Autobiography: Literary

In 1935 Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was a well-established novelist, reviewer, columnist and feminist wit. She was part of the 'intellectual aristocr...

In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from...

''I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now'' DONAL RYAN_______________''My diction...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Cathy Rentzenbrink's Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to reading and to fi...

The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - in...

One of the most famous writers of all time, George Orwell's life played a huge part in his understanding of the world. A constant critic of power a...

Unlikely friends and collaborators, Bernard Shaw and Gilbert Murray carried on a lively and wide-ranging correspondence for more than fifty years. ...

'Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and ...

In One Hundred Autobiographies, poet and scholar David Lehman applies the full measure of his intellectual powers to cope with a frightening diagno...

'One of the most eloquent thinkers about our life in language' The Sunday TimesTime Lived, Without Its Flow is a beautiful, unflinching essay on th...

Few men know death: we do not usually undergo it deliberately, but unthinkingly and out of habit and most men die because men cannot help dying -Fr...

1 January 2018 will be the 250th anniversary of Maria Edgeworths birth. Valerie Pakenhams sparkling new selection of over four hundred letters, man...

'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever hap...

Robert Graves, aged nineteen, left school within a week of the outbreak of World War I, and immediately volunteered with the Royal Welch Fusiliers....

The National Book Awardwinning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process  De...

Dylan Thomas''s classic account of his childhood Christmases, newly issued with full colour illustrations by Peter Bailey in this beautiful, cloth-...