Autobiography: General

True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurbas coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending ra...

A child doesn't ask to be born; they are brought into the world by their parents. If they're lucky, that child is nurtured, fed, loved, and guided ...

'The king of character comedy.' Good Housekeeping'A lynchpin of British comedy.' Alan MooreThe nation's favourite comedian opens up about two extra...

We jumped in at the deep end and bought a farm! A reluctant wife, a couple of crazy kids and a husband whose knowledge of farming you could write o...

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 accoun...

This is a very different book from the traditional speed-merchant genre. Richard Noble has had the ambition all his adult life to see Britain exc...

From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural joys to be discovered on your doorstep. In the aut...

When you find your husband lying dead, you think you will not forget a single detail of that moment. As an archaeologist, I like to get my facts ri...

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his devoted fans, he is a cult hero, a modern-day Rim...

My mother once said to me, 'I wish you could feel the way I do for eighteen seconds. Just eighteen seconds, so you'd know how awful it is.' I thoug...