Biography: general

Trauma Bonds

A fascinating journalistic exploration into the impact of intergenerational trauma on the descendants of both survivors and perpetrators

A Truce That Is Not Peace

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY

‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’GUARDIAN

‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE

‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD

Prodigal

The extraordinary memoir from Dylan Thomas Prize-winning poet, Kayo Chingonyi.

The Escape: The Tour, the Cyclist and Me

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD

‘A tremendously engaging read’ – The Times

A unique memoir from British cycling’s most fascinating competitor

I, Vera: The dangerous life of a radical princess

Princess Vera Giedroytz was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian Princess who habitually wore a man’s suit, played billiards with brilliance, and regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery, while on occasion forcibly ejecting an inquisitive Rasputin from her operating theatre by throwing him down the stairs.

Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent

This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward.

Shakespeare’s Strong Women

From the fiery passion of Juliet, to the unapologetic ambition of Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s Strong Women is a witty, empowering guide to The Bard’s fiercest female characters.

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