Biographies & Memoirs

'A tour de force of luminous writing.' Mark Cocker, Spectator

'So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian ...

'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry ... A welcome contribution to polar studies.' Sara Wheeler, Spectator
'[MacInness] handles the whole thing with masterly skill...takes us to the heart of the hope, love, anguish and grief' The Times

On the fiftieth anniversary of Che's death a new edition of the bestselling graphic biography

A unique wartime diary, written for the mass-observation project, by the doyenne of Scottish literature and celebrated left-wing political thinker Naomi Mitchison.With a Foreword by Tessa Dunlop, TV presenter and bestselling author

"The Prisoner of Kathmandu" is the first biography of Brian Hodgson, Britain's "father of Himalayan studies." Born in 1801, Hodgson joined the Bengal Civil Service as a privileged but sickly young man. Posted to Kathmandu as a junior political officer, he initially felt isolated and trapped as he struggled ...

"Doctors heal, or try to, but as nurses we step into the breach, figure out what needs to be done for any given patient today, on this shift, and then, with love and exasperation, do it as best as we can."—from Critical Care "At my job, people die," writes Theresa Brown, capturing both the burden and ...

“Spring features Knausgaard unbound, writing for the first time without a gimmick or the crutch of extravagant experimentation…Fall in love with the world, he enjoins, stay sensitive to it, stay in it.” -The New York Times "Poignant and beautiful…Even if you think you won’t like Knausgaard, ...

The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks ...

An extraordinary political biography of English suffragist, feminist, and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst.

Coates is the essential chronicler of black America, and his first memoir is a small and beautiful epic of growing up in 1980s Baltimore

Named "Man of the Millennium" in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions in Europe's history: a printing press with mechanical movable type. This development sparked the printing revolution, which is regarded as the milestone of the second ...

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year.

'Astounding' Sebastian Barry
'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar
'This little book is ruminative, humane, and gorgeously precise'Jonathan Lethem

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A superb introduction to the life and thought of a revolutionary spiritual thinker.'Karen Armstrong has been one of the most persistent and powerful voices in the eminently respectable task of popularising religious scholarship in the anglophone world' GUARDIAN

A true crime memoir like no other, Professor David Wilson gets inside the mind of a murderer and tries to uncover what drives men to kill

From The Likely Lads and Porridge to Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - plus Brickies, Bank Robbers, Rogues, Rockers, Prima Donnas and Panic

A child's odyssey to reunite with his parents on the other side of the border

The extraordinary stories of six women who defied the spirit of their age

A son's journey through his father's dementia

Over the Easter weekend in 2015, a gang of criminals robbed a safe depository in London's Hatton Garden. Shortly before, electrical cables under nearby Kingsway had caught on fire, disrupting the emergency services in the area. Coincidence? Nigel Cawthorne digs deep to question the motives and methods behind diamond theft.