Biography

For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings. This is Gertrude's own autobiography and a roll-call of all the extraordinary painters and writers she met.

Life has presented its fair share of setbacks for James Arthur, from his disrupted childhood - during which he felt like a stray and a misfit, entering the care system in his teens - to a very public fall from favour just at the point when all his dreams should have been coming true. With an extr...

Mario Balotelli has a reputation like no other in football. Since exploding onto the scene at Inter Milan in 2007, he has won league titles in both Italy and England, moving between Europe's elite clubs with Liverpool his latest stop. Yet for all his undoubted talent, he is better known for his o...

Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, William Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wande...

'The Battle' brings us inside the head of the most thoughtful player of his generation and one of the great personalities of the game. It is a book for everyone who wants to understand a remarkable era in Irish rubgy and for everyone who wants to understand the roots of individual and collective ...

Katie Piper's extraordinary story of strength and recovery after a brutal rape and acid attack has captivated Britain. In this powerful sequel to her bestselling memoir, Katie tells the remarkable story of what's happened in the years since she bravely left the safety of her parents' home. With h...

A Beautiful Mind is a combination of Fermat's Last Theorem and the recent film Shine. It tells the life story of an extraordinary mathematical genius - John Nash - who went mad, recovered, and won the Nobel Prize.

She's adored by her millions of fans, writes and performs songs that move and inspire, but Beyonce is truly known by very few. Now J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the woman behind the star. He takes us from a childhood spent performing in talent shows to finding worldwide success with her group, De...

A comprehensive look at Steve Jobs' career following his dismissal from Apple - an experience that kindled in him a burning desire to prove to the world that his initial success was no fluke. During this time a combination of exile, failure and family saw him mature from the childish genius who l...

Beethoven may have been one of the greatest artists who ever lived, but he was still a man who had to live among fellow mortals and Suchet brings him effortlessly to life.