Biographies & True Stories

On the eve of the 2016 Olympic Games, the biggest moment of her life, Lizzie Armitstead's career was thrown into turmoil. After being cleared to ri...

'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year' Max Hastings, S...

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'Brutally honest . . . A moving, candid tale of a coach taking the plunge with a rugby ball a...

Sir Jackie Stewart is one of the most highly regarded names in global sport - winner of three F1 World Championships, 27 Grands Prix and ranked in ...

Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees on one ...

'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIAN The unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant c...

With an international tour celebrating the 70s that kicks off at the end of 2017, Unzipped is the story of how Little Susie from Detroit grew up to...

Product Description Fifty years after Ernesto Guevara’s death, Che Guevara tú y Todos (the title tú y Todos , is taken from a poem written for his...

Review Fabulous book . . . wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone . . . genuinely laugh out loud . . . twice as good as Partridge . . . ...

Book Description Economics explained and demystified in trademark Economist style. Product Description Economics is all around us, e...

Michael Palin's bestselling diaries before, during and after Monty Python.

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'As perfect a portrait of friends...

Product Description "Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as te...

Review The dog of war whose sixth sense saved hundreds of British lives ― Mail on Sunday One of the most famous animals of the Second World War ―...

'The essential hormone handbook . . . it should be made part of the core curriculum up and down the land' STYLIST 'A must read. Informative, funn...

Christy Moore is in every sense Ireland's folk hero. Mentor to a whole generation of Irish musicians, he holds a unique place in musical history. I...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...