Biography & Memoir
Hellfire And Herring
Christopher Rush
A vivid and moving account of the author's childhood in the 1940s and 1950s in the little fishing village of St Monans…
Sew Your Own
John-Paul Flintoff
What happens when a man, dazzled like most of us by hi-tech, happy to have his suits made by robots in New York, sets out to find the meaning of life?…
A Voyage For Madmen
Peter Nichols
Already a classic among sailors, Nichols tell the true story of the inaugural 1968 Golden Globe sailing race: the first single-handed non-stop circumn…
Held by the Sea
Jane Darke
At the age of 48 documentary filmmaker and painter Jane Darke lost her husband, the playwright Nick Darke, to cancer. After twenty five years together…
The Ballad of Bob Dylan
Daniel Mark Epstein
Dylan's songs sound as if they have been part of the folk music tradition for centuries The Ballad of Bob Dylan examines the influences behind his…
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 th…
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 misund…
Voltaire
Ian Davidson
This dazzling biography of Voltaire celebrates his extraordinary life through the thousands of his letters to have survived.
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 parven…
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…