Biography

Author: Jack Webster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Jack Webster has had a lifetime of adventure as a respected and highly-commended journalist, meeting the rich and famous and experiencing...

Author: Lemn Sissay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is...

Author: Jude Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...

Author: Barbara Charone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...

Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like...

Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times 'David Sedaris is funny...

Author: Beryl Gilroy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a...

Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Supple, intricate and uncompromising, full of delicate observation andinsight, Amit Chaudhuri's Finding the Raga immerses us in the rigorousbeauty and cosmology...

Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finest...

Author: Alfons Kaiser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A revelatory biography of Karl Lagerfeld, introducing readers to the public and private life of the charismatic designer Karl Lagerfeld lived...

Author: Billy Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in...

Author: David McAllister Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'McAllister's triumphant story.' Benjamin Law 'A ripping memoir.' Jane Turner From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a...

Author: Kate Legge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'One cannot fail to be entranced by Legge's bone-deep strength and wisdom.' Annabel Crabb 'Unflinchingly investigating the value of monogamy and...

Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...

Author: Nigel Farndale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 80 obituaries carefully curated from...

Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched,...

Author: Supriya Vani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Now in paperback with a new afterword, Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy is a major biography of one of...

Author: Chris Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 SIX MILLION COPIES SOLD. THE SOURCE FOR THE HIGHEST-GROSSING WAR MOVIE OF ALL TIME. The #1 New York Times...

Author: The RNLI Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending...

Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer...

Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL 'Bravely revealing.' Bernardine Evaristo 'Funny, moving, helpful and...

Author: Richie Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world's...

Author: Burkhard Bilger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply...

Author: Marele Day Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'utterly compelling.' - The Guardian Jean Kay, my skipper, fellow adventurer, my friend. My brother. Jean Kay, soldier of fortune, opportunist,...

Author: Andre Agassi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to...

Author: Mark Stevens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022 'Must surely be the definitive...

Author: Jarvis Jay Masters Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Finding freedom behind the walls of San Quentin.

Author: Robert L. Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which...

Author: Malik Al Nasir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful...

Author: Henri Charriere Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder...

Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now,...