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The weird and wonderful true story of a national treasure in the making

Ben Fogle's life has been action-packed to say the...

Shaun Ryder has lived a life of glorious highs and desolate lows. As lead singer of the Happy Mondays, he turned Manchester into...

Throughout the 1990s, Deric Longden has shared his life with Aileen Armitage and four cats: Thermal, Tigger, Frink and shabby old...

The little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to...

Deric's gentle tales of life in Huddersfield with his wife Aileen and their menagerie of playful cats have won him thousands of...

A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet...

Dillibe was the second black boy to study at Eton - joining in 1965 - and the first to complete his education there. Written at...

Travelling over from Jamaica as a teenager, Barbara's journey is remarkable. She finds her footing in TV, and blossoms. Covering...

The infamous literary hoax that fooled the art world

On January 8 1960, artist Nat Tate set out to burn his entire life's...

Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped. In the year following he found himself turning to art, particularly...

The life of Gandhi, in his own words

150th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

'Generations to...

The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her life

When a young Mary McAleese told a priest that...

The hand of a stranger offered in solace. A flower placed on a dead body as a mark of respect. It is these moments of empathy...

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically...

'All my life my Stradivarius had been waiting for me, as I had been waiting for her . . .'

At 7 years old Min Kym was a...

Froome... , Walsh...

Growing up in Kenya, biking down mile after mile of dusty road, and staying in a humble tin hut, he developed a fierce passion...

The definitive biography of an extraordinary novelist, by acclaimed literary biographer Claire Harman

'There was no...

Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin

'Immaculately well done. Tomalin has managed...

The definitive biography of George VI, the hero of The King's Speech

George VI reigned through taxing times. Acceding to the...

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals

Where is 'home'? For...

In the last years of her life, Teresa Lim's mother, Violet Chang, had copies of a cherished family photograph made for those in...

Matt Baker's first ever book is a year spent on the farm; told through the seasons this is his diary of the natural world, his...

Start your year with the uplifting and heartwarming life lessons from a truly inspirational man, Captain Sir Tom Moore

'One...

A fascinating personal account of a revolution in British farming

Sarah Langford had left her country roots behind to live and...

Payne Les, Payne...

A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative.

Les...

For forty years we've been watching Phillip - from children's TV to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and This...

Captain Sir Tom Moore's story is all our stories . . .

Born at the tail end of the Spanish flu epidemic, Tom Moore was raised...

Enter the world of Gyles Brandreth - broadcaster, actor, writer, former politician - as he takes us on an extraordinary journey...

Watch. The. Ball.

It's just you. Standing at the crease. Waiting. The bowler is running. His arm swinging. The ball - 155...

A moving memoir from a woman who made a fortune in a man's world and then gave it all away...soon to be turned into a film

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