Biographies & True Stories

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 Renowned Japanese manga artist, international instructor, and illustrator of the Wedding Peach series Nao Yazawa guides you st...

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...

A girl with her whole life ahead of her. A terrible accident. An inspiring story of triumph over trauma. Aged 15, Jordan was a happy-go-lucky gir...

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...

In About Kane, Graham Saunders offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent times. His survey incl...

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...

Product Description Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck,...

From the world's foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes a personal story of connection and heartbreak that brings new understanding to an o...

An elegy to a golden age of literature, Circus of Dreams divulges how the British literary scene underwent an unrecognisable transformation in the ...

King Charles's Pirate Prince To his fellow Royalists, fighting for King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine was the archetypal 'cavalier'. Young...

*Fascinating insight into the mind of one of the greatest contemporary spiritual leaders.*In depth knowledge of secret political deals involving CI...

In July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeymoon with her husband Arthur Miller, to make The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Oliv...

In this book-length lyric essay, a father and poet reflects on how the birth of his daughter at a time of global existential crisis inspired him to...

A gripping new work of popular history about a critical year in world history, and Britain's bleakest hour, by the acclaimed author of 1983: The Wo...

Review Pannett, the James Herriot of policing, tiptoes his way through domestic issues, stag nights, and sword-wielding madmen bent on decapitatio...

In Remarkable People, Dan Walker, the host of BBC1's Breakfast, recounts inspiring stories of the courage and selflessness of people he has met thr...

Product Description From iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a nostalgic memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs ...

About the Author Tova Feinman lives in Pittsburgh, and is a scientist by training. Tova studied chemistry as an undergrad, as well as biochemistry...

About the Author Valerie Wilding is a Londoner who now lives on the edge of a small market town in Hampshire. Val was an infant teacher for many y...

Review I first knew him as a writer. Then guitarist, lifelong friend and collaborator. We have performed side by side on the global stage through ...

Review When There Were Birds is a marvellously original slice of social history, a portrait of our ever-conflicted relationship with the natur...

Review Humorous and surprising in equal measure. Hilarious ― DAILY EXPRESSA hugely interesting read, one of those books that you finish and wa...

Review An energetic primer on women's rights, both past and present. Cameron breaks key topics down in a clear and comprehensible way, without...

Review Luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young-and mature-woman; an unflinching social history of disability over the last six ...

Review I'm not exaggerating when I say this is one of the most important books I've read this year.' -- Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for R...

Review A ravishing, alarming account of these underwater palaces of wonder, and the existential threat they face from humanity and our warming...

Young, talented, intelligent, and with a thriving social life, on the surface Terri Cox had it all. But deep down in her mind a storm was brewing, ...

A bright and brilliant academic, Tova Feinman had an enviable life. She had a job through which her intellect shone, a loving husband, and a child ...

Product Description 'An entertaining, wide-ranging defence and explanation of the conservative way of seeing the world . . . suffused with genero...

Review Praise for Bernie Sanders:'Gives us a glimpse of what politics could be like' -- Yanis VaroufakisA decent, honest person. It's pretty u...

Review "The Modern Oracle is a treasure trove of information and advice that can be applied to any oracular device or system." -New Spirit Jou...