Biography

Bob Mortimer's life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but forced him to reflect on his life so far. This is the framework for this hilariou...

Here is the long-awaited first autobiography by national treasure Bob Mortimer. Bob Mortimer's life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but f...

A bold, candid, vulnerable, and entertaining memoir of a literary life by the writer otherwise known as Lemony Snicket.

Angela Merkel has transformed German and European politics. Her achievements at home and abroad have seen her top Forbe's most powerful women list 10 times and she is still going strong after over 10 years in office - yet she may also be the least understood ruler in the world. Her government's h...

Angela Thirkell, born in 1890, was the Burne-Joneses' granddaughter, J.M. Barrie's goddaughter, a cousin of Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin and the mother of Colin MacInnes of Absolute Beginners fame. John Collier painted her portrait and she was drawn by John Singer Sargent and Thea Proctor....

John Lydon has remained a compelling and dynamic figure - both as a musician and as a cultural commentator. This is a fresh and mature look back on a life full of incident from his beginnings as a sickly child of immigrant Irish parents who grew up in post-war London, to his present status as a v...

Over the years, Gary Bell has prosecuted and represented some of the country's most serious criminal. He now specialises in fraud and the evidence and papers in his cases are measured in tonnes, not pages; one recent case had over 16 tonnes of material to be assimilated. But the story of how he r...

Lesbian. Lover. Lunatic. These are just some of the words usually used to describe Ann Walker, the oft overlooked wife of Anne Lister, better known by some as Gentleman Jack. Ann was one half of England's first same-sex marriage and yet the rainbow plaque that marks their historic union on the wa...

Based on extensive interviews with Anna Wintour's closest friends and collaborators, including some of the biggest names in fashion, journalist Amy Odell has crafted the most revealing portrait of Wintour ever published. Weaving Anna's personal story into a larger narrative about the hierarchical...

Friedmann charts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, from her origins as the daughter of a gifted courtier, her elevation to the greatest heights a woman could reach, to her tragic fall and execution, the victim of the man who had once loved her, and who had altered the course of his country's hist...