Biographies & true stories

'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever hap...

His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE has been at the forefront of British public life since he married Princess Elizabeth in 1...

Here is Niven at his best. He and Errol Flynn were filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for a director, Michael Curtiz, 'whose Hungarian-orienta...

George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true...

Fifteen years after his massive bestseller Serious, John McEnroe is back and ready to talk. Who are the game's winners and losers? What's it like ...

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

Discover the true tales of extraordinary felines with this heart-warming and inspirational collection, perfect for fans of A Streetcat Named Bob an...

Did you know that the world's biggest tongue belongs to the blue whale? Or that the snub-nosed monkey's nostrils point upwards, and when it rains i...

Seven men. Seven years. 31 million Twitter followers. 11 billion YouTube views. 13 billion Spotify streams. Sold out world tours. BTS are a global ...

Discover the captivating world of art and culture with this stunning book that delves into the intricacies of creativity and expression. Perfect fo...

Review I would challenge anyone to read it and not cry, many times. ― The Sunday Times I would challenge anyone to read it and not cry, many time...

When she was a little girl, Jasvinder Sanghera's father told her about the village he came from, Kang Sabhu in rural Punjab. One day, he promised t...

Product Description The first full length account of Lee Krasner’s colourful life In Gail Levin’s riveting biography, Lee Krasner emerges as a si...

Review Reviews for Gangs ― . Fascinating ... Thompson has a keen eye for the whimsical side of orchestrated illegality ― Observer A hard-hitting...

Product Description Yves Saint Laurent is one of the world’s most famous designers, who’s haute couture collections have deeply marked society and...

Discover the transformative power of mindfulness and self-compassion in "The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion." This essential guide offers practica...

Cherry Denman has spent her life trailing husband Charlie round some of the world's most remote outposts and can ask for the lavatory in eleven lan...

Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown out of ...

Product Description William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeate...

It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a brief word, looking back on life from hi...

Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He mad...

I have been exiled from my body. I was ejected at a very young age and I got lost. Playwright, author and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life...

Cosmopolitan, richly intelligent, beautiful, questing - Shirley Hazzard's writing reflects her life. The acclaim it attracts is immeasurable. Brig...

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...

'Unlike anything I've read . . . Remarkable.' Roxane Gay 'An audacious sojourn through the terror and beauty of refusing to explain yourself. ' Ne...

Of the twenty chapters that make up these Memoirs, seventeen appear here in print for the first time, unearthed by the editors from the Harvard Arc...

Following on from the incredible Invented by Animals and�Built by Animals, Powered by Plants�introduces us to the wondrous plants whose ingenious f...

Review An extraordinary and brilliant book ... Like a clever and determined detective, Short has exposed the secrets, knitting together a story wh...

By 1700, France and Italy already had dictionaries of their own, and it became a matter of national pride that England should rival them. Dr Johnso...

The New York Times bestseller - a sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and V...

'My life was changing and I didn't like it. Everything was so out of my control, even my own body...' Happy-go-lucky Evie Meg was an award-winning...

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

Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final ...

'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator 'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye f...

When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet she was unprepared for the...

'This is a vital book. Hand this out in schools, in the workplace, everywhere. It's also beautifully written.' Olivia Colman 'Brilliant. Patriarch...

Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s, The Velvet Underground re...

In the face of Taliban oppression, one girl's unwavering defiance sparked a worldwide movement. Shot in the head for daring to seek an education, M...

Elissa. Alyssa. Alissa. Three girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. A few years later, they were dead. Elissa's best friend sets out ...

Once an old, sick dog who was found on the streets and named 'Stinky', Marnie the Dog got a second lease of life when she was adopted from a shelte...

Review I wish I had had this book by my side when I was starting out, giving very straightforward advice, and helping us make sense of often confu...

THE CHART-TOPPING MEMOIR ______________________________________________________________________________________ 'This memoir is one of the smartest...

We all know people who talk with their hands-but do they know what they're saying with them? Our gestures can reveal and contradict us, and express...

The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect their existen...

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...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who made the phone call that got HBO to launch the show? What’s the significance of all those eggs? And, what the hel...