Biography & Memoir

Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top 10 Sports Books of All Time, The Game is a reflective and thought-provoking look at a life in hockey. Ken Dryden, the former...

E. B. White’s greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly.   Over more than fifty years at the New Yorker, E. B. White came to define a kind of...

No singular life is as seminal to the struggle for equality as Frantz Fanon's. Here we have a comprehensive biography tracking his momentous life and his lasting impact into the modern era, where he's more relevant than ever.One of The New York...

When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous...

USA Today Bestseller. "I love this book—because it teaches you how to manifest freedom in your own life and how that work allows you to rise to your greatest glory." —Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah PodcastLearn to embrace joy,...

A New York Times Notable Book.An NPR Best Book of the Year.In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once...

In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history.   The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came...

Covering the full spectrum from love and loss to hope and healing, Elizabeth Gilbert can always be trusted to deliver soul-searching personal narratives with invaluable and universal takeaways. “A blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid,...

The supremely gifted author of Hex and Luckenbooth tells her own remarkable story in unflinching yet lyrical prose as she chronicles a childhood of being constantly passed around the UK care system. Longlisted for the Women's...

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the odds. TWICE.Using an innovative 'dual narrative' structure you sometimes see in films, Big Beacon tells the story of how Partridge heroically...

The original blockbuster narrative provides the first behind-the-scenes, authoritative account of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s marriage, by the New York Times bestselling author of Diana in Private.**A Wall Street...

Incisive essays on Patty Hearst and Reagan, the Central Park jogger and the Santa Ana winds, from the New York Times–bestselling author of South and West.In these eleven essays covering the national scene from Washington, DC; California;...

Pre-order this remarkable account of the moving and sometimes astonishing ways animals have enriched our lives, from national treasure Martin ClunesGuide-dog Laura needed a new home. And, after listening to her owner, Jaina, talk on the radio about what...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* Chosen by WATERSTONES as one of their BEST POLITICS BOOKS of 2024‘Anupreeta Das tracks the ups and downs of Bill Gates’s career in her eye-opening book’ The...

'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing.' Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely...

One of The New York Times Best Books of the Year So FarOne of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025One of Five Books Best Nonfiction Books of 2024Shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford PrizeAn original and revealing portrait of the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2025.An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature can make us, and our lives, better. How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us to...

WINNER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD. SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE. SHORTLISTED FOR THE DOUGLAS STEWART PRIZE. SHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY PRIZE. LONGLISTED FOR THE WALKLEY BOOK AWARD. 'I understand...

Chilled by the glacial winds and lung-burning temperatures, Beyond Possible charts the incredible journey of an elite soldier who conquered 14 of the world’s toughest peaks in six months.   What happens when ambition meets limitless...

Digging deeper into the concept of ugliness and the human body than you’ve probably ever gone before, this exhaustive examination of such a complex topic is rich with social and cultural commentary."A sweeping meditation on a subject rarely...