Collected Biographies

The complete oral history of Monty Python one of comedy's most legendary and influential troupes publishing to coincide with the 50t...

How would you feel, as a guest, about sitting in a suburban living room that is for women only? What if you wanted a baby but as a single woman cou...

This empowering volume collects the words of 40 amazing women who have shown their personal power in many different ways. From environmentalists, h...

Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as teenagers during WW2 too...

Bestselling author, Colin Murphy, explores the historical figures and events that have existed for centuries in the fringes and brings them out int...

Who would top your list of the fifty people who have done the most to make the modern world a worse place?'I can't imagine how they whittled it do...

Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. espionage is not just a boys game. As long as there has been conflict,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shi...

The second edition of the groundbreaking collection The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee includes an epilogue with an update on each storyteller. Ruth...

An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the authors own diagnosis. Un...

When suffragette Emily Wilding Davison hid overnight in the Houses of Parliament in 1911 to have her name recorded in the census there, she may not...

WINNER of the 2024 LAMBDA Literary award for Best Lesbian Memoir/Biography!'A rare treat ... utterly fascinating' Julia Armfield | 'Compelling, lov...

'A fascinating, whistle-stop tour of LGBTQIA+ icons and allies from across the globe and throughout history... This will be a great LGBTQIA+ refere...

This book tells the story of life during WW2 in and around Cowfold, largely through the memories of eleven children, with ages ranging from under f...