Biographies & Memoirs

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 ...

Having penned hundreds of letters to his family over four decades, Freeman Dyson has framed them with the reflections made by a man now in his nineties. While maintaining that "the letters record the daily life of an ordinary scientist doing ordinary work," Dyson nonetheless has worked with many of the ...

'... 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 ...

A wise, moving debut about the pain of losing a parent and the power of literature to light our way through it.

An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure on shark-infested seas.

The timely, powerful memoir of a man unjustly charged with a crime for helping his relatives, refugees from Syria. For trying to save his in-laws, who were fleeing certain death in Syria, Stéphan Pélissier was threatened with fifteen years in prison by the Greek justice system, which accused him of ...

The incredible true story of how of one British soldier escaped a prisoner war camp 200 times to see the girl he loved.

Todd McEwen left the United States in 1980, but it's still driving him crazy.

Modern Women is a celebration of 52 influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions

A page-turning, shirt-grabbing true story that follows a one-of-a-kind family required to make nearly unimaginable choices

Elizabeth Siddal, poet, artist and tragic lover, rose from the obscurity of a Southwark slum to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain.
From the moment she met the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, her immortality was decreed and her future doomed. The attraction between Lizzie and the young ...

A fascinating study of how a NATO intervention can work in a nation state if backed by a strong commitment to support democratic government.

Based on interviews with Butler himself, his friends, colleagues and family, and with access to many previously unseen papers, Crick chronicles the long and energetic life of the greatest analyst of British elections - a story which weaves its way through post-war history with surprises, colour and humour.

A funny, insightful memoir by much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux, who takes us on a weird and wonderful journey through his life and two decades of groundbreaking television.