Autobiography: Literary

'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 a...

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...

_______________ ''A brutal, moving memoir ... Anyone who emerges from America''s black working-class youth with words as fine as Ward''s deserve...

'I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life an...

FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL. AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALEAt eighteen, Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF.At twenty-five, he...

'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris'I wanted what we all want: everythin...

Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017'Against anything I had ever been told w...

As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic' Melvyn Bragg'Thoughtful, subtle, ...

Known for his sometimes-gritty naturalism and use of Appalachian dialect, Harry Harrison Kroll (18881967) was a remarkably prolific Tennessee novel...