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...

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the ...

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 ...