Christmas 2025: Biography

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025These expertly arranged diaries offer a window into the life and work of one of Australia's greatest living writers'I revere Helen Garner's writing, and it's in her diaries that she's at her…

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How does the greatest writer of our time tell her own story? Immerse yourself in the creative universe of Margaret Atwood for a riot of life, art and everything in betweenEvery writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one…

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The definitive study of the rise and fall of Oscar Wilde after his death, written by Wilde’s only grandsonOscar Wilde died in November 1900, exiled in Paris and exhausted by scandal and prison life. The details of his life in the…

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From one of the most enquiring and celebrated biographers – a glimpse into the life and mind of a pioneering naturalist.‘Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts.’ GUARDIAN‘Few can match Uglow’s skill…

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A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids.God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist.…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2025A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning, bestselling author of The Age of Wonder.Alfred Lord Tennyson is now remembered - if he is remembered at all - as the…

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A captivating portrait of Yanis Varoufakis’s political awakening, told through the history of his family, from 1924 to the present.‘Written with a historian’s grasp of events, an economist’s rationalization of how…

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Translated by Alison L. StrayerOne Sunday in Yvetot, August 1950. Annie is playing outside in the sun. Her mother steps out of the grocery to chat with a customer, a few metres from her. The two women’s conversation is perfectly…

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The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became…

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The acclaimed author of Free returns with an imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a family'Beguiling and moving... a clever hybrid, happily exploiting all the many possibilities of…

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Now I understand there are no ordinary lives – that every death is the end of a single event in time’s history: an event so improbable as to be miraculous, and irreplaceable in every particular.Sarah Perry's father-in-law,…

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The new memoir from the internationally bestselling author of Women Talking‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN'An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety ……

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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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'A wise and heartfelt piece of writing' THE TIMES‘A wonderful portrait of an age, and of a writer’ RORY STEWART, author of Politics on the Edge‘Utterly fascinating’ DAVID KYNASTON, author of A Northern Wind'Shot…