Biographies & Autobiographies books

Cool Cat Blues is the story of singer/pianist Georgie Fame.  Read More >>

The definitive autobiography of the greatest goalkeeper of all time. During his twenty-eight-year long career...  Read More >>

""Readers will be enchanted by these profiles in success and excess."" - Publishers Weekly Fortunes and Fates-The...  Read More >>

The secret history of a trio of gamblers who used homemade technology and their own ingenuity to outplay the house,...  Read More >>

Presents accounts of the author's participation in the legislative sphere of government during a time of regular...  Read More >>

From the author of the bestselling THE PALACE PAPERS, these are the irreverent cult-favourite diaries of Tina Brown's...  Read More >>

An enchanting and fascinating work of classic nature writing about Britain's ordinary garden birds, told by the...  Read More >>

A deeply reported, perceptive, and celebratory biography of beloved actor James Gandolfini from a prominent critic...  Read More >>

Chart sensation in US, UK and France, West End and Broadway legend, TV and film star, global entertainment icon...  Read More >>

The definitive autobiography of the greatest goalkeeper of all time. During his twenty-eight-year long career...  Read More >>

Now available for the first time, the letters between Wittgenstein and Richards provide a wholly new perspective...  Read More >>

A biography of three respectively tragicomic, daring and forward-thinking fin de siècle figures usually overshadowed...  Read More >>

Explore the life of Alice Millard, the antiquarian book seller who was at the forefront of the History of the Book...  Read More >>

Searingly candid, conversation-starting stories of class, culture, community and crime in the heart of London's...  Read More >>

From the bestselling author of The Land Where Lemons Grow, a luminous account of Sicilian history, geography, culture...  Read More >>

One Life One Perspective is a literary memoir by Kevin Schneider that delivers readers with a riveting true story...  Read More >>

With its title echoing Walter Pater's 'Marius the Epicurean' (1885), this is the eventful and interesting life story...  Read More >>

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What if healing didn't mean being ""fixed,"" but finally feeling safe enough to live your life? Many trauma survivors...  Read More >>

Assassinations. Surveillance. Software that watches back. The Octopus is real-and it never stopped growing. The...  Read More >>

In this vulnerably honest memoir, Lex reveals how she cheated death and embraced her second life. Meet the real...  Read More >>

From the former prime minister of New Zealand comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise...  Read More >>

A retrospective of the creative life and work of Carlo Pietzner, pioneer of the Camphill movement.  Read More >>

One Life One Perspective is a literary memoir by Kevin Schneider that delivers readers with a riveting true story...  Read More >>