Biography: general

In the 1930s, women and men from across Britain, Europe and America made their way to Spain to be part of what they identified as a historic fight for freedom from fascism. 'Tomorrow Perhaps the Future' follows a handful of extraordinary outsiders who were determined to live out their lives with ...

Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963 and spent his boyhood living on a working-class council housing estate. 'Toy Fights' is the remarkable story of his first 20 years. This is not just a book about music and family, but also about 'schizophrenia, hell, money, narcissists, debt and ...

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her ...

The personal story of the youngest person to sail around the world single handedly from October 2009 to May 2010 - at the age of 16: 240 days and 23,000 nautical miles.

'A True Statesman' is an affectionate account of a great president, George H.W. Bush, who was proof that a good man can change the world, ending the Cold War, securing the reunification of Germany and risking his presidency to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. A portrait also of his friendship ...

Michael Cockerell is Britain's most celebrated TV documentary-maker, with a string of awards for his witty and eye-opening profiles of our Prime Ministers and other top politicians. 'You are no one in British politics until you've been Cockerelled,' said one newspaper. Drawing on his unique exper...

Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a charismatic adventurer and unique pictures of the multicultural society in which she lived. Following a migratory childhood that spanned Kabul and north India, G...

Georgina Landemare saw herself as ordinary, although her accomplishments - and the life she lived - were anything but. She started her career as a nursemaid and ended it cooking for Winston Churchill, a man to whom food was central, not only as a pleasure by itself, but as a diplomatic tool in a ...

I set out to bring the 'othered' to the table. We're here to inspire and give people something to dream about as well as a sense of the possible here and now. 'A Visible Man' traces an astonishing journey into one of the world's most exclusive industries. Edward Enninful candidly shares how as a ...

One of the world's foremost spots for astronomical observation, the Atacama Desert in Chile is also where, in October 1973, 26 people were executed by Pinochet's Caravan of Death. Decades on, a petition gathers for a constellation's stars to be dedicated to them. Nona Fernández is made a godmoth...