Biographies & Memoirs

From the founder of Noughticulture, Rootbound explores how a whole new generation are discovering the power of plants

When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. This title takes us inside the White House as they grapple with their roles, change the country, raise children, maintain friendships, and figure out what it means to be President and First Lady.

Doro was once a relatively prosperous fisherman, but in 2014, when the country’s fishing rights were stolen and secret police began arresting Gambian fishermen, Doro left home, fleeing for his life. From Senegal to Libya to Algeria and back to Libya, Doro fell victim to the horrific cycle of abuse ...

Alongside Kat Brown, contributors include Alice Jolly ('Dead Babies and Seaside Towns'), Laura Barton (journalist and author of 'Sad Songs'), Seetal Savla (@savlafaire), Yvonne John (Gateway Women, 'Dreaming of a Life Unlived'**), Alice Rose** (@thisisalicerose, The Fertility Life Raft podcast) and Nana-Adwoa ...

For once, these men are the objects; I am the subject. Me, me, me. Rosemary Mac Cabe was always a serial monogamist - never happier than when she was in a relationship or, at the very least, on the way to being in one. But in her desperate search for 'the one' - from first love to first lust, through ...

The first book to tell the full story of the Covid-19 pandemic, from an NHS doctor working inside hospitals to save lives and combat the virus on the front line.

The long-lost 1978 diary charting Antonia Fraser and Harold Pinter's only visit to Israel is an enchanting document of a time, a place and two people

The Secret Prison Governor has spent decades surrounded by every type of prisoner known to man, from petty thieves and common drug dealers to crime bosses and dangerous serial killers. This is his account.

A unique coming-of-age story from the lost world of Arab-Jews

Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisons

In Red Knight, Michael Ashcroft goes in search of the man who wants to be Prime Minister.

In 1937 aged just 19, Edmund Murray left his family and a comfortable job in London, caught the boat train to France and signed up for the minimum of five years' service with the French Foreign Legion. Armed with little more than school-boy French and a desire for a life of adventure, Murray travelled ...

A 'humane and informative' (according to John Le Carre) biography of George Blake, the most notorious double agent in British history. The Happy Traitor is the work of many years' writing, research and unparalleled access, but was embargoed until Blake's death in Moscow in December 2020.

A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.

Kathy Reichs meets Fragile Lives in this fascinating and compelling memoir by one of the world's leading forensic scientists, Professor Angela Gallop

Over 60 boxes full of notebooks, research, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches, to-do lists, hard drives and even poems...Welcome to the incredible archive of Douglas Adams. After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams's papers were loaned to his old Cambridge college, St John's. Reproduced here, in facsimile ...

In her late twenties and already a partner in her headhunting firm, Lucy Leonelli was seemingly on top of the world, but despite her success she couldn’t shake the feeling she was missing out on life out there. So Lucy did the only reasonable thing she could do: she hung up her suit and set out on ...

A major new biography of one of Britain's best-loved artists.