Biography & autobiography

West

by Jim Perrin

West tells the story of Jim Perrin's life against the lives and deaths of his cherished wife and son, and the landscapes through which they travelled together. It is a complex and sensual love-story, a celebration...

Time to Be in Earnest

by P.D. James

In 1997, P. D. James, the much loved and internationally acclaimed author of mysteries, turned seventy-seven. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that at seventy-seven it is "time to be in earnest," she decided...

Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT

by Jane Stern

Five years ago Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety....

Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood

by Nancy Schoenberger

Caroline Blackwood was born into the Guinness family in 1931, the daughter of the Fourth Marquess and Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. Brought up on the ancestral estate in Northern Ireland, Blackwood moved...

Un sueno americano

by Oscar De La Hoya & Steve Springer

Oscar De La Hoya, uno de los luchadores más celebrados en la historia del boxeo, nos brinda su historia franca y conmovedora sobre cómo logró el Sueño Americano: su ascenso al éxito, el poder de una ética...

Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America

by Walter R. Borneman

In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for...

Emma Lazarus

by Esther Schor

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

Emma Lazarus’s most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable life has remained a mystery until now. She was a woman so far ahead of her time...

The Accidental Millionaire: How to Succeed in Life Without Really Trying

by Gary Fong

The Accidental Millionaire is the memoir of Gary Fong, would-be slacker who revolutionized wedding photography, inventor of popular photography aids, entrepreneur, contrarian, bon vivant and a man who really,...

My Turquoise Years: A Memoir

by M.A.C. A. C. Farrant

My Turquoise Years is a touching, funny, and elegantly written account of a 13-year-old girl's life. Throughout her childhood, Marion Farrant had heard stories of the sophisticated life her mother, Nancy, led...

Swimming with Cobras

by Rosemary Smith

Swimming with Cobras is a memoir about a journey to find a foothold in a foreign land grappling with it's own identity, offering rare and important insight into a corner of South Africa's past.

Invisible Earthquake

by Malika Ndlovu

Malika Ndlovu takes us right into the heart of her grief - the loss of her third child, who was stillborn.

Eloquent Body

by Dawn Garisch

Eloquent Body explores the juxtaposition of healing and creativity both from a personal as well as medical point of view.

Peter Paul Galligan: "One of the Most Dangerous Men in the Rebel Movement"

by Kevin Galligan

The stories of the leading figures of the Irish revolution – Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera, and guerrillas like Tom Barry and Ernie O’Malley – have been well told. But many other senior-ranking activists...

I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story

by Rick Bragg

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Rick Bragg lends his remarkable narrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known.

In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg let’s Jessica...

Nick Clegg: The Biography

by Chris Bowers

In early April 2010 Nick Clegg was fighting for recognition, even as the young, fresh and personable leader of Britain’s third political party. Two weeks later he was the focus of ‘Cleggmania’ and his popularity...

Brown at 10

by Anthony Seldon

GORDON BROWN's three years in power were among the most turbulent in Downing Street's post-war history. Brown at 10 tells the compelling story of his hubris and downfall, and with it, the final demise of the...

Hate: My Life in the British Far Right

by Matthew Collins

What do you do when everything you know and believe in crashes around you in a hail of fists and boots, flying chairs and broken glass? And not just once, but seemingly every time you leave the house? When it...

There's Only One Sauzee: When Le God Graced Easter Road

by Ted Brack

When Alex McLeish persuaded European legend Franck Sauzée to sign for Hibernian Football Club in February 1999, it was the club’s biggest coup since the signing of George Best. Many people questioned the...

Law, Life and Laughter: A Personal Verdict

by Irvine Smith

Legendary Sheriff Irvine Smith QC is one of the most formidable criminal lawyers of his generation. Called to the Bar in 1953, he was involved as Counsel in some of Scotland’s biggest cases, including the...

Gordon Smith

by Tony Smith

Gordon Smith is one of football’s all-time greats. As a player, he was world-class and in a glittering career, he won almost every honour available, played the game with passion and lived life to the full....