Biographies & Memoirs

'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.

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

'Duff is a natural storyteller. Her deadpan humour, ear for the vernacular and shrewd insight into the history of Ireland and Africa raises it above the genre of misty-eyed nostalgia. It's a terrific read.' - Michele Magwood, South African Sunday TimesRaised by her eccentric grandparents at Annes Grove ...

SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You think about falling in love . . .'At 20 Londoner ...

Batting for the Poor is the authorised biography of David Sheppard, telling the story of his life as a celebrated cricketer and his remarkable work as Bishop of Liverpool.

'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit


'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino


'This is essential reading' Stylist

The story of retired superintendent Dr Leroy Logan, MBE, one of the black officers who helped change the Met

A stunning story of three generations of Irish women - Kathleen, Dominique and Jade Jordan -- and an account of family, race and belonging.

A fascinating insight into the life of a modern GAA player.

A major work on two major British literary figures of the twentieth century.

"Selvaratnam very bravely and compellingly uses her personal experience to shine a light on the global crisis of violence against women. An important book for the women's rights movement, Assume Nothing demonstrates that violence against women exists across race, class, economic status and education ...

A hilarious, razor-sharp debut memoir about the moment when you realize that your friends have all grown up and left you behind, for readers of Caitlin Moran’s How To Be A Woman, Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, and Kelly Williams Brown’s Adulting. Isy Suttie wakes up one day ...

'... David O'Leary is entrusted with the responsibility of taking the penalty that could send Ireland to the quarter finals of the World Cup. This kick can decide it all. The nation holds its breath ...It's there!"While the nation held its breath, George Hamilton delivered a line that will forever be ...

A wise, moving debut about the pain of losing a parent and the power of literature to light our way through it.

From Gay Talese, a remarkable new work of reportage more than thirty years in the making.

A harrowing memoir from the father of a seven-year-old girl diagnosed with child-onset schizophrenia.

The timely, powerful memoir of a man unjustly charged with a crime for helping his relatives, refugees from Syria. For trying to save his in-laws, who were fleeing certain death in Syria, Stéphan Pélissier was threatened with fifteen years in prison by the Greek justice system, which accused him of ...

Todd McEwen left the United States in 1980, but it's still driving him crazy.