Biography & Memoir

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  100 People You Never Knew Were at Bletchley Park

  Sinclair McKay

  The reason for the huge commercial success of Sinclair McKay’s The Secret Life of Bletchley...

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  A Sound Mind

  Paul Morley

  How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History)

  Music...

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  The Artful Dickens

  John Mullan

  The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist

  Discover the tricks of a literary master in...

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  An Editor’s Burial

  Various

  Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines

  A glimpse of post-war France through...

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  Elizabeth & Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens

  Susan Doran

  This book seeks to refresh and retell the story of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary,...

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  Queens of the Crusades

  Alison Weir

  Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors

  ‘Stunning… Weir has brought those five queens to life like...

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  From Manchester with Love

  Paul Morley

  The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson

  Critically-acclaimed and bestselling author Paul Morley’s long-awaited biography of...

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  You Have Not Yet Been Defeated

  Alaa Abd el-Fattah

  Selected Writings 2011-2021

  Alaa Abd el-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if...

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  Windswept & Interesting

  Billy Connolly

  In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth...

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  My Unapologetic Diaries

  Joan Collins

  ‘Wonderfully rich and mesmerising’ William Boyd ‘As brutal, withering and funny as you’d expect’ Julian...

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  Swan Dive

  Georgina Pazcoguin

  The Making of a Rogue Ballerina

  Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the...

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  Dutch Light

  Hugh Aldersey-Williams

  Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

  Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch...

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