Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Biography

In 1947, returning to the UK newly divorced and with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are dashed as the tenants reveal themselves to be a host of eccentrics: from a painter of nudes to a pair of glamorous young...

What do Julius Caesar, Pope Innocent III, Thomas More, Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln have in common? What enabled a blind Milton, a deaf Beethoven and a certifiable Virginia Woolf and van Gough to create their memorable masterpieces? Peter Deakin dissects each of these individuals and describes ho...

Anne Glenconner's glittering life hasn't always been golden. As she revealed in her astonishing memoir Lady in Waiting, it has been one of stark contrasts - from growing up in Holkham Hall to living in a tent in the island jungle of Mustique, from travelling the world with Princess Margaret to co...

A first-hand account of the life of travel writer Dervla Murphy in which she tells of her early life in Lismore, Co. Waterford, in her rather unusual household. Her father was the county librarian and her mother a chronic invalid. An only child, Dervla was allowed from the age of seven to freely ...

Amanda never imagined that, after uprooting her comfortable, stable life to make room for her soulmate, he would decide to go his own way. They agreed that their connection was unbelievably cosmic. So why did he say no? A fearless voyage of self-discovery fueled by stubbornness, tenacity, and an ...

"Hendrika de Vries is a protected 'daddy's girl' until her father is deported from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to a POW camp in Germany and her mother joins the Resistance. As she and her mother experience escalating brutality at the hands of men with swastika armbands who aim to exterminate those th...

Neale Francis Daniher AM is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League. He was later the coach of the Melbourne Football Club between 1998 and 2007, and also held coaching positions with Essendon, Fremantle and West Coast.

"At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung can...

Fergus McMaster co-founded QANTAS with Hudson Fysh and Paul McGuinness in 1920. Following the First World War, these three men, driven by passion, foresight and adventure for aviation, started the now internationally recognised iconic airline with the red kangaroo on its tail.From humble beginnin...

Forty years since their formation in a grubby Chinatown basement comes the first truly definitive biography of the world's most legendary rock band - Led Zeppelin. They were 'the last great band of the sixties; the first great band of the seventies'; they rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the as...