Biographies & Memoirs

Jonas Hanway (1712-86) was the most successful British philanthropist of the eighteenth century. This is the story of a remarkable man and the British merchant community that shaped his world view in youth and supported his charities in adulthood.

James Olney examines the writings of seven men--Montaigne, Jung, George Fox, Darwin, Newman, Mills, and Eliot--and traces the essential and unique autobiographical impulse, and in a real sense makes it live. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology ...

Hellraisers tells the story of four of the greatest boozers of all time: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed. Robert Sellers and Jake cleverly weave the four biographies seamlessly into one fast-paced adventure of drunken binges, orgies, parties and fun. Told through the eyes ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR


WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE


SHORTLISTED FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE 2017

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author of Backlash, an astonishing confrontation ...

Tells the story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road", told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs.

'Wickedly funny' Country Life
'Hilarious and candid' Observer
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London in the 1950s.

Lottie is a reluctant typist at MI5 and the even more reluctant daughter of the organisation's most illustrious spy. Now she has had the bad luck to fall in love with Harry, a handsome ...

We Are The Supremes tells the inspiring story of three young school friends whose amazing talent and hard work saw them become America's most successful vocal group of all time, The Supremes.

The biography of Clementine Churchill, wife of English Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

'Duff is a natural storyteller. Her deadpan humour, ear for the vernacular and shrewd insight into the history of Ireland and Africa raises it above the genre of misty-eyed nostalgia. It's a terrific read.' - Michele Magwood, South African Sunday TimesRaised by her eccentric grandparents at Annes Grove ...

SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in love . . .'At 20 Londoner ...

Batting for the Poor is the authorised biography of David Sheppard, telling the story of his life as a celebrated cricketer and his remarkable work as Bishop of Liverpool.

'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit


'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino


'This is essential reading' Stylist

The story of retired superintendent Dr Leroy Logan, MBE, one of the black officers who helped change the Met

A stunning story of three generations of Irish women - Kathleen, Dominique and Jade Jordan -- and an account of family, race and belonging.

A fascinating insight into the life of a modern GAA player.

A major work on two major British literary figures of the twentieth century.

"Selvaratnam very bravely and compellingly uses her personal experience to shine a light on the global crisis of violence against women. An important book for the women's rights movement, Assume Nothing demonstrates that violence against women exists across race, class, economic status and education ...

A hilarious, razor-sharp debut memoir about the moment when you realize that your friends have all grown up and left you behind, for readers of Caitlin Moran’s How To Be A Woman, Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, and Kelly Williams Brown’s Adulting. Isy Suttie wakes up one day ...

'... David O'Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath ...It's there!"While the nation held its breath, George Hamilton delivered a line that will forever be ...