Autobiography: Literary

Has the page-turning quality of a thriller. NPR Strange and wonderfulA book for our times. The New York Times Book Review Propulsivemesmerizingbrea...

Cancelled Confessions reveals Claude Cahun to be a major surrealist writer and pioneering queer theorist almost a century ahead of her time. The re...

'JOKES, JOKES, JOKES' is Eclair's account of how she elbowed her way into the male dominated world of 1980's stand-up, via drama school, cider, sau...

'As hilarious and outrageous as you might expect' Rosie Ramsey 'Funny. Poignant. Fascinating. Just the sort of hilarious, disrespectful, ribald boo...

His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself The TimesAn Area of D...

The second volume in Simone de Beauvoirs celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureF...

'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . This, Raban's final work, is a gorgeous achievement Ian McEwanOn 11 June 2011, three days short of his sixty...

Brutal and beautiful, Stray is the true story of a girl who runs away and finds herself.After growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive...

'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom I love' Peter WildebloodIn March 1954 Peter W...

Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all er...

A comic experiment in sociology and self-absorption, the award-winning author Thomas Clerc's autobiographical Interior is a unique invitation into ...

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING SAOIRSE RONANWITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHORTHE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE AND ...

'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down'Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win go...

A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker 'His work...

This no-holds barred account of Leland Bardwell's life spans five decades and unveils the shroud of innocence that often clouds our vision of the p...

My Good Bright Wolf is a memoir about thinking and reading, eating and not eating, about privilege and scarcity, about the relationships that form ...

'Extraordinary . . . Moss is a towering figure in the contemporary literary landscape' - The Daily TelegraphDevastating, funny . . . a brave and im...

This memoir is an account of a Georgian and Elizabethan childhood in mid-twentieth- century England. Vividly written and always honest, it depicts ...

Recommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed! The New York Times directs readers to Re...

Don Paterson is one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, possessed of an infinite sensitivity to the world (Zadie Smith). But his current stan...