Biography

One of BBC Wildlife 's books of the year "A book of great courage, curiosity, discovery and connection." - Amy-Jane Beer, author of The Flow A moving, honest and revealing...

A literary event: the letters, both private and professional, of Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade and father of the hardboiled crime novel. . In his five great crime novels,...

Often hailed as a "Renaissance man" for the astounding diversity of his activities, Andre Malraux was a living legend long before his death in 1976. Few French writers of this...

The long-awated biography of one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Although blessed with a magnetic personality and musical brilliance, Britten was wracked by depression and self-doubt. An...

The book titled Lewis Carroll: a Biography by the author Morton Norton Cohen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

The book titled Deadly Illusions: The KGB Orlov Dossier Reveals Stalin's Master Spy by the author John Costello. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Based on personal letters and interviews with more than 100 of his friends and colleagues, as well as his two former wives, this is a biography of the American photographer,...

Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century. He was a natural countryman who had a sharp eye for the natural world, a dislike of technology...

Born in Australia, Gilbert Murray came to England at the age of 11. After a brilliant career in Classics at Oxford, he became Professor of Greek at Glasgow at the...

The book titled Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789-1945 by the author Michael Burns. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.

'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...

The book titled Where I Fell to Earth: A Life in Four Places by the author Peter Conrad. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The idea for Ian Hamilton's unorthodox new book was sparked by a rereading of Samuel Johnson's classic "Lives of the English Poets". Johnson included appraisals of 52 poets, but of...

Award winning journalist Colette Rossnt's charming memoir of growing up in French colonial Egypt filled with her favourite recipes.

Patrick French has been granted unique access to V.S. Naipaul's private papers and his personal recollections. With great feeling for Naipaul's formidable body of work, he has produced a luminous...

A thoughtful guide to navigating transition and impermanence rooted in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of bardo In a world where nothing lasts forever, how do we live? Life is perpetually,...

Following her 2021 bestselling memoir Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her comes the laugh out loud follow-up Hexy B*tch . 'My life's changed a lot since This Country came out....

'A wonderful book, I don't expect to read a better memoir for a very long time.' ROBERT WEBB, author of How Not To Be A Boy 'Funny and heart breaking...

Ten commandments, ten chapters, ten ways to change your life

In 2003, England won the rugby world cup. Steve Thompson was there, in England's front row, at the heart of the match, and at the heart of the scrum -...

In Island Dreams , Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and great voyages from literature, shedding new light...

Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume Saint Bishoi of Scetis (d. ca. 417) enjoys tremendous popularity throughout...

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* - November 2021 A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate...

_______________ 'An autobiographical meditation on feminism, power and womanhood ... Full of Isabel's wisdom and warm words' - Grazia 'In her small, potent polemic . . . Isabel Allende writes...

Celebrating 70 years, this is the timeless classic story of Dylan Thomas's childhood Christmas memories, featuring the wonderful artwork of Kate Greenaway medallist, Edward Ardizzone in this beautiful mini hardback...

Greenlights: Your Journal, Your Journey is a guided companion to the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Greenlights, filled with prompts, pithy quotes, adages, outlaw wisdom, and advice on how...

A revealing memoir from a pioneering industrial musician and visual artist who inspired generations of outsiders, rebels, and risk-takers In a memoir spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, Genesis P-Orridge, the...

The author of this book is the first writer to be granted access to the Nabokov archives and his research over the last ten years has taken him from New...

'Danticat offers an invaluable primer to the Haitian American experience in all its inherited trauma. Arguably she does for the Haitian diaspora what Junot Diaz has done for Dominican Americans'...

"Has the page-turning quality of a thriller." -NPR "Strange and wonderful...A book for our times." - The New York Times Book Review "Propulsive...mesmerizing...breathtaking." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) This unforgettable...

'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...

Growing up, Kimberly Stuart got really good at strapping on her spiritual tap shoes and trying to be a star for Jesus. She could sing all the songs, ace the...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S PICK A LA TIMES AND PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH "This delightful memoir is filled...

On her son's first birthday, Betsy Cornwell fled her home, checking into a hotel under a false name so her husband couldn't find them. In the uncertain months that followed,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2026 Idol. Legend. Enigma. For the first time, one of the all-time greatest sportsmen is finally ready to share his astonishing story:...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Embark on an extraordinary journey through the life, music and spiritual adventures of Yusuf/Cat Stevens, one of the iconic figures of our time. CAT ON...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Embark on an extraordinary journey through the life, music and spiritual adventures of Yusuf/Cat Stevens, one of the iconic figures of our time. CAT ON...

New York Times Bestseller on disentangling faith but keep your belief in Jesus intact. Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kids and Counting...

Corey Mead's The Lost Pilots is the saga of two star crossed pilots who soar to the greatest heights of fame, tailspin into scandal and crime, and go the ultimate...

' Back to the Future super-fans are predictably well served here ... Fox's evocative descriptions of a lost Hollywood - pre-word processor, never mind pre-internet - will also interest a...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth Day 'A deeply reassuring essential read' Sunday Independent 'Visceral and honest' Telegraph 'Bryony writes with such entertaining and...

David Cairns weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative, which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole. Mozart's unusual childhood as...

This new selection of Strachey's letters is a whole new chapter in the history of the last century. Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) is one of the key figures in the cultural...

A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense of humour, he conducts a...

Philip Larkin, known to many through his poems, contrived to present a picture of himself to the world which kept many facets of his complicated personality hidden. In this biography...

"I have had the great good fortune to have been able to live an almost entirely private life with a small circle of friends and colleagues ..." With this modest...

With the first publication, in this edition, of all the surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), readers will for the first time be able to follow the thoughts, ideas and...