Biography & Memoir
Memoirs of a Dervish
Robert Irwin
For many children of the sixties a 'journey to the East' was a necessary rite of passage. In an extraordinary memoir Robert Irwin contrasts…
Burying The Bones
Hilary Spurling
A thrilling portrait of the extraordinary childhood of Pearl Buck, the now-forgotten bestselling Nobel Prize winning novelist and author of The Good E…
The Fetish Room
Rudi Rotthier
Part biography, part musings on biology and nature, The Fetish Room is a moving portrait of one of our greatest travel writers and eccentrics, Redmond…
In the Place of Justice
Wilbert Rideau
Wilbert Rideau was sentenced to death for killing a woman in 1961 in America's segregated deep south. Imprisoned for forty-four years in the most…
The Winter of Our Disconnect
Susan Maushart
The self help book EVERY family must have, for any parent who has ever texted their child to the dinner table.
The Song of Leonard Cohen
Harry Rasky
A rare insight into the poet, musician and artist Leonard Cohen written by the man who spent a year on tour with him – and containing previously unpub…
Catherine the Great
Simon Dixon
Empress, empire-builder, intellectual, art-collector, lover – this magnificent new biography does full justice to a truly remarkable ruler.
Fast and Louche
Jeremy Scott
P.G. Wodehouse wrote that: 'the three essentials for an autobiography are that its compiler shall have had an eccentric father, a miserable misun…
Voltaire
Ian Davidson
This dazzling biography of Voltaire celebrates his extraordinary life through the thousands of his letters to have survived.
Tolstoy
Rosamund Bartlett
Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina are considered two of the greatest novels ever written. Here is a fresh perspective on his extraordinar…
A Lucky Child
Thomas Buergenthal
Now with a new postscript by Thomas Buergenthal telling the moving story of his mother's search for him after the war
Decline & Fall
Chris Mullin
Britains best-loved MP and bestselling diarist returns with his hilarious account of a New Labour backbencher
The Match King
Frank Partnoy
'An enthralling cautionary tale of the recurring excesses of global finance … The author displays a vivid touch in describing the Swedish parve…
Diaghilev
Sjeng Scheijen
'Superb biography … the definitive life of Diaghilev' Bee Wilson, Sunday Times
A Secret Madness
Elaine Bass
The writing is brilliantly evocative of an era when the effects of rationing were commonplace, when there was still National Service and BBC radio pla…
Alexis de Tocqueville
Hugh Brogan
Alexis de Tocqueville, French aristocrat, liberal politician and writer of genius was the greatest of all modern political writers. His writings are e…
A Rift in Time
Raja Shehadeh
From the Orwell Prize-winning author of Palestinian Walks comes the poignant and revealing true story of his remarkable great uncle's political st…
Howards End is on the Landing
Susan Hill
A year of reading from home, by one of Britain's most distinguished authors