Books - Biography & Memoir

The Burning Glass

The Life of Naomi Mitchison

Jenni Calder

‘It is always a bore being ahead of one’s time.’Naomi Mitchison was a novelist, socialist...

The Easternmost House

Juliet Blaxland

THE TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019! Shortlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book...

The Mountains are Calling

Running in the High Places of Scotland

Jonny Muir

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2018 Jonny Muir was a...

Stroke

A 5% chance of survival

Ricky Monahan Brown

The day after losing his job, Ricky suffered a catastrophic stroke aged just 38. Unconscious...

Along the Divide

Walking the Wild Spine of Scotland

Chris Townsend

Winner of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild Award for Excellence: Outdoor Book 2019 Chris...

East of West, West of East

Hamish Brown

1940: The Brown family are in Japan, far from home with war imminent.This extraordinary book...

The Mountains are Calling

Running in the High Places of Scotland

Jonny Muir

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Jonny Muir was a nine-year-old...

The Electric Woman

A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts

Tessa Fontaine

Featured in Amazon.com's Best Books of 2018 ‘Every day we put fire and swords and...

The Restless Wave

My Two Lives with John Bellany

Helen Bellany

Helen Bellany, twice married to the artist John Bellany, recalls their lives together in Scotland...

Bump, Bike & Baby

Mummy's Gone Adventure Racing

Moire O'Sullivan

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year In Bump, Bike & Baby...

Upbeat

The Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq

Paul MacAlindin

The story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq is here told by its musical...

The Great Horizon

50 Tales of Exploration

Jo Woolf

Fifty stories of adventure and exploration over more than two hundred years of human history...

Running Hard

The Story of a Rivalry

Steve Chilton

For one brilliant season in 1983 the sport of fell running was dominatedby the two...

China in Drag

Travels with a Cross-dresser

Michael Bristow

Approaching the end of his eight-year stay in Beijing, Michael Bristow decided he wanted to...

Jane and Dorothy

A True Tale of Sense and Sensibilty

Marian Veevers

Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s, in...

Mistress and Commander

High jinks, high seas and Highlanders

Amelia Dalton

Weary of her Yorkshire county life of grouse moors and hunt balls, Amelia Dalton threw...

Walking the Song

Hamish Brown

Hamish Brown has been an outdoorsman for more than sixty years. The first person to...

Greenpeace Captain

Bizarre Wanderings on the Rainbow Warrior

Peter Willcox

In over 40 years as a senior captain for Greenpeace International, Peter Willcox has been...