50,000 biographies and 60 million words record the lives of the men and women who shaped all aspects of British history. All walks of life are represented, new fields greatly increased alongside more traditional areas. A new focus gives extended coverage to the regions, Britons abroad and former colonies.

Inventor, escapee, campaigner, war correspondent, Pyke was an unlikely hero of both World Wars and is seen today as the father of U.S. Special Forces. He changed the landscape of British pre-school education, earned a fortune on the stock market, wrote a bestseller and in 1942 convinced Churchill and Lord Mountbatten to build an aircraft carrier out of reinforced ice. He gave birth to the Mass Observation movement, escaped from a German concentration...

The life and times of the Black Widow, Britain's longest serving female prisoner.

From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl watching Paula Yates and Jilly Goolden on TV she yearned to be something bigger, to go somewhere better. 'Hungry' traces Grace's story growing up in Currock, Carlisle, to becoming the most recognisable and unique voice on the British food scene today.

Coleen's first memoir was embraced by the nation. Her life since has been splashed across the tabloids - her sensational departure from 'Loose Women', the difficulties in her marriage, the famous feud between the Nolan sisters, and the tragic death of her sister Bernie. Coleen reveals the truth behind the headlines, sharing her most intimate fears and hopes for the future.

In 'Finding My Voice,' Nadiya Hussain explores the many different roles assigned to her by her gender, culture, religion and society and how they have each shaped the woman she is today. Born to parents who emigrated from Bangladesh to Britain, Nadiya Hussain's first roles were those of daughter and sister. Considering her later identities as a devout Muslim entering an arranged marriage and becoming a wife and mother herself, Nadiya questions the...

Written with Adam's characteristic warmth and self-deprecating charm, 'Ramble Book' is a very funny and at times incredibly poignant memoir; taking in Adam's burgeoning love of pop culture as a teenager, his feelings about childhood and parenthood, coming to terms with the death of his father and lots more besides.

Since debuting on the showbiz circuit in 1963, Cilla Black has released 14 studio albums, in addition to two successful Greatest Hit packages and 37 singles. She has also starred in such shows as 'Surprise, Surprise' and 'Blind Date'. This title relates the story of her life.

Jane McDonald may be a BAFTA-winning TV star and platinum-selling artist, but she'll never forget her Northern roots, and she's as much known for her Yorkshire charm and humour as for her showbiz accolades. She famously hit the big time overnight on TV show 'The Cruise' 20 years ago, but here she talks for the first time about how she survived the dark legacy of that early success, and climbed right back up for a second bit of the cherry. It hasn't...

In this witty, candid and utterly fascinating memoir, Baroness Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, she was born in 1922 into a world of privilege and luxury. But her mother lost most of her inheritance in the Wall Street Crash and the family retrenched from Mayfair to Sandwich, in Kent, where her mother became a succesful society interior decorator.