Authors - Biography and Autobiography
NB. We list mostly by author rather than title as we often abridge a writer's entire output.
Peter Ackroyd (Dickens)
Tony Adams (Footballer)
Paddy Ashdown (Liberal-Democrat leader. Diaries)
Tom Baker (Actor)
JG Ballard (Author)
Duncan Bannatyne (Entrepreneur)
Juliet Barker (Wordsworth)
John Bayley (the Iris Murdoch books)
David Beckham (Footballer)
Lynda Bellingham (Actress)
Tracy Borman (Elizabeth's Women)
Ian Botham (Cricketer)
Richard Branson (Losing My Virginity)
Fern Britton (TV personality)
Paul Britton (Forensic psychiatrist)
Roy "Chubby" Brown (Comedian)
Paul Burrell (A Royal Duty))
Lorna Byrne (Angels)
Jung Chang (Wild Swans)
Alan Carr (Comedian)
Charlotte Church (Singer)
Alan Clark (Politician. Diaries 2)
Nick Clarke (Alistair Cooke)
Robin Cook (Labour Minister. The Point of Departure)
Roger Cook (TV Investigator)
Ronnie Corbett (The Two Ronnies)
Patricia Cornwell (Jack the Ripper)
Sir Richard Dannatt (Chief of the General Staff)
Jonathan Dimbleby (Prince of Wales)
Laurence Donegan (No News From Throat Lake)
Jason Donovan (Singer/actor)
Dot May Dunn (Midwife)
Jane Dunn (Elizabeth & Mary)
Chris Evans (Broadcaster)
Rupert Everett (Actor)
Keith Floyd (Chef)
Amanda Foreman (Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire)
Alexandra Fuller (Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight)
Mick Flynn (Soldier's memoirs)
Kuki Gallman (I Dreamed of Africa)
Darren Gough (Cricketer)
David Grant (TV vet)
Che Guevara (Reminiscences)
Jeremy Guscott (Lion's Tour, rugby)
William Hague (Conservative Minister. William Pitt the Younger)
Richard Hammond (TV presenter)
Heinrich Harrer (7 Years in Tibet)
Torey Hayden (One Child)
JLS (Boy band - diaries)
Barry Humphries (Handling Edna)
Clive James (TV personality)
Trevor Rees-Jones (Princess of Wales' bodyguard)
Phill Jupitus (Comedian, etc)
Fergal Keane (Writer & Broadcaster)
Martin Kemp (actor)
Carol Ann Lee (Roses From the Earth - Anne Frank)
Kevin Lewis (Abused child)
Robert Lindsay (Actor)
Des Lynam (TV Sports' Commentator)
Vera Lynn (Singer)
Ellen McArthur (Yachtswoman)
Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes & 'Tis)
Jane McDonald (Singer)
Adeline Yen Mah (Falling Leaves)
Peter Mandelson (Politician. The Third Man)
John Major (Prime Minister. The Autobiography,)
Nigel Mansell (Racing driver)
Paul Mathur (OASIS biog)
Bob Monkhouse (Comedian)
Wendy Moore (Wedlock: How Georgian Britain's Worst Husband Met His Match)
Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate)
Garry Nelson (Football manager)
Denis Norden (Scriptwriter)
Steven Norris (Politician. Changing Trains)
Jennifer North (Midwife}
Paul O'Grady (Comedian)
Michael Palin (Comedian/tv personality/actor)
Matthew Parris (Politician/Columnist)
John Pearson (Kray Twins)
Dave Pelzer (Abused child)
Joan Plowright (Actress)
Ruth Picardie (e-mail letters to and from a journalist, dying)
Gervase Phinn (School inspector)
Gordon Ramsay (Chef)
The Countess of Ranfurly (To War with Whittaker)
Vic Reeves (Comedian)
Geoffrey Robertson (Barrister's cases)
Lorna Sage (Academic)
Nora Seton (The Kitchen Congregation)
David Shepherd (Cricket umpire)
Betty Shine (Medium)
Brian Sibley (C.S. Lewis)
Jon Snow (TV Newreader)
David Starkey (Elizabeth 1; Henry V111's Wives; Monarchy)
George Stephanopoulos (All Too Human)
Pamela Stephenson (Billy Connolly)
Chris Stewart (Driving Over Lemons, etc)
Kate Summerscale (The Queen of Whale Cay)
Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister. The Downing Street Years; The Path to Power)
Claire Tomalin (Jane Austen)
Ricky Tomlinson (Actor)
Terry Waite (Hostage)
Tom Watt (Beckham)
Jonnie Walker (DJ)
Harriet Walter (Actress)
Julie Walters (Actress)
Geoffrey Wellum (Fighter pilot WWII)
