Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, ...

Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader ... and the impact on their community. This book is best for anyone who’s ever struggled with work-life balance.

Some of the best moments come when Ms. Dalton ... Bemis writes of John Quincy Adams in this extensive biography. Many ...

Virginia Woolf, Hilary Mantel and Prince Harry, we learn from A Voyage Around the Queen (Fourth Estate, £25), have each ...

Marriage was George Eliot’s abiding fascination, with Middlemarch, her greatest novel ... Taylor interprets them as written, in part, for “comic effect”. The woman whom Funder finds vividly ...

This year’s very best biographies and memoirs certainly cover ... She examines her friendship with Russell – how much do we ever really know about the people we believe we’re closest to?

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