Biography International

An insider's story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today's China

An updated edition of this modern classic, SHADOWLANDS tells the tragic love story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman.

Writer and performer Hannah Silva interrogates her life with the input of two unreliable narrators - an algorithm and a toddler. Her living exploration of undoing and redoing love and motherhood, and specifically queer single motherhood, unravels everything she has been taught to want and explores alternative ways of thinking, loving and parenting today.

In this fascinating and entertaining second volume, Christopher Sykes explores the life and work of Britain's most popular living artist. Volume 1 covered his early life: his precocious achievement at Bradford Art College and the Swinging 60s in London, where he befriended many of the iconic cultural figures of the generation.

The mesmerizing autobiography of one of the most revered soul, jazz, and blues divas of our time-the late Nina Simone

In this searing, frank, and funny memoir by the author of When I Had a Little Sister ("A superb memoir" Sunday Times), a crisis causes Catherine Simpson to reflect-and to see how her body tells the story of her life.

An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book.

A lyrical memoir of devastating emotional power, How to Say Babylon is a testament to the forces of hope, intellect and imagination that light up every page.

'Life is too short to waste time on second-class ambitions. Go for the big ones.'

The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carr was alive