Biographies & Memoirs

Going Solo : My Choice To Become A Single Mother Using A Donor   Going Solo is the empowering and uplifting story of one woman's choice to become a single mother. 'I hope this story gives hope to anyone who wants children and to anyone who finds themselves single. Not to follow this...

How I Learned To Understand the World: A Memoir   The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund This is a book that contains very few...

Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947   Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But many have vanished from our collective memory...

Harry's Last Stand: How The World My Generation Built Is Falling Down, And What We Can Do To Save It   'A kind of epic poem, one that moves in circular fashion from passionate denunciation to intense autobiographical reflection ... should be required reading for every MP, peer,...

Small Fry   Vogue's Best Books of the Year Sunday Times' Best Memoirs of the Year A New York Times Book of the Year New Yorker Book of the Year A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs....

Proud: Living My American Dream The inspiring all-American story of faith, family, hard work, and perseverance by Olympic fencer, activist, and Time"100 Most Influential People" honoree Ibtihaj Muhammad At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Ibtihaj Muhammad smashed barriers as the first...

Every Day Is Extra An instant New York Times bestseller, John Kerry's revealing memoir offers "a detailed record of an important life...frank, thoughtful, and clearly written...A bittersweet reminder of what the country once demanded of its leaders" (The New York Times Book Review)....

DK Life Stories Alexander Hamilton In this kids' biography, discover the amazing life story of Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father of the United States whose strong personality and work as an American statesman made him an icon of history and popular culture....

Amazing Fantastic Incredible In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee—comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes—shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern...

The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House "One of the most compelling stories I've seen about what it's actually like to serve the American people" - BARACK OBAMA A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of the Obama presidency and a political memoir about the power of...

Educated * From one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people of 2019 * Shortlisted for the 2018 BAMB Readers' Awards * Recommended as a summer read by Barack Obama, Antony Beevor, India Knight, Blake Morrison and Nina Stibbe Selected as a book...

The Secret Barrister: Stories Of The Law And How It's Broken An anonymous barrister writes a darkly comic, provocative, and moving first-hand account of life in the legal system and how it's failing us all, in this Sunday Times bestseller. I'm a barrister, a job which...

The Heat Of The Moment: Stories Of Life And Death Decisions From A Firefighter "One of the wonder women of our emergency services" - Glamour "An inspirational woman" - Good Housekeeping Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton has been a firefighter for eighteen years. She decides...

Dadlife "This is the story of my journey into parenthood, from being a 24 year old man-child with no idea of what being a dad involved, to where I find myself today: the single male representative in a household of five women, or in other words, outnumbered. Our house is now known as...

Miracle In The Cave: The 12 Lost Boys, Their Coach, And The Heroes Who Rescued Them Featuring never-before-reported details and exclusive interviews with the boys, their families, and rescue workers, the inspiring true story of how twelve members of the Wild Boar Academy Football Club...

Twenty years after his iconic memoir Losing My Virginity , the world’s ultimate entrepreneur is back with the rest of the story. Richard Branson’s Losing My Virginity shared the outrageous tale of how he built Virgin from a student magazine into one of the greatest brands in history....