Biographies & true stories

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and New Y...

Product Description 'Whatever Uglow writes about she makes absolutely fascinating.' DIANA ATHILLThe story of Sybil Andews and Cyril Power, tw...

The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana. In 1967 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, a young guitarist played a b...

Fully updated with a new chapter on A.P.'s knighthood, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement award and his new role as a TV p...

With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically ...

'The Dictionary of Crime is now the first book I reach for when beginning a new novel. An essential resource, it's packed with explanations, inside...

About the Author Wensley Clarkson's books have been published across the world and sold more than two million copies. He is also a prolific screen...

"'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial kille...

From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Br...

As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In From Here to Eternity she sets out i...

A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count 'With the moral s...

Product Description 'I wrapped duct tape around her mouth and her nose and watched her suffocate to death . . . then I went back to work' - former...

About the Author Patrick Field moved to London, to study psychology in 1974, and discovered that the best way to enjoy the metropolis was on a...

In July 1864, Thomas Briggs was travelling home after visiting his niece and her husband for dinner. He entered a First Class carriage on the 9.45p...

A timely celebration of the many attributes our Queen brings to the nation - fortitude, stoicism, diplomacy, family values, sense of fun and style ...

In this title, football's biggest characters tell it like it is. Who is the Secret Footballer? Well he's back and this time his mates speak out too...

Product Description 'In my darkest hour, I reached for a hand and found your paw'When Nicola found Buddy, abandoned and broken, she vowed to d...

In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Se...

'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music...

"'The rock memoir of the decade' Daily Mail 'The rock star's gloriously entertaining and candid memoir is a gift to the reader' Sunday Times In h...

Product Description How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between a perilously u...

Review Fascinating and elegantly humane ... refreshingly interdisciplinary in its insistence that philosophy and literature are going to be ju...

Product Description THE FASCINATING SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAssaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suic...

A Radio 4 Book of the Week 'See Naples and die', said Goethe. But Katherine Wilson saw Naples and started to live. Katherine is fresh out of col...

With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD 'Zora Neale Hurston was a knockout in her life, a wonderful writer and a fabulous person. Devilishly funny ...

1st November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty-two days later he dies, killed from the inside by Polonium -...

Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music - odd,spare, cranky and repetitious - an acknow...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is crea...

A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab. In the summ...

Product Description Fizzing with energy, hilarity and charm, the Sunday Times bestseller from Countryfile's Anita Rani: 'Beautiful' Caitlin Moran...

Review [A] remarkable achievement .[Moore] writes clearly and honestly, never letting his essentially positive view of Thatcher get in the way of ...

'Fascinating' LA Times '[Keyes] has carried it off brilliantly, bringing not only a fine clarity but a special warmth and empathy' Washington Post...

Have you ever wondered how some dogs know when an earthquake is about to hit? Or how some cats know how to identify and soothe their owner's chroni...

Review "A lyrical, painful and yet hope-filled memoir . . . Shattering, light-searching" ― Observer "Searing . . . Unputdownable . . . My Name Is...

Review Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and boulevard. A classic history of nomenclature - loaded, complex and absorbing....

Review Put simply, I love Georgia as a writer and a woman. Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read. -- Miranda Ha...

Review On the page, Cameron is compassionate and cajoling, convincing you of your capability and jollying you along with anecdotes about her Holly...

Product Description FLEXIBILITY AND WEIGHT From Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form. The Animator's Surv...

For many years Andrew Greig saw the poet Norman MacCaig as a father figure. Months before his death, MacCaig's enigmatic final request to Greig was...

George Alagiah's personal testament about Africa, updated in a new Abacus edition As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to G...

WINNER OF THE GOOD READS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018 T...

This is the image of Catherine of Aragon who has always suffered in comparison to the heir - providing Jane Seymour or the vivacious eroticism of A...

A Rough Trade Book of the Year After the success of his memoir, Telling Stories, Tim set himself a quest. He got in touch with people he admires, ...

'With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world's favourite natural history broadcaster documents some of his expeditions from the late 1950s...

When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures...