Biographies & Memoirs

‘[Nehru] is a book for today, not heavy and cumbersome, but sharp and witty, and relevant not just to India, but to other countries as well’ —BiblioThis short, beautifully written biography examines a great figure of twentieth-century nationalism from the vantage point of the beginning of the ... More

The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration. Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famou... More

Twenty-one extraordinary stories from a master storyteller For several decades now, Satyajit Ray’s tales about unusual happenings and bizarre characters rooted in familiar surroundings have both regaled and terrified his readers, young and old alike. Here finally are the very best of his shor... More

This is the world of Donald Trump, full of glitz, glamour- and other people’s money. Yet despite glaring cracks in the shimmering façade, the myth and the image have remained stubbornly impenetrable to a fascinated public-perhaps even to Trump himself. In this unique look inside the life of one o... More

James Herriot, strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, feels rather out of place, but he hasn't found a new profession and it surely won't be long before the RAF come round to his point of view. James Herriot's sixth volume of unforgettable memoirs sees him dreaming of the day when he can... More

Ilustrated with over 500 superb photographs from the archives of The Daily Mail, many of which have never been published before, this book is the ultimate pictorial biography of one of the most stunning and most photographed women of the 20th century.... More

A vivid account of how the war in Iraq is being waged, through the eyes of an ordinary American soldier. When Joshua Key enlisted in the US Army, he believed in his country and the integrity of his government, and never imagined he would lose that belief. A family man from a conservative background ... More

She will be remembered as one of the most inspiring and powerful politicians who was responsible for shaping the future of one of the largest democracies in the modern world.... More

Summarize the work of Hawking, a British physicist afflicted with Lou Gehrig's disease, concerning gravity, subatomic particles, black holes, and the origins of the universe... More

A literary memoir of the highest calibre by the highly-regarded writer Lorna Sage, Which vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place, and illuminates the lives of three generations of women. New Book... More

Reissue of the third gripping instalment of Princess Sultana’s ‘life behind the veil’ revelations by the author of the bestselling Princess and Daughters of Arabia. In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana’s revelations about life in Saudi Arabia’s royal family. Royal women live as vi... More

Rarely does a truly great player reveal as much of himself and his sport as Steve Waugh does in his long-awaited autobiography.Waugh opens up on his personal life in a way few would expect of a man known in cricket circles as 'The Iceman'. He provides revealing insights into life on and off the fiel... More