Biography and Memoir

Discover the stories of their lives, in recent biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs.
Updated January 20, 2026
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Source Code: My Beginnings
Bill Gates
Paper Book
Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code he takes us back to his beginnings. He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family - his close relationship with his card-playing grandmother and his demanding but caring parents -...
Hope: The Autobiography
Pope Francis
Paper Book
The wish of Pope Francis was for HOPE, on which he has been working for six years, to be published posthumously. However, with the Jubilee Year of Hope coming in 2025 and the pressing needs of our times have urged Pope Francis to share this personal legacy now. HOPE is the...
Say Everything: A Memoir
Ione Skye
Gen X icon Ione Skye bares all in an achingly vulnerable coming-of-age memoir about chasing fame, desire, and true love in the shadow of her famous, absent father. "Yep, Ione Skye wrote a memoir. I gobbled it up." - MIRANDA JULY In 1987, sixteen-year-old Ione Skye...
Homework: A Memoir
Geoff Dyer
Dyer's first memoir recollects his childhood and coming of age in postwar Britain
The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
Helen Rappaport
Paper Book
'What a wonderful book!  The storytelling, the research, the deep love of her subject -- this must be the climax of Rappaport's long and illustrious career'  Lucy Worsley    To Queen Victoria she was Aunt Julie; to Catherine the Great she was Grand...
I Regret Almost Everything
Keith McNally
'Jaw-dropping' Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2025 'Intensely readable' FT 'A magical, tender, revealing, rude, honest, very funny and very vulnerable book . . . will be read and talked about for a...

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