Biographies

John Lydon has secured prime position as one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex...

The most authoritative life of Eliot ever written, by acclaimed biographer Lyndall GordonT. S. Eliot once spoke of a lifetime burning in every moment. He had the mind to conceive...

'JOKES, JOKES, JOKES' is Eclair's account of how she elbowed her way into the male dominated world of 1980's stand-up, via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, sleeping with men who...

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey to peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving...

'Remarkable' GUARDIAN'Mesmerising' TELEGRAPH'A voice that must be heard' PATTI SMITHAn exhilarating, immersive journey into the Exclusion Zone of Chornobyl with the disaffected adventurers who illegally stalk its ruinsAmidst the toxic...

From prize-winning journalist to chat show king on a show voted one of the top ten British TV programmes of all time, Michael Parkinson's starry career spans over four decades....

#1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller #2 Sunday Times non-fiction bestsellerSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY APPLE, AMAZON,...

'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?'Six-year-old Ralph has only been in the care system for three days and has already been rejected by...

Heartwarming, compelling and genuinely remarkable, More Than Just Coincidence is the true story of a mother who was reunited with her daughter, twenty years after she gave her up for...

Assam, 1925. James MacDonald is one of the sons of empire who has no yearning for England. Running a tea plantation, he loves India and is reluctant to choose a...

"I immersed myself in magic. I read every book I could get my hands on and practised and practised, day after day and night after night. Magic became my world...some...

For years, Jenny and sister Kim suffered horrendous physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their father. They survived in part because of their closeness and their determination to...

William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the...

Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market,...

'Propulsive... Readers will be hooked' -Publishers WeeklyThe extraordinary story of Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story.Alfred Nakache, a Jewish child from Constantine, never imagined...

When even his friends refer to him as 'a balding, bug-eyed opportunist with the looks of a beach ball, the charisma of a glove-puppet and an ego the size of...

AS SEEN ON BBC TWO'S HIT TV-SHOW 'THIS FARMING LIFE''A heartwarming tale of life on the land' Alan Titchmarsh'There's love and loss, challenge and adversity, but above all it's warm,...

MADONNA. ANDY WARHOL. KEITH HARING. FAB 5 FREDDIE. DEBBIE HARRY. JULIAN SCHNABEL. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the...

It is the late 1970s and Manjula Padmanabhan is in her mid-twenties trying to find her way in the world. Life in Bombay is proving tricky: there are the visits...

Most break-up bibles are full of the same old stories of woe, wrack and ruin...1. Crying into large glasses of Chardonnay2. A huge amount of retail therapy and some unwise...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY DARA McANULTYTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'His writing is as impressive and as enjoyable as his TV programmes and there can be no higher praise' Daily Express'A...

'This imaginative and empathetic book will probably not guide you to better sleep, but it will be a fine companion for the wakeful hours'GUARDIAN'A rich kaleidoscope of a book in...

'Strikingly original' The Times'Absorbing' Wall Street Journal'Just as a cello's voice is divided across four strings, each with its own colour and character, this is a journey in four parts,...

When the first shell fell on the elegant spa town of Lipik, it hit the roof of the town's stately orphanage. Within three months Lipik had been destroyed, the people...

Decades after her death, the legend of Eva Peron continues to captivate millions. No other female political leader in the 20th century - not Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi or Golda...

"Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others." -Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFor readers of...

'A triumph. Frankly is the most insightful and stylishly open memoir by a politician since Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father'Andrew O'Hagan'Nicola Sturgeon tells her remarkable story with great skill...

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* Chosen by WATERSTONES as one of their BEST POLITICS BOOKS of 2024 'Anupreeta Das tracks the ups and downs...

Critically acclaimed author Christopher Andersen is a master of celebrity biographies-boasting sixteen bestsellers, among them These Few Precious Days, Mick, and William and Kate. Now, in his latest thrilling book,...