Autobiography: Literary

'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegra...

In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series brings researchers the most re...

In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series brings researchers the most re...

In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series brings researchers the most re...

Twists and Turns in the Heart's Antarctic is a compelling new volume in Hélène Cixous's search for lost time. Readers of earlier volumes - Hemlock ...

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life she...

More than a gathering of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion ...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Richly intelligent insights on every page' ...

Beautifully written, searingly honest, and deeply affecting ... when the book ended, I only wanted more - Roxane Gay Ford is a writer for the ages...

''Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt'' - Sunday Times''...

**Featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read** 'A profound meditation on language and loss and time, and on how we construct ourselves through stories. ...

'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Cop...

'Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical acc...

The must-read memoir about the dazzling days and dark nights of a Chelsea childhood . . .'Brilliant and moving' The Times'Dazzling' Evening Standar...

w a l e s . c o m Widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies available today. Goodbye, Twentieth...