Biography: general

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience [9781471166990]

She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and …

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Jo Malone: My Story [9781471143007]

Jo Malone is the inspirational British businesswoman responsible for creating her globally renowned beauty business and, more recently, her new brand …

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Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas [9781529018585]

From the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller and 2018 Book of the Year, This is Going to Hurt Christmas is coming, the goose is getting…

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May at 10 [9781785905179]

Theresa May has presided over the most dramatic and historic peacetime premiership for a century. May at 10 tells the compelling inside story of the m…

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Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography [9780753556115]

50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson started his first business. In his new autobiography, Finding My Virginity, the Virgin Founder shares his personal, …

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When Breath Becomes Air [9781784701994]

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unm…

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Limitless: The Autobiography [9781529125573]

The thrilling autobiography of the astronaut who inspired a generation.  The #1 bestselling author of Hello, is this planet Earth? and Ask a…

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My Diarrhe [9781471172069]

The `leaked' diary of YouTube comedic personality Miranda Sings, taped together so the world can read all about her life through her eyes - including …

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Galaxy of Her Own, A: Amazing Stories of Women in Space [9781780898360]

From small steps to giant leaps, A Galaxy of Her Own tells fifty stories of inspirational women who have been fundamental to the story of humans in sp…

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Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel [9781408880418]

The definitive biography of Sylvia Pankhurst, a woman ahead of her times - political rebel, human rights champion and radical feminist. Born into one…

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Beth Chatto: A life with plants [9781910258828]

Beth Chatto is one of the most influential gardeners in our history. This extraordinary person will touch generations of gardeners to come. Gardeners …

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Lost Without You: Loving and Losing Tanya [9781841884172]

'It's like no pain I've ever known. She was my soulmate. She was everything to me... The enormity of it all hit me hardest when I saw the world contin…

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Twenty Years of talkSPORT [9780956328410]

Celebrating the forthcoming 20th anniversary of the launch of the UK's favourite sports radio station, `Twenty Years of talkSPORT' gives an amazing be…

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The Cartiers: The Untold Story of a Jewellery Dynasty [9780593158098]

The captivating story of the family behind Cartier and the three brothers who turned their grandfather's humble Parisian jewellery store into a global…

Hidden Valley Road [9781787473805]

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hop…

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Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping Our Future [9780753555644]

The New York Times bestseller. South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Mu…

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Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain [9781408837481]

The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we st…

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The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives [9780241434505]

Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals.…

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War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line [9781509837021]

For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of…

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The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011 [9781526603562]

William Feaver, Lucian Freud's collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most; and over many years, Freud narrate…

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