Collected Biographies

The complete oral history of Monty Python – one of comedy's most legendary and influential troupes – publishing to coincide with the 5...

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 to...

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 conflic...

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...

An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author’s own diagnosis. U...

Kindness comes in many forms and affects all of us. As Mark Twain said, ‘Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.’ A...

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

'Families are societies in miniature.'The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fam...

'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of up...

'This book is an extremely important part of women's social history. Read it!' - Maxine PeakeRobin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays … All...

Chris and Stephen off Gogglebox are known and loved by millions of viewers for their outrageous humour, filthy language and adorable sausage dogs. ...

History has seen many women make their mark by defying the limits set against them, stepping out of the boxes they had been put in and forging thei...

'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday TimesOn 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were t...

Set amid the glamour and bravado of 1980s Formula 1, The Power and the Glory tells the story of a rivalry unsurpassed in motor-racing history. By t...

From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 Women The history of the world is the history of great women. Marie Curie discovered ra...

From Scarlett O'Hara to Thelma and Louise to Wonder Woman, a wide range of strong female leads have not only lit up the screen -- they've fired our...

For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa, making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as both a writer and...

What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that ha...

Drawing Masterclass explores the act of vision of the world’s great artists, describing how the images were created to allow you to weave some of t...

Behind every great woman… is another great woman. Here, the extraordinary achievements, relationships and secret histories of 84 pioneering women a...

Powerful and influential kings have long dominated our view of global history, their queens often relegated to the shadows, their influence, deeds ...

A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. 'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Ca...

Incredible stories of the great Scots who changed the world we live in. Let the lives of these artists, explorers, poets, philosophers and engineer...

Nepali women are among the most dispossessed and downtrodden in the world. Thanks to traditional customs and religious rituals, many face ordeals u...