The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is often described as the toughest job in the world. This title presents the inside story from Britain's top cop on what it is like to take life and death decisions on the street, inside Scotland Yard - and underneath Downing Street in the top secret COBRA centre.

Keith Floyd was the first celebrity chef, the swashbuckling cook who crossed the high seas, on a BBC budget, communicating his love of food to millions of viewers. Make a wonderful dish and have a bloody good time: that was the criteria of his mission (a mission that lasted several decades). This title tells his story.

Bestselling author of SPILLING THE BEANS and champion of the countryside brings us her outspoken views, encounters and stories from her life as she travels around the heart of Britain.

A sadistic father's reign of terror. A little girl's struggle to survive

Mitch Albom rediscovered his college professor and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited Mitch every Tuesday, just like in college. This is a chronicle of their time together and their final class : lessons in how to live.

Presents correspondence that charts Eliot's intellectual journey towards conversion to the Anglican faith in 1927, as well as his transformation from banker to publisher, ending with his appointment as director of a publishing house of Faber & Gwyer, in late 1925, and the appearance of Poems 1909-1925 .

Shows how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak dropped out of college and founded Apple in 1976, and charted the company's rise from basement brainstorming to colossal empire. This title explains how Steve Jobs came to found the company that changed our world - twice.

A powerful love story that touched the heart of the nation when it was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

For many people, Clive James will always be a TV presenter first and foremost, and a writer second - this despite the fact that his adventures with the written word took place before, during and after his time on the small screen. This memoir tells the inside story of his years in television.

Follows the author from his lowest point in life, in danger of eating himself into an early grave. This book shows the author's determination to battle his demons and his food addiction.

Reveals the lessons that have helped global entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, through his business and personal life, like believing it can be done and that, if others disagree with you, try and try again until you achieve your goal; or that you must love what you do.

Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. It's quite a change from the Met, where he dealt with riots on the capital's streets and drug gangs in Battersea, and found out what it was like to stare down the wrong end of a sawn-off shotgun.

The man who talks to the other side

In 1979, 14-year-old Timothy Knatchbull went out on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in County Sligo, Ireland. It was a trip that would cost four lives. This title reveals a story of courage and fortitude as he, his family, and their English and Irish friends dealt with the shocking assassinations and their aftermath.

'Everyone has the right to representation. As a defence lawyer it's my job to defend the indefensible' Michael Mansfield, QC

This is a universal story of the progression from boy to man and will resonate with everyone of a certain age

James Frey wakes up on a plane, with no memory of the preceding two weeks. His face is cut and his body is covered with bruises. He has abused alcohol and every drug he can lay his hands on for a decade - and he is aged only twenty-three. This work presents an account of a life destroyed and a life reconstructed.

When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A confident girl on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which was encouraged by her suburban parents that took her into the semi-criminal world of west London just as the 1960s began.

The explosive Sunday Times bestseller dishes the dirt on life in the Square Mile

* One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling six-volume autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of Celebrations