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Straight Outta Crawley is the hilarious and irreverent autobiography from comedian Romesh Ranganathan.

At the age of 9, Romesh...

Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016

From the condemned slums of Southam Street in...

In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to...

Alan Johnson's childhoodwas not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary....

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...

A new suspect for the role of Jack the Ripper - in his own words.

This manuscript was found in papers belonging to Hulme...

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...

In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating...

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 classic rock memoir of the Hollies front man and member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - belongs on the shelves of all music...

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...

Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The...

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

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

Milligan's Meaning of Life is a glorious celebration of the legendary Spike Milligan. Here you will find his most intimate and...

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

Where is 'home'? For...

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie

Abandoning the...

In July 1988, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, was admitted to what had once been England's largest psychiatric...