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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...

Immediate Action is a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag on the...

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

The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated...

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 the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named...

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 Return is at once a universal and an intensely personal tale. It is an exquisite meditation on how history and politics can...

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

'There was no...

Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The...

Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin

'Immaculately well done. Tomalin has managed...

The bestselling autobiography of the greatest rugby player of our time: Brian O'Driscoll.

Since 1999, when he made his...

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...