Autobiography: Literary

The surprising final chapter of a great American life. When the first volume of Mark Twain's uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was...

One of Egypts greatest contemporary writers, Gamal al-Ghitani (19452015) was born into a family of modest means in the Egyptian countryside. He tra...

'It was said to me, Better have a little of the plantation manner of speech than not; 'tis not best that you seem too learned.' Appearing in 1855,...

Peter J. Conradis memoir Family Business includes a cast of characters ranging from his European Jewish forebears who came to Britain in the Victor...

*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020**Winner of non-fiction book of the year at the Irish Book Awards*An extraordinarily intimate book o...

From the Mark Twain Project comes a freshly informed look at Twains controversial Civil War story The Private History of a Campaign That Failed. Tw...

A revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race 'Full of charm' GUARDIAN 'An a...

This is a moving story of a familys beginnings, growth and, in the context both of time and Trinidadian society, its inevitable dispersal. Savi Nai...

Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's BAFTA award-winning and Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, ...

One Pair of Feet is not just a spirited and entertaining account of the training of a hospital nurse in wartime but a fascinating glimpse into a ti...

Discover the heart-warming and uplifting story of a Glasgow tenement urchin finding her way against adversityBorn during the Second World War in Gl...

Definitive modern edition of Stevenson's intriguing account of his emigration from Scotland to California'The Amateur Emigrant', an autobiographica...

A vivid and personal documentation of T. S. Eliot's most crucial years, both in his private and public life.Despairing of his volatile, unstable ma...

''Like nothing else you will read'' Hilary Mantel''Pure nectar for the imagination'' Irish ExaminerEvery day a beloved father dies. Every day a lov...

The son of one of the greatest writers of our timeNobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel García Márquezremembers his belo...

INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE ...

These letters sent back home to the family in England give a vivid, detailed account of the ups and downs of setting up and running a farm on the K...

Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents the critically acclaimed biography with never-b...