Biography

In this joint biography, Sylvia Martin delves deeper into the unconventional lives of two of...

The paperback of Untold Stories contains new unpublished diaries, as well as a poignant memoir...

Acclaimed historian Alan Atkinson author of the award-winning Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth...

In a powerful work of memoir, history and biography, Jane Messer retraces the tragic and...

Crown jewels, coronations and corgis, this is a warm and nostalgic biography of powerhouse monarch,...

Oliver Sacks, one of the great humanists of our age - who describes himself in...

*A 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Telegraph, Financial Times, i Paper* 'Making Francisco Franco's...

'McDermid's most personal book to date' THE SCOTSMAN 'A warm hug of a book... like...

No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his...

A judge, novelist and arts adviser, Nicholas Hasluck's work includes acute appraisals of people he...

The arc of literary giant John Updike's life emerges in these luminous daily letters to...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE* A...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025: the profound and life-affirming memoir about finding...

The extraordinary adventures of a childhood in Africa, recalled in rich and loving detail. When...

WINNER OF THE FOOTNOTE X COUNTERPOINTS WRITING PRIZE 2023-24 'Vivid, compassionate, captivating' Elif Shafak 'A...

'An accomplished story-teller, she weaves ancdotes, character sketches, political history together without losing her thread...

More than just a book, A Time of Living Graciously is a celebration of life's...

The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Richly entertaining... impressively well-researched' - Daily Mail 'Incisive... strongly...

'In this memoir, Lally takes the reader on a drunken, dare-devil ride into the depths...

When adult children take up the labour of care for absent fathers and stoic mothers,...

A TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES THE...

Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and...

The long-awaited memoir of the legendary actor, for readers of Keith Richards' LIFE and Bruce...

In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across...

'A beautiful and immensely powerful book about love, grief and finding a way to be...

The first book by Tilda Swinton highlights her incredible transformations and iconic roles, tracing Swinton's...

The International No. 1 Bestseller A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick 'Cuts...

In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorky's Reminiscences of Tolstoy and...