Biographies & true stories

"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? ...

Mark Todd's eventing career is the stuff of legends and encompasses one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time. When he 'retired' from comp...

Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching candour fro...

'If you were expecting to read Razor's views on politics then you're going to be disappointed. Anybody who wants to read that needs help! This is y...

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 'We will overcome it [and] I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this cha...

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...

'An enjoyable anthem to friendship' Hephzibah Anderson, Observer 'Hugely enjoyable . . . Modern-day readers can thank the ambitious, complicated, ...

'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, ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'A lacerating account ... painful but necessary' EVENING STANDARD 'Beautiful & significant ... Tackles grie...

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...

The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling memoir from the Tour de France cyclist who lifts the lid on his drug use and return to sport. By his eighteenth birthd...

A lighthearted look at how to bring more humor, happiness, and joie de vivre into our lives through French literature Like many people the worl...

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...

When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life...

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...

Fully updated to include England's series victory over South Africa and the World T20 Finals. Joe Root is undoubtedly cricket's next superstar, ado...

Charlotte Crosby has been one of the UK's best-loved TV stars since she burst onto the celeb scene in 2011 with Geordie Shore. Laugh-out-loud hilar...

Charlotte Crosby is one of the nation's best loved and funniest TV stars. Here in BRAND NEW ME Charlotte talks us through an incredibly busy year,...

'I'm just a nitwit girl who's sort of stumbling through life learning that we all have our own roads to walk - but that it's still valuable, and ra...

Product Description 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has f...

Product Description 'The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away' Drawing upon Queen Victori...

'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ... magnificently readable' THE TIMES...

Reed Hastings is one of the world's foremost business leaders. As co-founder, chairman and CEO of Netflix, he has built one of the largest media an...

The definitive biography of author Ian Fleming Ian Fleming's life was just as dramatic as that of his fictional creation, James Bond 007. Andrew L...

'[A] fascinating voyage round McKellen' Simon Callow, Guardian 'Surely the definitive McKellen biography' Alexander Larman, Observer 'A well-rese...

Product Description 'Smart. Informative. Overdue' Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google Political risk - the probability that a political action cou...

Kate Nicholls left England to raise her five children in Botswana: an experience that would change each of their lives. Living on a shoestring in ...

Product Description A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A love letter to police officers and the most vulnerable people they protect and serve' CHRISTIE ...

'A sparkling memoir ... A delight from start to finish' NINA STIBBE 'Anyone who loves the theatre will love this book' ZOE WANAMAKER In 1980s Lo...

Product Description \x27The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years\x27 Ne...

* ADAPTED AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BY SPIKE LEE * NOMINATED FOR SIX 2019 ACADEMY AWARDS & WINNER OF 'BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY' BAFTA * WINNER O...

Whether you're becoming a mum for the first time or you have children who are growing up faster than you could have ever imagined, motherhood can f...

The life of Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm. AN UNCOMMON WOMAN is an enth...

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'Brutally honest . . . A moving, candid tale of a coach taking the plunge with a rugby ball a...

'Among the wealthy elders, my views gave some offence. Two or three people walked out of my lecture in Hamburg. At a dinner in Oldenburg I was seat...