Autobiography: General

'If you read the papers, you'd think that the only girls to get hooked are from dysfunctional families. But what happened to me could happen to any...

Benedict Anderson was one of the most respected thinkers on the history of nationalism. His acclaimed Imagined Communities is one of the most cited...

This book, by a well established author previously writing in a quite different genre, that of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and counselling, is wr...

The first nonfiction collection by internationally acclaimed writer and translator Amit Majmudar, Black Avatar combines elements of memoir, biograp...

“For the decade of my father’s illness, I felt as if I was floating in the deep end, tossed by waves, carried by currents but not drowning.” In a s...

Charlie Richardson, one of Britain's most notorious gangland bosses, sheds light on his extraordinary life story completed just weeks before his de...

Heart-rending, shocking and totally gripping, The Slave Across the Street is the incredible true story of how an ordinary girl was lured into the s...

In this unique and hilarious debut memoir, writer and comedian Greg Mania chronicles life as a "pariah prodigy." From inadvertently coming out to h...

The word “terroir” refers to the climate and soil in which something is grown. Natasha Sajé applies this idea to the environments that nurture and ...

In a powerful true-crime memoir, an Emmy Award–winning journalist seeks closure in a decades-long series of crimes and freedom from her own persona...

As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this gripping...

After a troubled upbringing that saw the early death of her mother from cancer, Sarah Gabriel had created a happy home life with her partner and tw...

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In this vivid memoir originally published in German, Anne Groschler (1888-1982) recounts her 1944 escape from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ...

An outspoken memoir by a much-celebrated Indian filmmaker.   “I am a filmmaker by accident and an author by compulsion,” claims Mrinal Sen, who bec...

When the U.S. military repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” its official policy on homosexuality in the services, Capt. Stephen Snyder-Hill was servin...

From the “former sex worker taking Hollywood by storm” (The Daily Beast), comes a candid and hilarious memoir of sex work, shame, and self-discover...

A story of hope, love and life in the face of cancer, and the miracle of second chances.Soon to be a major movie!When Delia's beloved first husband...

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN AND THE NEW STATESMAN'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE, ...