Biographies & True Stories

'An amazing story of love, laughter and the challenges of living from the land ...Simon's self-sufficient rural life is an inspiration to us all' ...

Review Gamey, rollicking and hugely entertaining ... I can think of no better recommendation ― Spectator Product Description A TIME...

Review Roisin Kiberd is a Dante of the internet, leading us through the infernal circles of our online damnation. The Disconnect is a brillian...

"Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume design. He dressed...

Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster, journalist, the governm...

Review At its best when reminding us how deeply embedded these buildings are in the English landscape and when exploring, how the intimate mea...

Review An acerbically witty and entertaining survey ... a work of stubborn persistence, or resistance. ― Sunday TimesOne of journalism's great...

Review A real contribution to British cultural history. -- Brian Morton ― THE HERALD Product Description John Tusa is a distinguishe...

'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy Strong is best known as the flamboya...

In 2012, Tim Burgess of the Charlatans published his hugely successful and critically acclaimed memoir, Telling Stories. Tim really enjoyed his new...

Review As social history it's hard to beat ― Independent Published On: 2013-08-01David Hendy reconstructs the acoustic environments of our anc...

Review Engaging and accomplished... Boakye's text, enriched by Smart's striking images, is perfectly judged for young readers ― GuardianJeffre...

Product Description When social distancing is over, can people still keep their distance?I only do the things I like now, rather than the thin...

A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - seemed to have it all: children, a handsome husba...

Product Description BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadl...

Review Could the climate challenge rescue our economy from the weak demand that has afflicted it for decades? In this stimulating discussion o...

Review "A stunning memoir, hard reading in places, but it feels urgent and necessary . . . White writes like a blood-stained angel" -- Cathy R...

Product Description 'This book shows how to find, attract, develop, motivate, and retain stars. It's full of evidence and provocative ideas to he...

Product Description Throughout the coronavirus crisis, the fortnightly columns of Private Eye’s medical correspondent ‘MD’, aka NHS doctor Phi...

Product Description We make decisions, and these decisions make us and our organisations. And in theory, decision-making should be easy: a pro...

Product Description A collection of irreverent and poetic short works from legendary actor Vincent D’Onofrio This is not a story woven around ...

Review Superb ... makes clear that the revelation of this plague has been twofold: our hubris has been shattered, yet there remains a staggeri...

Product Description "Have you ever read Lolita?"So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lon...

Review A beautiful, profoundly moving book about society's most vital glue - care -- Rachel ClarkeA must read -- Penny WincerEssential reading...

Product Description Ant: As the old Chinese proverb says, 'Good things come in pairs'. Dec: And as another Chinese proverb says, 'If you've be...

Product Description 'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The TimesOld age is no lo...

Product Description 'Open, honest, straight talking on mental health and motherhood.' - Tik Tok's Dr Julie 'I absolutely love it - it do...

Product Description Listen to your body. Calm your mind. Find your strength.Forget prescriptive 28-day plans and fad diets that are sooner or lat...

Product Description Fizzing with energy, hilarity and charm, The Right Sort of Girl is the Sunday Times bestseller from Countryfile's Anita R...

'Hilarious' Mail on Sunday 'Stylish, very funny memoir' Daily Mail Timothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Arch...

Product Description 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud AtlasThe vividly told, gloriously illustrated memo...

In this warm, wonderfully evocative and often hilarious memoir one of the best-loved men in Britain, Alan Titchmarsh, brilliantly recalls his child...

Comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker charts his 30 years in showbiz. Born in 1957 in Deptford, south London, Danny's f...

'Hilarious' Daily Mail 'I was completely captivated' David Sedaris People are odd. Even the most predictable of us sometimes defy expectations. Ad...

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experien...

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's weddi...

Jonathan Trott was England's rock during one of the most successful periods in the team's history - he scored a century on debut to clinch the Ashe...

'IF YOU CAN TAKE IT, YOU CAN MAKE IT' Louis Zamperini lived one of the most amazing lives imaginable. As a young boy he was a troublemaker but his...

The story of a high-stakes career Claude Littner is best known as the mercilessly tough interviewer on the BBC's award-winning The Apprentice. His...

CHECK OUT THE NEW AND UPDATED EDITION, OUT ON 3RD MARCH! (9780751565447) Vicky Pattison always had big dreams, but four years ago she was working ...

One of the most intelligent and influential women in America reflects on her eight years as First Lady of the United States in a revealing book -pe...

Product Description 'If you're looking to ease yourself back into normality after lockdown, Born to be Mild should be top of your reading list' M...

Product Description Fashion designer Loris Azzaro embodied an era. His fashion house, founded in Paris in 1967, was known for visionary silhouet...

Product Description Going Solo is the empowering and uplifting story of one woman's choice to become a single mother. 'I hope this story gives ho...

The life and times of the No.1 bestselling author of ON THE EDGE. The wry, honest and often hilarious chronicles of a very brave and clever TV pre...

WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known, events in modern British his...

"My Life in Pictures" is Gore Vidal's visual memoir of his famously well-lived life, illustrated with photographs, letters, manuscripts and other e...

Product Description 'Funny, positive and life-affirming, Laura is like a PT for your self-confidence.' SARA PASCOE'Clear-headed advice and relata...