Category:Biography
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A
- Across Many Mountains: Three Daughters of Tibet by Yangzom Brauen and Katy Darbyshire (translator)
- The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle by Russell Miller
- An African Princess: From African Orphan to Queen Victoria’s Favourite by Walter Dean Myers
- After You: Letters of Love, and Loss, to a Husband and Father by Natasha McElhone
- Agatha Christie: An English Mystery by Laura Thompson
- Alan M Turing: Centenary Edition by Sara Turing
- Alan Turing (Real Lives) by Jim Eldridge
- Alastair Sim: The Star of Scrooge and the Belles of St Trinian's by Mark Simpson
- Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin by Andrew Wilson
- Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
- Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son by John Van der Kiste
- Amazing Women: Inspirational Stories by Charles Margerison
- America's Mistress: The Life and Times of Eartha Kitt by John L Williams
- Amy Winehouse: A Losing Game by Mick O'Shea
- Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel and John Christopher Smith by William Coxe and Peter Danckwerts (Editor)
- Angela Merkel: The Chancellor and Her World by Stefan Kornelius
- Anna Amalia, Grand Duchess: Patron of Goethe and Schiller by Frances A Gerard
- Aphra Behn: A Secret Life by Janet Todd
- Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen by Jill Armitage
- The Art of Neil Gaiman by Hayley Campbell
- As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson by Rodney Bolt
- The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder That Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans
- Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany by Richard Lucas
B
- The Bard: Robert Burns - a biography by Robert Crawford
- The Beauty of Her Age: A Tale of Sex, Scandal and Money in Victorian England by Jenifer Roberts
- Becoming Queen by Kate Williams
- Below the Parapet by Carol Thatcher
- The Benn Diaries: The Definitive Collection by Tony Benn and Ruth Winstone (editor)
- Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley
- Bertolt Brecht - A Literary Life by Stephen Parker
- Bertram Fletcher Robinson: A Footnote to The Hound of the Baskervilles by Brian W Pugh and Paul R Spiring
- The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E Hoffman
- Bittersweet: Lessons from my Mother's Kitchen by Matt MacAllester
- The Black Prince by Michael Jones
- The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
- The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov
- Blades of Grass by Mark Aylwin Thomas
- Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester by Alexander Larman
- The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
- The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
- Bobbles & Plum: Four Satirical Playlets by Bertram Fletcher Robinson and PG Wodehouse by Paul R Spiring (Editor)
- The Bolter by Frances Osborne
- Bomb, Book and Compass by Simon Winchester
- A Book of Secrets, Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
- Born in Siberia by Tamara Astafieva, Michael Darlow and Debbie Slater
- The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson by Michael Crick
- Bounder!: The Biography of Terry-Thomas by Graham McCann
- The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin by Daniel James Brown
- Branson by Tom Bower
- Brief Lives by John Aubrey
- Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power by Tom Bower
- Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China by Hilary Spurling
- Byron's Women by Alexander Larman
C
- C S Lewis: The Boy Who Chronicled Narnia by Michael White
- Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King by Philippe Auclair
- Captain Ronald Campbell of Bombala Station, Cambalong: His Military Life and Times by Ivor George Williams
- Captivated: J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers and the Dark Side of Neverland by Piers Dudgeon
- Careless People Murder Mayhem and the Invention of the Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell
- Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife by Amy Licence
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K Massie
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary by Chambers and Joan Bakewell
- Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
- Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor by Simon Callow
- Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography by Edzard Ernst
- Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd
- Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life by Lyndall Gordon
- Chasing Lost Time by Jean Findlay
- Cher: Strong Enough by Josiah Howard
- Chopin's Funeral by Benita Eisler
- Christopher Lloyd: His Life at Great Dixter by Stephen Anderton
- Circulation: William Harvey's Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright
- Clara Colby: The International Suffragist by John Holliday
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
- Close to Holmes: A Look at the Connections Between Historical London, Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Alistair Duncan
- A Corkscrew is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire by Nicholas Murray
- A Corner of Paradise: A love story (with the usual reservations) by Brian Thompson
- The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey by Tim Clarke
- Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty by Jerry Oppenheimer
- The Crocodile by the Door: The Story of a House, a Farm and a Family by Selina Guinness
- The Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939 by G A Jones
- Curing Hiccups with Small Fires: A Delightful Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics by Karl Shaw
- A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not' Ripley by Neal Thompson
D
- Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory by Keggie Carew
- Daisy: The Lives and Loves of the Countess of Warwick by Sushila Anand
- Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution by Caroline Moorehead
- Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman
- Darwin: A Life in Science by John Gribbin and Michael White
- David Astor by Jeremy Lewis
- Dawn French: The Unauthorized Biography by Alison Bowyer
- Dear John by Joan Le Mesurier
- Death and the Virgin: Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart by Chris Skidmore
