National Geographic Traveller's the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn't published a...

Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in...

Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Loo...

'That word, "vacation," makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale ...

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's acclaimed biography of A. A. Milne, one of the ...

Hoewel J.M. Coetzee wêreldwyd bekend is as ’n Nobelpryswenner en romanskrywer, het daar tot onlangs geen omvattende biografie oor hom bestaan nie. ...

Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, C...

Jane Was Here is a whimsical, illustrated guide to Jane Austen's England - from the settings in her novels and the scenes in the wildly popular tel...

An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices__________________'A father...is a necessary...

'His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself' - The TimesAn Area o...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusett...

'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother,...

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING SAOIRSE RONANWITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHORTHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE AND ...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LULLABY, AND TRANSLATED BY SAM TAYLOR'A revelation - I have never felt more seen by a book, nor have...

‘This book kept me alive.’Love and Fury is the compelling and intimate account of the life, loves and furies of Margie Orford. In this brave memoir...

'Now that he is dead, we can know him better.'Secrecy came naturally to John le Carre, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep....

John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, poli...

Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in his ears as he oscillates furiously on the spot, havering on the threshold between t...

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She ...

John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, poli...

A story of hope, love and life in the face of cancer, and the miracle of second chancesWhen Delia's beloved first husband Jerry died of cancer in 2...