Biography & Memoir
Hard Streets
Jacqueline Riding
Welcome to the hard streets: working-class London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from the author of Hogarth and Peterloo
Ausländer
Michael Moritz
Ausländer casts a unique shaft of light into the darkest years of European history, and a profoundly moving, personal story of disaster and trium…
World Cup Fever
Simon Kuper
The story of how football transformed the world, told through nine World Cups – by one of our most talented football writers
Augustine the African
Catherine Conybeare
A groundbreaking reassessment of one of Christianity's foundational thinkers from award-winning classicist Catherine Conybeare
Larry
Michael Haag
A new biography of Lawrence Durrell by the world's foremost expert, covering his time in London, Paris, Corfu and Alexandria
To Exist As I Am
Grace Spence Green
A young doctor's extraordinary story of near-death, recovery and radical acceptance
My Head For A Tree
Martin Goodman
Meet the Bishnois, the world's oldest sustainable community – with a foreword from Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees
Ninette's War
John Jay
For readers of House of Glass: the heartwrenching true story of a young Jewish woman coming of age in wartime France
The Curious Columns of Adrian Chiles
Adrian Chiles
A perfect stocking filler from the Guardian's most-read, best-loved cult columnist
Nine Minds
Daniel Tammet
A celebration of neurodiversity – meet nine extraordinary people on the autism spectrum
All That Glitters
Orlando Whitfield
Welcome to the contemporary art world: a ruthless and glamorous arena, where the rewards are limitless – if you can pay the price.
Metamorphoses
Karolina Watroba
An original, inventive new biography of Franz Kafka – and his readers
Impossible City
Simon Kuper
An unsparing memoir of the city in the twenty-first century, from a long-time Parisien d'adoption
The Secret Life of John le Carré
Adam Sisman
The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive
George
Frieda Hughes
'He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him' … a memoir of love, obsession and feathers
Travellers to Unimaginable Lands
Dasha Kiper
An illuminating, compassionate exploration of the psychology of caregiving – and the mysterious world of the human mind
One Hundred Saturdays
Michael Frank
From the sun-soaked, vibrant Juderia of Rhodes to the horrors of the Nazi camps, Stella Levi's life – told to the author over a series of Saturda…
Remainders of the Day
Shaun Bythell
Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown
Floor Sample
Julia Cameron
A bold and big-hearted memoir by Julia Cameron, the author of The Artist's Way – a book that has helped thousands of people uncover their creativ…