Community & Culture Biographies

Christmas at the Palace: The heartwarming, feel-good read

By Charika, Jeevani

Shakespeare: The Biography

By Peter Ackroyd

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

By Mathabane, Mark

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin Classics)

By Douglass, Frederick, Baker, Houston, Garrison, William Lloyd

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By Tim Moore

Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop: As Portrayed on SMALL AXE, A Collection of Five Films

By Steve McQueen, Dr Leroy Logan, MBE

Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line

By S Barbara Hilyer

Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina

By Georgina Pazcoguin

Mary of Nazareth: A Novel

By Marek Halter

Sad Little Men: The revealing book about the world that shaped Boris Johnson

By Richard Beard

Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin

A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By Edward Chisholm

Who Are We?: How Identity Politics Took Over the World

By Gary Younge

Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina

By Georgina Pazcoguin

Voltaire in Love

By Nancy Mitford

Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery

By David Harewood, David Olusoga

Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton

By Bryan Magee

Let The Trumpet Sound: A Life Of Martin Luther King Jr

By Stephen Oates

Martin Luther King Jr.

By John A. Kirk

Halle Berry

By Daniel O'Brien

Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos

By Michael Imperioli, Steve Schirripa

World Wide Webb: Memoirs of a Life in the Universal Church

By Webb, Pauline

God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

By Hannah Brown

Shakespeare's Wife

By Greer, Dr. Germaine

The Secret Life of France

By Wadham, Lucy

The Deans: Cathedral Life, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

By Trevor Beeson

The Great English Pilgrimage: From Rome to Canterbury

By Christopher Donaldson

Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life

By Blades, Jay

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

By Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Robert Farris Thompson, Ananya Chatterjea