Biographies & True Stories

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...

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, ...

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

Shortlisted for the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize 'Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which ...

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 ...

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

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

'This is a vital book. Hand this out in schools, in the workplace, everywhere. It's also beautifully written.' Olivia Colman 'Brilliant. Patriarch...

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...

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. ...

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 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...

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...

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...

Review Not all Essex girls are party girls. They can be sages, martyrs, leaders. In her neat and provocative little book, Sarah Perry celebrates t...

Review 'Reveals that Morris' writing is just as elegant and erudite, and her mind just as supple, playful, curious, rigorous, humorous and sur...

Review A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history -- HADLEY FREEMAN Sebba gets her...

Review "The Last Days of Roger Federer feels like what Martin Amis called "a transfusion from above", but one from your smartest and funniest frie...

Review In this brilliant mix of history and emotion, Craig Nelson has managed to combine grueling research with masterful reporting in order to ca...

A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can o...

For fans of Dork Diaries comes a laugh-out-loud series about one girl's eccentric family, a whole lot of mayhem, and her unique way of dealing with...

Let Me Take You By The Hand is a fascinating and eye-opening exploration of the life of London's streets, and is essential reading for those who re...

Product Description A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its car...

Product Description Who had the most commercial success in their lifetime, Ernest Hemingway or Agatha Christie? Whose work has the most adaptatio...

Review In clear, nimble, and dexterous prose, Underwood launches a capacious quest toward the unknown and maps the limits of knowledge via art...

Review Winder is a highly knowledgeable guide to this slippery subject. His book is also beautifully written in an enviably easystyle. There i...

Alice Herz-Sommer, 1903-2014 The pianist Alice Herz-Sommer survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attended Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem,...

Review This is BRAVO TWO ZERO meets ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Tom Read's story had me on the edge of my seat. It also made me cry. - An...

Review Jam-packed with beautiful colourful photographs and helpful tips, this is just right for aspiring eco-friendly gardeners ― Publishers W...

Review A new collection of some of the legendary writer and critic's greatest travel and travel-adjacent pieces, from investigations into Mexi...