Biography and Autobiography - Recently published biographies. (To keep this list from getting too long, we remove older titles from it every so often - but you'll still find them in other booklists according to their subject)
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£10.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781804991466 | ISBN 10: 1804991465
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course.' Jamie Lee Curtis
'Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn't simp ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781847927071 | ISBN 10: 1847927076
Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling figures.
'A book of meticulous sensitivity and research' TELEGRAPH& ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781800183001 | ISBN 10: 1800183003
A powerful anthology of stories, reflections and letters by care-experienced people, including contributions from Lemn Sissay, Sally Bayley, Kirsty Capes and many more.
This book is all about the care system, and it's written by people who h ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780241994320 | ISBN 10: 0241994322
'A captivating account of lives previously ignored' Sunday Independent
'An important, impeccably researched though eminently readable book that charts new territory' Irish Examiner
Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth cen ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781914240478 | ISBN 10: 1914240472
WINNER, NON FICTION BOOK 2023, BOOKS ARE MY BAG AWARDS
SHORTLISTED BOOKSHOP.ORG INDIE CHAMPAIONS
AMAZON NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘An absolute riot. I ... more
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£32.00 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780821425145 | ISBN 10: 0821425145
An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four influential figures from modern African history.
Chris Hani, by Hugh Macmillan
Chris Hani was one of the most highly respected leaders of the African National Congress, the S ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529118698 | ISBN 10: 1529118697
'It's very candid, and movingly so.... Not only in Blackman a grafter- even more, and in the face of more, than we already knew. She's someone with whom you do not mess. Good on her. She's earned it' The Telegraph
Malorie Blackman is one of Brit ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399802574 | ISBN 10: 1399802577
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION’S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLY
Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I’ve met the weirdest and most wonderful people who ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241482728 | ISBN 10: 0241482720
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A fitting tribute to the unsung work of women everywhere and the perfect Christmas gift!
'A marvellous book... I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398519503 | ISBN 10: 1398519502
'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book' Dolly Alderton ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399710886 | ISBN 10: 1399710885
In this memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and comedian Rob Delaney grapples with the fragile miracle of life, the mysteries of death, and the question of purpose for those left behind.
When you’re a parent and your child gets hurt or sick, you ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529176902 | ISBN 10: 1529176905
WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION
'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman
'Sometimes joyful ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571384297 | ISBN 10: 0571384293
‘A really great book.’ Bruce Springsteen
With a foreword by Billy Bragg.
Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie. Singer, songwriter and political activist, Guthrie ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008472924 | ISBN 10: 0008472920
From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden.
From Cartimandua, the forgo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398500501 | ISBN 10: 139850050x
Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a new collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays.
From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden LGBTQ history of his hometown, Quinc ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839041211 | ISBN 10: 1839041218
In this candid and empowering A to Z of being an actor, Julie Hesmondhalgh draws on her decades of experience on stage and screen – including in massively popular television shows such as Broadchurch, Happy Valley and Coronation Street – to lift ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526614643 | ISBN 10: 1526614642
**WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD 2021**
Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellect ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781909770690 | ISBN 10: 1909770698
"An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read."(Katharine Birbalsingh)
"Fascinating and poignant… an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir."(Angela Petch)
Perhaps it’s true that ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781844885428 | ISBN 10: 1844885429
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICON.
Sinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781509896127 | ISBN 10: 1509896120
This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141985060 | ISBN 10: 0141985062
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture.
The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culmina ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781527290242 | ISBN 10: 1527290247
DAD is a deeply moving and inspiring collection of stories that represent the diversity of modern fatherhood and seeks to start a conversation that challenges the traditions associated with masculinity.
Including 20 powerful and defiant stori ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141028590 | ISBN 10: 0141028599
"It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand, floral-patterned settee, and lean forward, like I'm presenting myself for exec ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529109603 | ISBN 10: 1529109604
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries about his c ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913348229 | ISBN 10: 1913348229
"This remarkable meditation on beautiful, human bodies formed by the violence of slavery and by colonial shame resists categorisation, even as it shows up the ways in which categories of race and identity are no more than empty methods of social cont ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474610056 | ISBN 10: 1474610056
Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide.
Malala’s experiences visiting refu ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785928376 | ISBN 10: 1785928376
Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an international human rights defender and globally-recognised activist.
Charting her intersex discovery a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781781256671 | ISBN 10: 1781256675
Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. Storytelling phenomenon The Moth rec ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784162344 | ISBN 10: 1784162345
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2019
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolv ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529103380 | ISBN 10: 152910338x
“Everyone has their price. It’s just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.”
Single mum. ‘Stain on society’. Caught in a poverty trap.
It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846076176 | ISBN 10: 184607617x
There was life before the fall.
