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...