Biography / Memoir

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl In a faraway land, there is a small town lost among open fi elds and meadows. Surrounded by wonderful, unspoiled nature, the...

THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRLremains the single most poignant true-life story to emerge from the Second World War. In July 1942 Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors...

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight This book, a young reader's edition of Knight's autobiography, is an eye-opening look into the story of Knight before his multibillion dollar company. His tenacity...

A Second Edition of Thomas Friedman’s stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award.‘If you’re only going to read one book on the Middle East,...

Bookseller and author ofConfessions of a BooksellerShaun Bythell ruminates hilariously on the different types of folk encountered in a bookshop, from crafty antiquarians to gormless sales assistants.In twenty years behind...

The forensic pathologist and bestselling author ofUnnatural Causesdissects twenty-four of his most fascinating autopsies from across the seven ages of human existence, revealing as much about the ways we all...

Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot.On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a...

A descent into the murky world of the Manson murders fifty years after the fact, O’Neill’s pioneering study calls into question the received wisdom surrounding the heinous crimes and probes...

At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came upon a gruesome scene: two bodies, mummified by the...