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After a lifetime of writing a novel every year, Storm Jameson turned to memoir with the ambition 'to write without lying'. The result was an extraordinary reckoning with how she...

'One of our best contemporary writers.' Sunday Telegraph It's those around you who make you who you are. Michael Frayn would like to say a brief word about a few...

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that followed, life as she had known it came apart, 'like a...

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here,...

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 final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer G nter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world. Suddenly, in spite of the...

A final posthumous work of autobiography from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth A final posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and...

From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry --a contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking, twisted, and absolutely magical collection. True stories that give voice to the thoughts we...

As president of Czechoslovakia and of the nascent Czech Republic. Have led central Europe out of communism and into the twenty-first century before stepping down in 2003. In this illuminating...

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,...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby 'There's no one funnier than Joel Golby' GREG JAMES 'I love this book' DOLLY ALDERTON How much of your life...

'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...

'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...

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art...

'The story of my life is the story of my stories,' writes Susan Orlean in this extraordinary, era-defining memoir from one of the greatest practitioners of narrative nonfiction of our...

'Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny - I loved it: a piece of our English history, the story of a vanished time, which feels close at hand but thoroughly...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 IN THE INDEPENDENT, GQ, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND BBC CULTURE When the Going Was Good is Graydon Carter's lively recounting of how he...

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...

" Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve re-reading."-Suzi Feay, Financial Times " Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to...

An intimate glimpse into the life and letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. In July 1921, displaced European poet Rainer Maria...

The book titled In the Absence of Sun: A Korean American Woman's Promise to Reunite by the author Helie. Lee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he...

'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...

'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...

'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times 6 April 2007 Writing income for the year so far: minus 300 'I feel that this might...

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing...

Author: Alice Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...

In the telling of his own tale, children's author and screenwriter Paul Jennings demonstrates how seemingly small events can combine into a compelling drama. As if assembling the pieces of...

Coventry, 1976. For a brief, blazing summer, twelve-year-old Mark Barrowcliffe had the chance to be normal. He blew it. While other teenagers concentrated on being coolly rebellious, Mark - like...

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...

*Nominated for Best Book at the 2025 Chortle Awards* 'Really funny & engaging. A breeze and a pleasure to read' Katherine Ryan 'As hilarious and outrageous as you might expect'...

Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools...

'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend Australian Having lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced, reclaimed space...

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing...

Helen Garner's acclaimed three volumes of diaries are collected here in one sumptuous book. Spanning two decades-from the publication of her lightning-rod debut novel in the late 70s, to the...

'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 Review Kenneth Rose was one...

Following a turbulent upbringing, a history of addiction and a committal to an asylum, the teachings of Malcolm X changed Hakim Jamal's life. He became an eloquent, rousing spokesperson for...

First published in 1980, Isherwood's overlooked last book is central to an understanding of his life and work. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW In 1939, as Europe approaches...

'The story of my life is the story of my stories,' writes Susan Orlean in this extraordinary, era-defining memoir from one of the greatest practitioners of narrative nonfiction of our...

For the first time: the full and unforgettable life of John Cheever (1912-1982), written with unprecedented access to essential sources--including Cheever's massive journal, only a fraction of which has ever...

'What a treat! Brutal truths and bombshells galore. Profound reflections on life, longing and the legacy of Bob. It's like a long Friday lunch that you never want to end....

The first volume of private diaries from the fearless, fierce and much-loved Helen Garner, is now available in paperback Finally, Helen Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into...

Keith Waterhouse thought his first book of memoirs, City Lights, was the best book he ever wrote. Here he recalls his childhood and adolescence in soot-blackened, tramcar-rattling Leeds, and describes...

An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (Andre Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the...

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...

Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft....

A new, wise and warmly funny work of memoir from bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks 'A wise and heartfelt piece of writing' THE TIMES 'Witty' INDEPENDENT 'Wry and reflective . ....