Biography & Memoir Books

Summary Every legend has its beginning. This Little People, Big Dreams collection contains two bestselling box sets from the inspiring series. In...

Titles In This Set : 1. Maya Angelou2. Anne Frank3. Frida Kahlo4. Coco Chanel5. Audrey HepburnDescription : Maya Angelou: All of them went on to a...

Titles in the Set : 1. Muhammad Ali 2. Stephen Hawking 3. David Bowie 4. Mahatma Gandhi 5. Bruce Lee Description : Muhammad Ali When he was litt...

Titles in this Set: Prince Philip Revealed: A Man of His Century The Duke: 100 Chapters in the Life of Prince Philip Description:Prince Philip Re...

Little People Big Dreams is a series of children's books that aims to inspire young readers by telling the stories of extraordinary individuals wh...

Reuben, aged 38, was living in a home for adults with learning disabilities. He hadn't established an independent life in the care system and was s...

A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain ...

In It's Not a Proper Job, TV legend Chris Tarrant regales the reader with hilarious and heart-warming stories from his stellar 50-year career in te...

'A really emotional read... it's wonderful' - Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2'It's such a lovely book!' - Holly Willoughby, This Morning 'A lovely read... it...

'An absolute triumph; a compelling and courageous memoir forcing the legal profession to confront uncomfortable truths about race and class. Alexan...

Taken from his popular column in The Yorkshire Post, Julian Norton's On Call with a Yorkshire Vet is the follow up to hissuccessful The Diary of a ...

In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstroem, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gu...

They call themselves geezers, or at least some of them do. The older ones don't seem to like the name... The SAS is staffed by the toughest and mos...

'Extraordinary... compelling' - Mail on Sunday'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken fo...

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been ...

***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***'A unique, funny picture of Britain... A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport.'...

'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily TelegraphMuch attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style?...

'A remarkable book' Robert Macfarlane'A distinctive new voice: attentive and tender' Amy Liptrot'Elegant, understated, urgent and nourishing' Jessi...

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature' Peter WohllebenJames Canton spent two years sitt...

Two of the most prominent and celebrated athletes in the world, Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard came together to contest the $100mill...

Find Endless Fortune by Ify Adenuga from publishers Boy Better Know at Books2Door! ; ; Published: 15/10/2020

For the first time ever, Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her amazing life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what lif...

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop...

'This honest and beautiful book is a story of resilience and doing life your way' Fearne Cotton'Kris's story should make you feel grateful for ever...

In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: Th...

The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton. They were the closest ...

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE MADNESS, ABSURDITY, AND UTTER CHAOS OF BEING A PARENT FROM THE HOSTS OF THE NO.1 SMASH HIT PODCAST. What's i...

THE POWERFUL AND UPLIFTING NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn March 2022, much-loved pop star, father and son Tom Parker died from incurable brai...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER 'Explosive' The Sun'Accounts from insiders who have never spoken before' The Times'Bombshell' The MirrorThe Brit...

'Read any history of the Nineties in Britain and you will read about Britpop, Blair, the birth of the Premier League and the rise of new lads. I pl...

Fizzing with energy, hilarity and charm, The Right Sort of Girl is the Sunday Times bestseller from Countryfile's Anita Rani. 'Warm, honest and f...

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2022'A marvellous book' Maxine PeakeCyclist Beryl Burton - also known as BB - domina...

UPDATED WITH A BRAND NEW CHAPTER ON SOBER CURIOSITY*Voted an Independent best self-care book for 2021**Voted one of Heat's best self-help books to ...

In June 1969, police raided New York gay bar the Stonewall Inn. Pride charts the events of that night, the days and nights of rioting that followed...

'A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid, shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind,' William BoydHoward Jacobson's funny, r...

WINNER OF THE 2022 ROONEY PRIZE FOR IRISH LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2022'A remarkable memoir of love and sorrow' Obse...

Discover a powerful, evocative and urgent new young voice in nature writing. 'Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick u...

*A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*Tim Moore, the author of the Sunday Times bestselling French Revolutions, completes his epic (and ill-advi...

**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think...

'An exceptionally beautiful book' Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House 'A vast and complex tapestry that captures the humanity of peo...

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet and shares photos of his extensive unique personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by ess...

Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of...

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERReflections on hope, survival and the messy miracle of being aliveIt is a strange paradox, that many ...

'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni TuttiA TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1983, backst...

SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARIn Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of ...

'BREATHTAKING' Dolly Alderton, 'REMARKABLE' Marian Keyes, 'LIFE-CHANGING' Emma Jane Unsworth, 'COMPELLING' Amy Liptrot, 'STUNNING' Cathy Rentzenbri...

SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKBorn and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in German...

A celebration of the life of Queen Elizabeth II, showing us that the Queen's qualities of duty, self-sacrifice and love of country were present in ...