Autobiography: General

This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his fierce fi...

No Echo in the Sky is a delightfully written book where Harald Penrose draws on personal experiences from his long and distinguished career. Harald...

75th anniversary edition of the timeless New Zealand classic of adventure at sea. Johnny Wray's gripping and often hilarious account of his advent...

The place is London, and the year is 1966. It's a time when anything seems possible, especially if you are a young, free-spirited, mini-skirted gir...

Keelin's compelling story is as powerful as the woman she was. Liz Nugent Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking is a masterpiece. This ranks a...

Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artists favourite: Betty May aka the Tiger Woman was a woman like no other. Born into abject pov...

'I was a tall, good-looking gay man who had resolved to marry an innocent (read virginal) woman, and I was spending my Saturday evenings in the com...

Throughout his glittering career, Ross Harper was a major figure in Scottish law, politics, journalism and business. He was a key player in many of...

Many lovers of literature are familiar, through DostoyevskyOs works, with the concept of the Russian Staretz, or spiritual elder, and this biogra...