Biography

Drawing on his long friendship and literary association with Ginsberg, as well as on the poet's journals and correspondence, Barry Miles presents a very personal account of the life of Allen Ginsberg, one of the influential beat poets of the 1950s.

Andrew Wyeth's six decades of paintings have made him notorious. This study includes comments by Wyeth about each painting, made in interviews with Thomas Hoving, that offer insights into the artist's life and art.

Anthony Joshua has risen from the streets, narrowly avoiding a life of drugs and crime, to become one of the top boxers in the world. The Hertfordshire-born heavyweight rose to international fame after winning Gold at the London Olympics of 2012, and since then he has gone from strength to streng...

Who is Ariana Grande? This candid book traces the US pop star's story from her childhood in Florida, through her teenage years on Broadway and Nickelodeon, and onto her gleaming pop career which has seen her described as 'the new Mariah Carey'.

Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places (rather than 'travel writer'), elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she has fashioned a distinctive prose style that is elegant, fastidious, supple, and sometimes gloriously gaudy. For...

This title tells the complete life story of arguably Britain's greatest mountaineer, whose career has spanned six decades of climbing peaks, across all continents and still being able to summit The Old Man of Hoy aged eighty years of age in 2015.

Gary Fildes is not your average astronomer. After leaving school at 17 he went to work on a building site, where he stayed for a quarter of a century. Then one day, middle age approaching alarmingly, he acted on his life-long passion. The stars. Today Gary is the founder and lead astronomer of Ki...

Danny MacAskill lives at the edge. The cyclist is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge: nerve-jangling blurs of stunts and speed over towering buildings and mountain peaks. His life is one of thrills, bloody spills and millions of online hits. It hasn't been an easy ride. Fear, s...

In the year 44 BC, when Julius Caesar was killed, Augustus was a mere teenager who had been adopted into Caesar's household. His reaction to Caesar's death was to step forward and proclaim himself Caesar's rightful successor. The Senate did not take him seriously, but over the following months he...

It has been said 'Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that Morrissey has reached in his lifetime'. This title covers his life from birth until the present day.