Biographies & Memoirs

Presents the adventures and tribulations of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children.

The true wartime story of William Ash - the inspiration for Steve McQueen's character in The Great Escape. A thrilling tale of incredible courage and resilience, from one of Britain's bestselling military historians.

Part diary, part memoir, this book considers the twelve months of the author's life between her 77th and 78th birthdays, and looks back on her earlier life. It is suitable for aficionados of detective fiction, as well as those who have lived through those turbulent years of the twentieth century.

A celebration of George Eliot's life, work and greatest novel, exploring through a mixture of literary biography, deep reading and personal memoir how Middlemarch answers fundamental questions about life and love

How much can go wrong in a day? How much can go wrong in a life? In this chronicle of a year of things going wrong, and just occasionally right, the author meets with triumph and disaster and treats those two impostors just the same - which is to say with the mixture of wit, anger, vexation and candour.

Written in her eighties, the memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy reveal a character of rare strength and determination. They are high-spirited, discerning and delightfully free from prudishness. She draws pen-portraits of those she met, Queen Victoria and Sir Walter Scott among them, and provides an authentic ...

From the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

The illuminating letters of Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, including the dramatic breakup of their 21-year marriage and their extraordinary reconciliation.

Eight years on from the publication of her internationally bestselling memoir, WE ARE DISPLACED presents true stories of the refugee experience interwoven with Malala's own story of her displacement

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 ...

Billy Elliot meets Bend It Like Beckham in this unforgettable debut about aiming high and defying expectation - the perfect uplit read this year. Joyful, defiant and dazzling, this is the story of Rafi Aziz - a Northern boy dreaming of his name up in lights. It's 1981 in the suburbs of Blackburn and, ...

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