Biography

'A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM , Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine 'A century of Russian history told through the women who lived...

Mark Agnew was part of the first team to ever kayak the north-west passage - spending 103 days in the Arctic. The infamous route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...

Michael Calvey's story starts with a dawn raid on his Moscow apartment by armed FSB agents, following accusations of embezzlement relating to a commercial deal turned sour. In truth, no...

The Second World War biography of Bomber Command pilot George Dunn DFC L d'H and flight engineer Ferris Newton DFM. Bomber Command pilot George Dunn DFC L d'H completed forty-four...

'The Leibniz biography for our time. It is difficult to even begin to do justice to his rich spirit, but Kempe succeeds' Daniel Kehlmann, author of Measuring the World Gottfried...

Writer and performer Hannah Silva interrogates her life with the input of two unreliable narrators - an algorithm and a toddler. Her living exploration of undoing and redoing love and...

When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music,...

'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary 'A...

An utterly riveting, moving and poignant memoir of grief and loss that will speak to anyone who's ever lost someone they love. 'P rofoundly moving, both a tender love letter...

"I am a work in progress. There are times when I feel in control and like I know what I'm doing...and there are times (quite a few)(actually lots) when I've...

Australia's most sex-positive influencer reveals the reality of being a globally-famous full-service sex worker in this unflinchingly honest, hilarious and wryly intelligent memoir. 'Putting down a book this honest is...

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A powerful polemic' Sunday Times 'A compelling, eye-opening read' Daily Express - Did an illegal immigrant avoid deportation because he had a cat? -...

The revelatory story of an intellectual giant who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in the face of discrimination against women in science. Emmy Noether is one...

'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book . . . taps into a widespread feeling that we...

The million-copy international bestseller from Korean sensation Taewoan Ha 'Never give up Your every moment is meaningful' In Every Moment Was You , Taewoan Ha reflects on the little things...

In the wake of his retirement from professional basketball, Kobe "The Black Mamba" Bryant has decided to share his vast knowledge and understanding of the game to take readers on...

Tom Colicchio cooked his first recipe at 13 years old-a stuffed eggplant from an issue of Cuisine magazine that he picked up out of boredom-and it changed his life. Now...

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie. 'A Moment of War' is the magnificent conclusion to...

With a new introduction and editorial apparatus by eminent military historian Hew Strachan In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the...

A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever written Marco Polo's voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan...

'The knowledge that in a few minutes, when I left the hotel, I would have no home, no bed of my own, no possessions for a long time to come...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and...

First time in Modern Classics for Litvinoff's evocation of his Jewish childhood in the East End In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class...

This major new collection brings together the key writings from every stage of Freud's career to offer the perfect introduction to his life and work. Here are the essential ideas...

A delightful autobiographical novel from one of Ireland's best-loved writers My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no...

The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the...

This volume of autobiographical essays, now in paperback, is one of Achebe's most powerful and personal works to date The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on...

A life of one of the most known and engaging Saints Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death...

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams is a unique autobiography in which the anonymous writer known as Lady Sarashina intersperses personal reflections, anecdotes and lyrical poems with accounts of...

In late 1927, at the age of twenty-four, George Orwell relocated to a tiny flat on London's Portobello Road, and from there embarked on a series of exploratory "tramping" expeditions...

'A true crime history that reads like a thriller . . . A macabre and fascinating page-turner' John Douglas, bestselling co-author of Mindhunter 'A great true crime history that reads...

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

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...

The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'With the pace...

The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize-shortlisted Anton Hur *AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES & INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* 'Starkly raw and vulnerable'...

**THE SEQUEL I WANT TO DIE BUT I STILL WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI OUT NOW ** THE PHENOMENAL SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Powerful and profound' Esquire 'Unbridled and unapologetic' Vogue When Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of...

* ORDER MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE NOW - THE CAPTIVATING NEW NOVEL FROM ISABEL ALLENDE * ** The wise, warm, defiant meditation on what it means to be...

_______________ '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...

* The book that inspired Chrissy Teigen and Sex and The City's Miranda to quit drinking * _____________ 'An incredible read' - Chrissy Teigen 'Has the power to change your...

THE TIMES AND WATERSTONES BEST ART BOOK OF 2023 'Intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul Theroux A portrait of one of the...

'So honest and pure as to count as a true rapture' JOAN DIDION 'A poetic masterpiece' JOHNNY DEPP 'Our St John of the Cross, a mystic full of compassion' EDMUND...

'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'...

'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 International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All Lina wanted was to be desired. How...

A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA 2024 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA 'The zigzagging life of an adventurer' THE TIMES 'An astonishing, wonderful memoir of an...

'As ferociously rude as anything Bourdain has done before' Guardian 'Terrific ... His love for his subjects - both the food and the cook - sings' Telegraph 'Bourdain has insight,...