Before our final rundown of the year's best books, we wanted to give a flavour of some of this year's most outstanding ...

Biographies and autobiographies are both types ... Racism is when someone thinks you’re not as good as them because the colour of your skin or your race is different to theirs, so they treat ...

biographies and memoirs which tell the stories of some of the world’s most inspirational, fascinating and flawed women. Sometimes when you’re stuck in a reading rut, a really good palate ...

Bob Dylan has always been an enigmatic figure, carefully controlling the narrative around his life and work. Recently Dylan ...

Amid the literary cacophony are some exceptionally good biographies in English. From 1963 comes classic theological analysis from Gerald Bonner; in 1967 there appeared the first version of a colossus ...

Biographies have always been controversial. On his deathbed, the novelist Henry James told his nephew that his “sole wish” was to “frustrate as utterly as possible the postmortem exploiter ...

I wanted to read this book not only because the author has written two good biographies, Livingstone and Baden-Powell, but also because of the sunny, splashy cover picture showing father and small son ...