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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...
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carre 1945-2020
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The Draw of the Sea
Wyl Menmuir's The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the Cornish Coast and the people who make their livings there, examining the ephemeral...
The Heart Of A Woman
From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights movement. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce...
CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
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'A true masterpiece of the genre' The Times Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English...
The Heart Of A Woman
From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights movement. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce...
Diaries, 1942-1954
James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best known for the remarkable...
My Ear at His Heart
A remarkable insight into the birth of a writer, and the moving discovery of family secrets.When Hanif Kureishi discovers an abandoned manuscript of his father's his understanding of the family...
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
'When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild...
I Will Be Complete: A Memoir
'I WILL BE COMPLETE is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author of HALF A LIFE and CHANG AND...
Cells: memories for my mother
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Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer
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Among Others: Friendships and Encounters
It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a brief word, looking back on life from his...
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...
The Writing School: A memoir
'Fascinating, hugely entertaining, instructive in the best sense. I always thought that writing could not be taught, only reading, but this book made me reconsider. I read it in one...
Based on a True Story
From poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled many writers' lives into one. Author of...
The Writing School: A memoir
'Fascinating, hugely entertaining, instructive in the best sense. I always thought that writing could not be taught, only reading, but this book made me reconsider. I read it in one...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
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A Private History of Awe
An original and searching memoir from "one of America's finest essayists" (Phillip Lopate) When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and...
Granta 104: Fathers The Men Who Made Us
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Gather Together In My Name
Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she...
To The One I Love The Best
Ludwig Bemelmans came to the California home of famed interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, for cocktails. By the end of the night, he was firmly established as a...
Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling
For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing...
Gather Together In My Name
The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a...
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's...
Motherwell: A Girlhood
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The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir in Correspondence
This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the...
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's...
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman'...
The Rules Do Not Apply
'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris'I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate...
All Things Consoled
Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by...
All Things Consoled
Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by...
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...
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...
In My Own Time: Thoughts and Afterthoughts
For the past four years Jane Miller, author of CRAZY AGE: THOUGHTS ON BEING OLD, has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These Times. Her beautifully...
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One [...]
'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
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The Selected Letters of John Cage
This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer...
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir
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F. Scott, Ernest And Me
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In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood
Author: Sir Andrew MotionFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 269g, 336 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2007Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement...
Motherwell: A Girlhood
Author: Deborah Orr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Raw, compelling, wise and tender' Dolly Alderton 'MOTHERWELL is razor-sharp, fearless and wonderful' Adam Kay 'Utterly unflinching and staggeringly good, both...
Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics
Author: Ruth ParkFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 196mm, 372g, 400 pagesPublished: Text Publishing, Australia, 2019Following on from A Fence around the Cuckoo, this is the second volume of autobiography by one...
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Author: Franz KafkaFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 214mm, 635g, 704 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and...
Going Solo
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided...
My Accidental Career
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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and...