Autobiography: Literary

If you didn't know whether to risk doing something, what's the worst that could happen? 'So they call you pisher!'In this humorous and moving memoi...

Georges memory is inseparable from Orkney, where he was born the youngest child of a poor family and which he rarely left. His mother was a beautif...

'I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life an...

A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the First World War - a woman ahead of her t...

'A woman's defiant fight to write.' ObserverBeing categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more ...

The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events ...

'Both extremely funny and deeply sad, The Writing School examines how and why we tell our own stories. It's beautifully written and structured, co...

Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.'The bes...

Grove chronicles not only his own fascinating Anglo-Argentinian background growing up in Buenos Aires but also the political history of the tango. ...

George Garretts autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, published here in full for the first time since it was written in the late 1930s, sh...

Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major...

Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the...

A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiriss masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterpri...

For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling ...

A memoir by Lara Marlowe, the Irish Times'' correspondent in Paris. Lara Marlowe first met Robert Fisk in 1983, in Damascus. He was already a famo...

NOW AN AWARD-WINNING FILM ON NETFLIX 'One of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century' MICHAEL HOLROYD, SUNDAY TIMES'Irresistibly...

William Henry Davies was born in a pub and learnt early in life to rely on his wits and his fists - and to drink. Around the turn of the century, w...

Ludwig Bemelmans came to the California home of famed interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, for cocktails. By the end of the night, he was...

Flayingly authentic and sensationally compelling one of the best books of the year. The Observer A book that few authors would have the courage to...

This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole ...

Caste and Outcast (1923) is an autobiography by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Published the year after Mukerji moved from San Francisco to New York City, Cas...

Amanda Prowse has built a bestselling career on the lives of fictional women. Now she turns the pen on her own life.I guess the first question to a...

An autobiography unlike other literary forms shows the ego of an author. Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehms ego is delicate, fascinating, and courageous....

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo (1899) is an autobiographical work by Victor Hugo. Assembled from diaries and manuscripts left behind by the author foll...

Life and Letters of Toru Dutt (1921) is a biography of Toru Dutt. Comprising biographical sections by scholar Harihar Das, selections from her many...

John le Carré was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, poli...

An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with te...

The second volume of Michel Leiriss hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and...