Autobiography: Literary

'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optionalA compelling mediation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internatio...

Includes an exciting sneak peek extract from Three Sisters - the conclusion to The Tattooist of Auschwitz Trilogy. Available now. The Tattooist...

The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It beg...

'A modern classic.' Guardian'A near-perfect work of art.' Joyce Carol OatesI was supposed to be having the time of my life . . .Working as an inter...

In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven... two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot wo...

The best poet in America Jean Genet He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels Leonard Cohen The definitive collection...

Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been ...

'You are the knife I turn inside myself'Franz Kafka's letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska - an intimate window into the desires and hopes...

'I couldnt put this book down. Although harrowing at times, Lesleys indomitable spirit shines through. What an inspiration, what a book!' Katie Ffo...

Get comfortable, sink under the covers and dip into the hilarious Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into bestselling ...

Agatha Christies most absorbing mystery her own autobiography. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha...

The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It beg...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. H...

From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down...

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Kn...

GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Véra Slonim shared his deligh...

The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It beg...

It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of T...

The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven v...

Joan Didions savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state ...

Anna Llenas's popular Colour Monster is back, and this time he's heading off to school! But what exactly is school? A spooky castle filled with ter...

Elizabeth Smarts passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as Like Madame Bov...

The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It beg...