have been seriously failed by Westminster.' Andy Burnham, Mayor of Grea...

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

Power and Glory brings us to the dramatic conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'. It begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of...

In 1977, 17-year-old Steven Hamper was a stonemason in the dockyards of Chatham, Kent. His heart, however, beat in sync with the punk rock tremors ...

'A gripping story of a cold-blooded murder... This is true crime at its best' Wendy Moore 'Drama so addictive it should be illegal' Sam Christer ...

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his devoted fans, he is a cult hero, a modern-day Rim...

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friend...

'The stories, the gossip, the glamour! Discover it all and more' Woman & Home '[A] hugely engaging and riveting memoir' The Lady 'Unstoppable, ...

On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas - one of America's poorest cities - John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young childre...

About the Author Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is an award-winning writer, editor and columnist of Jamaican-Cuban heritage, who focuses on issues surrou...

LOOKING FOR MADELEINE is the must-read account that the online haters tried to silence. Its award-winning authors, Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swa...