Biographies & Memoirs

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

A remarkable account of the ife and thought of the philosopher and linguist.

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A remarkable account of his early life and intellectual formation left unpublished at his death in 2008 by Michael Baxandall, one of the world's greatest cultural historians.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

A fetching illustrated biography of Virginia Woolf uses never-before-published photos and portraits to introduce readers to this seminal writer, detailing her remarkable literary career, her haunted private life, and her colleagues from the famed Bloomsbury Circle. 15,000 first printing.

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

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.

One of our greatest contemporary authors writes about sex, school and adolescence in small-town Scotland in the seventies.

In The Red Earl Selina Hastings tells the extraordinary story of her father, Jack Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon. In 1925, Hastings infuriated his ultra-conservative parents by turning his back on centuries of tradition to make a scandalous run-away marriage. With his beautiful Italian wife he then ...

When his daughter, Amy - a gifted doctor, mother and wife - collapsed and died from an asymptomatic heart condition - Roger Rosenblatt and his wife Ginny moved in with their son-in-law, Harris, and their three young grandchildren. 'Making Toast' is Roger's tribute to his late daughter and a testament ...

France's leading philosopher retraces the final steps of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Peal, and uncovers a set of stunning revelations.