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A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of Englands greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited.

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Diana Athill's account of her turbulent relationship with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal in the 1960s: raw and unflinching, a memoir of friendship, love, mania and injustice.

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A vivid new biography of the great poet and revolutionary who remains as relevant today as ever.

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Agatha Christies widowers recollections of his archaeological triumphs and life with Agatha.

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'A splendid celebration of the grizzled figure who "stoppeth one of three" and the tragic artist who created him' - The Times

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'A glowing masterpiece.' - Hilary Mantel; the moving story of the great Irish novelist's childhood and family

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Called "a rich, disquietingly good book" by The New York Times, the five interconnected stories in Memoirs of an Anti-Semite provide a panoramic yet intimate view of the deterioration of the European aristocracy in the years preceding World War II and the difficult decades that followed.

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J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, Empire of the Sun, this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life.

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A wonderfully honest and deeply accomplished tribute to a complicated, talented mother and writer - 'An Irish writer whose only equal is Elizabeth Bowen' (Bookseller) - by her daughter.

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The story of Philip Larkin's long-term partner Monica Jones based on her never-before-seen letters to the poet.

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The long-awaited biography of one of the great writers of the twentieth century - 'a wonderful blend of scholarly fact and juicy storytelling' (Mail on Sunday).

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Integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems in the English Language. This book sets the poetry in the whole context of the poet's life and times, so that the reader can understand the frame of mind and kind of society which produced it.

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In Mutual Admiration Society Royal Historical Society fellow Mo Moulton relates the remarkable friendship of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and five other women at the vanguard of equal rights, who were among the first to receive full degrees from Oxford University.

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This updated edition, published for the first time in trade paperback, includes all-new essays to celebrate eight additional stores. My Bookstore is the enthusiastic, heartfelt, sometimes humorous tribute by 92 known authors to their favorite independent bookstores.

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A charming, moving and witty childhood memoir from one of Britain's best-loved writers.

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW

In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties.

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The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.

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After The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation.

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'Britain's greatest living nature writer' The Times

Rediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard Mabey

In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression.

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and his tumultuous, even controversial, personal lifeforming a single cohesive narrative of intimacy and breadth.

The fascinating events of Nerudas life are interspersed with Eisners thoughtful examinations of the poems, both as works of art in their own right and as mirrors of Nerudas life and times.

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The author of Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain tells his own immigrant's tale, where what is lost in translation is often as hilarious as it is harrowing.