Biographies & Memoirs

From the author of the No. 1 bestseller WEDLOCK, the story of two pioneering men of science, and a nation in thrall to mesmerism...

'Hard to put down - it's so personal and raw.' Sunday Times Magazine

SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain's most remarkable 20th century figures.

A fascinating and unprecedented insight into the mind and life of the creator of James Bond, from a contemporary and close friend.

In Red Knight, Michael Ashcroft goes in search of the man who wants to be Prime Minister.

Kensington Palace takes the reader behind the official version of palace history to discover intriguing, sometimes wild, often scandalous, but frequently heart-warming stories.

The Whitbread (and Wolfson and Yorkshire Post) Prize Winning account of the king whose life spanned the centuries. Grandfather of the present Queen, George V bridged the century from the 'glories' of the Victorian and Edwardian eras through the horrors of the Great War. His life is recounted here drawing ...

November 1925: In search of health and sun, the writer D. H. Lawrence arrives on the Italian Riviera with his wife, Frieda, and is exhilarated by the view of the sparkling Mediterranean from his rented villa, set amid olives and vines. But over the next six months, Frieda will be fatally attracted to ...

Anthropologist Loren Eiseley turns his considerable powers of reflection and discovery on his own life to weave a compelling story, beginning with his childhood. From there he traces the odyssey that led to his search for early postglacial man-and into inspiriting philosophical territory-culminating ...

Provenance; from the personal library of Professor Lloyd Austin, University of Manchester. Physical description; (10), 390 p., 9 plates : 1 illus., facsim., ports. ; 23 cm. Notes; bibl. p. 357-360. Subjects; Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880). Flaubert, Gustave - Studies. Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880) - Criticism ...

Jonas Hanway (1712-86) was the most successful British philanthropist of the eighteenth century. This is the story of a remarkable man and the British merchant community that shaped his world view in youth and supported his charities in adulthood.

James Olney examines the writings of seven men--Montaigne, Jung, George Fox, Darwin, Newman, Mills, and Eliot--and traces the essential and unique autobiographical impulse, and in a real sense makes it live. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR


WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE


SHORTLISTED FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE 2017

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author of Backlash, an astonishing confrontation ...

The incredible inside story of a Kurdish sniper in the battle against ISIS - 'A book to marvel at' JOHN LE CARRE

'Wickedly funny' Country Life
'Hilarious and candid' Observer
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London in the 1950s.

Lottie is a reluctant typist at MI5 and the even more reluctant daughter of the organisation's most illustrious spy. Now she has had the bad luck to fall in love with Harry, a handsome ...

'A significant and timely book ... Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary Review

In 1810 the slave turned showgirl Sarah Baartman, London's most famous curiosity, became its legal cause celebre. Famed for her exquisite physique - in particular her shapely bottom ...

We Are The Supremes tells the inspiring story of three young school friends whose amazing talent and hard work saw them become America's most successful vocal group of all time, The Supremes.

"Prince was a gift and a genius. He showed us that we have no limits." Alicia Keys "He was the most incredibly talented artist. A man in complete control of his work from writer and musician to producer and director." Kate Bush "The most amazing performer I have ever witnessed." Joni Mitchell "He Changed ...

The biography of Clementine Churchill, wife of English Prime Minister Winston Churchill.