By CS Lewis. Satirical correspondence between a senior devil and his junior apprentice
CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters homepage
Collection of correspondence to and from the American president
Martin Sandler - The Letters of John F Kennedy homepage
Biography of Laurence Olivier, based on previously unseen letters and diaries
Olivier homepage
Chris Hadfield's memoir reveals the graft, glitches and wonders of space travel
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth homepage
Jennifer Saunders reads her funny, honest and touching memoir
Jennifer Saunders - Bonkers: My Life in Laughs homepage
Heston Blumenthal shares his passion for the history of British cuisine
Heston Blumenthal - Historic Heston homepage
Jung Chang's fast-paced and gripping biography of the formidable 19th-century stateswoman
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China homepage
Sandra Hempel explores a real-life murder mystery from 1833
Sandra Hempel - The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed homepage
Journalist Rose George shines a light on the huge yet invisible global shipping industry
Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry homepage
Peter Snow tells the story of the 1814 confrontation between Britain and the United States
Peter Snow - When Britain Burned the White House homepage
By Alyn Shipton. Biography of American musician Harry Nilsson. Read by Kerry Shale
Alyn Shipton - Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter homepage
By Rodolfo Walsh. The first English translation of a Latin American true crime classic
Operation Massacre homepage
Lloyd Bradley tells the story of black music in the capital
Lloyd Bradley - Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital homepage
Philip Hoare celebrates a lifetime's association with the sea. Abridged by Katrin Williams
Philip Hoare - The Sea Inside homepage
By Amana Fontanella-Khan. The story of Sampat Devi Pal, founder of India's Pink Gang.
Amana Fontanella-Khan - The Pink Sari Revolution homepage
Florian Illies's impressionistic portrait of a society that is about to change forever
Florian Illies - 1913 homepage
Suzanne Corkin's story of the life and legacy of the man with no memory, Henry Molaison
Permanent Present Tense homepage
The story of Judith Tebbutt's 192 days in captivity at the hands of Somali pirates
A Long Walk Home homepage
Anchee Min's account of making a new life in America after emigrating from China
The Cooked Seed homepage
By Naoki Higashida. David Mitchell translates and introduces this extraordinary book
David Mitchell - The Reason I Jump homepage
From a hotel room in Alexandria, Peter Stothard traces his lifelong interest in Cleopatra
Peter Stothard - Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra homepage
Writer Charles Timoney accepts a challenge to travel the entire length of the River Seine
Charles Timoney - An Englishman Aboard homepage
Damian Barr's reads his entertaining memoir of growing up in a Scottish steelworking town
Damian Barr - Maggie and Me homepage
Rock journalist Paul Morley on the north and what it means to be a northerner
Paul Morley - The North (and Almost Everything in It) homepage
By Richard Holmes. Stories of the first balloon aeronauts. Read by Rory Kinnear
Richard Holmes - Falling Upwards homepage
Antonia Fraser's account of a period of dramatic political change
Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 homepage
Dave Goulson details the mysterious ways of the bumblebee. Read by Tim McInnerny
A Sting in the Tale homepage
Charles Moore's portrait of the former British prime minster. Read by Nicholas Farrell
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography homepage
Leading Italian figures write about Italy today, the dangers and the possibilities
Letters from Italy homepage
By Emma Brockes. Warm and moving memoir in which the author uncovers dark family secrets
She Left Me the Gun homepage
