Biography and non-fiction prose

Without Prejudice: A Memoir

In a career that has seen him face coup leaders in his native Ivory Coast and lead some of the most prestigious Western financial institutions, Tidjane Thiam has blazed a trail through African and European politics and business.

The Indefatigable Asa Briggs

Asa Briggs’s energy fuelled him to write more than fifty books, including five formidable volumes on the history of broadcasting. At the zenith of his fame he was one of the best-known historians of his generation, his name on a cover a guarantee of substantial sales.

Keir Starmer: The Biography

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book of the Year

‘Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain’ ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

‘A roadmap for a new generation’ VOGUE

‘Radical, funny and fearless’ VANITY FAIR

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

An electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre

Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess

A Spectator Best Book of the Year

Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man’s world.

Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius

‘I relished every page … This is the best book on Jane Austen I have ever read’Spectator

‘Compelling … a delightful and engrossing book … Byrne’s passion is nothing if not persuasive’Sunday Times

Was Jane Austen a woman of prim manners and genteel calm? Or someone who behaved outrageously, filled with sharp wit and wild comedy?

The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘It is good to meet the real Jane Austen at last’ Independent on Sunday

‘Brilliantly illuminating … by focusing, chapter by chapter, on one thread or another of Austen’s experience, Byrne allows us to grasp the richness of her inner life’ Guardian

The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB

The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.

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