The Costa Book Awards Biography shortlist has been announced, all these are in stock if you like the look of them. It’s certainly a wide ranging list.

John Campbell for Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life Best Prime Minister we never had?

Marion Coutts for The Iceberg: A Memoir Marian Coutts’ account of the time leading up to her husband’s death from a brain tumour

Helen Macdonald for H is for Hawk Already a prize winner, (Samuel Johnson), a memoir of battling grief and training a hawk.

Henry Marsh for Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

If you want to find out the drama of the operating theatre, this is for you