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Playboy: 'An essential read' - Joelle Taylor, T.S. Eliot Prize- [...]
At the age of forty-three, the narrator abandons her marriage, her apartment and her successful legal career as a public defender to re-emerge as an out lesbian and a writer.In...
Unleashed
THE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSONA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE' ED BALLS'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAIL Boris Johnson has...
Notes to John
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES 'A profound, rich document' NEW STATESMAN 'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUE A recently discovered journal from one of America's...
Groundwork
From the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy, an updated collection of Paul Auster's nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude. Paul...
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy
The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single volume in Penguin Modern Classics Growing up in a working-class neighbourhood...
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry
Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes...
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began...
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2
Dazzling, essential, unlike anything else published today - a memoir on modern womanhood, smashing through social expectations and making the case for thrilling, transformative freedom What does it mean to...
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to...
Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland
Author: Deborah Orr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A fitting legacy...
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
The autobiography of one of the world's most talented and intriguing writers, reissuing in Penguin Modern Classics 'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him...
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Author: Janet Malcolm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the...
What Days Are For
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My Left Foot
My Left Foot is Christy Brown's inspirational story of his early life, his battle against the restraints of cerebral palsy and his determination to learn to read, write, and paint,...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage 'Walker writes beautifully about the push and pull of...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Dazzling' TARA WESTOVER 'A story about hope, imagination and resilience' GUARDIAN An...
Too Close to the Falls: A Memoir
A prize-winning, best selling, rivetingly dark and funny memoir of a most unusual girl. It is the mid-1950s in Lewiston, a sleepy town near Niagara Falls, famous only for the...
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
Teacher Man
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Raising Demons
In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the most vexing demons yet- her children Shirley Jackson skewered the trials...
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, published in a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time 'Living in Corfu was rather like living in one...
A Truce That Is Not Peace
THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY 'A triumph - a meditation...
Jokes, Jokes, Jokes: My Very Funny Memoir
'Really funny & engaging. A breeze and a pleasure to read' Katherine Ryan 'As hilarious and outrageous as you might expect' Rosie Ramsey 'Funny. Poignant. Fascinating. Just the sort of...
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape
From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's world. 'Living in our valley was like broad beans in a...
The Possession
'The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city - the whole world - with a person you may never have met.' These words set the...