Autobiography: Literary

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...

A collection of three classic books by V. S. Naipaul. with an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar.V. S. Naipaul firs...

Against the Stream is the latest volume of Frederic Raphaels acclaimed memoirs Personal Terms, an unrivalled parade of the authors eventful and pro...

When Nick Flynn was seven years old, his mother set fire to their house. The event loomed large in his imagination for years, but its only after ha...

This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs. That's how Edmund Gosse opened Father an...

A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world's most respected writers.Born in 1922 in the tiny Portuguese...

Lucy Fry''s story opens with the heady and impassioned affair she embarked on during her wife''s pregnancy. It is a relationship that appears to be...

'Raw, relentless ... Feverish' New Yorker 'This is a devastating book about harm. It's about the harm that is unleashed when one person swaps thei...

As an independent publisher, Jeremy Robson always punched above his weight with a roster of authors that have been the envy of many large publisher...

Ghost of the Hardy Boys is an elegant book, full of charm and pathos and whimsy. The writing is restrained, the characterizations deep and rich, th...

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 ...

Following a turbulent upbringing, a history of addiction and a committal to an asylum, the teachings of Malcolm X changed Hakim Jamal's life. He be...

These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship.'A beautiful collection' Daisy Du...

A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought e...

Agatha Christies widowers recollections of his archaeological triumphs and life with Agatha. In these informal, often witty and always in...

In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers. With Varying Degrees of Success he ...

''Her story is intimate and revealing about what it is to smile and what it means when you can''t'' Cynthia NixonThe extraordinary story of one wom...

'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extrem...