Autobiography: Literary

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...

Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian...