Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy by Elizabeth Winder
Category: Biography
In Manhattan, the most famous woman in the world can wander the streets unbothered, spend hours at the Met getting lost in art, and afternoons buried in the stacks of the Strand. Marilyn begins to live a life of the mind in New York; she dates Arthur Miller, dances with Truman Capote and drinks with Car ...Show more
Size Zero: My Life as a Disappearing Model by Victoire Dauxerre
Category: Biography
Scouted in the street when she was 17, Victoire Dauxerre's story started like a teenager's fantasy: within months she was strutting down the catwalks of New York's major fashion shows. But when fashion executives and photographers forced her to become ever thinner, Victoire's dream became a nightmare. ...Show more
Capote : A biography by Gerald Clarke
Category: Biography
The authoritative biography of Truman Capote, a bestseller when originally published on both sides of the Atlantic.
Diana: Her Last Love by Kate Snell
Category: Biography
When Princess Diana flew to Pakistan in May 1997, she went to meet the family of Dr. Hasnat Khan, the man she wanted to marry. One of the most famous and beautiful women in the world, she hoped to persuade Dr. Khan's mother that she would make a suitable wife for her son. Had she succeeded, the events o ...Show more
Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
Category: Biography
A young man decides to visit Nigeria after years of absence. Ahead lies the difficult journey back to the family house and all its memories; meetings with childhood friends and above all, facing up to the paradox of Nigeria, whose present is as burdened by the past as it is facing a new future. Along th ...Show more
How to do a Liver Transplant: Stories from my Surgical Life by Kellee Slater
Category: Biography
"When everything is in place and both teams are ready, someone cries out 'Cross-clamp!' Then it is on for young and old as the clock is ticking. Up to this point, it has been a careful and considered surgery. Now it is all about speed. We move like Edward Scissorhands, chop, chop, chop. This is the tric ...Show more
The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love by Anna Holmwood
Category: Biography
Pradyumna Kumar, aka PK, was born into a poor, untouchable family in a small village in eastern India. Throughout his childhood he kept a palm leaf bearing an astrologer's prophecy: 'You will marry a girl who is not from the village, not even from the country; she will be musical, own a jungle and be bo ...Show more
Tell Me Who I Am: Sometimes It's Safer Not to Know by Alex And Marcus Lewis
Category: Biography
Five years in the making, the extraordinarily powerful documentary film TELL ME WHO I AM is released by Netflix this autumn. Made by the BAFTA winning producer Simon Chinn, whose previous films include MAN ON WIRE, Louis Theroux's MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE and SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, TELL ME WHO I AM is un ...Show more
You Left Early : a True Story of Love and Alcohol by Louisa Young
Category: Biography
'Spectacular. I can't stop thinking about it. Louisa Young is a beautiful, beautiful writer' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love This brutal, beautiful memoir from award-winning novelist Louisa Young is a heartbreaking portrayal of love, grief and the merciless grip of addiction. Louisa ...Show more
Gumption - Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman
Category: Biography
After the great success of his autobiography, Paddle Your Own Canoe, Offerman offers up another hilarious book focusing on the lives of those who inspire him. From George Washington to Willie Nelson, he describes 21 heroic figures and tells us exactly why they inspire him. Combining serious history with ...Show more
Memories of a Pre-Raphaelite Youth by Ford Madox Ford
Category: Biography
One of the greatest literary artists in history, Ford Madox Ford's childhood is brought to life in this collection of anecdotes from his many memoirs Ford Madox Ford, best known today for Parade's End and The Good Soldier, was also a very fine memoirist. The grandson of Ford Madox Brown, he grew up surr ...Show more
Kamala's Way by Dan Morain
Category: Biography
A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to be elected Vice President of the United States. In Kamala’s Way, longtime Los Angeles Times reporter Dan Morain charts how the daughter of two immigrants born in segregated California became one of this country’s most effective power ...Show more