Biography

Searing, haunting and timeless prose from one of England's greatest poets This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also...

'Brilliant-a feast' Guardian 'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-Calvino is...

This the true story of a teacher and community leader, Mecak Ajang Alaak, who led twenty thousands Lost Boys to safety during the Second Sudanese Civil War. During the Second...

A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of Australian life through the greater part of the twentieth century - the...

A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded...

Goethe's famous account of his time and travels in Italy In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on...

The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered...

If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then...

An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his experience of the Spanish Civil War - the chaos at the...

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self,...

A pioneering Harvard psychiatrist uncovers the lost connections between the mind, body and immune system When it comes to understanding the connection between our mental and physical health, we should...

From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular...

What is it like to survive a crash that kills your best friends, and how do you move on? Car Crash is a stunning memoir about grief, perseverance and courage....

**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we...

Growing up in suburban Perth in the 1920s, the two Durack girls were fascinated by tales of the pioneering past of their father and grandfather overlanding from Queensland in the...

The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated autobiography, recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figure First published in 1960, The Prime...

'A rattling page-turner... As a personal insight into one boy's life in an extraordinary spotlight, it may never be better' Sunday Times Memoir of the Year It was one of...

Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof *Featuring new bonus material Arnold Schwarzenegger's 77 Lessons...

A poignant and powerful celebration of one remarkable woman's unrelenting drive to make order from chaos. Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things- husband and father,...

What right did I possess, as a child of survivors, to recreate an account of the Holocaust as if I was there? In writing The Fiftieth Gate, Mark Baker describes...

For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live. ** SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** 'Rattling....

An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa. An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling...

Bill Bryson on his most personal journey yet- into his own childhood in America's Mid-West. From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious...

Aren't we all just a little bit afraid that we, or someone we care about, will be duped in love or friendship? A powerful, richly layered investigative story for our...

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after? Dual Walkley Award-winner Leigh Sales investigates how ordinary...

A moving, revelatory story about one of the world's great museums and art's capacity to heal, by a writer who spent a decade as a museum guard. ** THE NEW...

A hugely entertaining access-all-areas account of a year inside Formula 1, from Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner, star of Drive to Survive, one of the most successful Netflix series...

The powerful memoir of a former undercover officer, telling the story of his journey through the force into elite undercover work via a shocking family revelation that takes his life,...

A REAL-LIFE SILENT WITNESS FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S FOREMOST FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death. He's a detective...

A revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, one of the most prominent, outspoken lawyers in the UK, and...

The revolutionary new title that will empower readers to change themselves, and the world, for the better starting with the simple task of making the bed. Admiral William H. McRaven...

Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the...

The incredible autobiography of Yeonmi Park- a North Korean defector who escaped across the Gobi desert and is now a leading spokesperson for human rights at just 24 years old...

The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single volume in Penguin Modern Classics Growing up in a working-class neighbourhood...

A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round...

A memoir in a hundred songs - classy storytelling from Australia's most prodigious singer-songwriter. Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon...

This highly acclaimed collection of memoirs is Winton's most intimate and revealing work yet. Along with Island Home and Land's Edge (both also first published in paperback in 2017), it...

Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq to become 'the Oskar Schindler of Asia'. Robin de Crespigny's The People...

A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day. Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians- in this book Roberto Calasso considers...

In her memoirs, Simone de Beavoir created a remarkable portrait of a twentieth-century woman's struggle for independence A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth...

Lives of the Artists made Vasari one of the most influential art historians of all time, fusing literary and artistic ability In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian...

'An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing - and to their magnificent land.' New York Times Book Review...

A short, powerful memoir from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a...

The New York Times bestselling story of one man's remarkable journey from Oregon to Patagonia in search of his self 'Liberating and life affirming' Fearne Cotton 'A thrilling, tender, utterly...

B-format of one of 2007's Australian non-fiction bestsellers. In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge...

Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover...

'One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer' (Sunday Times) offers a riveting account of his working life and the art and craft of non-fiction...

The uplifting true story. A Sunday Times bestseller, shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize The story of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey, not of escape, but...