Community & Culture Biographies

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

By Jonathan Bate

Outposts of the Faith: Ten Anglo-Catholic Portraits

By Michael Yelton

Alfred B. Xuma: African, American, South African

By Steven Gish (Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University, Montgomery, USA)

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603

By Mr Derek Wilson

Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

By Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley, Barbara Becnel

Understanding Ethiopia: Geology and Scenery

By Frances M. Williams

Too Many Reasons to Live: My Autobiography

By Burrow, Rob

Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38

By Chips Channon

North Korea Journal

By Palin, Michael

Elizabethans: The Sunday Times bestseller, now a major BBC TV series

By Marr, Andrew

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By Joan Didion

Banjo: The story of the man who wrote Waltzing Matilda

By Paul Terry

Hearing Heart

By Hurnard, Hannah

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

By Damon Young

Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman

By Itamar Rabinovich

Radical My Journey from Islamist Extremism to a Democratic Awaken

By Maajid Nawaz

Shakespeare's Professional Career

By Peter Thomson (University of Exeter)

Roaring Boys: Shakespeare's Rat Pack: Playwrights and Players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England

By Judith Cook

Lady Gregory: An Irish Life

By Judith Hill

Martin Luther King

By Hodgson, Godfrey

The Settler's Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food

By Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin

The Night Before Christmas

By Alice Taylor, Terry Myler

Ritual Slaughter

By Brichto, Sidney

A Life in Three Cities: Frankfurt, London & Jerusalem

By Fred Worms

In Memory of Memory

By Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale

A Coat of Many Colours: Memoirs of a Jewish Experience

By Chaim Raphael

New York Jew

By Alfred Kazin

Bless Me, Father

By Boyd, Neil

Dersu the Trapper

By V. K. Arseniev, Jaimy Gordon, Malcolm Burr

Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha

By Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown