This is the poignant, resonant story of a young boy's awakening - to survival, education, fulfilment, and eventually to a new life of freedom.     

This work provides a biography of Sylvia Plath, whilst also aiming to examine the means by which biographers justify their ends. As well as covering Plath's life, it covers topics such as how her reputation was forged by the poems...

Rob Chapman's book is the first authoritative and exhaustively researched biography of Syd Barrett that fully celebrates his life and legacy as a musician, lyricist and artist, and which highlights the influence that he continues...

Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel. The Kennedy Curse is a revealing, fascinating account of America's most famous family, as told by the...

The most comprehensive biography of Formula One legend Niki Lauda ever published, written with the full support of his family

But with each encounter, it becomes increasingly and disturbingly apparent that what we are reading is not really about the patients at all: it is about the author's own fevered descent into mental illness and mania as he...

The final word on the world's greatest rock band, Led Zeppelin, from esteemed rock journalist and author Mick Wall.