Biography

Author: Debbie Harry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to...

Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...

Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...

Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...

Author: Paul Sexton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Featuring forewords from bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is the official and fully authorised biography of the world's most...

Author: Lan Yan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th...

Author: Sue Roe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." -...

Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...

Author: Ash Barty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where...

Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot...

Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True...

Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...

Author: Joe Posnanski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted...

Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...

Author: Andrea Wulf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill...

Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...

Author: Rochelle Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....

Author: Ha Jin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting- a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai--also...

Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The latest installment from always funny, sometimes bizarre comic David Sedaris. Praise for Theft By Finding The writing here...

Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the...

Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...

Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...

Author: Mark Webber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Mark Webber was at the centre of one of the most captivating chapters in the history of Formula One. In 2010,...

Author: John Aldridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Film in development with The Weinstein Company In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was...

Author: Evelyn McDonnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who...

Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes...

Author: Andrea Fazzari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Showcasing the new talent of Tokyo's vibrant food scene, Andrea Fazzari profiles 31 chefs who are shaping the future of one...

Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's...

Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...

Author: Clare Hunter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the...

Author: Francesca Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo......

Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...

Author: Stephanie Grisham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler...

Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...

Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...

Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...

Author: Edward Smithies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Fascinating ... this collection illuminates corners of the wartime world ... it provides a valuable and often entertaining window'...

Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...

Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...

Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...

Author: A N Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince...

Author: Anthony Decurtis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground...

Author: Jim Davidson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and...

Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's...

Author: D. Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life,...

Author: Frances Stonor Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises...

Author: Paris Hilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created....

Author: Paul Auster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling...