Biography: general

Patrick Vernon's landmark '100 Great Black Britons' campaign of 2003 was one of the most successful movements to focus on the role of people of African and Caribbean descent in British history. Frustrated by the widespread and continuing exclusion of the black British community from the mainstrea...

At 18, your life is full of possibility. You have everything to look forward to - unless you've got the plague. In this unconventional and witty history, award-winning writer and broadcaster Alice Loxton delves into Britain's past, exploring the country though 18 notable figures at that most form...

First published in the 1960, this is Johnson's account of her time running a farm in Exmoor in the 1950s, with her husband Johnny and their 4 children. In 1951 Buster Johnson moved from Surrey to Exmoor with her husband Johnny, four children, a couple of dogs and a vanload of pigs and poultry. Na...

Ronnie Lane's story is that of a working-class kid who started his musical career busking a ukulele at the age of eight. As a young man he signed with legendary manager Don Arden, who paid him in paisley shirts. He then enjoyed a phenomenal 17 consecutive Top 40 singles, womanising and LSD, and f...

Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain. In science, he is known for his important work in meteorology, climate science, magnetism, acoustics and bacteriology. ...

'At the Existentialist Café' is the story of existentialism as a story of meetings - of people and of ideas. It is a warm, witty and engaging biography of a philosophy about life that also changed lives, and one that tackled the biggest questions of all: what we are and how we are to live.

Compiled from his own words, this autobiography of Martin Luther King shows how the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student rebelled against segregation and was fired by a vision of equality for people everywhere.

This title tells the story of 1000 days of crisis. As Chancellor, Alistair Darling sanctioned the £37 billion bailouts of RBS and HBoS just minutes before their cash machines would have ceased to function. Here, Darling places the reader in the rooms where the destinies of millions weighed heavil...

In 'Beautiful People', well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.

A Manchester lad from Irish Traveller stock, born three months premature and weighing just a pound at birth, Tyson (named after his father's boxing hero) grew up to become one of the most unlikely heavyweight champions in history. This 'dream come true' soon turned to nightmare, however, as alcoh...