Biography: historical, political and military

Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud is a beautifully written account of Sun Shuyun's journey to retrace the steps of one of the most popular figures in Chinese history - the monk Xuanzang, who travelled to India searching for true Buddhism.

A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, 'Netherland'.

Natural history, perhaps more than any other pursuit or study, has always relied heavily on books.

A brilliant portrait of the Spanish Civil War from our greatest historian of Spain.

Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.

The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.

The inside story of the 'reluctant medium', finally available in a mass-market A-format editionBetty Shine was originally an opera singer, but studied all forms of alternative healing, becoming a vitamin and mineral therapist.

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The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie.

Bestselling author Torey Hayden's novel poignantly tells of a daughter's attempt to grow up in the shadow of her mother's haunted past.

A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s.

A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution.

The definitive and first non-partisan biography of one of the most formidable political figures of the twentieth century (voted Woman of the Millennium in a BBC poll, 2000)Indira Gandhi's life, from her birth in 1917, through partition and up to her assassination in 1984, was dominated by the politics of her country.

A tale of decadence and excess, great houses and wild parties, love and sexual intrigue, this biography of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, casts an astonishing new light on the nobility of eighteenth-century England.

A superb, authoritatively written insider's account of Iran, one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world.

On an April evening in 1779, a woman is shot on the steps of Covent Garden.

William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in 'City of Djinns', returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.

Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson's remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby.

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The new novel from the bestselling author of THE SIXTH WIFE.

Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the story of her remarkable family.

A tremendously vivid, page-turning and plausible novel that depicts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the most spirited, independent and courageous of Henry's queens, as viewed from both the bedrooms and the kitchens of the Tudor court.

Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them.

Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.

'Lives that Never Grow Old' is a wonderful series- edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography.

Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself.

A lyrical, evocative and wonderfully original wartime memoir about life on a farm in the Cotswolds, seen through the eyes of a child.

William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade.

A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history's most extreme tyrants, and the subject of Marlowe's famous play.

'Heroes' is the story of an extraordinary generation of young men, mostly British, who came of age in the Second World War.

Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime.

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Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.

Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain's Imperial Crown.

A brilliant, highly spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon's early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy a narrative as any of his bestselling novels.

Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford's daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreak.

This popular history of the English Civil War tells the story of the bloody conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I from the perspectives of those involved.

David Crane has given us the definitive biography of one of Britain's greatest heroes and explorers.

International bestseller Bill Bryson brings us this brilliantly readable biography of the world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare.

The first English translation of an Argentinean classic.

Lives that Never Grow OldPart of a radical series -edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography.

LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDThis unique series - edited by Richard Holmes - recovers the great classical tradition of English biography.

LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDPart of a radical series - edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography.

THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE DECADEWINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARThe story of Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, daredevil - and Fascist.

In this historically momentous memoir, the segregationist senator's mixed-race daughter speaks out about her life in the shadows.

In August 2004, Governor James E.

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Robbed in Iran and imprisoned for over 100 days for suspected espionage, this is the true story of one woman's shocking ordeal in the country she called home.

Alan Whicker is quite simply a legend.

At the beginning of the financial crisis, in September 2008, Gordon Brown called an emergency press conference in which he declared, 'we will do whatever it takes to restore stability in the financial markets'.