Biographies

Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code he takes us back to his beginnings.He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the...

William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a...

Don Letts - filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father - has always defied conformity. A British-born son of Windrush parents, he seamlessly pivoted between London's punk and...

Social media phenomenon and mental health advocate Chris Olsen invites readers into his therapist's office - and into the story he's spent years trying to understand -in this raw, fearless,...

The trial of Dominique Pelicot, which began on 2 September 2024, has captured the world's attention. Behind the haunting details of Pelicot's unthinkable crimes are a mother and daughter who...

NOW THE TV SERIES 'THE SERPENT QUEEN', STARRING SAMANTHA MORTONThe bestselling revisionist biography of one of the great women of the 16th centuryOrphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the...

'To say "the best cricket book ever written" is piffingly inadequate praise' Guardian'Great claims have been made for [Beyond a Boundary] since its first appearance in 1963: that it is...

In between the partying, the drugs, the love affairs, the 'squalid overboogie' of it all, Eve Babitz made time to chronicle the world as she saw it in works like...

NOW THE TV SERIES 'THE SERPENT QUEEN', STARRING SAMANTHA MORTONThe bestselling revisionist biography of one of the great women of the 16th centuryOrphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the...

In his latest book, Geoff Dyer returns to his favourite subject - himself. In his very distinctive, neurotic, and quirkily humorous voice that has gained him a passionate fan base...

We all know the fairy-tale. An everyday girl meets her Prince Charming, they get married, have children and ride off into the sunset. Sadly, this isn't always the case and...

Lizzie, the eldest, was trapped in post-Civil War Richmond. Irene was the flirtatious and golden Southern belle. Nancy, an unpredictable, elemental force, conquered Edwardian society in England and was the...

THE SMASH HIT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of Autobiography of the Year at the 2024 Sports Book Awards'Everyone loves Kammy . . . Full of humour and endless blunders' - The...

'I hadn't been very comfortable with fame, but I didn't know what to do with myself after I was famous. On the surface, I was just hugely relieved to be...

Christine McVie - born Christine Perfect - was the quintessentially English rock star, as both the backbone and the beating heart of Fleetwood Mac.Straddling the band's incarnations to achieve global...

"Have you ever read Lolita?"So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing...

What has Ben Elton done?He's written the most eagerly anticipated show business autobiography of the year. That's what.And prior to that? Well he's pretty much done everything and worked with...

The inspiring, long-awaited autobiography of video-game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero."DOOM Guy: Life in First Person is...arguably the best non-fiction gaming book of all time, giving a unique insight...

The definitive chronicle of Arne Slot's debut season as the manager of Liverpool FC, filled with exclusive interviews and unparalleled insight An engrossing and inspiring account of a new manager's...

'A wonderful tale of 1950s Britain... a vivid account of a midwife's lot' Amazon reader review'I couldn't put it down' Amazon reader review'Charming, sad, humorous and poignant' Amazon reader review*****The...

A young midwife's account of her training in the Midlands in the 1950s. A SUNDAY TIMES bestseller.It's 1957, and in a shattered post-war world, life goes on. Dot, a pupil...

The heart-warming tale of a wartime childhood.It's 1939 and little Dot May Dun is playing with her brothers in the quiet lanes of their Derbyshire village. The grown-ups' talk of...

When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life...

'This book is just about my favourite book of all time ... I'm not entirely convinced I could like somebody who didn't like this book ... it's funny and moving...

The first definitive biography of basketball legend LeBron James, by the acclaimed author of Tiger Woods.LeBron is unquestionably the greatest basketball player of the 21st century. Off the court, LeBron's...

In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013, Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, shooting her multiple times while she cowered behind the locked door of their...

'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic' Colm Toibin'Hester is a fizzingly...

The explosive inside account of the Beckham family saga by acclaimed journalist Alison Boshoff.The first and definitive book about the Beckham family saga since the seismic revelations made by Brooklyn...

A heartbreaking and moving true story of two sisters separated at birth, and their journey towards finding each other, celebrating the true meaning of family.Helen Edwards grew up in a...

NEVER in the history of the game has one life brought both joy and tragedy in such huge measures.Duncan Edwards was the jewel in the crown of the Busby Babes,...

Told against the backdrop of the American landscape of the late'80s to the mid-'90s, Growing Up Dead is the story of Peter Conners's journey from straight-laced suburban kid to touring...

One of the earliest memoirs of an American capitalist, this volume appeared shortly after the 84-year-old author's death in 1919. Its real-life, rags-to-riches tale recounts the Scottish immigrant's rise from...

'Intensely readable, poetic, truthful, wise and wonderful.' STEPHEN FRY'An extraordinary book.' SUNDAY TIMESStruggling to comprehend the shocking death of his teenage daughter, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing...

Two weeks after September 11th, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to report on the conflict there. In the following spring she returned to live with an Afghan family...

The first eighteen years of William Hudson's life were spent on the Argentinian pampas. Although he was a scholarly ornithologist, every page of this book reveals a rapturous delight in...

'The first new Beatles story in decades - and the one that will make your heart burst.' CAITLIN MORAN'Ian Leslie has done the impossible, and breathed new life into one...

The first joint biography of the women who have shaped - and shaken - the modern Royal Family._________________________________________________'Truly original .... full of insight and intrigue.' - Camilla Tominey, Daily Telegraph...

From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection.'Essential reading for all Reacher fans.' STEVE CAVANAGH'Need a Lee Child/Reacher fix? Of course you do ....