Biography: literary

Prodigal

The extraordinary memoir from Dylan Thomas Prize-winning poet, Kayo Chingonyi.

Prodigal

The extraordinary memoir from Dylan Thomas Prize-winning poet, Kayo Chingonyi.

Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant

A new reissue of Philip Hoare’s singular biography of Stephen Tennant.

‘Witty and amazing … both scholarly and hilarious at the same time’ John Waters, New York Times

Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant

A new reissue of Philip Hoare’s singular biography of Stephen Tennant.

‘Witty and amazing … both scholarly and hilarious at the same time’ John Waters, New York Times

The World According to Joan Didion

An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style.

Unsayable

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day.

Unsayable

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day.

Unsayable

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day.

Unsayable: Unabridged edition

An intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist of The Hours and Day.

A Truce That Is Not Peace

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025

‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY

‘A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken’GUARDIAN

‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH

‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE

Notes to John

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Utterly fascinating’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘An act of intimate storytelling’VOGUE

‘A profound, rich document’NEW STATESMAN

A deeply moving, newly discovered journal from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.

William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love

Named a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times and Sunday Times,New Statesman,Spectator,Prospect, and New Yorker.

‘Undoubtedly Hoare’s masterpiece’ Olivia Laing

‘Queer in all senses of the word’ Neil Tennant

‘A life-changing book’ Robert Douglas Fairhurst, The Times

‘Fabulously idiosyncratic’ Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New Statesman

A Truce That Is Not Peace: Unabridged edition

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025

‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY

‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’ GUARDIAN

‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ ZADIE SMITH

‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE

A Truce That Is Not Peace: Unabridged edition

‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN

‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG

‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD

A Truce That Is Not Peace

‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN

‘Tragi-comic, and incredibly moving … essential reading for turbulent times’ LAURA VAN DEN BERG

‘A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ HANNAH PITTARD

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