Autobiography: Literary

2015 winner of the Prix Valery Larbaud. Writer, professor, translator, and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languagesher native Russian and ...

2015 winner of the Prix Valery Larbaud. Writer, professor, translator, and editor Luba Jurgenson lives between two languagesher native Russian and ...

An unforgettable memoir and manifesto for living, from the woman who redefined magazines for the 21st century Truly compelling...

I am fond of paintings, furniture, tapestry, houses and flowers and even vegetables and fruit trees. I like a view but I like to sit with my back t...

'A meditation on race, and class, and grief ... Uplifting, but just wrenching' BARACK OBAMA ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 AN INSTANT NE...

Forough Farrokhzad, poet, mother, feminist, radical, was one of the most iconic dissenting voices in modern Iranian history. Often referred to as I...

'This is one of those special books . . . Even if it were only a book about eels, it would be wonderful.' - Sunday Times'I never thought I would se...

An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europes greatest poets, published on the centenary of his bir...

An Irish Times and The i Book of 2022'Tense and intimate . . . an education' - Geoff Dyer'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending. A wonder' ...

A collection of autobiographical articles which look at the milestones in the life and works of one of Wales' most prominent writers as he reaches ...

'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life. It is one of the cl...

'Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny' Observer'The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace' New York TimesBest known for her s...

The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible of the notorious Mitford sisters.Here's what readers are saying:'It is b...

When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he w...

The latest Collectors' Edition from Faber Members: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.First published by Faber in 1966, The Bell Jar is today considered ...

Born in Poona, India, Farrukh Dhondy came to England in 1964 and immersed himself in radical politics and the counterculture. He kicked off a caree...

'Fascinating, hugely entertaining, instructive in the best sense. I always thought that writing could not be taught, only reading, but this book ma...

A collection of portraits of some of the finest comedians of our time. From the author of the acclaimed The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, as mad...

The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page'Lifescapes is the u...

The worlds oldest still-active war correspondent, Al J. Venter has reported from the front lines for well over half a century, witnessing the horro...