Biographies & Autobiographies books

The full story of the valiant defense of the Losheimergraben crossroads by a motley band of American infantry, which...  Read More >>

In Hardtail Strat: Guitars, Heroin, Song, and Stories, Peter Gallway traces his coming of age in the electric pulse...  Read More >>

Straightaway, Charles Hambitzer recognized the genius in his new pupil. Just how far that 14-year-old George Gershwin...  Read More >>

The Other Son, The Other Brother, is the first book to tell the story of the fraught and dangerous life of the brother...  Read More >>

Boarding school is a world apart - a place where time is measured in bells, loyalty is forged in dorm rooms, and...  Read More >>

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An autobiography written by one of the world's foremost legal scholars of the twentieth century.  Read More >>

This memoir recounts one father's struggle and grief to understand why his son Richard died of poisoning in Italy...  Read More >>

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * Shondaland By the New York...  Read More >>

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'Ingenious… a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning' Daily Telegraph  Read More >>

A ground-breaking and essential work of history – the first of its kind to closely examine the British Royal Family’s...  Read More >>

A deeply intelligent and moving reckoning with the Zionist project by one of Sweden's most distinguished writers...  Read More >>

Two old friends end up on opposite sides of the English Civil War, in this widely acclaimed history At the Inns...  Read More >>

Menaced by the Krays; stitched up by the establishment; torn apart from each other; nowhere to turn. The Teale brothers...  Read More >>

The prize-winning insider critique of the food business by award-winning chef Pam Brunton, interrogating sustainability...  Read More >>

Shadow-Shapes: The Journal of a Wounded Woman provides a rare first-hand account of World War I from a female perspective,...  Read More >>

An incendiary, exquisitely written, sharply funny account of one woman's journey out of the collapsing systems of...  Read More >>

Jack Lasky is a smart young Montana engineer who out of curiosity begins a job for the FBI in New York City. He...  Read More >>

Jimmy Lai chose to stay and fight for the city he loved—and to die in jail for freedom and democracy if necessary,...  Read More >>

A breathtaking book of essays about the shocks - of joy, of sadness, of survival - that make up a life, from the...  Read More >>

A hugely entertaining and informative story of life, loss and laughter from behind the hospital curtain by expert...  Read More >>