Biographies & Memoirs

Edwin Llewellyn Charles was a slim, handsome youth, but Terence John, his brother, was beautiful and he knew it. Technically, the boys were twins, but their personalities could not have been more different.

So begins this sweeping true story of a fractured but close-knit Australian family during World ...

One night in 1974, Philippe Petit secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time, making eight crossings over the course of an hour. This memoir tells the story of how he conspired, connived, improvised, and insisted his way to this coup.

The turbulent story of the radical Left in the eloquent words of one of its foremost leaders

Concise historical introduction to Florence Nightingale and her continuing influence on the world and how we see it.

A unique firsthand account of pre-war life in Hong Kong.The book provides an analysis of the war in Europe, the Chinese and Japanese conflict in the 1930s and the United States position in the Far East and argues that the invasion should never have taken place.

The first book to look in detail at the story of Wellington's 'Georgy'.

A remarkable account of his early life and intellectual formation left unpublished at his death in 2008 by Michael Baxandall, one of the world's greatest cultural historians.

An unforgettable account of living with Alzheimer's Disease by the partner of a brilliant artist whose mind is collapsing.

Her curious ways attracted gossip right into her final years when she raised a mysterious dark-skinned child at her home in Berkeley Square.

Anne Barnard's verse was celebrated by Walter Scott but she was also a brilliant and indefatigable diarist.

The story of Robin Darwin A key player in shaping the artistic and design landscape we know today.

A brilliantly written biography of one of Britain's most under-valued female artists of the late 20th Century.

One day, years after he's moved away from his childhood home in rural Ireland, Dermot Healy returns to care for his ailing mother. his mother, whose stories young Dermot has heard so often that he believes they are his own;

A definitive biography of Fredrik Barth, one of the leading lights of anthropology, by one of today's finest anthropologists.

An unforgettable memoir from bestselling travel writer John Freely

Revealing the naturally courageous nature of 'Lady Lindy', that made her one of the most daring of twentieth-century women

The first autobiography of an English cricketing star whose life was turned upside down when he turned to crime.

Joanne Limburg's intensely honest account of coming to terms with her brother's suicide; a powerful meditation on family and faith

By his father, one of the literary world's most esteemed personalities: John Sutherland.

A son's memoir told through the prism and prose of a father will surely take its place among the classics of contemporary addiction and recovery stories like A Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.