Biographies & Memoirs

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.

The epic true story of an American hero who flew during the Second World War, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air.

A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries."The author brings a fresh hopefulness to the enterprise of books and reading. Vintage Manguel-a pleasure for his many readers and admirers."-Kirkus Reviews In June ...

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending—a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle Époque Paris, told through the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi. • “A pleasure to read in every way.” —The New York Times Book Review In the summer of 1885, ...

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

"Judiciously edited and engagingly annotated, this collection of Greene's personal letters - including many that were unavailable to his official biographer - gives new perspective to a life that combined literary achievement, political action, espionage, travel, and romantic entanglement. Following ...

Originally written up in 1930 as a series of thrilling articles in the Daily Telegraph, Hector Bywater experiences were soon turned into a book, with the help of Daily Express journalist H. C. Ferraby.

The first full biography of one of the Second World War's most enigmatic secret agents

This fully illustrated book is a celebration of Kate Middleton's first year as the Duchess of Cambridge. It will detail her official and unofficial public appearances, including her honeymoon in the Seychelles and her first official trip as a member of the Royal Family to Canada and the US.

Doreen Spooner, Fleet Street's first female photographer in the 1940s, worked at the heart of breaking news and celebrity in a male-dominated environment. This is the extraordinary, untold, personal story of an unwitting feminist pioneer. Including 24 pages of exclusive images from over five decades.

The most talented musical family in the world

`Gripping ... so powerfully emotional that at times I had to put it down to wipe my eyes'Mail on Sunday
`How do you say thank you to someone for giving you their heart? It is the greatest gift a person can ever give.'

Sir Edgar Speyer was a conspicuous figure in the financial, cultural, social and political life of Edwardian London. Head of the syndicate which financed the construction of the deep 'tube lines' and 'King of the Underground', he was also a connoisseur and active patron of the arts who rescued the 'Proms' from collapse.

'There are few things more enjoyable than reading the diaries of Simon Gray.' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

Simon Gray's witty, painful, and acutely observed Early Diaries chronicle the highs and lows of bringing two of his plays to the stage.

From the acclaimed writer and thinker, a moving memoir about losing her mother as well as honouring the legacy of a family whose members struggled bravely against some of the worst crises of the twentieth century.