Autobiography: Literary

Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the t...

'The best thing he's ever written . . . I loved it' ObserverMelvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-w...

I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer is the memoir of Nichols's extraordinary life, as seen through the lens of his writing. Everything that...

The Sheldon family were immigrants to the USA; a fairly dysfunctional family, constantly on the move, either fleeing debt crises or seeking possibl...

'A memoir which is also a work of art' Allan Massie, The Scotsman The story begins with Campbell, aged 14, in a police cell in Glasgow. Hes been ...

In 1969, poet and revolutionary Margaret Randall was forced underground when the Mexican government cracked down on all those who took part in the ...

_________________ 'A brilliant and sensitive writer ... I was very moved' - Jung Chang A raw and powerful memoir' - New York Times Ying's style ...

A Hugo Award Nominee!Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman! J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction min...

New Zealand's most extraordinary literary everyman - poet, novelist, critic, activist - C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years ...

'Peerless.' Daily Telegraph 'Sprinkled with magic.' Observer'Full of mischief, romance, fun and kindness.' The TimesSoldier, journalist, historian,...

Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet - as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. H...

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir ...

Sinclair Lewis Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Lewis that offers a revealing ...

Winner of the Edgar(R) Award for Best Fact Crime The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully. Equal parts childho...

'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton'The whole story of his truly astonishing life' Bob Woodward'The book was damn near add...

The extraordinary story of one woman''s ten-year odyssey that brought her physical, creative, emotional, and spiritual healing. With a play opening...

Britains best loved rural writer chronicles the progress of the seasons in the Stour valley village where he has lived and worked among artists, wr...