Biography & Memoir
Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties
Paperback
A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the incredibly contentious and surprisingly close friendship of its two most colourful characters.
Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art
Hardback
A leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize–winning author turned life into art.
Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul
Paperback
A soul icon and the southern music he helped popularise come to life in this moving requiem.
The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
Hardback
A prize-winning historian tells a new story of the black experience in America through the life of a mysterious entrepreneur.
My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama
Hardback
A memoir about the author’s father, whose courageous defence of a black man accused of rape calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird.