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Heartwarming, honest and very funny - the story of a young boy growing up in a close and quirky 'coloured' community under apartheid. In 1962, at the age of five,...

Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful...

Called a madman by some, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla created astonishing, world-transforming devises that were virtually without theoretical precedent. Tesla not only...

The relationship between Henri Matisse and his son, the influential art dealer Pierre Matisse (1900-1989), is at the heart of this biography. Closely involved with great art from an early...

In this 125th Jubilee Year of cricket in Canterbury, Matthew Appleby surveys the 100 leading players, umpires, administrators and writers who have over the decades made this one of New...

Arthur Conan Doyle's name is indelibly linked with the greatest of all fictional detectives, Sherlock Holmes. But while Holmes may have been the epitome of reason, the real life of...

Born in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci is probably one of the world's best-known artists. This beautifully illustrated project looks at the major events in his life. Packed with information about...

The massacres of the Sierra Leone Civil War, the bloody struggle for liberation during the Arab Spring, the plight of the Kurdish refugees in the Gulf War and the ongoing...

Josphine Cox returns to the land of her birth, the environment which provides so many settings for her novels, and in the company of her fictional characters rediscovers the influences...

At its height, Einstein's marriage to Mileva was an extraordinary one - a colleague and often fierce adversary, Mileva was brilliantly matched with the scientific genius. Dennis Overbye seeks to...

This is a truly classic Australian story that captures part of our history that is vanishing. Tom was the mailman on one of the best known and loneliest tracks in...

A fabulous, honest memoir from the 'other' author of Puberty Blues. A deeply personal memoir in three parts.

Told by a historian who was chairman of naval history at Annapolis for twenty years, here is the first full chronicle of World War II's last living naval hero--Thirty-one Knot...

'Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' - John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the...

"Rex" is the BLOCKBUSTER autobiography of one of Australia's best-loved and most colourful personalities Rex Hunt. First published in 2002, it has established itself as one of Australia's biggest-selling memoirs....

But the story is not hers alone. Betty describes her many encounters with others who have tried to escape similar situations, telling their dramatic stories.

One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review , New York 's "Vulture", The Week , Bustle, BookRiot An NPR Best Book of...

'This is the best book about sex I have read in a long time' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times 'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to...

Roseanne is the dramatic American saga, funny and true, of a woman who started with nothing, overcame great diversity, and with the strength of her convictions--and a brilliant wit--triumphed.#Harper &...

This is an account of a woman's spiritual and psychic odyssey through two lifetimes. It can be read as an autobiographical novel, as the story of one woman's reincarnation and...

Dave Pelzer willed himself to overcome the worst life had to offer (his case of child abuse was one of the worst recorded cases in US history) and became the...

Jacob Epstein ranks among the finest and most influential sculptors of this century. Stephen Gardiner knew the Epstein family intimately and draws on personal research and a mass of unpublished...

Now the hit ITV true crime drama DES, starring David Tennant, and the follow-up documentary The Real 'Des' The definitive story of the Dennis Nilsen case featured in BBC's The...

'Mum once admitted that the only time she thought I was truly safe was when I was out in the water, beyond the breaking waves, in the tranquillity of "The...

46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946 'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as...

Longlisted for the Guardian first book award, a Sunday Times bestseller and Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Marvellous' (The Times), 'Excellent' (Guardian), 'Completely magical' (Mail on Sunday) **SUNDAY TIMES...

This is an autobiography by the author of A Taste of Africa, Dorinda Hafner. She weaves traditional stories and recipes in this memoir of her Ghanian heritage and her 17...