Biographies & True Stories

A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of Are We Smart Enough To Kno...

In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronicles her haphazard attempts at sobriety and the r...

Review Wonderfully evocative [...] now reissued in an elegant new edition' ― Country Life Product Description Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, bea...

Review a concise, lively study of the Depression ― TIME OUTA lively and readable account of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the worldwide de...

This in-depth biography details Harry's life so far. From his childhood and his journey to fame on the X-Factor to releasing incredibly successful ...

Ariana Grande captured the hearts of a nation with her One Love Manchester concert. Less than a fortnight after a terrorist killed twenty-two peo...

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and gr...

About the Author Caroline Jones is a freelance writer specializing in health, beauty, fashion and lifestyle subjects. A former senior editor on se...

Review Travel Light, Move Fast ceaselessly surprises, delights and devastates in unequal measure. Poignant and utterly profound. I read it in ...

'A harrowing-but-moving story' - Stylist 'Raw, brave and vulnerable. Told with such clarity and purpose' - Maxine Mei-Fung Chung 'A brave and deepl...

Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspo...

*** As recommended by Josh Widdicombe on the PARENTING HELL podcast "It's staggeringly honest but also really funny - I laughed out loud several t...

Napoleon Bonaparte: a man of intense emotion, iron self-discipline, acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Michael Broers brings this remarkab...

'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...

'Indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious' Evening Standard 'Hang on - it's a wild ride' Meryl Streep It's 1983. A young Englishwoma...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: NATURE AND TRAVEL When Kerri and her partner M moved to a ...

After a decade of living with panic attacks and anxiety, Tim Clare made a promise to himself - he would try everything he could to get better, ever...

'One of the most beautiful books you will ever read' Kate Mosse In this powerful memoir, Joanna Cannon tells her story as a junior doctor in visce...

Product Description 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times'Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no...

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...

'My life has been written about over and over again, and that's mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes they'll get it ...

They say that sometimes ghosts don't realise they're dead and wander around screaming because no one is paying them any attention. Well, in show bu...

About the Author Michael Grant is the evil genius of Young Adult Fiction. Among his biggest fans is Stephen King who called the GONE series ‘A dri...

About the Author Jonathan Emmett was born in Leicestershire in 1965, the son of a factory fitter and a primary school teacher. It was while Jonath...

In her intimate memoir,More Myself, Alicia Keys shares her quest for truth: about herself, her past, and her shift from sacrificing her spirit to c...

FULLY UPDATED AND REVISED, INCLUDING TWO NEW CHAPTERS TO BRING THE STORY UP TO DATE ‘Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.’ He...

Packed with super-cool facts and hands-on activities, Project Weather helps children to really engage with a core topic. From the midnight Sun to t...

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...