Biographies & True Stories

In Letters of Note: Space, Shaun Usher brings together fascinating correspondence about the universe beyond our planet, containing hopeful thoughts...

Sally Urwin and her husband Steve own High House Farm in Northumberland, which they share with two kids, Mavis the Sheepdog, one very Fat Pony, and...

'This is a book about real people, real stories, real heroes. You might not know their faces, and you might not know their names - but once you've ...

Review "A remarkable book . . . Its language trembles on the brink of poetry; these sentences have surety to their rhythms, subtlety to their weig...

'Where have all my friends gone?' When Max Dickins decided to propose to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his b...

LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2022 Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and...

'No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritise it. I believe the second you feel you...

From the bestselling author of THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL comes a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan M...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2023 From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an...

The progressive globalisation of business and the growing importance of China as an economic and political power make an understanding of the worki...

In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we eat, cook and apprecia...

Review This is a book of instructions to those who will dare one day the impossible. It shows the art to fill and illuminate the Void, a void betw...

This book will help you save money, buy less and do your bit for the environment – just through loving your leftovers! It’s your essential guide to...

Book Description An Irish No.1 bestseller, Me and My Mate Jeffrey is an essential book for anyone who knows what it is to feel alone, and who does...

Review Well written ... fascinating ... [captures] that strange 1970s heyday of the counter-culture when almost every student, it seemed, wanted t...

Product Description This is the story of the real bodyguard, Lee Sansum, ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, and expert in close p...

Review Wow, what a read! I love it. Kate's honest, open, funny account of motherhood with all its high and lows is a breath of fresh air and relat...

Review Fox, a former senior obituary writer for The New York Times and the author of three previous books, unspools Jones and Hill's delightfully ...

Product Description When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote The Natural History of Selborne (1789), he created one of the gre...

Review ** 'In Harold Evans's cottage, behind a beach dune in Quogue, Long Island, there is a black-and-white photograph of a news conference at Th...

Review A book that'll change your perspective on life. You'll not be able to put it down. ― Fearne Cotton What I love about this book is it's not...

Review Extraordinary -- Mark O'Connell Wildly impressive, interesting and entertaining ― The Irish Times A blistering collection ... marvellous ...

About the Author Marcus Berkmann has spent more than thirty years sitting in front of various television screens swearing at incompetent England b...

About the Author Stephen Spender was born in 1909 and was educated at University College, Oxford, where his friends included W. H. Auden, C. Day L...

Review An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously -- Sarah Ditum ― The Times At 88 years old, ...

Review A stunning book, exquisitely written and all of it observed with enormous compassion for the natural world. Every page of Spring Tides give...

Product Description Police helicopters are operated in the UK by National Police Air Service (NPAS), which brings all 43 forces together and deliv...

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 'This is one of the most imagi...

Review This is a delightful and timely book about resilience and environmental care... This story of ingenuity and determination is an inspiration...

About the Author Binyavanga Wainaina lives in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the founding editor of Kwani?, a leading African literary magazine. He won the...

Product Description Fast Company, the world’s leading business media brand, offers a comprehensive and vibrant look at the way design has permeate...

Product Description Discover new ways to live a healthy life by incorporating cannabidiol (CBD) into your daily routines. Whether you are seeking...

Product Description What is transhumanism? What is AI? Are these good developments or bad ones? How might immortality be possible? And should we e...

Product Description TASTE! How to Choose the Best Deli Ingredients is an all-embracing, comprehensive handbook of speciality ingredient informatio...

Product Description In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabe...

Big Snake Little Snake is a cascade of true stories by DBC Pierre, recorded while on his way to make a short film with a parrot in Trinidad, whic...

About the Author Louise Redknapp is a platinum-selling recording artist and performer. A founding member of Eternal, she has also recorded four so...

There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're aft...

Review Page-turning and profoundly moving. Her meticulous research has uncovered a strand of British history and she brings it sharply and vividly...

Review Alice Walker contains multitudes. She is a truth-telling, word-working, change-conjuring, culture-shifting, revolutionary artist and citize...

Review An extraordinary and thought-provoking memoir ― Belfast Telegraph This will blow you away ― Stylist An admirable triumph ― Irish Independ...

Review A jaw-dropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thought-provoking book ― The Times An extraordinary debut ― Daily Mirror Freshly fasc...

A mother's heart-rending account of losing her two daughters in the Hillsborough disaster, her thirty-year quest for justice, and her inspiring jou...

In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. Charmed by...

A deeply researched and highly original investigation into depression which argues the case for embracing both art and science in our understanding...

Perfect for fans of Josie Silver, Sara Jafari and Bolu Babalola, The Three of Us is filled with tension and heartache that will stay with you long ...

An insider's account of the global race to be the first company to put a lab-produced meat product on the market, and to enact the biggest upheaval...

Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris' Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chronicle...