Books

‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age’ ADAM ZAMOYSKI

An Irish Times book of the year 2022

A powerful, probing book about PTSD.

‘Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘A gripping story of human frailty, love, loss, sadness, and tragedy’ Daily Mail

‘[A] moving, beautifully written book about love and mental health and life’ BOB ODENKIRK

‘Fiercely intelligent, humane and necessary’ NATHAN FILER, author of THE SHOCK OF THE FALL

'At its heart a story about love … an astonishing new voice' ALI MILLAR, author of THE LAST DAYS

‘A lyrical investigation … both powerful and transcendent’ CHIGOZIE OBIOMA

‘Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting’ AMINATTA FORNA

‘Both epic and intimate’ MARGO JEFFERSON

An astonishing search for a missing person, the hidden tragedies of war and the truth of Nigeria’s history.

‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY COOPER

Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer

A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Impossible to read with dry eyes or an unaltered mindset’ Sunday Times

‘Illuminating and beautiful’ Cathy Rentzenbrink

The Sunday Times bestseller

A Radio 4 Book of the Week, June 2021

‘Highly readable … deserves to take its place among the first rank of modern royal biographies’ Daily Mail

‘The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read’ Lynn Barber, Sunday Times

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.

‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination’ JENNY UGLOW

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

‘A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history … Eye-opening, engrossing’Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half 

In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible storIES of three women who raised three world-changing men.

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

‘Highly engaging … Go now, read this book’ THE TIMES