New and Recommended: Biography
Selected by the Bookshop
Our pick of the most exciting new memoirs and biographies.
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From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw loveIt’s 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams…
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A Times, Telegraph, Financial Times, Observer, Guardian and Tablet Book of the Summer'Absolutely mesmerising. I was possessed by this book in the same way that I suspect its author was possessed by…
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A no-holds-barred biography about the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin from Sunday Times bestselling author Roger Lewis.'A fascinating, tragic and instructive story, vividly told' Sunday TelegraphRoger Lewis, in his…
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The first and highly anticipated biography of queer activist and cultural icon Marsha P. Johnson – new for 2025!The first definitive biography of revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson—an iconic and trailblazing figure in…
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A raw, honest and moving memoir of caring for a baby with a rare and life-threatening illness.When Vida is born to Mina and husband Freddie, it is love at first sight. She is perfect. But it is also clear from early on that something is not…
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Honest, moving and of course very funny: award-winning comedian Suzi Ruffell tells the story of a life afflicted with anxiety, and asks the experts to answer some of life's big questions along the way. Perfect reading for fans…
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‘A total joy to read.’ SARAH BAKEWELL‘Thrillingly intelligent and original . . . A breakthrough in biographical form.’ EDMUND GORDON‘A discerning literary biography and a page-turning…
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An urgent and profound excavation of the self, Holly Dawson’s All of Us Atoms is a stunning memoir of the moments of becoming that form a life, heralding the arrival of a major new literary voiceYou tell me we are made of…
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The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood and coming of age in postwar Britain‘Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny…
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