Biographies & true stories

After a life of sex, drugs and the Communards, recounted in his acclaimed memoir Fathomless Riches, the Reverend Richard Coles devoted himself to G...

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POLITICS Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality explores all that we know about the world's l...

Review "Solomon's eloquent prose empathetically conveys the tragedy of Winehouse's demise... For readers who know the songs, but not so much the a...

Product Description A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organised crime from an American investigative journalist. Soon to be...

Product Description The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon. Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his sense fo...

Alan Sugar was born in 1947 and brought up on a council estate in Clapton, in Hackney. As a kid he watched his dad struggle to support the family, ...

In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pac...

Review 'Bower concludes that Ecclestone thrives when he's in trouble, in marriage as well as business. His company is complex but the business pla...

'Refreshing and honest ... this isn't your standard mum memoir' Psychologies Magazine How to hold it together, even when things are falling apart....

Review The Cuban conundrum is that little is what it seems ... In its tragic absurdity, Close but No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with ...

'A gripping story of a cold-blooded murder... This is true crime at its best' Wendy Moore 'Drama so addictive it should be illegal' Sam Christer ...

FEATURING A BRAND NEW CHAPTER ON KING CHARLES III AND HIS CORONATION 'Fascinating' The Times 'Tantalising' Telegraph The gripping account of how ...

Among the island's drug dealers 'It's snowing in Bali' is code that the south-east Asian paradise is full of cocaine. For the men who run the count...

An Oprah Magazine Book of the Year 2023 'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah 'This book pulses with a defiant...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS Reuben, aged 38,...

The Sheep Stell is Janet White's beautiful and evocative memoir about her life as a shepherd: a lost classic.

Fifteen years after his massive bestseller Serious, John McEnroe is back and ready to talk. Who are the game's winners and losers? What's it like ...

Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final ...

THE SALTIRE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN'S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 2022 'Remarkable' The Times 'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Bea...

'The king of character comedy.' Good Housekeeping 'A lynchpin of British comedy.' Alan Moore The nation's favourite comedian opens up about two e...

THE IMMEDIATE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The debut self-help book from Vicky Pattison, on how to quash your inner doubts, overcome fear and live a ha...

Aces is a celebration of the bold fighter pilots who earned the accolade and joined the ranks of flying aces during World War II aviation combat. ...

'I'm so glad you had the life you did, Barbara. I'm sorry you can't remember, but my God, what a life! You haven't wasted a minute of it...' In De...

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...

'A dazzling celebration and recalibration of Mozart's genius, written with an energy to match its subject' Ian Bostridge Mozart is one of the most...

A celebration of the life of Queen Elizabeth II, showing us that the Queen's qualities of duty, self-sacrifice and love of country were present in ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could deliver' James Acaste...

At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Ber...

Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the second half...

The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus and winner of the ...

Review A richly detailed biography of the distinguished British publishing house. -- Kirkus A uniquely close-up view of 20th-century literary hist...

'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to w...

For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the au...

'Broken Blue Line is a rollercoaster of a ride depicting the realities of twenty-first-century policing on the front-line. Its well written, honest...

'Nicola Tallis, one of our great popular historians.' Alison Weir The first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the E...

'The whole story is so terrible. You will be disgusted and amazed.' Graham Young, confessing his crimes to detectives There are few criminal cases...

In Long Drawn Out Trip: My Life, Gerald Scarfe tells his life story for the first time. With captivating, often thrilling stories, he takes us from...

Review The acclaimed memoir of one of Britain's most loved actresses, a girl from Tottenham with big dreams who is now Dame Eileen Atkins. `Wit as...

Review Paper Cuts is a wonderfully funny and moving book about a life devoted to music and music magazines. With all the ensuing chaos that that c...