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Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with…
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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 day he was a doctor treating the dying, …
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'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times 'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's…
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National Bestseller Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwins…
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This is the paperback edition of the intimate final memoirs from the great dissident-turned-politician who, along with Walesa and Gorbachev, will always be an icon of the magnificent, bloodless…
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Diego Armando Maradona: hero or villain? One thing is certain: he was the greatest footballer of his generation - and perhaps of all time. A poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty-town, his genius…
Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette. Throughout her career she endured…
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Have you ever kept a diary? This is the diary of a young girl growing up in sixties America - an honest account of teenage…
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Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette. Throughout the course of her career…
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He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the…
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In 1966 Will Cohu's grandparents moved to Bramble Carr, a remote cottage on the Yorkshire moors.Navigating family tensions…
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John Burnside's extraordinary story of this failed relationship is a beautifully written evocation of a lost and damaged…
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Stuart Heritage got where he is today by being decent, thoughtful, hardworking and kind. sons, fathers, fatherhood, sibling…
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Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his…
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In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca,…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIET NICOLSONVita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary…
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Discover this heartrending story of orphans, outcasts and the grip of the past from award-winning novelist Caryl Phillips -…
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Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease and can only…
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Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: 'after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else…
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He shows us the famous people with epilepsy like Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc and Vincent van Gogh, the pioneering doctors…
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\'Entertaining...revealing, shocking\' BERNARDINE EVARISTO\'Sublime\' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMSActor and director Zawe Ashton…
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`An extraordinary book of real passionate research' Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for…
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Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his…
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Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of…
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Fascinated both by Laroche and the world she uncovered of orchid collectors and growers, she stayed on, to write this…
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When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the…
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Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo - champion of…
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From the author of the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White HouseRupert Murdoch is one…
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In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd…
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** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week **Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very…
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WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR Why…
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From the age of 21, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament - his witness, the quintessence…
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Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; Talleyrand held high office in five successive…
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Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black…
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Acclaimed football writer Matt Dickinson traces the journey of this Essex boy who became the patron saint of English…
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In this series of moving recollections involving both his childhood and his work as a mature artist, John Fowles explains…
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The greatest sports stars characterise their times. Tim Adams sets out to explore what it might have meant to be John…
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Hailed as both the 'black Moses' and merely 'a Negro with a hat', he masterminded the first International Convention of the…
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The sequel to the bestselling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs TonightBorn in England and uprooted to southern Africa as a toddler…
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As mother to tennis champions Jamie and Andy Murray, Scottish National Coach, coach of the Fed Cup, and general all-round…
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In 1987 Stephen Roche touched greatnessIn June he won the Giro d'Italia, fighting a ferocious battle against not only his…
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Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl…
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west…
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Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine…
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WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA poignant and moving account of the author's search for the man his…
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*As featured in a BBC documentary*Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. Her story is informed…
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When Spurs legend John White was killed by a bolt of lightning in 1964, the football world was rocked by the tragedy. To…
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