Biography: arts & entertainment

Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate comedy sketches with millions of strangers on the Internet. She writes songs about her anatomy, talks trash about her one-eyed rescue pug, and sexually harasses her husband, Stephen. And it pays the bills. Now, in her first-ever book, Laura reco...

Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.

April Ashley was a trailblazing figure in the history of transgender rights and advocacy. Born in 1935 in Liverpool, Ashley was assigned male at birth, but knew from a young age that she identified as a woman. At the age of sixteen, April left home and began her journey of self-discovery, eventua...

Jenny Boyd's extraordinary life is the stuff of movies and novels, twice married to Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac, sister of Pattie Boyd, and close associate of The Beatles, hers is a story of incredible people and places experienced at a pivotal time in the 20th century.

Jeremy Hardy was perhaps the most distinctive and brilliant comedian to arise from the 80s alternative comedy circuit. He regularly entertained the millions who heard his outrageous rants on The News Quiz, or his hilarious monologues and sketches on the award-winning Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Na...

'King of the Blues' is the story of the first and only superstar of American blues. But it is also a chronicle of the African-American experience. B.B. King grew up in the Deep South, a few generations after the end of slavery, imprisoned within a cruel system of wage slavery known as sharecroppi...

Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised portraiture, which includes representations of Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves, and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies he encountered during the course of two s...

From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. As the niece of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, she was already well connected, and her courtly s...

From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. As the niece of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, she was already well connected, and her courtly s...

Since her debut album, The Fame, Lady Gaga has sold more than 124 million records and scooped numerous awards, including 12 Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards and 18 MTV Music Video Awards. Yet she is much more than a musician. At the helm of the Haus of Gaga - a close-knit circle of behind-the-sce...