Autobiography: Business & Industry

When Jim Richards left home to make his fortune in a gold rush, he had no language skills, no money and no idea. But when he found diamond-filled p...

Fred Bower had a full adventurous life and wrote about it in his own vivid and racy idiom. He was born in Boston, Mass. in 1871. Brought up in Live...

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents, Ellen Ullman's cult classic memoir of the world of computers in the 1980s and early 1990s, ...

In 1971, Bruce Neuburger--young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley--took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could...

Sunday Times bestsellerGrowing up on the Wirral, Hannah Jackson had no idea she wanted to work on a farm until a life-changing family visit to the ...

Flashbacks from the Flow Zone tracks author Tom Crago from his early days in Adelaide to Los Angeles, London, Berlin (and other always-on First Wor...

In a world racked with anxiety and depression the author''s attitude to living will inspire many readers. An ordinary man who made himself extraord...

*#GIRLBOSS NETFLIX ORIGINAL OUT NOW*In this New York Times bestselling sensation, founder and Executive Chairman of Nasty Gal Sophia Amoruso shares...

Chris Edwards has gone from running a stall in the Wakefield markets to masterminding a single-price shopping chain with more than 300 stores acros...

Doing Time is more than just a book. It's an invitation from one of South Africa's most revered pioneers and businessmen. It is an invitation to sh...

Bringing readers and travelers a fascinating but cautionary account of an airports baggage-handling system, Steve Chart shares the many interesting...

A New York Times bestseller In a remarkable career, Edward O. Thorp rose up from nothing to become a professor at MIT, invented card counting and ...

The remarkable story of how Joe Foster developed Reebok into one of the world's most famous sports brands, having started from a small factory in B...

Sunday Times bestsellerLessons to live by, without getting up with the lark Hannah Jackson (aka The Red Shepherdess) grew up in the Wirral, and ha...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I've been waiting for this book all my life and everyone needs to read it' Claudia Winkleman Anya Hindmarch is a mot...

Throughout In Plane Sight, Rick Stephens lays out his personal life in sweeping detail to show how igniting his spiritual life with God helped him ...

'A hilarious account of life with the children of the super rich...well written...and very funny indeed' - BOOK OF THE WEEKDaily Mail'A hilarious, ...

A heartfelt, humorous personal memoir and relatable guide to overcoming obstacles, wising up about romance, and getting ahead in your career from t...

Despite her family's ailing finances, Diana Athill's childhood - spent in a lovely house in Norfolk - was blissful. In 1932, she fell in love with ...

Written with an intimacy and spontaneity even more revealing than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's correspondence with the American poet Edwa...

A RINGSIDE SEAT ON SOME OF THE BIGGEST DEALS AND BIGGEST PERSONALITIES IN BUSINESS AND GLOBAL POLITICS.They are just four letters on an electronic ...

100 lessons from one of Britain's most successful businessmen You must know businesses or leaders that seem to have it all loyalty and success in...

THIS BOOK IS A GIFT TO ANYONE WHO HAS EVER FELT UNDERESTIMATED. ELIZABETH UVIEBINENÉ, bestselling co-author of Slay in Your Lane and Loud Black Gir...

Alexander Lebedev is best known as the Russian businessman and public figure who bought the Evening Standard and The Independent newspapers in the ...

Gibbous Moon Over Lagos is about the highs and lows of doing business in Lagos, Nigeria's megacity in Africa's newly emerging giant economy.  Lagos...