Biographies & Memoirs

In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. After more than forty years out of print, Talking to Women is still as sparkling, honest, profound, funny and wise as when it was first published.

A memoir about a woman's journey to body positivity.

Alexandra Wilson, a young mixed-race barrister, provides a compelling insight into the systemic racism in our legal system.

Since his early years as a priest in the 1960s, up until 2003, Pope St John Paul II kept a spiritual diary. These diaries provide an intimate insight into the longest-serving pontiff of our time.

The dogs became her most loyal companions for over twenty years, witnesses to an often difficult human life and more important to her than most other humans.

This book is about two animals with personalities, emotions and prejudices.

Interweaving autobiography with stories of Native Americans he treated and learned from, a Yale-trained psychiatrist explains how exposure to Native American practices and world-view challenged and broadened his medical school assumptions about healing.

The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. And so, in his delightful new collection, great masters of nonsense meet great masters of music.

For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.

"Ashamed? Not in the least, my superiors told me that the results of my work saved thousands of British and American lives. It involved me in situations from which 'respectable' women draw back - but mine was total commitment. Wars are not won by respectable methods." Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, codenamed 'Cynthia'

Who was the historical Muhammad, and how do Muslims remember him as a holy prophet, a cultural revolutionary, a military leader, or a spiritual mystic? Unending media coverage of extremist fanatics, the controversy over offensive cartoon depictions of Muhammad, and fatwas against journalists and authors ...

A compilation of stunning images and compelling stories by talented photographers from all over the world

A unique coming-of-age story from the lost world of Arab-Jews

The first book chosen in Emma Watson's 'Our Shared Shelf Book Club'

Drawing on a wealth of never-before-seen material, including official records, Matt Hancock's notes at the time and communications with all the key players in Britain's Covid-19 story, this candid account reveals the inner workings of government during a time of national crisis.

Clive Irving skilfully probes the issue of the British monarchy's longevity and its undulating popularity with forensic insight.

'Gripping' Vogue'Empowering' Cosmopolitan'Joyful' Financial Times'Eye-popping' Daily Mail

When her 22-year-marriage suddenly ended, 47-year-old mother of three Laura expected life as she knew it to be over. What she hadn't expected:

'Extraordinary' Woman&Home

A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, 'masculine' when she should be 'feminine'.


Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused ...

Sarah Forsyth is a survivor. This is her heartbreaking story.

David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW