Biographies & True Stories
Haig: Notes On A Nervous Planet
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is crea...
View full detailsSacks: Awakenings
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' Guardian Hailed as a m...
View full detailsAgatha Christie: A Mysterious Life
'Laura Thompson's outstanding biography . . . is a pretty much perfect capturing of a life' - Kate Mosse It has been 100 years since Agatha Christ...
View full detailsSo Me
Graham Norton, whose impish charm and quick wit has earned him a place in our hearts, looks back at his life so far. In his own words, SO ME is 'a ...
View full detailsJonny: My Autobiography
Jonny Wilkinson's career has crossed three decades and four World Cups. He has accumulated phenomenal achievements, world points records, an impres...
View full detailsThe Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year ** A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's cel...
View full detailsFighting Evil
A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab. In the summ...
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Product Description Fizzing with energy, hilarity and charm, the Sunday Times bestseller from Countryfile's Anita Rani: 'Beautiful' Caitlin Moran...
View full detailsMargaret Thatcher- At Her Zenith: In London, Washington & Moscow.
Review [A] remarkable achievement .[Moore] writes clearly and honestly, never letting his essentially positive view of Thatcher get in the way of ...
View full detailsAnyway Anyhow Anywhere: the Complete Chronicle of the WHO
The most dynamic day-to-day chronicle of the band ever compiled. Organised by year, each chapter of the book gives an overview of the band's fortun...
View full detailsWarren Gatland- Pride & Passion
SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS.'excellent' Donald McRae, The Guardian'Gatland is the master' Si...
View full detailsYoung Stalin
Review Simon Sebag Montefiore's thrilling portrait of Stalin's youth ... A remarkable book ... Montefiore gives a brilliant account of the 190...
View full detailsSAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Review Put simply, I love Georgia as a writer and a woman. Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read. -- Miranda Ha...
View full detailsFloor Sample: A Creative Memoir – with an introduction by Emma Gannon
Review On the page, Cameron is compassionate and cajoling, convincing you of your capability and jollying you along with anecdotes about her Holly...
View full detailsAt the Loch of the Green Corrie
For many years Andrew Greig saw the poet Norman MacCaig as a father figure. Months before his death, MacCaig's enigmatic final request to Greig was...
View full detailsThe Prime Ministers
55 profiles by 55 different writers, politicians, journalists and academics of every prime minister there's ever been, from Robert Walpole to Boris...
View full detailsA Passage To Africa
George Alagiah's personal testament about Africa, updated in a new Abacus edition As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to G...
View full detailsEverything Is Connected: The Power Of Music
A memoir by the master pianist, conductor and internationalist Daniel Barenboim - 'the closest thing that classical music can offer to Nelson Mande...
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About the Author Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction wo...
View full detailsCatherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen
This is the image of Catherine of Aragon who has always suffered in comparison to the heir - providing Jane Seymour or the vivacious eroticism of A...
View full detailsFinding Chika: A heart-breaking and hopeful story about family, adversity and unconditional love
Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in extreme poverty, and when ...
View full detailsHalfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two) (Palin Diaries 2)
After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S ME...
View full detailsMy booky wook
Russell Brand grew up in Essex . His father left when he was three months old, he was bulimic at 12 and left school at 16 to study at the Italia Co...
View full detailsBrittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)
Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change. 'Richly humane, viscerally political, g...
View full detailsCaptain Scott
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experi...
View full detailsShowboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant
Shortlisted for the 2017 Cross Sports Book Awards Best Biography of the Year Bryant is one of basketball's greatest-ever players, a fascinating an...
View full detailsPoison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners
"As every amateur toxicologist knows, the difference between a poison and medicine is often simply the dose." There is no weapon as insidious, as ...
View full detailsMaggie Smith: A Biography
'Coveney is the only writer who could get under Smith's skin, capturing her steeliness and vulnerability' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY From her days as a...
View full detailsA Short History of England
Review A lucid and handsomely illustrated narrative, from the Saxon dawn of England to the Cameron Government ― The TimesFull of stand-out fac...
View full detailsBone Black: The undiscovered memoir from the author of the cult classic ALL ABOUT LOVE
Bess of Hardwick
Bess of Hardwick was one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era. Gently-born in reduced circumstances, she was married at 15, wedded at 16 a...
View full detailsLetters of Note: Fathers
A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with fathers at their heart, curated by the founder of the...
View full detailsThe Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy
THE NEW EDITION OF THE TRUE CRIME CLASSIC The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her l...
View full detailsMariah Carey: The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Review Captivating . . . Carey recounts many of the worst parts of her life with a deadpan, self-aware wit . . . a carefully pieced together self-...
View full detailsUnder the Wig
'This is a gripping memoir from one of our country's greatest jury advocates, offering a fascinating, no-holds-barred tour behind the scenes of...
View full detailsLife of P.T. Barnum
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of...
View full detailsHow Not to Be American: Misadventures in the Land of the Free
'This new American uniform - the baseball cap, t-shirt, shorts and trainers (why not a scooter?) is not about looking good. It's about disappearing...
View full detailsHow Death Becomes Life- Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery. Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mez...
View full detailsJack The Ripper
Updated and expanded edition of the fullest ever collective investigation into Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders.This volume collects not...
View full detailsComplete History of Jack the Ripper
The murders in London between 1888-91 attributed to Jack the Ripper constitute one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal cases. This story is t...
View full detailsRobbie Williams: You Know Me
The twenty-year journey, intimately told in his own words and pictures. Ever since a sixteen-year-old boy called Robert Peter Williams joined a boy...
View full detailsStolen Childhood
Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she...
View full detailsLife Stolen- The tragic true story of my son's muder
As featured in the BBC drama Four Lives. On 18 June 2014 Sarah Sak's son, Anthony Walgate, was murdered by serial killer Stephen Port after they m...
View full detailsGirl From Nowhere
To westerners, being Gypsy means being wild, romantic and free.To Eliska Tanzer, it means being rented out to dance for older men. It means living ...
View full detailsTim Burgess: Telling Stories
"Telling Stories" by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is one of the decade's most revealing rock books. "Clear, honest. An unusually frank and well-wr...
View full detailsThe Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Review Beautiful, honest and massively comforting -- DAWN FRENCH Immensely moving and disarmingly witty -- NIGELLA LAWSON Will strike a chord wi...
View full detailsUntold Stories
Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significa...
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