Biographies & Autobiographies books

Would you dare to confront warlords in Afghanistan? Or witness a fierce encounter between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan...  Read More >>

Saint-Simon spent a lifetime seeking out scandals at the court of the Sun King, whom he thought an arrogant monster...  Read More >>

When women set out to buy a car, they invariably take a man with them. Why is this so? Why is it that women are...  Read More >>

Following his beautiful wife Margie’s diagnosis of dementia (Alzheimer’s disease) at the relatively tender age of...  Read More >>

This is a true story of youthful exuberance overcoming adversity and achieving great things.  Read More >>

Abstract expressionism Art, martial arts, life memoirs, the bartender’s lifestyle and the last four decades of history...  Read More >>

It started with an ad in a free Edmonton newspaper. It ended with a phone call telling me that one of my closest...  Read More >>

Dreams and Promises Stolen is a powerful memoir of survival and hope after a lifetime of physical and emotional...  Read More >>

​""I am not the 'madwoman' they tried to label at seventeen. I am simply a woman who survived the silence.""  Read More >>

A man leaves behind the life he built to follow a call into the wild. What he finds reshapes how he sees truth,...  Read More >>

From the Orwell Prize-winning author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned comes a powerful account of human resilience,...  Read More >>

The honest, entertaining and laugh-out-loud autobiography from one of Britain’s most talented writers.  Read More >>

Je me souviens de ces moments où, à peine installés à Marrakech au lendemain de nos études à Grenoble, nous allions...  Read More >>

À travers Les Mémoires de Gadidam, Al Hassane Ba livre le récit profondément humain d'un parcours façonné par l'effort,...  Read More >>

A lyrical memoir about fishing, love and loss from the UK's best-known female angler  Read More >>

The gripping inside story of Nathan Carman’s crimes from the maritime lawyer who solved his multimillionaire mother’s...  Read More >>

A beautifully written and philosophical journey through the natural landscape of old age - what it means to age,...  Read More >>

From Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, author of Persians and The Cleopatras, comes a fresh and exciting exploration of the...  Read More >>

Drugs, cartels, mafia, addiction, the FBI, and coercion... this is a detailed look at the darkness that consumed...  Read More >>

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An unflinching look at the shame, secrecy, and desperation of failing at motherhood, and one woman's journey to...  Read More >>

When life threw successful Hollywood casting director, wife, and mother Tess Sanchez a messy curve ball, she got...  Read More >>

Acclaimed Syrian writer Samar Yazbek brings her experience chronicling the devastations of war to her latest work...  Read More >>

'Vera Gedroits was a true medical heroine: outrageous, intrepid and devoted to saving lives. Miranda Seymour’s genius...  Read More >>

The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin...  Read More >>