Biography: arts & entertainment

A deeply beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, 'Boy on Fire' is Nick Cave's creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which charts his family, friends, influences, ...

As Harry Potter's stunt double, David Holmes's amazing gymnastic skills saw him earn onscreen immortality. He was the first-ever person to play Quidditch on a broomstick; he dodged dragon's fire and dove deep into the Great Lake, without any gillyweed to protect him. Life on set was an adventure....

A memoir from the American singer-songwriter legend Carly Simon, who famously married James Taylor and has had a career spanning four decades. Recounts the story of a young woman coming of age amongst the glamorous literati and intelligentsia of Manhattan. Her father was Richard Simon, co-founder...

On 17th September, the mightiest airborne force in history thundered over southern England en route to Arnhem. Cornelius Ryan presents an account of the tragic miscalculations at Arnhem resulting in over 17,000 Allied deaths and casualties. Arnhem 1944: the airborne strike for the bridges over th...

This is an authoritative biography of film star Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.

This biography traces the life of one of Britain's favourite TV personalities from his middle-class roots in Middlesex through his days as a successful presenter and performer, which has earned him the most coveted award of all: a knighthood from the Queen. Sir Bruce Forsyth, know more affectiona...

Kendrick Lamar has been described as the poet Laurette of hip-hop, perceptive, philosophical, unapologetic, fearless, and an innovative storyteller whose body of work has been compared to James Joyce and James Baldwin. He is a visionary who will go down as history as one of the most important art...

Una Marson was a true trailblazer: she made history by becoming the first Black female broadcaster at the BBC and paved the way for Black women and the amplification of Black voices in the media. Despite all this, though, her story has been all but forgotten by history. A journalist, poet, playwr...