Biographies & True Stories

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...

Rose and Rosie are known for their candid and hilarious YouTube videos... but now they are taking oversharing to a whole new level. Discussing sexu...

'A delight to read' Philip Pullman 'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom Service A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' The music o...

Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as th...

'Freeman's pleasure in the food of literature ... is infectious. The Reading Cure will speak to anyone who has ever felt pain and found solace in a...

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956 Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetr...

A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo tells the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Looking at sleep, n...

Product Description The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton.The...

"Cider with Rosie" is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place ...

Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that the young man who wa...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DEAR LIFE 'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleedi...

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

There is no one quite like Brian Blessed. He's an actor, film star, trained undertaker, unlikely diplomat, secret romantic, martial artist and moun...

The new hilarious and inspirational memoir from Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author Bryony Gordon. 'A courageous account that will inspire us al...

Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff is one of the most exciting cricketers in the world and has improved out of all recognition during the last two years. In...

Product Description Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink is the definitive career retrospective of this revered and provocative UK artist.Renowned f...

Review "this collection will both creep you out and leave you a little bit inspired, depending on the story you read."--BookRiot "Wright sets the...

Review This book should serve as a primer to young men on the make ― GUARDIAN Product Description The long-awaited autobiography of the archetyp...

Review The second volume of memoirs by the Wigtown bookseller Shaun Bythell is as absorbing as the first -- Alan Bennett ― London Review of Bo...

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent' Bookseller 'A paean to hope and home. I loved it and it will haunt...

"SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 ...

On the eve of the 2016 Olympic Games, the biggest moment of her life, Lizzie Armitstead's career was thrown into turmoil. After being cleared to ri...

'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year' Max Hastings, S...

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...

Sir Jackie Stewart is one of the most highly regarded names in global sport - winner of three F1 World Championships, 27 Grands Prix and ranked in ...

Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one ...

"Letters to Milena" captures the remarkably raw, brilliant, and agonizingly vulnerable correspondence between Franz Kafka and his translator, Milen...

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...

'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIAN The unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant c...

With an international tour celebrating the 70s that kicks off at the end of 2017, Unzipped is the story of how Little Susie from Detroit grew up to...

Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost worl...

Product Description Fifty years after Ernesto Guevara’s death, Che Guevara tú y Todos (the title tú y Todos , is taken from a poem written for his...

Review Fabulous book . . . wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone . . . genuinely laugh out loud . . . twice as good as Partridge . . . ...

Book Description Economics explained and demystified in trademark Economist style. Product Description Economics is all around us, e...

Michael Palin's bestselling diaries before, during and after Monty Python.

The Sick Bag Song chronicles Cave's 22-city journey around North America in 2014. Racked by romantic longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out the si...

Reissued with a stunning new jacket design, the Virago classic about working class life at the turn of the last century.

One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian Anne Sebba ha...

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'As perfect a portrait of friends...

Product Description "Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as te...

Review The dog of war whose sixth sense saved hundreds of British lives ― Mail on Sunday One of the most famous animals of the Second World War ―...

'That's what happened, I think, struggling to stay afloat as the ocean pummels me from all sides. I must have blacked out -- exhausted, dehydrated,...

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

Christy Moore is in every sense Ireland's folk hero. Mentor to a whole generation of Irish musicians, he holds a unique place in musical history. I...

Review Graceful and considered ... an elegant, compassionate and wide-ranging tribute to the resilience of humans ― The TimesParris has a feel...