Topic: Biography & non-fiction prose

Red Sister, Ching-ling, married Sun Yat-sen, founding father of the Chinese republic, and later became Mao's vice-chair. Little Sister, May-ling, was Madame Chiang Kai-shek, first lady of the pre-Communist Nationalist China and a major political figure in her own right. Big Sister, Ei-ling, was C...

Dan Biggar has never fitted the mould. Throughout his long and decorated career, he has had to confront the critics, to silence the cynics. His playing style has been described as brash, aggressive and forthright, and it has earned him a reputation he has never been able to shake. But to anyone w...

Record-breaking England cricketer, wartime RAF hero, Tottenham Hotspur footballer, and husband to five wives - this is the captivating life of one of England's most remarkable yet often overlooked cricketing heroes, Bill Edrich.

Through unprecedented access to the guitarist and interviews with his close family, friends and associates, Philip Watson tells Bill Frisell's story for the first time.

An examination of Bill Gates - one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades - and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires.

An examination of Bill Gates - one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades - and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires.

Wensley Clarkson chronicles the life of John Bindon, who rose from a poor working class background to become a powerful figure in London's underworld, eventually turning his back on crime to develop a career in film.

Rodney Stotts shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America's few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up in Washington, D.C. during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration affecting the lives of everyone he knew. He was no exception, bu...

Tracey Curtis-Taylor has created headlines around the world with three epic flights in a 1942 Boeing Stearman biplane. Paying homage to two historic female aviators, she flew from Cape Town to Goodwood in 2013, from London to Australia in 2015 and, two years later, completed a transcontinental fl...

Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as 'Birdgirl'. To date she has seen over five thousand different types of bird: half the world's species. Every single bird a treasure. She has visited every continent to pursue her passion, seeing first-hand the inequality and reckless destruction we are inflictin...

In her memoir, Mya-Rose Craig and her family travel the world in search of rare birds and astonishing landscapes. But a shadow moves with them, too - her mother's deepening mental health crisis. In the face of this struggle, the Craigs turn to nature again and again, and every time it offers joy ...

Denise Van Outen, original 90s 'ladette', West End star and primetime TV favourite, reveals for the first time the true story of grit and graft beneath the famous Essex sparkle. In this refreshingly candid memoir, Denise speaks openly and sensitively about her rollercoaster career, her struggles ...

In this inspiring masterpiece, bestselling author Susan Cain shows the power of 'bittersweetness' - a tendency toward sorrow and longing, an acute awareness of passing time, and a piercing joy when beholding beauty. But what are the powers of a bittersweet, melancholic outlook? she asks. And why ...

In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the Nazis' first priority in the event of a successful invasion. Who were they? What had they done to provoke Germany? Historian Sybil Oldfield uncovers their stories and reveals why the Nazis feared their influence....

The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the protection of President Kim Il Sung.

The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the protection of President Kim Il Sung.

As a child he was given his own suit of armour; in 1346, at the age of 16, he helped defeat the French at Crecy; and in 1356 he captured the King of France at Poitiers. For the chronicler Jean Froissart, 'He was the flower of all chivalry'; for the Chandos Herald, who fought with him, he was 'the...

Sabrina Pace-Humphreys is a 44-year-old mother of four and grandmother of two, an award-winning businesswoman, an ultrarunner, a social justice activist and a recovering alcoholic. She is a mixed-raced woman, the daughter of a white Scottish Roman Catholic woman and a Black Church of England man....

The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former sla...

The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former sla...