Autobiography: Literary

The fourth and final volume of Michel Leiriss renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time, translated by Richard Sieburth  ...

Antonin Artauds journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinaryand apocalypticturning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifes...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunn...

When everyday life becomes a state of emergency, how can yesterdays words suffice?We were so happy and didnt know itA thirty-three-year-old writer ...

'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American MarriageFrom the acclaimed author Alice Walk...

'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every ...

When British poet Amy Key was growing up, she envisioned a life shaped by loveand Joni Mitchells album Blue was her inspiration. Blue became part o...

A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. ...

An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture Illuminating, deeply endearing essay...

A previously unpublished wartime memoir from the acclaimed author of Birdy and A Midnight Clear. One of the most acclaimed American write...

The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It beg...

It is a great pity that we in the United States do not have our own Roger Scruton. As              his . . . collection of essays reminds us, he is...

These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834-1896), a protean figure who e...

Heres the thing with kissing: it matters intensely or not at all. Mid-kiss, do you ever wonder who you are, who youre kissing, where its leading? I...

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been...

FROM THE ONE-OF-A-KIND IMAGINATION THAT BROUGHT US SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 AND CAT'S CRADLE 'Kurt Vonnegut is either the funniest serious writer around o...

George Garretts autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, published here in full for the first time since it was written in the late 1930s, sh...

Originally written as three complete books, this one-volume edition includes A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Yea...

In 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardeners daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veroneses account focuses on...

Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything-including their native languages-to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s a...