Autobiography: Literary

In Doing More with One Life, best-selling author Piasecki welcomes the reader into his home, revealing the heart-breaking early death of his father...

The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby ‘There’s no one funnier than Joel Golby' GREG JA...

Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell questions the actions an...

'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of hea...

Named one of 12 of the Best Jewish Books of the Year by the Jewish Telegraph Agency, New York Jewish Week, & Jerusalem Post2023 International B...

A Sunday Times Book of The YearA Mail on Sunday Book of The YearAn Independent Book of The YearA The Times Book of The YearDuring the US book tour ...

Down and Out in Paris and London was George Orwell’s first published book. It is at once a very personal account, and a vivid exposé of hard lives ...

Presented here in English translation are letters selected for publication by the poet himself, shortly before his death, from his wide corresponde...

A meditation on the themes of separation and silence, The Summer of the Elder Tree was Marie Chaix's first book to appear in fourteen years, and de...

‘A tender memoir of the challenges of bereavement ... I closed this book wishing I’d met her – but feeling that I almost had’ Daily Telegraph______...

‘Nobody writes like Sally Bayley’ Lemn Sissay From the brilliantly original and critically acclaimed Sally Bayley, a literar...

‘Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational … Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense … This is the news from the domes...

‘Enlightening, moving’ SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new explorat...

‘So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...

‘Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi...

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artif...