Biography: general

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...

Tells the story of the most influential British plantswoman of the past 100 years. Beth Chatto was the inspiration behind the 'right plant, right place' ethos that lies at the heart of modern gardening. She also wrote some of the best-loved gardening books of the 20th century, among them 'The Dry...

This is Sandi Toksvig's autobiography - part memoir, part diary, part travelogue and history all from the top of a double-decker.

When Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department, comes across a classified ad in the local paper asking for all those interested in joining the Ku Klux Klan to contact a P.O. box, Detective Stallworth does his job and responds with interest,...

The prospect of a move from St. Joseph's Home, London to Blaisdon in Gloucestershire, evokes fear of further horrors to come. For years, the author has been warned of the Spartan disciplines, awaiting all who are sent there. Will Blaisdon Hall be the ultimate in refined punishments by men that th...

Growing up in a quiet, middle-class suburb outside of Amsterdam, childhood best friends Anna and Olivia had their whole lives ahead of them. But every parent's worst nightmare came true when the teenagers fell in with the wrong crowd. Eleven years their senior, Ricardo was charming and good-looki...

Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.

Rob Temple runs a social-media empire from the comfort of his sofa. Living the dream! But what happens when a lack of colleagues, bosses and alarm clocks means that your sofa, and the four walls of your very quiet living room, become your whole world? In this tender and life-affirming memoir, Rob...

Famed as the most beautiful undergraduate at Oxford, Lord Alfred Douglas, or Bosie as he was known, remains one of the most notorious figures in literary history. This biography explores the contradictions that made up his life.