Alan Whicker (Broadcaster)
Terry Wogan (Broadcaster)
Jennifer Worth (Call the Midwife, etc)
Ian Wright (Footballer)
Joan Wyndham (Writer & memoirist)
Paula Yates (TV personality/Bob Geldof's ex-wife)
POPULAR FICTION
Debra Adelaide
Jane Asher
Melissa Bank
H.E. Bates
Sally Beauman
Maeve Binchy
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Patrick O'Brian (Aubrey and Maturin novels)
Elizabeth Buchan
Anthony Capella
Tracey Chevalier
Jenny Colgan
Nicholas Coleridge
Catherine Cookson
Robin Cooper
Bernard Cornwell
Josephine Cox
Catherine Dunne
Edwina Currie
Frank Delaney
Ben Elton
Barbara Erskine
Helen Fielding
Katie Fforde
George Macdonald Fraser (Flashman novels)
Charles Frazier
Stephen Frey
Stephen Fry
Alex Garland
Jane Green
Annie Groves
Robert Goddard
Winston Graham
Philippa Gregory
Michael Gruber
Maeve Haran
Georgette Heyer (Regency Romance)
Nick Hornby
William Horwood
Angela Huth
Conn Iggulden
Virginia Ironside
Christian Jacq
Erica James
Cathy Kelly
Robert Low
Colleen McCullough
Elizabeth McGovern
Katharine MacMahon
Richard Mason
Jenni Mills
Mark Mills
Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind)
Kate Mosse
Marian Keyes
Marti Leimbach
Lesley Lokko
David Mason
Jenni Mills
Deborah Moggach
Freya North
Mary Norton
Joseph O'Connor
Tony Parsons
Lesley Pearse
Sharon Penman
Tasmina Perry
Robin Popper
Libby Purves
Liz Rigbey
Kate Saunders
Christina Schwartz
Diane Setterfield
Anita Shreve
Lionel Shriver
Robyn Sisman
Danielle Steel
Amy Tan
Kathleen Tessaro
Craig Thomas
Alan Titchmarsh
Joanna Toye (The Archers Chronicles)
Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole etc)
Joanna Trollope
Caroline Upcher
Penny Vincenzi
Fay Weldon
Ann Widdicombe
CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Peter Ackroyd
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun, etc)
Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger, etc)
Monica Ali (Brick Lane)
Martin Amis
Simon Armitage
Kate Atkinson (Behind the Scenes at the Museum, etc)
Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin, etc)
Beryl Bainbridge
Ian Banks
John Banville
Pat Barker (The Ghost Road)
Peter Carey
Rick Collignon
Sarah Dunant
Sebastian Faulks (Birdsong, etc)
Jonathan Safran Foer
Jostein Gaarder
Kate Grenville
William Golding
David Guterson
Robert Harris
Zoe Heller
A.M. Holmes
A.L.Kennedy (Day)
Nicole Krauss
Bernard Mac Laverty
Ian McEwan
Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall)
Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
Valerie Martin
Anne Michaels
Magnus Mills
Shani Mootoo
John Mortimer
Irene Nemirovsky
Christopher Nolan
Steff Penney (The Tenderness of Wolves)
Anthony Powell (entire Dance to the Music of Time sequence)
Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)
Willie Russell
CJ Sansom (Historical crime)
Bernhard Schlink
Will Self
Asne Seirerstad (The Bookseller of Kabul)
Vikram Seth
Tom Sharpe (Humour)
Carol Shields
Zadie Smith (White Teeth, etc)
Vikas Swarup (Q&A/Slumdog Millionaire)
Meera Syal (Anita and Me)
Paul Theroux
Rose Tremain (Restoration)
William Trevor (Felicia's Journey)
Sally Vickers
Katherine Webb (The Legacy)
Mary Wesley
Nigel Williams
Tom Wolfe
Carlos Ruiz Zafon (The Shadow of the Wind, etc)
CRIME & THRILLERS
Marjorie Allingham
Jeff Abbott
Jeffrey Archer {including short stories}
David Baldacci
Linwood Barclay
Mark Billingham
Benjamin Black
Stephen Booth
Sam Bourne
Alan Bradley
Christopher Brookmyre
Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)
Lee Child
Mary Higgins Clark
Michael Connelly
John Bowen & David Cook (Hetty Wainthropp)
Michael Cordy
Agatha Christie
Patricia Cornwell (Scarpetta & others)
Robert Crais
Clive Cussler
Michael Dibdin (Aurelio Zenn & others)
Michael Dobbs
RJ Ellory
Ken Follet
