Biographies & True Stories

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti ...

Product Description THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FOOTBALL FANS There's no one quite like Klopp. Players love him, Liverpool fans love him - even those wh...

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

A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with fathers at their heart, curated by the founder of the...

About the Author Joshua George is an experienced author of both fiction and non-fiction for children. His books have been published under vari...

On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order ...

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...

'Ground-breaking ... One of the greatest international bestsellers of the post-war period' Andrew Roberts, Daily Telegraph 'Reads like an engrossin...

About the Author Jason Draper is a brand consultant and long-standing music journalist. As former Head of Curation at Universal Music Group an...

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...

'A powerful and moving book - it's quite a battle he has faced' Nick Robinson, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme 'It really is an interesting read' Da...

Visited by millions around the world every year, discover the untold story of the history of the institution of the museum, one of mankind’s most e...

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

Review "Coffee table sized, close to 400 pages, littered with previously unseen photographs (the majority in color), ephemera, it's a design s...

Product Description In the beginning was the Word. Now there's PowerPoint.It's used for weddings, warfare and webinars, for literature, lesso...

Product Description Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about hi...

At the heart of the "Memoir" is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country s...

THE GRIPPING TRUE STORY OF A MURDER WHICH HAUNTED CANADA AND BECAME A RALLYING CRY FOR JUSTICE 'If you were hooked on the Serial podcast, then you...

It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote Russian village. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating...

This work presents an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes, but the course of li...

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, ...

'They call me a madman but compared to Pete Way, I'm out of my league.' - Ozzy Osbourne There are rock memoirs and then there is this one. A Fast ...

Product Description In nearly 25 years as a sports journalist for the Independent, Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times, Martin Johnson has cove...

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama of the expe...