Biographies

'This is Dan Martin's long-awaited autobiography, full of 'the warmth, sharp insights and vivid colour of his 14-year career' GuardianKnown, thanks to his racing style and attitude, for being one...

A raw and powerful memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard's own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee...

How do the French manage to raise well-behaved children and have a life! Who hasn't noticed how well-behaved French children are - compared to our own? - How come French...

Adventures in Wonderland is an extraordinary true life story, giving the most brilliant insights ever into the fascinating, often exhilarating – and sometimes emotionally devastating – world of contemporary music...

A stunning blend of the personal and professional, The Archaeology of Loss is Sarah Tarlow's first memoir. An accomplished archaeologist, much of Sarah's work is concerned with the ritual and...

THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 9 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern__________Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or...

THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF KING CHARLES III, BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROBERT JOBSON, PUBLISHED ON THE EVE OF THE CORONATION'To Charles, being monarch has nothing to do with power...

With an introduction by Neil GaimanBefore television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The...

**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD** 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced...

'Christian has achieved something very beautiful and funny with this book, weaving ordinary life and every day sadness into something hopeful and profound. I loved it.' Russell BrandAs a radio...

Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 80 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. Be they dons, pop stars, vicars,...

'Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and generous' Roxane Gay'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alexander CheeTen days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an...

With an introduction by Eimear McBrideA devastatingly powerful, moving and uplifting memoir - now a classic of its genre - that inspired others to tell their own true life stories.When...

From the actor known for Skins and Games of Thrones, a deeply intimate, shockingly honest memoir about acting, fame, mental illness and the struggle to leave a cult-like organisation whose...

Undoubtedly the most powerful and immediate book to emerge from the Balkan horror of ethnic civil war' Anthony Beevor, Daily Telegraph 'A truly exceptional book, one of those rare moments...

A unique portrait of a great playwright by one of our leadin literary biographers. With unprecedented access to private papers, diaries, letters, and countless interviews with figures ranging from Felicity...

Cognitive Dissident may begin in the music biography tradition, but it quickly becomes something deeper. Borne out of years of conversation and collaboration between Matt Johnson (the creative force behind...

The only official biography of fashion and film icon and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn, with the actress's personal history, insights from her family about her philosophy of life, and an intimate...

Martin O'Neill has had one of the most incredible careers in football - winning European Cups, captaining his country at a world cup, and decades as a hugely successful manager....

Immediately following John and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy's tragic deaths, RoseMarie Terenzio-personal assistant and publicist to John F. Kennedy, Jr.-was bombarded with seven figure offers to tell her intimate story about...

Ruby Wax has a reputation for being one of TV's funniest and most notorious interviewers. Her up-front style is shockingly direct and her encounters with the rich and famous gripped...

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 'This second volume of memoirs is as fascinating as the first....full of wit, joy, vivid vignettes and useful insights...she has another bestseller on her...

This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death -...

When Rupert Murdoch made a fateful decision about who should inherit his media colossus, he believed that pitting his children against each other would produce the most capable heir. Twenty-five...

Elizabeth Burton Phillips is a teacher, an ordinary middle-class mother who had always tried to do the best for her children; she never imagined that her identical twin sons, who...

Tim O'Brien once said of Raymond Carver, 'he uses the English language like a whittler's knife, carving stark and unadorned prose-objects, paring away everything but the very core of human...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, NEW SCIENTIST, AND PROSPECTFROM THE AUTHOR...

On November 7, 1993, Marion Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Here, in journal form, is the story of her illness, her healing process, and her acceptance of life and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, GUARDIAN, WASHINGTON POST, NPR, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS and BOOKRIOT BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD...

Mike Lynch was a maverick outsider in the British business world.From humble beginnings, Lynch rose to become one of the UK's richest men, selling his home-grown enterprise software company Autonomy...

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, OBAMA 2021 BOOK PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei Guo. She came second only to...

'Wise, thoughtful and provocative ... An important book for our times' - Roisin Ingle'Laura is an acute, intelligent and accurate observer and this book successfully combines psychology, philosophy and modern...

The #1 New York Times BestsellerMichelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward,...

THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted...

We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our family, our house, our hometown, our nation. Ever since he first visited...

*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize*'Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world' J K Rowling'Inspirational and powerful' GRAZIA'For sheer inspiration read I Am Malala'...

Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager, starting university at fifteen and with her band, Throwing Muses, playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age of...

FEAR OF FIFTY is an incendiary book, more controversial and more personal than anything Jong has previously written - this is the real story behind her life, the truth behind...

When it comes to being a man, I think I'm still trying to work out how to be one I'm proud of, rather than the one society expects me to...

Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her day, Dora Jordan played a quite different role off-stage as lover to the future king, William IV, third son of George III....