biography

This lost world, visited fleetingly in "A Postillion Struck by Lightning", the first volume of Dirk Bogarde's autobiography, is seen here through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. With sensitivity...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWinner of Autobiography of the Year at the National Book Awards 2018Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2018'This is the book we will...

The successful defence of former Liberal leader, Jeremy Thorpe, on charges of conspiracy to murder, made Geroge Carman QC famous. His mastery of cross-examination and speech-making succeeded in winning a...

A powerful, poignant and pacey adoption memoir which reads like a thriller. When her adoptive mother died in 2009 Donna Freed set out to track down her birth mother. What...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown. Insights into the world of a Prison Doctor, this time taking us deeper into the walls of Bronzefield, the UK's biggest...

The world's leading expert on near-death experiences reveals his journey toward rethinking the nature of death, life, and the continuity of consciousness.What happens when we die? 10% of people whose...

Discover the six secrets to health and happiness at any age from the woman who knows better than anyone'Astonishing. Contains so many lightbulb moments it could power the national grid....

Welcome to the life of Dr Max Skittle. Therapist, relationship counsellor, social worker, friend, parent-figure - and, yes: doctor.Join Max - and his patients - as he takes us on...

Have you ever felt unheard by your doctor? Been frustrated that they haven't understood your symptoms, that they have neglected your concerns?When Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan was admitted to hospital as...

Pre-order the heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd.'This book is about death, but in it I...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW STATESMAN'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIAN'BRILLIANT' OBSERVER'POWERFUL AND EVOCATIVE' ADAM KAY'YOU EMERGE...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIAN'BRILLIANT' OBSERVER'The most powerful and evocative account of working through the...

Sunday Times bestseller'When I see something old, that I think is beautiful, special, valuable, it's not about the money. It's about being in another time and place.'Star of TV's Salvage...

Can money buy you happiness?A few years ago Duncan Bannatyne might have said so. He was happily married and his businesses were thriving. Life was good. He couldn't have known...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Wise, funny and generous' The Times'Warm and perceptive' New York Times'So honest and funny and smart' Observer'Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story' Washington...

Off-beat, irreverent and subversive - a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths, from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel, Submarine'A gripping story of family secrets...

Few people can say they have shaped the cultural landscape of the last four decades while crossing paths with some of the most extraordinary personalities on the planet. But then,...

This is a wild, raw and hilarious memoir that charts Dylan's first year of transitioning - which was extensively documented through her viral TikTok series 'Days of Girlhood' - and...

"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...

'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...

A deeply personal account of life as a carer and a call to support those who care for others 'For Ed Davey, politics really is personal' The Times 'Caring is...

'This book made me laugh and then order an unholy amount of takeaway.' GREG DAVIES'One of my favourite comics has now written an annoyingly great book.' ROMESH RANGANATHAN'Full of belly...

Ed Husain's The Islamist is the shocking inside story of British Islamic fundamentalism, told by a former radical. 'When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later,...

Eddie 'The Beast' Hall is the first Brit in 24 years to win the World's Strongest Man competition, beating The Mountain from Game of Thrones. Everything about Eddie is huge....

The instant Sunday Times bestseller and Financial Times Best Audio of 2023From brutal schooldays to 80s anarchy, through The Young Ones, Bottom and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of-a-kind, fascinating memoir...

The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller with gorgeous new photography of the celebrated netsuke collection, and sumptuous full-colour images hand-picked by Edmund de Waal from his family archive264...

**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...

** Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 **"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries...

Angela Carter is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and beguiling writers of the last century. Her work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality...

Sensational new biography - using the discovery of long lost contemporary documents - of the Russian peasant mystic whose malign influence helped lead to the downfall of the Romanovs.An unprecedented...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his...

This informative and entertaining look at our past and present explores the pleasantries, pardons, interrogations and arguments that have passed between the likes of Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana, Lew...

When you are a fortysomething gay New Yorker with a stressful job as a film agent, a fruity assortment of friends and the odd obsessive-compulsive tendency, you may not see...

In the late 1980s, when she began keeping a diary, Edwina Currie was the second most prominent woman in British politics - after Margaret Thatcher. Indeed, she was often spoken...

This is a major new biography of the first elected female leader in Western history - the woman who inspired Margaret Thatcher. She served as Prime Minister of Israel from...

Elisabeth Maxwell's autobiography is dominated by her life with her late husband Robert Maxwell. She describes their turbulent marriage, the deaths of two of their children, the establishment of Pergamon...

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL As a society, there is a tendency to elevate romantic love. But what about friendships? Aren't they just as...

At the end of Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born Australian citizen. Resettling in America, they swore eternal fidelity, but also (each a survivor...

________________'Like Eat, Pray, Love, her follow-up ... feels irresistibly confessional ... I found myself guzzling Committed, reading it in mighty chunks, far into the night. Whenever I put it down,...