Biography

Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma...

Author: Jan Swafford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 832 From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a...

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

Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...

Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from...

Author: Barbara Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In my dreams, I was always in some vast landscape on a long, straight road. Driving. Always driving. Gwenda...

Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...

Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail 'Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure' Stylist 'A...

Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Elizabeth Day's new book Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong is available to pre-order now. Inspired by...

Author: Kirsty Everett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down' Kirsty Everett was going to...

Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword...

Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'An epic tale, told the way it should be' RECORD COLLECTOR 'The book he was born to write' CLASSIC...

Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...

Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOK CLUB 2016 SELECTION! 'A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY . . . IT'S AS...

Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday...

Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...

Author: Sam Warburton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A terrific book. No one put their body on the line quite like Sam Warburton.' Brian O'Driscoll 'It was...

Author: Tommy Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Now a Netflix original movie starring Machine Gun Kelly, Daniel Webber, Douglas Booth, and Iwan Rheon, directed by Jeff...

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Author: Raffi Berg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. In the early 1980s on a...

Author: Professor Dame Hermione Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 992 In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her biography is...

Author: Dr Jonathan Conlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the...

Author: Tembi Locke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is "a captivating story of love lost and...

Author: Oliver Sacks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage...

Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and...

Author: Tom Doyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Based on rare one-on-one interviews with the flamboyant rock 'n' roll icon, this is the first book to trace Elton John's...

Author: Kevin Dann (Kevin Dann) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in...

Author: H. Paul Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a...

Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell...

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Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I, and the...

Author: Philippe Petit Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers...

Author: Michael Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'It's always a bad idea to go online and book a flight when you've had too much wine. You...

Author: John Prevas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 According to ancient sources, Hannibal was only nine years old when his father dipped the small boy's hand in blood and...

Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no...

Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great...

Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...

Author: Ann Patty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 246 After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored,...

Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Every reporter knows the first rule of journalism: never betray your source. But what if your source turns out...

Author: Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 After completing grueling residencies, the competition for subspecialty fellowships in the medical world is intense. And few fellowships, if any, are more selective...

Author: Alix Chapel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When Alix Chapel's husband Billy suffered a mental breakdown, he was forced to admit the truth of his tormented...

Author: Chrissie Wellington Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Chrissie Wellington is the world's No 1 female Ironman triathlete, a four times World Champion, having recently won the...

Author: Lady Jane Wellesley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Reissued for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The first Duke of Wellington's victory at Waterloo...

Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....

Author: Caitlyn Jenner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In this remarkable memoir - written with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger during her pivotal...

Author: John Sutherland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A Sunday Times top-five bestseller 'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . ....

Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries. TRAVELLING TO WORK is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin...

Author: Vicki Laveau-Harvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon, with the tightly compressed energy of an explosive...