Biographies

'ASTONISHING' THE DAILY MAIL 'STRIKING' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'RADICAL' TATLER Described by The Telegraph as 'Edward's truth' Once a King is the never before seen and unfiltered story of King...

In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind...

'This book is just about my favourite book of all time ... I'm not entirely convinced I could like somebody who didn't like this book ... it's funny and moving...

The real-life story of a modern Working Girl.Miss S is smart, sassy, sexually frustrated and broke. With the rent money due, she spots an ad for a student job with...

'The art of Jim Thompson was always a tightrope act, those first-person sadist heroes settling a lot of the writer's psychic debts. Drunk, he would babble on in an agony...

'An intimate story from the family archive, a story that is also the infamous history of our continent' Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive'Powerful and searing' Samanta Schweblin, author...

The autobiography of former Vice President Mike Pence.Loyalty is a Vice President's first duty; but there is a greater one-to God and the Constitution. Mike Pence spent more hours in...

Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Scottish Herald 'The beauty of the prose is in contrast with the horror anticipated by this superbly subtle narrative'...

People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*** no. If I'd been clean and sober,...

In The Syndicate of Twenty-two Natives, Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo offers an elegy to her father, the late Professor Stan Sangweni, which explores the personal saga of a family's lineage rooted in...

When he died in 2014, author Chris van Wyk left behind an impressive literary legacy. The scope of his work was broad - poetry, children's books, short stories and biographies....

When she turned ninety, my mother sprang a final surprise on us. She started speaking in the voice of a stranger.Peter's mother is dying. Born in England and having spent...

'Brave, poetic, brutal, always honest. By leading the reader through his chaotic childhood and immersing us in a mental health treatment centre, Lesedi forces us to confront conversations that are...

Geraint Thomas is one of Britain's most loved sports stars. He's won Olympic gold medals, finished first, second and third at the Tour de France, and stayed at the top...

'Remember me for the football' was George Best's last wish before his untimely death, aged just 59.'True Genius' is the definitive family-backed account of his remarkable career, now to be...

What has Ben Elton done?He's written the most eagerly anticipated show business autobiography of the year. That's what.And prior to that? Well he's pretty much done everything and worked with...

Cherie Blair's much-anticipated autobiography takes the reader from a childhood in working-class Liverpool to the heart of the British legal system and then, as the wife of the Prime Minister,...

Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett amassed an astonishing fortune - a net worth of $64 billion and counting. His awesome investment record...

'Ultimately as inspiring and devastating as the Amazon itself' The Guardian'Bold, pacy, bursting with optimism and filled with vivid descriptions, this is the work of an indomitable soul' - Guy...

Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she's been largely ignored. Born to...

A moving tribute in words and pictures to the woman who became the "people's princess".

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide,...

Sunday Times Political Book of the YearA Book of the Year pick in the New Statesman, Financial Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Mail on Sunday and The Times'A gossipy, amusing, opinionated account...

"This is a masterfully crafted memoir, an elegant tour de force that firmly establishes Mulgrew as a writer of significant literary endowment. The soulmate to Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, How...

Ken Clarke needs no introduction. One of the genuine 'Big Beasts' of the political scene, during his forty-six years as the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire he has...

In this extraordinary book, the author digs and digs until she finds out the whole story. Throughout the gripping narrative, snippets of information about Stanford are woven into the incredible...

Appearing for the first time in English, Deceit is the debut novel by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Known by his contemporaries as 'the...