Biographies & Memoirs

Part memoir, part fitness guide, part "kick ass" inspiration, Strong Is the New Sexy is the latest from bestselling reality star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi - her story of how she transformed both her body and her mindset to become the strongest she's ever been.

The essential essay collection from one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray

An intimate portrait of Patrick O'Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.

The gripping memoir of 98-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor Justus Rosenberg, who risked everything to join the French Resistance and smuggle people out of Nazi territory during World War II.

'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David Lammy

Foreword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive Lloyd

Voices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from the men, women and children of the Windrush generation - West Indians who emigrated to Britain between ...

In Mutual Admiration Society Royal Historical Society fellow Mo Moulton relates the remarkable friendship of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and five other women at the vanguard of equal rights, who were among the first to receive full degrees from Oxford University.

The shocking story of how incest and sexual abuse is ever-present at the highest levels of French society, even among the most glamorous, powerful, bohemian, left wing intellectual Parisian elite.

*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * One of The East Hampton Star's 10 Best Books of the Year* From the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The ...

How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?

From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the serious ill health that dominated his twenties and thirties, his complicated marriages, ...

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022


'This is a wonderful book. A lyrical journey into the natural and unnatural world' Patti Smith
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'The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Married for almost seventy years to the most famous woman in the world, Prince Philip is the longest-serving royal consort in British history. Yet his origins have remained curiously shrouded in obscurity.

One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York's "Vulture", The Week, Bustle, BookRiot An NPR Best Book of 2017An AV Club Favorite Book of 2017A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A Goodreads Choice Awards nominee David Sedaris tells all in a book that is, ...

A compelling, outstandingly direct and genuine book about how a doctor is made

Drawing on several years of long, exploratory conversations with Stoppard himself, it tracks his Czech origins and childhood in India to every school and home he's ever lived in, every piece of writing he's ever done, and every play and film he's ever worked on;

Steve Irwin, AKA 'the Crocodile Hunter', was only 44 when his untimely death robbed the world of one of its greatest and most popular naturalists. This book traces the extraordinary story of the boy who was catching crocodiles in rivers by the age of nine, and who grew up to become, in the words of RSPCA Queensland's CEO, 'a modern-day Noah'.

From the acclaimed broadcaster, a story of moving on, a tale of downsizing and the essentials of a good old age.

he Compact Guide: Nelson Mandela is the definitive short chronicle of perhaps the most recognised and best-loved statesman and activist in history. Starting from the very beginning of Mandela's life in the tribal Thembu clan, read how this unassuming young man became a figure that led the people of South ...

From humble beginnings in a small village in Austria, Arnold Schwarzenegger has come to symbolise the opportunities that exist for anyone willing to work hard. Fiaz Rafiq uses in-depth interviews with Schwarzenegger's peers to tell the life story of the one-time Governator, featuring exclusive interviews.