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Born in 1835, the man who would become America's first, and most influen-tial, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Mark Twain went west and accepted a job at the local...

*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* 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...

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...

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...

'Geoff Dyer['s] voice is unmistakable' Guardian'Intellectually playful and Stylistically distinctive' Spectator'Moving, atmospheric, trutheful, perceptive and hilariously funny' TESSA HADLEY'Perfect' The TimesBorn in 1958, the only child of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, Geoff Dyer grew up...

From generational icon Brooke Shields comes an intimate and empowering exploration of ageing that flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every...

'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...

*An instant Sunday Times bestseller* A smart, funny, anarchic and gripping memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182. This is a story of what happens when an angst-ridden kid who grew up in the...

'A magical, tender, revealing, rude, honest, very funny and very vulnerable book . . . will be read and talked about for a long time' BILL BUFORD 'Engrossing, fearless and ultimately very moving' JAY McINERNEY 'Moving and poignant' ANNA...