Biography

A Globite suitcase, a diary, and a bundled pile of postcards and letters left abandoned in a barn. Lying unknown to his family, here was the life of a young...

The hilarious and heartfelt chronicle of a woman learning the secrets of love, health, and happiness from some very surprising teachers: her dogs. Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working...

Emma Forrest's memoir was called "a journey of healing" by Interview magazine and "a beautifully written eulogy for the doctor she credits with saving her life" by Los Angeles Magazine....

Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, and heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and economic ruin, James Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises, and...

One of the inspirations for the smash hit Broadway musical Come From Away , Channel of Peace is an unforgettable memoir of the extraordinary kindness afforded to passengers whose flights...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ' Over The Top [is] a lightning bolt - devastating and stirring ... generous and frank.' The Observer Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the...

"Angela Balcita's love story takes a couple of artsy wanderers off the road and into the bright, scary world of transplants, dialysis, and neonatal intensive care." -Marion Winik, author of...

When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would...

'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...

'A searingly honest and impassioned account of being an advocate in the social media era, Alyssa's voice is fierce, urgent and brave; and filled with deep familial love. This book...

For the first time, the phenomenal bestselling literary memoir will be published in Penguin Modern Classics Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight...

Finch Publishing is proud to support Australian writers through an annual prize for an unpublished memoir manuscript. MY LIFE IN A PEA SOUP follows one mother's journey to reach her...

'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' - Elton John 'Orgasmic. Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a...

As soon as Adam Kay set foot on a hospital ward for the first time, he realized there's quite a lot they don't teach you at medical school . ....

'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' Mail on Sunday 'Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book . . . taps into a widespread feeling that we...

In the bestselling tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture, a dying father's deeply moving legacy for his sons is winning hearts and minds around the world. In...

** Shortlisted for WA Premier's Prize for Book of the Year 2023 ** Interweaving fiction and memoir in multiple threads, Thistledown Seed follows the displacement and violence of the Holocaust...

'One of the most incredible and moving books that we've read, ever.' The High Performance Podcast Sitting in the prison classroom each morning, reading the pages in my book, listening...

"Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others." - Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author For...

'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....

A memoir from the revolutionary editor credited with bringing social consciousness to the pages of Teen Vogue and an inspiring exploration of what it means to be enough. INSTANT NEW...

Take a walk with Kathleen Panettieri Down a Cobblestone Lane. It is the journey of a lifetime; you will meet her ancestors and find out how her immigrant parents -...

Cad's father, Neil, vowed to his son that he would finish his book. With Every Step, which is by turns irreverent, entertaining, tragic and inspirational, represents the completion of Andrew...

Few others have determined our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis,...

In April 2008, the world watched in horror as the news of Josef Fritzl made worldwide headlines. But for one British woman the story was not the stuff of unimaginable...

'You can look at my life in two ways. Some people see a nightmare, some see a fairytale. I've just always thought I was lucky...People often ask me how I...

The genre-defying, thought-stirring memoir about America's obsession with violence, from the critically acclaimed author of The Argonauts Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian 'Maggie Nelson's...

For celebrated journalist Tracey Lee Holmes, sport has been both a way of life and a lens through which to look at life itself. In this completely candid, wide-ranging and...

'Late afternoon. An isolated lagoon, water glassy, teeming with birdlife-black swans, ducks, a pelican. Sunset begins to tint the sky. I point the camera at the water to catch the...

Stories of courage and conviction from the environmental frontline With a foreword by Geraldine Brooks. For half a century, Bob Brown has been standing up to the powerful interests who...

In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a criminal defence attorney in Milwaukee to join a program to help train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was...

A Memoir of the Real Downton Abbey Experience Eric Horne served as a butler in some of the great English country manors from the 1860s until just after World War...

A personal account of the Courtney family and the Preemptive Love Coalition, as they help children obtain lifesaving surgeries in Iraq using one simple but powerful tool: a love that...

AS FEATURED ON DESERT ISLAND DISCS, BIG SCOTTISH BOOK CLUB AND THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES , THE TIMES , GUARDIAN ,...

Working Girl meets What Remains in this New York Times bestselling, behind-the-scenes story of an unlikely friendship between America's favorite First Son, John F. Kennedy Jr. and his personal assistant,...

An inspiring, honest and intimate memoir about family, love and rising from the ashes. From the age of twelve, Alison Mau wanted to be a journalist like her father. He...

A treasured son. A rare condition. A memoir of loss and joy and everything in between. My mind is racing. I'm trying to make sense of what the doctors have...

This work offers an intimate, brutally honest and often humorous account of the author's brush with breast cancer and its intersection with midlife, motherhood and marriage. Gail Konop Baker was...

This Is Going to Hurt meets Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) - a rollicking, smart and self-aware memoir about the extremes of the human experience, the limits to compassion,...

Behind the tourist veneer of Bali and greater Indonesia: a foreign correspondent's memoir In 2006, journalist Deborah Cassrels embarked on a personal odyssey to the Indonesian island of Bali. She...

Prolific Australian author, Jim Connelly, ('Mountain Boy', 'Wild Beauty') turns to his own native Gippsland in his free-wheeling account of this beautiful, varied and historic region.

A fearless, tender memoir from the prize-winning writer of Counting and Cracking. Shakthi lives with his family, in the house his great-grandparents built in Colombo, Sri Lanka, before the civil...

From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified...

The political memoir as rousing adventure story--a sizzling account of a life lived in the thick of every important struggle of the era. April 1973: snow falls thick and fast...

Travel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield's "enthralling" bestseller as your eye-opening guide ( Slate ). Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has...

During his run into turning fifty, Chris Evans is on a mission. To take stock of where he is and where he's at in order to figure out how best...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." - Kirkus Reviews When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke...

Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor and wisdom, The Sum of Our Days is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love, strong will, and stubborn determination...