Memoir & biography Books 133 results

Patrick O'brian

Harper

Dave Davies

Headline

Anthony Hopkins

Simon & Schuster

Matthew Polly

Simon & Schuster

Robert Service

Panmacmillan

Robert Service

Panmacmillan

Robert Jobson

Phoenix

From the Sunday Times bestselling author and Royal correspondent, Robert Jobson - with his extensive connections within the royal household - this dynamic biography tells the full story of how Catherine, the Princess of Wales, became the woman she is today. Kate Middleton's life's story seems like a modern-day fairy-tale. An attractive, clever, and ambitious girl from unexcepti...

Yuri Herrera

And Other Stories

Gisele Pelicot

Bodley Head

Lena Dunham

Harper

In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain. For the last decade, as she's spent countless hours in doctor's waiting rooms searching for diagnoses, treatments, and relief,...

Liza Minnelli

Phoenix

Fasten your seatbelts, darlings, it's been one helluva ride. Liza Minnelli is one of the most iconic and enduring figures in entertainment history. Now, in her first and only memoir, Liza tells her story in her own words - and what a story it is. Born into Hollywood royalty, Liza was the daughter of legendary director Vincente Minnelli and the incomparable Judy Garland - and...

Jonathan Tepper

Sphere

Gabriel Sherman

Simon & Schuster

'Utterly gripping' - Spectator 'An exuberant chronicle of seduction and betrayal' - Tina Brown, The Observer Based on interviews with more than 150 inside sources, bestselling political journalist Gabriel Sherman reveals the inside story of the Murdoch family war. When Rupert Murdoch first considered who should inherit his media colossus, controlling FOX News, The Washingto...

Scott Galloway

Simon & Schuster

Bestselling author, NYU professor, and cohost of the Pivot podcast, Scott Galloway offers a path forward for men and parents of boys. Boys and men are in crisis. Rarely has a cohort fallen further and faster than young men living in Western democracies. Boys are less likely to graduate from high school or college than girls. One in seven men reports having no friends, and me...

Patti Smith

Bloomsbury

A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids. God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighb...

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Puffin

The extraordinarily powerful memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the inspirational woman who stood up and spoke out about serial abusers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. This is the memoir behind the headlines: intimate, fierce, unforgettable. In 2011, Virginia Roberts Giuffre hit the headlines as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's most outspoken victim: t...

Lukas Gage

Harper

'Raw, provocative, chaotic, and - dare I say - slutty' COLLEEN HOOVER A thrilling memoir by The White Lotus and Euphoria actor, Lukas Gage, which chronicles his upbringing in a broken family, struggles with borderline personality disorder and his commitment to always being the centre of attention. Lukas Gage was having one of the shittiest weeks of his life. His beloved grandmo...

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Harper

*PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* 'SUBLIME' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'STUNNINGLY GOOD' THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOKS 2024 'COMPULSIVE' A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'BRILLIANT' A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'A delicious, grippingly paced tale of rogues, riotous sex, regicide and realpolitik' INDEPENDENT ...

Kase Wickman / Joanna Weiss / Moira Mcavoy

Hit

If you're a passionate Swiftie who wants to know EVERYTHING about your favorite icon—especially her music—this luxuriously illustrated deep dive should take center stage.Featuring fresh insights from all eleven studio albums—from Taylor Swift to The Tortured Poets Department—Taylor Swift: Album by Album mines her life, lyrics, and music like nothing else before it. This book al...

Ozzy Osbourne

Sphere

At the age of 69, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world. Then disaster. In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalised with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour, and all public life, as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down. 'Last Rites' is the shocking, bitterly...

Tim Curry

Century

The outrageous, riotous memoir from the cult actor and star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue and IT. Actor, rock 'n' roll singer, the prince of Halloween, confusing sex symbol. Many labels have been given to the inimitable Tim Curry over the years. All are true, and yet none are quite right. Here, for the first time, Curry reveals the raucous and true story of the man w...

Dan Jennings

Sphere

Across musical history, certain artists have transcended their craft to become cultural icons, leaving an indelible mark on the world of sound and style. Paul Weller, the legendary British musician, singer and songwriter, stands among the select few whose influence spans generations. His enduring popularity, traversing the explosive energy of The Jam to the sophisticated sounds...

Elizabeth Gilbert

Bloomsbury

In her first non-fiction book in a decade, the no. 1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free. In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: the two were in love. T...

Arundhati Roy

Ladybird

Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her relationship to her extraordinary, singular mother Mary, who she describes as 'my shelter and my storm'. Distraught and even a \"little ashamed\" at the intensity of her response to...

Hu Anyan

Ladybird

A Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial Times Hu Anyan has held nineteen different jobs since he graduated. He's been a convenience store clerk, a bicycle salesman, a security guard and a delivery driver (among many other things). Every time the work gets punishing or the bosses too bossy, he moves on, from city to city, carrying with him ...

Kelly Bishop

Puffin

Discover Kelly Bishop's captivating story of six decades in show business: a must-have for fans of Gilmore Girls in search of a journey beyond Stars Hollow. Kelly Bishop's storied career has been defined by landmark achievements. But it is probably her role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy. Full of witty insights and featuring a sp...

Canyon Hohenstein

Self Published

Who Tames the Flames? is a gritty, character-driven drama set during Montana's most catastrophic wildfire season in over a century. The series follows Gully, a former wildland firefighter who walked away from the line years ago, hollowed out by trauma and a burdensome legacy. Now, on the edge of suicide, he makes a desperate call to his old mentor and is thrust back into the in...

Maggie Nelson

Penguin

It's not the dream that matters, it's the telling of the dream - the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in ...

Maggie Smith

Phoenix

'How I wish I'd had access to this book when I was first starting out as a writer! Maggie Smith has created an offering here of great substance and generosity - walking writers of all levels through the sometimes wild and terrifying landscape of literary endeavour' ELIZABETH GILBERTDrawing from her twenty years of teaching experience, bestselling writing career and popular news...

Stephen Witt

Bodley Head

Nvidia is as valuable as Apple and Microsoft. It has shaped the world as we know it. But its story is little known. This is the definitive story of the greatest technology company of our times. 'Gripping and brilliantly told' Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave In June 2024, thirty-one years after it was founded in a diner, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation ...