Biographie & Autobiographie

Swimming with Cobras

de Rosemary Smith

Swimming with Cobras is a memoir about a journey to find a foothold in a foreign land grappling with it's own identity, offering rare and important insight into a corner of South Africa's past.

Invisible Earthquake

de Malika Ndlovu

Malika Ndlovu takes us right into the heart of her grief - the loss of her third child, who was stillborn.

Eloquent Body

de Dawn Garisch

Eloquent Body explores the juxtaposition of healing and creativity both from a personal as well as medical point of view.

Peter Paul Galligan: "One of the Most Dangerous Men in the Rebel Movement"

de Kevin Galligan

The stories of the leading figures of the Irish revolution – Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera, and guerrillas like Tom Barry and Ernie O’Malley – have been well told. But many other senior-ranking activists...

I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story

de Rick Bragg

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Rick Bragg lends his remarkable narrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known.

In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg let’s Jessica...

Nick Clegg: The Biography

de Chris Bowers

In early April 2010 Nick Clegg was fighting for recognition, even as the young, fresh and personable leader of Britain’s third political party. Two weeks later he was the focus of ‘Cleggmania’ and his popularity...

Brown at 10

de Anthony Seldon

GORDON BROWN's three years in power were among the most turbulent in Downing Street's post-war history. Brown at 10 tells the compelling story of his hubris and downfall, and with it, the final demise of the...

Hate: My Life in the British Far Right

de Matthew Collins

What do you do when everything you know and believe in crashes around you in a hail of fists and boots, flying chairs and broken glass? And not just once, but seemingly every time you leave the house? When it...

There's Only One Sauzee: When Le God Graced Easter Road

de Ted Brack

When Alex McLeish persuaded European legend Franck Sauzée to sign for Hibernian Football Club in February 1999, it was the club’s biggest coup since the signing of George Best. Many people questioned the...

Law, Life and Laughter: A Personal Verdict

de Irvine Smith

Legendary Sheriff Irvine Smith QC is one of the most formidable criminal lawyers of his generation. Called to the Bar in 1953, he was involved as Counsel in some of Scotland’s biggest cases, including the...

Gordon Smith

de Tony Smith

Gordon Smith is one of football’s all-time greats. As a player, he was world-class and in a glittering career, he won almost every honour available, played the game with passion and lived life to the full....

Gangsters, Killers and Me

de Gerard Gallacher

Gerard Gallacher served as a police officer in Glasgow over three decades, from the 1980s onwards. It was the time when drugs seized hold of the city and a new set of ruthless criminals were threatening to take...

A Door in the Ocean: A Memoir

de David McGlynn

On a warm September night in 1991, in a quiet neighborhood north of Houston, Texas, David McGlynn’s closest friend and teammate on the high school swimming team is found murdered on his living room floor....

Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick

de Peter Collier

This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration, outside of the President...

The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love

de James L.W. Iii West

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a handsome, ambitious sophomore at Princeton when he fell in love for the first time. Ginevra King, though only sixteen, was beautiful, socially poised, and blessed with the confidence...

Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist

de Helene Aylon

Up from orthodoxy into the art world’s creative chaos—a feminist artist’s whimsical memoir of heady times.

The Japan Journals: 1947-2004

de Donald Richie & Leza Lowitz

"Wonderfully evocative and full of humor, but also honest, introspective, and often poignant."--The New York Times

Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist - One Woman's Spiritual Journey

de Jan Willis

Jan Willis is not Baptist or Buddhist. She is simply both. Dreaming Me is the story of her life, from growing up a Baptist in the segregated South, dealing with racism in an Ivy League college, and becoming...

The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin

de Margaret Rhodes

This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy,...

Poe: A Life Cut Short

de Peter Ackroyd

Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s greatest and most versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe wrote lyrical poetry...