Biography & Memoir

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A memoir of leadership and success The executive chairman of Disney, Time's 2019 businessperson of the year, shares the ideas and values he embraced during his fifteen years as CEO while reinventing one of the world's most...

The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history, sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed, excess and...

In this now classic work, Barbara Ehrenreich, our sharpest and most original social critic, goes undercover as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.   Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in...

This gutting memoir is a love letter to Joan's late husband, a prayer for her daughter, and the story of a winding search for peace after tremendous loss.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s...

'And then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped' Harriet Tubman.Jesmyn Ward's acclaimed memoir shines a light on the community she comes from in the small town of...

The iconic New York Times bestseller that 'struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter' (Ibram X. Kendi).Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate'...

Hailed as 'the greatest biography of our era'(The Times) this is the fourth part of Robert Caro's multi-award-winning best-selling work on American President Lyndon Johnson.The Passage of Power, 'the series' crowning volume' (Economist), spans the years...

Within what Max Liu in The Independent described as a volume ‘important without sounding self-important… heart-breaking and impossible to put down,’ Second-Hand Time distils, in its extraordinary collage of voices...

A stunningly evocative love letter both to the hip clientele of late 60s New York and to Smith’s lifelong friend, the controversial artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Beautifully written, tender and atmospheric, Just Kids has become something of a modern...

The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands'A fascinating history about a little-known group who took on the Nazis . . . The individual tales of these courageous young women are...

With surgical geopolitical astuteness, Mask chronicles the fascinating cultural history of streets, showing how postcodes, avenues and alleyways have always been connected to class, race, wealth and power. Longlisted for the Jhalak...

WINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE "A Lincoln classic...superb." -The Washington Post "A book for our time."-Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic story of America's greatest president discovering his own strength to save the...

KRAUS FAMILY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR AT THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS'Beautifully told' John le Carre 'More than just history' -- Michael Palin'Truly exceptional' Jon Snow 'Absolutely remarkable' -- Edmund de WaalIn this...

Outstanding leadership is the kind that inspires employees, delights customers, and achieves extraordinary business results. And no one knows more about this kind of leadership than Lee Cockerell, the man who ran Walt Disney World ® Resort operations for...

Passionately researched and captivatingly told, The Light of Days reveals the remarkable, little-known stories of the courageous young Jewish women who formed an extensive resistance network to fight Nazi rule in Poland. One of the most important...

A remarkable and shocking story of supreme courage and appalling prejudice, Facing the Mountain details the Japanese-American soldiers who fought so bravely in World War II whilst their families were subjected to imprisonment and public scorn. From...

'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' -- Liz Jensen, Guardian.Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a...

Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century's most prophetic and important writerKafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was...