Biographies & true stories

Review Fascinating for two things: their testament to an exhilarating century and their witness to a vanished age of power and privilege ... What ...

Product Description When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote The Natural History of Selborne (1789), he created one of the gre...

Review ** 'In Harold Evans's cottage, behind a beach dune in Quogue, Long Island, there is a black-and-white photograph of a news conference at Th...

Review A brilliant book, a triple trip: one on the road, one in History and one into the author's mind. Cycling is about all that -- Paul Fournel ...

Review A book that'll change your perspective on life. You'll not be able to put it down. ― Fearne Cotton What I love about this book is it's not...

Review Extraordinary -- Mark O'Connell Wildly impressive, interesting and entertaining ― The Irish Times A blistering collection ... marvellous ...

About the Author JAMIE LAING is best known as one of the key members of the BAFTA-winning television series Made in Chelsea, first appearing in 20...

Review Every woman who's sought a career in journalism owes a debt to pioneers like Julie Welch. She evokes the golden age of print journalism in ...

About the Author Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in front of various television screens swearing at incompetent England b...

About the Author Stephen Spender was born in 1909 and was educated at University College, Oxford, where his friends included W. H. Auden, C. Day L...

Review An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously -- Sarah Ditum ― The Times At 88 years old, ...

Review A stunning book, exquisitely written and all of it observed with enormous compassion for the natural world. Every page of Spring Tides give...

Product Description Police helicopters are operated in the UK by National Police Air Service (NPAS), which brings all 43 forces together and deliv...

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 'This is one of the most imagi...

Review This is a delightful and timely book about resilience and environmental care... This story of ingenuity and determination is an inspiration...

About the Author Binyavanga Wainaina lives in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the founding editor of Kwani?, a leading African literary magazine. He won the...

Product Description Fast Company, the world’s leading business media brand, offers a comprehensive and vibrant look at the way design has permeate...

Product Description Renowned Japanese manga artist, international instructor, and illustrator of the Wedding Peach series Nao Yazawa guides you st...

Product Description Discover new ways to live a healthy life by incorporating cannabidiol (CBD) into your daily routines. Whether you are seeking...

Product Description What is transhumanism? What is AI? Are these good developments or bad ones? How might immortality be possible? And should we e...

Product Description TASTE! How to Choose the Best Deli Ingredients is an all-embracing, comprehensive handbook of speciality ingredient informatio...

Product Description In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabe...

Big Snake Little Snake is a cascade of true stories by DBC Pierre, recorded while on his way to make a short film with a parrot in Trinidad, whic...

Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places, elegist of the British Empire, noveli...

About the Author Louise Redknapp is a platinum-selling recording artist and performer. A founding member of Eternal, she has also recorded four so...

There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're aft...

Review Page-turning and profoundly moving. Her meticulous research has uncovered a strand of British history and she brings it sharply and vividly...

Review Alice Walker contains multitudes. She is a truth-telling, word-working, change-conjuring, culture-shifting, revolutionary artist and citize...

A girl with her whole life ahead of her. A terrible accident. An inspiring story of triumph over trauma. Aged 15, Jordan was a happy-go-lucky gir...

Review An extraordinary and thought-provoking memoir ― Belfast Telegraph This will blow you away ― Stylist An admirable triumph ― Irish Independ...

Review A jaw-dropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thought-provoking book ― The Times An extraordinary debut ― Daily Mirror Freshly fasc...

A mother's heart-rending account of losing her two daughters in the Hillsborough disaster, her thirty-year quest for justice, and her inspiring jou...

In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. Charmed by...

A deeply researched and highly original investigation into depression which argues the case for embracing both art and science in our understanding...

In About Kane, Graham Saunders offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent times. His survey incl...

Perfect for fans of Josie Silver, Sara Jafari and Bolu Babalola, The Three of Us is filled with tension and heartache that will stay with you long ...

An insider's account of the global race to be the first company to put a lab-produced meat product on the market, and to enact the biggest upheaval...

Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris' Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chronicle...

Product Description Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck,...

From the world's foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and heartbreak that brings new understanding to an o...

An elegy to a golden age of literature, Circus of Dreams divulges how the British literary scene underwent an unrecognisable transformation in the ...

King Charles's Pirate Prince To his fellow Royalists, fighting for King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine was the archetypal 'cavalier'. Young...

*Fascinating insight into the mind of one of the greatest contemporary spiritual leaders.*In depth knowledge of secret political deals involving CI...

A shattering account of the destabilising power of price, and a forceful critique of the free market philosophy that leaves the most vulnerable at ...

In July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeymoon with her husband Arthur Miller, to make The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Oliv...

In this book-length lyric essay, a father and poet reflects on how the birth of his daughter at a time of global existential crisis inspired him to...

A gripping new work of popular history about a critical year in world history, and Britain's bleakest hour, by the acclaimed author of 1983: The Wo...

Review Pannett, the James Herriot of policing, tiptoes his way through domestic issues, stag nights, and sword-wielding madmen bent on decapitatio...