Autobiography: Literary

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellec...

This is the second volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreaus correspondence in more than half a century. When completed, the edi...

Professor Mervyn Morris, Jamaicas Poet Laureate writes: 'Ralph Thompsons luminous autobiography is a fascinating portrait. A witty businessman and ...

The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and ...

A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays b...

America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just th...

Evelyn Underhill (18751941) was one of the greatest spiritual writers of the twentieth century. Living most of her life in England, Underhill used ...

In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no (A ...

With these words, the sixteen-year-old senior at Montgomery Blair High School set himself apart from the high school crowd and set himself on a tra...

While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain hi...

'Remarkable: combines her exceptional experience as a war correspondent with selected poetry in an act of witness' ANDREW MOTIONI was standing outs...

'Darkly angelic prose... a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best' Alex Preston, Observer ______...

An intimate and illuminating account of queer lives and migration, homemaking and community in the Gulf, from a brilliant new voice in narrative no...

Peter's mother is dying. Born in England and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now lies on a hospital bed in the par...

The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, L...

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipauls profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland.Part of the...

'Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful' Mail on Sunday'I read most of it in one exciting sitting. It is brilliant, gripping and sad' ...

Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a da...

Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a da...

''Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny'' Observer''The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace'' New York TimesBest known for h...

'Ive never read a book like it. Its as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote.' Ph...

Named Most Anticipated by: Bustle · Popsugar · Goodreads · Zibby Magazine · SheReads · Book Riot And featured in Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire *No...