Colin Forbes
Claire Francis
Dick Francis
Frances Fyfield
Andrew Gross
MR Hall
James Herbert
Carl Hiaasen
Jack Higgins
Reginald Hill (Dalziel & Pascoe & others)
Greg Isles
Peter James
Jack Kerley
Phillip Kerr
Raymond Khourry
Jeffrey Lent
Elmore Leonard
Stuart MacBride
Andy McNab
Ngaio Marsh
Michael Marshall
Mark Mills
Magdalen Nabb
Sara Paretsky
Ellis Peters (Cadfael)
Sharon Penman
Henry Porter
Christopher Priest
A.J. Quinnell
Matthew Reilly
Ian Rankin
Ruth Rendell (Wexford & others)
CJ Sansom (Historical crime)
Gerald Seymour
Sidney Sheldon
Alexander McCall Smith (Mma Ramotswe, Isabel Dalziel & 44 Scotland Street books)
Wilbur Smith
Scott Turow
James Twining
Minette Walters
Joseph Wambaugh
R.D. Wingfield (Frost)
CHILDREN'S
Valerie Bloom
Melvyn Burgess
Georgia Byng
Janet Lee Carey
Cathy Cassidy
Lauren Child
Eoin Colfer
Zizou Corder
Gillian Cross
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Roald Dahl
Daniel Defoe
Helen Dumore
Stephen Elboz
John Fardell
Alan Gibbons
Morris Gleitzman
Debi Gliori
Keith Gray
Frances Hardinge
Cynthia Harnett
Carl Hiaason
Jason Hightman
Charlie Higson
Antony Horowitz
Anthony Horwood
Elizabeth Singer Hunt
Brian Jacques
Robin Jarvis
Paul Jennings
Pete Johnson
Diana Wynne Jones
Terry Jones
Clive King
Elizabeth Laird
Katherine Langrish
Geraldine McCaughrean
Cliff McNish
Keith Mansfield
John Masefield
Michael Morpurgo
William Nicholson
Jenny Nimmo
Siobhan Parkinson
Ann Pilling
Diana Redmond
Chris Riddell
Katherine Roberts
Louis Sacher
Ian Serraillier
Darren Shan
Justin Somper
Russell Stannard
Dugald A Steer
Paul Stewart
G.P. Taylor
Mildred D Taylor
Alan Temperley
Kate Thompson
Kaye Umansky
Alison Uttley
Robert Westall
Carole Wilkinson
Jacqueline Wilson
Classics (including children's classics)
Louisa M. Alcott
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Wilkie Collins
Charles Dickens
Dostoyevsky
Conan Doyle
Alexandre Dumas
Elizabeth Gaskell
William Golding
Kenneth Grahame
Thomas Hardy
Rider Haggard
Henry James
Charles Kingsley
D.H. Lawrence
Captain Marryat
Hermann Melville
E. Nesbit
Sir Walter Scott
Mary Shelley
Anthony Trollope
Jules Verne
ODDS & ENDS
Jonathan Aycliffe (Horror)
Duncan Bannatyne (Business: self help)
Iain M. Banks (SF)
Antony Beevor (History: Berlin)
Patrick Bishop (War: 3 Para & Ground Force)
Alain de Botton (Philosophy)
Lothar-Gunther Buchheim (Das Boot)
Marion Zimmer Bradley (Fantasy: Avalon)
Deborah Cadbury (History)
Arthur C. Clarke (SF)
Charles Darwin (Science)
Jared Diamond (Science: Human Sexuality)
Stephen Donaldson (Fantasy)
David Ewing Duncan (History: Calendar)
David Eddings (Fantasy)
Ben MacIntyre (War: Agent ZigZag)
John Gribbin (Science)
Richard Holmes (War)
Gary Kinder (Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - deep-sea treasure hunting)
Dean Koontz (Fantasy/horror)
Ed Macy (War: Apache, Hellfire)
George RR Martin (SF)
Michael Moore (Humour)
Richard Leakey (Science: Anthropology)
Ewan McGregor (Travel: Long Way Round & Long Way Down)
Peter Mayle (Travel)
Redmond O'Hanlon (Travel)
Rageh Omer (War: The war in Iraq)
Jeremy Paxman (History: The English)
Harry Pearson (Humour: Racing Pigs & Giant Marrows)
Nathaniel Philbrick (History: In the Heart of the Sea - events after the sinking of the Nantucket whaler, the Essex)
Stephen Pinker (Science: Language)
Terry Pratchett (SF)
John Prebble (History: Culloden)
Martin Rees (Science)
Monty Roberts (Horses)
Simon Singh (Math: Fermat's Last Theorem,)
Dava Sobel (History: Longitude & Galileo's Daughter)
Charles Spencer (History: Blenheim)
Paul Theroux (Travel)
Stella Tillyard (History: The Aristocrats)
Nicola Tyrer (War: Sisters in Arms - Queen Alexandra nurses in WW11)
Lou Wakefield (Humour: Ladies of Letters)
Lewis Wolpert (Science: The Triumph of the Embryo)