Biographies & True Stories

Review Love, death, friendship, compassion & SO MUCH wisdom. I just adore Sigrid Nunez ― Paula HawkinsIf the meaning of life is that it en...

Product Description It’s time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it’s being physically fit and mentally r...

About the Author Caroline Jones is a freelance writer specializing in health, beauty, fashion and lifestyle subjects. A former senior editor on se...

'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline,' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of yo...

The political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilizatio...

Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. These were the words uttered by the seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Gr...

Review James Herriot's 'All Creatures Great and Small' meets Stuart Maconie - funny, from the heart and utterly wonderful from start to finish. --...

Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, frien...

A CUNNING CHRONICLE OF THE 50 CODES THAT ALTERED THE COURSE OF HISTORY AND CHANGED THE WORLD From the bestselling author of Bletchley Park Brain...

While Josef Albers' Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the pai...

Review Unrequited Infatuations is a wonderfully original take on a Rock and Roll autobiography -- PAUL MCCARTNEY An inimitable Rock 'n' Roll life...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who made the phone call that got HBO to launch the show? What’s the significance of all those eggs? And, what the hel...

Celebrate Scott C. s world of imaginative art with this deluxe notebook set. A master of unique and charismatic illustrations, paintings, comics, a...

'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN 'READS LIKE A THRILLER' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and be...

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Good fo...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I was born with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home from being born it was Coronation Day and so I w...

Voted Rugby Book of the Year at the 2018 Sports Book Awards. Wrecking Ball is a captivating and humorous memoir by Billy Vunipola, one of the star...

About the Author Michael Wolff has received numerous awards for his work, including two National Magazine Awards. He has been a regular columnist ...

In But Enough About Me, legendary film actor and Hollywood superstar Burt Reynolds recalls the people who shaped his life and career, for better or...

Dear Leader contains astonishing new insights about North Korea which could only be revealed by someone working high up in the regime. It is also t...

For many, Ernest Hemingway remains more a compilation of myths than a person: soldier, sportsman, lover, expat and, of course, writer. But the a...

HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023 'Jaw-dropping' -Val McDermid 'A police memoir like no other' -Kerry Daynes, be...

Product Description With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinati...

Review The remarkable thing about Thought Economics is that it isn't just thought-provoking, but genuinely thought-generating. It is a watersh...

About the Author Dr Christopher Catherwood is a leading Churchill scholar. He is Emeritus Archives By-Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge, Fello...

Unstoppable and deadly, this is the gripping story of some of the most feared soldiers in the warThe daring, courage and skill of the highly-traine...

Product Description A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the Origin...

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown In The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence, Dr Amanda Brown reveals stories of her time spe...

'One of the funniest books of the year' - Guardian A collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects o...

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...

'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that ...

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

'This isn’t a grisly book; it is sharp, angry, punchily philosophical and often funny. It basically invents a new type of lifestyle aspiration: dea...

Review Brilliant - even better than This is Going to Hurt ― Jacqueline Wilson Very funny, very moving - Adam Kay has done it again, the talented ...

'"Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?"' Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how...

'Excellent . . . A celebration of peculiarity' VOGUE 'Humour-packed, irreverent, eccentric' ELLE Have you ever wondered what it would be like tal...

Review Readers who fell in love with Rodriguez's chronicle of life in Afghanistan [The Kabul Beauty School] will surely revel in this candid, inti...

Self-described as a 'spotty, chubby, ginger teenager' with a love for Damien Rice and Nizlopi, Ed Sheeran was never an obvious bet to become a glob...

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