- The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley
- Diaghilev: A Life by Sjeng Scheijen
- The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
- Diana's Story by Deric Longden
- Dickens's Women: His Life and Loves by Anne Isba
- Dickens: A Memoir of Middle Age by Peter Ackroyd
- Dinner with Churchill: The Prime Minister's Tabletop Diplomacy by Cita Stelzer
- Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke
- Disaster was my God by Bruce Duffy
- Dotter of Her Father's Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot
E
- The Early Loves of Anne Boleyn by Josephine Wilkinson
- Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson
- Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
- Edward II: The Unconventional King by Kathryn Warner
- Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville: A True Romance by Amy Licence
- Edward IV: Glorious Son of York by Jeffrey James
- Effie Gray by Suzanne Fagence Cooper
- Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester by Nicola Tallis
- Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
- Elizabeth: A Diamond Jubilee Portrait by Jennie Bond
- Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died by Dylan Jones
- Eminent Elizabethans by Piers Brendon
- Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang
- Escape from the Nazis: The Incredible and Inspiring Saga of Two Young Jews on the Run in World War II Poland by Benjamin Mandelkern
- Escape to Provence by Maureen Emerson
- An Exclusive Love by Johanna Adorjan
F
- Family Romance by John Lanchester
- Fantastic Mr Dahl by Michael Rosen
- Fasting and Feasting - The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray by Adam Federman
- The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer
- The Fetish Room by Redmond O'Hanlon and Rudi Rotthier
- Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton
- A Fifty Year Silence by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
- Fifty Years In The Fiction Factory: The Working Life Of Herbert Allingham by Julia Jones
- Find Another Place by Ben Graff
- Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
- Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
- For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond by Ben Macintyre
- Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
- Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary Life by Spencer Leigh
- The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Brian Anderson
- Fred Couples by Katherine Bissell
- Frontline by David Loyn
- The Frood by Jem Roberts
- Frost: That Was The Life That Was: The Authorised Biography by Neil Hegarty
- Furniture with Soul: Master Woodworkers and Their Craft by David Savage
G
- Gandhi: Naked Ambition by Jad Adams
- George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door by Graeme Thomson
- The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos by Michael D Lemonick
- Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz: The Extraordinary Story of the Lilliput Troupe by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
- Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan: His Life and Character by Andrew Crowther
- Ginger Geezer: The Life of Vivian Stanshall by Chris Welch and Lucian Randall
- Golden Parasol by Wendy Law-Yone
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
- Grace: Her Lives - Her Loves: The startling royal exposé by Robert Lacey
- A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris
- Great British Eccentrics by S D Tucker
- Greta and Cecil by Diana Souhami
H
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Handel: The Man and His Music by Jonathan Keates
- Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding
- The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob Bronowski by Anthony James
- The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal
- Hemingway's Boat: Everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson
- The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
- Henrietta Maria by Dominic Pearce
- Henry III: The Son of Magna Carta by Matthew Lewis
- Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt by Teresa Cole
- HHhH by Laurent Binet
- Hieronymus by Marcel Ruijters and Laura Watkinson (translator)
- High Society: Grace Kelly and Hollywood by Donald Spoto
- Hitler at Home by Despina Stratigakos
- Hockney: The Biography, Volume 1, 1937-1975 by Christopher Simon Sykes
- Hocus Pocus by Paul Kieve
- The Holy Fox: The Life of Lord Halifax by Andrew Roberts
- A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson
- House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles by Evelyn Juers
- How Could He Do It? by Emma Charles
- How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
- How to Read a Novelist: Conversations with Writers by John Freeman
- How to Survive the Titanic or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson
- HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
I
- I & I: The Natural Mystics by Colin Grant
- I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons
- Ian Dury: The Definitive Biography by Will Birch
- Idle Thoughts on Jerome K Jerome: A 150th Anniversary Celebration by Jeremy Nicholas
- If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
- An Illuminated Life: Belle Da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege by Heidi Ardizzone
- The Immortal Dinner: A famous evening of genius and laughter in literary London, 1817 by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
- Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death by Trevor Hamilton
- In Search of Dr Watson - A Sherlockian Investigation by Molly Carr
- In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens by S Morris and N Grueninger
- In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett by Tony Fletcher
- Inferno Decoded: The essential companion to the myths, mysteries and locations of Dan Brown's Inferno by Michael Haag
- Innocence by Roald Dahl
- Inside The Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk
- The Insider by Piers Morgan
- Into The Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown by Angela Thirlwell
- Into The Mountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd by Charlotte Peacock
- The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon
- The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science by Andrea Wulf
- Invisible Ink: A Family Memoir by Martha Leigh