Biographies & true stories

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...

Product Description Social media is supposed to bring us together - but it is tearing us apart. 'A blisteringly good, urgent, essential read'...

'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...

In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the isl...

Marie Curie coined the term 'radioactivity', and it is to her and her husband, Pierre Curie, that we owe much of our current understanding of the v...

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...

"My Family and Other Animals" is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist...

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...

'The essential hormone handbook . . . it should be made part of the core curriculum up and down the land' STYLIST 'A must read. Informative, funn...

'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...

Yves Saint Laurent is a name synonymous with style, elegance and high fashion. When he came on the scene at Dior and then started his own line, he ...

It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land wit...

'I was beginning to love my thief, a man I barely knew, but whom I had trusted and even liked, and who had taken my savings, amongst many other cri...

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...

Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer living and working in the eccentric Parisian bookshop, 'Shakespeare and Company' 'Shakespeare and Company...

"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...

He is one of the most controversial sportsmen in history and a legend of Open Era tennis. But after reaching the top of his game - what came next? ...

Product Description THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'. . . a compelling memoir. Breezy and unpretentious, The Sanest Guy in the Room is a delightful c...

'Brilliant' Guardian 'Exuberant' Financial Times 'Colourful' The Times In June 1986 Diego Maradona, considered by many to be the greatest football...

Product Description With the growth of online reservation platforms such as Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Wimdu, Booking.com and Onefinestay, people are a...

The only biography to include the findings of the archaeological dig in the Leicester car park. Not many people would claim to be saints, or altern...

"My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so...

** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer ** 'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Care...

Product Description 'Beautifully researched account, full of humour and personal insight'David Crystal, author of Making Sense: The Glamorous Sto...

'OUR FAVOURITE READS OF 2016' THE TIMES | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A BOOK THAT HAS YOU EMAILING FRIENDS "YOU HAVE TO READ THIS"' The Sunday Ti...

Isy woke up one day in her late twenties to discover that the invisible deal she'd done with her best mates - that they'd prolong growing up for as...

Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Operations were performed without anaesthesia while conventional treatment relied on leeches, ...

Product Description Everyone's favourite purple bear is back and bolder than ever in this laugh-out-loud page turner from Ben Bailey Smith an...

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...

Product Description The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this ser...

Product Description 'Unremittingly glorious. I and the world demand more and we shall thump our tin mugs on the table demanding it until we are s...

Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and published in coordination with the international...

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67TH SECRETARY OF STATE...