Biography & non-fiction prose

Following a successful career as an award-winning novelist, Lisa St Aubin de Terán retreated to a remote village in Mozambique. There she found her own African roots, founded a charity and confronted new challenges. Much has been written about her escapades with a trio of Venezuelan exiles, life...

Mina Smallman has lived through the unimaginable. On Saturday 6 June 2020, her daughters, Bibaa Henry & Nicole Smallman, were killed in a park by a male stranger as they celebrated Bibaa's birthday. Mina has been fighting for justice ever since - for her daughters, & for the rest of us, by challe...

Every child in Regency London knew Billy Waters, the celebrated 'King of the Beggars.' Likely born into enslavement in 1770s New York, he became a Royal Navy sailor. After losing his leg in a fall from the rigging, the talented and irrepressible Waters became London's most famous street performer...

In her memoir, Mya-Rose Craig and her family travel the world in search of rare birds and astonishing landscapes. But a shadow moves with them, too - her mother's deepening mental health crisis. In the face of this struggle, the Craigs turn to nature again and again, and every time it offers joy ...

'Birds, Beasts and Bedlam' recounts the adventures of farmer-turned-rewilder Derek Gow, who is saving Britain's much-loved but dangerously threatened species, from the water vole to beaver, wildcat to white stork, and tree frog to glow worm. Derek tells us all about the realities of rewilding; ho...

Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York in 1961. He became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorized biography of this moody, passionate genius. Shelton tells the intimate and first-hand story ...

Nadhim Zahawi arrived in the UK aged 11, having been forced to flee Iraq with his family, under threat from Saddam Hussein's regime. In this candid and poignant memoir, Nadhim vividly recalls his upbringing in the Middle East, his family's adjustment to their new life in Britain and his rise to S...

In this extraordinary memoir, Katalin Karikó describes her improbable and inspiring journey from obscurity and rejection to the breakthrough discovery that led to the COVID-19 vaccines. It's an indictment of closed-minded thinking and a testament to one woman's commitment to laboring intensely i...

This is not just a guide to breastfeeding, but to both feeding and parenting a new baby, with a responsive and gentle theme throughout (for parents and little ones). If you're reading this book, you may be pregnant and wondering what life is really going to be like, have recently had a baby and f...

Here is a powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter - a tale that reminds us of the resilience of the soul and the ability of the heart to heal. Born in Czechoslovakia, Mira was only 12 years old when World War II broke out. Torn apart from her family, she went on to survi...