Biographies & Memoirs

The dogs became her most loyal companions for over twenty years, witnesses to an often difficult human life and more important to her than most other humans.

This book is about two animals with personalities, emotions and prejudices.

Interweaving autobiography with stories of Native Americans he treated and learned from, a Yale-trained psychiatrist explains how exposure to Native American practices and world-view challenged and broadened his medical school assumptions about healing.

The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. And so, in his delightful new collection, great masters of nonsense meet great masters of music.

For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.

"Ashamed? Not in the least, my superiors told me that the results of my work saved thousands of British and American lives. It involved me in situations from which 'respectable' women draw back - but mine was total commitment. Wars are not won by respectable methods." Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, codenamed 'Cynthia'

Who was the historical Muhammad, and how do Muslims remember him as a holy prophet, a cultural revolutionary, a military leader, or a spiritual mystic? Unending media coverage of extremist fanatics, the controversy over offensive cartoon depictions of Muhammad, and fatwas against journalists and authors ...

A compilation of stunning images and compelling stories by talented photographers from all over the world

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

The first book chosen in Emma Watson's 'Our Shared Shelf Book Club'

Drawing on a wealth of never-before-seen material, including official records, Matt Hancock's notes at the time and communications with all the key players in Britain's Covid-19 story, this candid account reveals the inner workings of government during a time of national crisis.

Clive Irving skilfully probes the issue of the British monarchy's longevity and its undulating popularity with forensic insight.

'Gripping' Vogue'Empowering' Cosmopolitan'Joyful' Financial Times'Eye-popping' Daily Mail

When her 22-year-marriage suddenly ended, 47-year-old mother of three Laura expected life as she knew it to be over. What she hadn't expected:

'Extraordinary' Woman&Home

A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, 'masculine' when she should be 'feminine'.


Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused ...

Sarah Forsyth is a survivor. This is her heartbreaking story.

David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW

Born into the legendary Carnegie family, in which seriousmental illness has affected four generations of women,Millicent Monks' early childhood was lonely anddifficult. After a career in music she married and spenta year at Cambridge University where her husband was aFiske scholar. They have two children ...

'It utterly thrilled me. How wonderful to be shown so vividly that the end of a relationship is not the end of a life' Megan NolanBusy Being Free is the most romantic book you will ever read about the end of a relationship; a memoir about love and heartbreak, marriage and divorce and what comes after that

An honest, personal, lyrical investigation into the suicidal mind

A memoir of a fundamentalist Muslim childhood and of redefining faith, belonging and family in adulthood