This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death
A meditation on dying by a writer who has been compared to Proust, was much praised by Salman Rushdie and is perhaps most famous for producing very little.
Biography and non-fiction prose
The Dark Side of Camelot
Sex, the Kennedys, Monroe and the Mafia; the controversial American bestseller – ‘Hersh has found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge’ Gore Vidal
Football in Sun and Shadow: An Emotional History of World Cup Football
Football is, in Pele’s words, ‘the beautiful game’ . Eduardo Galeano has written a series of football epiphanies from the global history of football when the rays of light have glittered from the passion of the game.
Lloyd George: The Young Lloyd George
‘Among the few truly great political biographies of this century’ Sunday Telegraph – the first volume in John Grigg’s highly acclaimed biography of Lloyd George.
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
The ultimate biography of this ever-popular star and icon, from a young Cambridge don who has already made his name with a much praised biography of Marilyn Monroe.
Sporting Profiles
A selection of Michael Parkinson’s award-winning interviews with sporting heroes from Bobby Moore and Don Bradman to Steve Redgrave and Nick Faldo, and a moving tribute to Parkinson’s own sporting hero, his father John William Parkinson.