Biographies & Memoirs

Outlaw stories from the frontiers of prison, Hollywood and life.

White Boots and Miniskirts is a down to earth, honest perspective of a fast changing world, told with wry humour by a woman in search of love and success in the most exciting city on the planet...

The extraordinary stories of six women who defied the spirit of their age

The memoir of popular BBC Radio 4 SATURDAY LIVE presenter and former member of the Communards, the Reverend Richard Coles.

A son's journey through his father's dementia

Over the Easter weekend in 2015, a gang of criminals robbed a safe depository in London's Hatton Garden. Shortly before, electrical cables under nearby Kingsway had caught on fire, disrupting the emergency services in the area. Coincidence? Nigel Cawthorne digs deep to question the motives and methods behind diamond theft.

A prize-winning author's memoir about a mother and son following the migration of grey whales to Alaska

The most talented musical family in the world

'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read'
Emma Thompson


A Times Film and Theatre Book of the Year 2022

Presents the adventures and tribulations of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children.

The illuminating letters of Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, including the dramatic breakup of their 21-year marriage and their extraordinary reconciliation.

The first comprehensive biography in a generation of the great explorer

The extraordinary life of the Georgian era's most famous whore

The story of Kenneth Grahame, author of the children's classic Wind in the Willows, and of the vision of English pastoral that inspired it.

'A pointed, svelte but diverse work.' Irish TimesPart memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is an elegant, important and spirited work of self-investigation;

Nicky Haslam has always been at the centre of things wherever he is - at parties, opening nights, royal weddings - and has stories to tell of crossing paths, and more, with the cultural icons of our time: Cecil Beaton, Francis Bacon, Diana Cooper, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Jack Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe to name but a few.

Growing into war

The Things They Carried meets Three Cups of Tea in this inspirational true story of a Marine who finds his calling empowering youth in one of the largest slums in Africa.

The most significant account of being a soldier at war since Michael Herr's DISPATCHES.