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What happens when a girl tries to grow up in a world where everyone wants her to remain a child? Hayley Mills' teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the...

This is the extraordinary true story of a British Commando in Burma who, cut off behind enemy lines, walked 2,000 miles towards India and freedom in 1942, but was betrayed...

*The Sunday Times Bestseller* Adam Hills is one the UK's best-loved comedians. For thirty years he has been performing stand-up, hosting TV shows and winning the hearts of a nation....

An Uncut Book of the Year 2021 'Wild, exhilarating and very funny' Sunday Times 'A must-read for pop culture fans' Evening Standard Best Non-fiction 2021 'Beautifully deadpan' The Times ,...

Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he had missing sounds - bird calls, whistles, kettles, alarms. Teachers thought he was slow and...

'A very special book that I enjoyed enormously' Cees Nooteboom A dazzling ode to life, literature and Paris, the French capital that even in emptiness and desolation will always be...

'This intimate new book will change the way we think about the King of Rock 'n' Roll' Telegraph 'A rollercoaster of love and loss' Washington Post The long-awaited, candid memoir...

'A refreshingly modest memoir.' - THE TIMES Verse, Chorus, Monster! is the memoir of iconic British musician and Blur co-founder Graham Coxon, charting a life of music, fame, addiction and...

The Sonic Youth frontman takes us from a 1960s childhood rock 'n' roll epiphany, through the subversive world of 1970s punk blasting forth from New York City, to traversing the...

'True, unflinching, powerful, lyrical' Kate Mosse'It's quite an achievement to shine a light of truth on the often idealised, always understated, role of the farmer's wife.' RAYNOR WINN'Wonderful, inviting, wholesome.'...

'Magical' MINDY KALING 'Funny and poignant and beautiful' JOHN MULANEY 'It made me remember I was alive' GEORGE SAUNDERS To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PEN AMERICA LITERARY AWARDS* 'Superb, compelling, delightfully labyrinthine' Telegraph 'The book fans of Oliver Sacks have been craving' The i 'Lyrical and spellbinding' New Scientist 'The...

In the tradition of classic collections of observations and musings such as Christopher Isherwood's I Am a Camera and Truman Capote's The Dogs Bark , Waiting on the Moon is...

As an interiors photographer, Penny Wincer found that walking through a stranger's home, listening to them explaining the history of the space, and the meaning of precious objects, was one...

Giuliano Da Empoli's The Hour of the Predator is a timely and incisive examination of the shifting power dynamics in global politics, where traditional governments find themselves increasingly outmatched by...

A moving, witty memoir about a Jewish childhood in apartheid-era South Africa"There were three other people present, or five, depending on whom one chooses to include... The ceremony lasted precisely...

After a lifetime of writing a novel every year, Storm Jameson turned to memoir with the ambition 'to write without lying'. The result was an extraordinary reckoning with how she...

Have you ever wondered why eating cheese can sometimes feel like a cuddle? Or how a big bowl of pasta can be just what we need after a tough day?...

From humble origins, the eminent Russian scientist Nicholas Borodin forged a career in microbiology in the era of Stalin. Pragmatic and dedicated to his work, he accepted the Soviet regime,...

Alone in an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artefacts, the spoils of European colonial plunder, many...

War in Val D'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing...

'Stunning' - The Guardian 'This is an emotionally moving work that also pushes memoir forward. It asks intriguing questions about what the form can do and be, at the same...

Including tracks by the Velvet Underground, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Dolly Parton, and Billie Eilish-as well as thoughts on Jeff's own songs - World Within a Song asks: why do...

'I'm not homeless: this is my home!' Nick points to the branches of the hornbeam under which we are standing, its leaves still glistening in the aftermath of the morning...

'One of our best contemporary writers.' Sunday Telegraph It's those around you who make you who you are. Michael Frayn would like to say a brief word about a few...

'Our sense of enchantment is not only triggered by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by ourdeliberate attention. It becomes...

From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying peek behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history. Suzi Ronson was working in a Beckenham...

From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying peek behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history. ' Suzi Ronson was there as Bowie...

Set in Alexandria, this classic and much-loved memoir chronicles the exploits of Andre Aciman's colourful Sephardic Jewish family from its arrival in Egypt at the turn of the century to...

"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...

In her bestselling memoir As I Lay Me Down To Sleep, Eileen Munro vividly documented the emotional, physical and sexual abuse she experienced as a child at the hands of...

'This rallying cry will persuade you to battle for true equality' Stylist An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists...

Ron Brooks grew up in East Gippsland, a country boy with a yen for drawing and observation of the life around him. He became an acknowledged master of the picture-book...

This brilliant, adult nonfiction debut from the acclaimed MG author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-culture The Dead Don't...

A powerful, timely memoir of Black immigrant identity, maternal love, and a unique coming-of-age story by Emmy-winning star of The Residence and Orange Is the New Black Uzo Aduba. Actress...

'Wonderfully funny, utterly charming and sharp as all Hell' SARAH MILLICAN 'Tom Allen is one of the funniest comedians in the UK, the best dressed man I know and now...

" I'd managed to puncture a hole between our universe and the parallel one where all the celebrities lived." 'The zaniest book I've read in eons. Andrusier is a fresh...

'One for the hurling fan, and for all those who appreciate the sacrifices involved in a 100% commitment to team and tribe' RTE Guide Padraic Maher is one of the...

Parenting advice from the no.1 Sunday Times bestseller French Children Don't Throw Food, now distilled into 100 short and easy tips. Parenting advice from French Children Don't Throw Food, now...

A lot of professors give talks titled The Last Lecture. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we...

In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our...

On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson...

'You'll fall head over heels - again and again.' A delightful celebration of love's enduring magic. What draws us to love, binds us in partnership, and keeps us searching for...

Out of the Ashes is the inspirational story of an Australian mother's journey back from hell after the 12 October 2002 Bali bombings. The deadly terrorist attacks on Paddy's Irish...

When Tania McCartney discovered she'd be moving her husband, self and two kids under the age of five to China for four years, she was 95 per cent horrified. What...

Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the...

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here,...

Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black...