Biographies & Memoirs

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control 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 Memory Police: A Novel   Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of  The Housekeeper and the Professor . On an unnamed island, objects are...

When Breath Becomes Air 'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One...

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...

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An extraordinary diary of courage from the Vietnam War Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is the moving diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. Not only is it...

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...

Biden: The Obama Years and the Battle for the Soul of America   The visual chronicle of Joe Biden's eight years as vice president to Barack Obama, revealing in intimate detail who the President is as a father, friend, and leader   This book captures the core of who Joe Biden is as a...

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...

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....

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....

Hidden Girl : The True Story Of A Modern-Day Child Slave   An inspiring and compelling memoir from a young woman who lost her childhood to slavery—and built a new life grounded in determination and justice. When Shyima Hall was eight years old, her impoverished parents sold her to...

A Bit of A Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner   ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** A Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 'Shocking, scathing, entertaining.' - Guardian 'Incredibly compelling.' - The Times 'Heart-breaking.' - Sunday Times Where can a tin of tuna buy...

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)....

Born Trump: Inside America's First Family   Who is Donald J. Trump? To truly understand America’s forty-fifth president, argues  Vanity Fair  journalist Emily Jane Fox, you must know his children, whose own stories provide the key to unlocking what makes him tick.  Born Trump  is Fox’s...