1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. B ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408893333 | ISBN 10: 1408893339
THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES
SELECTED AS A SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES AND THE MAIL ON ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788160995 | ISBN 10: 1788160991
Anne Lister was a Yorkshire heiress, an intrepid world traveller and a proud lesbian during a time when it was difficult simply to be female. She chose to remain unmarried, dressed all in black and spoke openly of her lack of interest in men. The fir ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786636874 | ISBN 10: 1786636875
A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs.
Dynamic and beloved American radical, labor leader, and socialist Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party to federal and state office across the United States by the 1920s. Imp ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786090508 | ISBN 10: 1786090503
When Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began talking in whispers, or why her neighbours started disappearing, or why she could hear distant thunder even when the skies were clear.
... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786090638 | ISBN 10: 1786090635
On 6 July 1972, David Bowie, with a flame-orange cockade quiff, lavishly applied make-up, wearing a multi-coloured jumpsuit that looked as though it were made from fluorescent fish skin, and carrying a brand spanking new blue acoustic guitar, made hi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781255292 | ISBN 10: 1781255296
Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain a ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241373705 | ISBN 10: 0241373700
Me You is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket.
Me. You. Not a Diary is everything you loved about the original but without the calendar pages. To keep a working diary alongside Dawn, we recommend the hardback edition of Me. ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571336807 | ISBN 10: 0571336809
Born in New York City in 1935, Peggy Seeger enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and politics. Her father was the noted musicologist Charles Seeger; her mother, the modernist composer Ruth Crawford; and her brother Pete, the celebrated writer of prot ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617204 | ISBN 10: 1911617206
Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.
Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time — be ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571312023 | ISBN 10: 0571312020
It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Émile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter ‘J’accuse’ and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986616 | ISBN 10: 0141986611
From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in.
People who believe in f ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781846149825 | ISBN 10: 1846149827
"A major literary talent... speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way... you'll find it hard to come away from The Terrible without a stab of recognition in your chest."(Stylist)
'You ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786890115 | ISBN 10: 1786890119
“It sounded to me that to be a gentleman, you needed both manners and bravery. And that thought was horribly fascinating. Because I thought only wimps needed manners. And only tough guys were brave”
Following Peep Show, and alongside Back, t ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781444799101 | ISBN 10: 144479910x
Following his ground-breaking international bestseller The Reason I Jump, written when he was only thirteen, Naoki Higashida offers equally illuminating and practical insights into autism from his current perspective as a young man.
Naoki Higash ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781941932087 | ISBN 10: 1941932088
Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy (delivered in the form of primal therapy) that attempted to "cure" him of his homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdic ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141983868 | ISBN 10: 0141983868
When Harriet Harman started her career, men-only job adverts and a 'women's rate' of pay were the norm, female MPs were a tiny minority - a woman couldn't even sign for a mortgage. But, she argues, we should never just be grateful that things are bet ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780992658564 | ISBN 10: 099265856x
Being gay in football - as fan or player - is to risk the homophobia that has run through the game for years. But things are changing. Gradually a few brave professional players have come out. And someone like Neil Beasley now feels able to tell his ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786698001 | ISBN 10: 1786698005
Mohamed El-Bachiri is a driver on the Brussels metro rail system. He grew up and lives in the suburb of Molenbeek, notorious as the place from which a number of Belgian jihadis have come. He is also the husband of Loubna Lafquiri, the love of his lif ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780552172158 | ISBN 10: 0552172154
Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016
From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an e ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472126658 | ISBN 10: 1472126653
A personal memoir from a leading figure in the gay rights movement, and partial inspiration for the acclaimed mini-series When We Rise from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearc ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780224100434 | ISBN 10: 0224100432
The inspirational story of athlete Jo Pavey, the runner and mum who ran at a record-breaking fifth Olympic Games at Rio 2016.
'Come-back races? I've had more than a few, the night of 10 May 2014 was the ultimate long shot. I was a forty-year ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780349134512 | ISBN 10: 0349134510
A memoir of parenthood by poet Hollie McNish�
There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't know before she was pregnant. How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stomach. These ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118749 | ISBN 10: 1782118748
Inspired by the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, this is the story of the real Miss Simone.
What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon Nina Simone, one of the most influential, provocativ ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473632042 | ISBN 10: 1473632048
"Nothing makes me happier than talking about depression. Packed with stories, humour and a bit of the serious stuff, I will literally write the book on how it feels to be told "Cheer up, Love"'"(Susan Calman)
Susan Calman is a well known comedian ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9789350297117 | ISBN 10: 9350297116
From Bankimchandra Chatterjee to G.V. Desani to Vikram Seth, Indian writing in English has come a long way over the last hundred years. And Nilanjana Roy – voracious eater of books and sharpest of critics – has taken stock of it all.
On ... more
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£12.50 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781616558352 | ISBN 10: 1616558350
Eisner and Harvey Award winner!
"If anyone was ‘The Fifth Beatle’ it was Brian."(Paul McCartney)
The Fifth Beatle graphic novel recounts the untold true story of Brian Epstein - the visionary manager who created Beatlemania and guided the ... more
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