Memoirs

Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes.

The Number One Sunday Times BestsellerForty years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the world's most beloved and iconic figures.

Al Murray's (AKA The Pub Landlord) musing on his childhood where his fascination with history and all things war began.

The critically acclaimed memoir from the well-loved broadcaster Gerry AndersonGerry Anderson broadcast every day out of Londonderry, which once upon a time was called Doire Colmcille, evolving, under the influence of the English, into LondonDerry in the 17th century.

When David Lines first heard This is the Modern World by The Jam, it sparked off a love affair that continues to this day.

The bestselling book that changed the way we talk about sex.

'Why did you leave me?

Desperate circumstances were something Evelyn Prentis had to get very used to when she began her life as a nurse.

'I promised that I would one day write a book and tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers.

In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin s Ballade No.

When Fred Dibnah debuted on television in 1979, British audiences immediately embraced a new cultural icon: a steeplejack from Bolton who fell in love with England's decaying industrial landscape and an exhaustive storyteller whose charm and wit was matched only by his down-to-earth manner.

In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner was at the head of a convoy of 3,500 US soldiers as they entered the Iraqi desert.

A companion volume to Being an Actor, Callow's classic text about the experience of acting in the theatre, Shooting the Actor reveals the truth about film acting.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZEHow do you lose music?

They were the most remarkable couple in London: the great sage Carlyle, with his vehement prophecies, and his witty, sardonic wife Jane.

Petronella Wyatt writes: 'The eccentricities of my father, Lord (Woodrow) Wyatt (1918-1997), are a legend.

Are you happy?

David Vann has loved boats all his life.

From the cells of Death Row come the chilling, true-life accounts of the most heinous, cruel and depraved killers of modern times.

Avoiding shellfish was easy.

'I was fourteen when I found my Dad trying to commit suicide in the garage.

Fast, hard-hitting, funny and honest, this is the book that answers the question that all women discuss every day: 'Where are the interesting and available men?

At the curtain call of her thirties, Lucy Dent finds herself in a marriage where meaningful communication, sexual contact and friendship have all but disappeared.

A funny, direct, lively and moving account of growing up in small-town Ireland.

'Feeling the way I do now, it's not a feeling I ever want to have again.

An extraordinary account of life behind the locked doors of a secure psychiatric ward from a nurse who worked there for seven years.

Following the success of Is that My Child?

'Fascinating.

In 1964, in a bare room in Waterloo, a young actress gave her baby for adoption.

What was it like to be an advertising woman on Madison Avenue in the sixties and seventies, that Mad Men era of casual sex and professional serfdom?

It was meant to be a two-week holiday in paradise to celebrate her sister's birthday, but for Schapelle Corby it ended in every traveller's darkest nightmare.

'Matron smiled.

At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all.

'I was thrown out of my first casino in spring of 2000.

Fast, funny, always near the knuckle.

As a girl, Sheila never let her gradual descent into blindness prevent her from trying to do everything a sighted person could do.

If you drink apple juice with cinnamon, look after your gums, read, dance and take an aspirin a day - you are well on your way to preventing Alzheimer's disease.

Mathilde Monaque developed severe depression when she was just 14.

'A story of passion, hardship and endurance' - Reinhold Messner'There is much to marvel at in these pages.

John Gray has become a publishing phenomenon.

After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard.

A wonderful, evocative memoir by the woman who first brought Italian cooking to Britain and fuelled a culinary revolution.

John Boyle was born and raised in Scotland but he could never feel Scottish.

'The best memoir by a politician you will ever read' The TimesSchool on the Kings Road, Chelsea in the Swinging 60s, the rock-and-roll years, the race riots; this boy has seen it all.

The ultimate gift for every football fan.

One of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written, this is the true story of a journey to the high Himalayas in search of the snow leopard.

When George Klein was thirteen, he couldn't have known how important the new kid in class - the one with the guitar, the boy named Elvis - would become in his life.

Few writers have had as many distinct lives as Bruce Chatwin and few have been as compelling in person as in print.

What would you do if you owed $20,000?

'This is an essential read for every gay person on the planet' - Elton John'A really brilliant and moving read for everybody, especially LGBTQI+ people' - Olly Alexander, star of It's A SinStraight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the wider LGBT community, their friends and family.