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Biography and Memoir

Russian Roulette
Richard Greene
Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he...
Trailblazer
Jane Robinson
You have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done. Name any 'modern' human rights...
Magritte: A Life
Alex Danchev
René Magritte's surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have all become inescapably part of our times. But these groundbreaking...
I Used to Live Here Once
Miranda Seymour
An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean...
War Doctor
David Nott
For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon...
Adventures in Modern Recording
Trevor Horn
As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. His production work since the...
Putin
Philip Short
Unflinching, hard-hitting and objective, the definitive biography of the century's most influential and least understood leader. Vladimir Putin is the West's...
Sleeping With a Psychopath
Carolyn Woods
A Divorced Woman. A Dangerous Man. A Devastating Affair. ‘You’re right. It is totally extraordinary. My life is like a film;...
A Certain Idea of France
Julian Jackson
The definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France...
Moederland
Cato Pedder
How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - 'Motherland', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on...
Maoism
Julia Lovell
*Winner of the Cundill History Prize*, shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and shortlisted for the...
The Clearing
Samantha Clark
This house has been a regular presence in my life for as long as I can remember. My heart has...
Move Like Water
Hannah Stowe
Granta Books is thrilled to have acquired on proposal Hannah Stowe’s Move Like Water, a beguiling and beautiful work of...
Rural Hours
Harriet Baker
1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing...
Cold Kitchen
Caroline Eden
'With its union of practicality and magic, a kitchen is a portal offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out...
There Will Be No Quiet
Stanley Donwood
The talent behind Radiohead's iconic artwork reveals in his own words and for the first time the creative process that...