Biography

Dweller in Shadows : A Life of Ivor Gurney

A memoir of my former self

Hilary Mantel

Completely Kafka : A Comic Biography

The Bookshop Woman : The Smash-Hit Japanese Bestseller

Broken Threads : My Family from Empire to Independence

The Afghans : Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul

Rural : The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

Never Had a Dad : Adventures in Fatherlessness

MILF : Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery

Making It So : A Memoir

Hitler, Stalin, mum and dad

Daniel Finkelstein

Eliot After The Waste Land

Among others

Michael Frayn

The Giant on the Skyline : On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go

The flame trees of Thika

Elspeth Huxley

Slipstream : A Memoir

Ruskin Park : Sylvia, Me and the BBC

Question 7

Richard Flanagan

O Brother

In my time of dying

Sebastian Junger

How To Say Babylon : A Jamaican Memoir

G-Man : J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

General Hastings 'Pug' Ismay : Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat: A New Biography

Transitional : My Story

The illusionist

Robert Hutton

Scattershot

Bernie Taupin

Private revolutions

Yuan Yang

Playboy

Constance Debré

Notes from an Island

My Sins Go With Me : A Story of Heroism and Betrayal in the Dutch Resistance

Berserker!

Adrian Edmondson

Pageboy : A Memoir: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

One Ukrainian Summer : A memoir about falling in love and coming of age in the former USSR

The diaries of Chips Channon. Volume 2 1938-43

Henry Channon

The Quizmaster : From Life on the Streets to a Global Quizzing Sensation

The Diaries of Mr Lucas : Notes from a Lost Gay Life

The Cat From Hue : A Vietnam War Story

My Family and Other Rock Stars : ‘An insane amount of fun' Andrew Miller

Lady Caroline Lamb : A Free Spirit

Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words

The Scandal of the Century

Poor : The No. 1 bestseller – ‘Moving, uplifting, brave heroic’ BBC Woman’s Hour

Great-uncle Harry

Michael Palin

The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes : A True-life Victorian Murder Mystery

Rebel Girl : My Life as a Feminist Punk

One boy, two bills and a fry up

Wes Streeting

Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow? : The Life and Laughs of a Comedy Legend

All That Glitters : A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

A Different Kind of Daughter : The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

The Tale of a Wall : Reflections on Hope and Freedom