Biographies & Memoirs

On the fiftieth anniversary of Che's death a new edition of the bestselling graphic biography

From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was a historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being ...

A unique wartime diary, written for the mass-observation project, by the doyenne of Scottish literature and celebrated left-wing political thinker Naomi Mitchison.With a Foreword by Tessa Dunlop, TV presenter and bestselling author

The stories of two veterans - one traumatised, one blind - who rediscover themselves with the help of a friend in the course of two epic ocean adventures, kayaking around the Falklands and rowing across the Pacific.

"The Prisoner of Kathmandu" is the first biography of Brian Hodgson, Britain's "father of Himalayan studies." Born in 1801, Hodgson joined the Bengal Civil Service as a privileged but sickly young man. Posted to Kathmandu as a junior political officer, he initially felt isolated and trapped as he struggled ...

Yvonne Kapp's monumental biography of the daughter of Karl Marx who became a radical activist

Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust is being reissued as one of five titles celebrating Abacus's 50th anniversary. Featuring a new introduction from the author of Jews Don't Count , David Baddiel.

An eye-opening insight into life as a forensic psychologist.

"Doctors heal, or try to, but as nurses we step into the breach, figure out what needs to be done for any given patient today, on this shift, and then, with love and exasperation, do it as best as we can."—from Critical Care "At my job, people die," writes Theresa Brown, capturing both the burden and ...

She was just fifteen when Hitler entered Poland. She survived four years of Nazi terror. Mary Berg's diary is the first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Material Girl . . . Immaculate sexpot . . . Superstar . . . Mother . . . Kabbalah enthusiast . . . For three decades she has defied categorization. . . . She remains one of our greatest living pop icons. Here is the groundbreaking biography that finally solves the mystery at the heart of Madonna's chameleonlike ...

“Spring features Knausgaard unbound, writing for the first time without a gimmick or the crutch of extravagant experimentation…Fall in love with the world, he enjoins, stay sensitive to it, stay in it.” -The New York Times "Poignant and beautiful…Even if you think you won’t like Knausgaard, ...

The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses ...

The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks ...

An extraordinary political biography of English suffragist, feminist, and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst.

Coates is the essential chronicler of black America, and his first memoir is a small and beautiful epic of growing up in 1980s Baltimore

Named "Man of the Millennium" in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions in Europe's history: a printing press with mechanical movable type. This development sparked the printing revolution, which is regarded as the milestone of the second ...

In Paris and London, Diaghilev drew together a talented group of artists such as Picasso, Bakst and Fokine, as well as dancers like Nijinsky, Lifar and Karsavina, and the composers Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev. This book examines Diaghilev's destructive and tempestuous affair with his protege Nijinsky and his friendship with Jean Cocteau.

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year.

'Astounding' Sebastian Barry
'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar
'This little book is ruminative, humane, and gorgeously precise'Jonathan Lethem

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