Autobiography: Literary

Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a love letter and thank you note to Joan Didion.In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that a place belong...

Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartret...

The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, c...

More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that Americas schools could no longer be segregated by race. Crit...

What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve bein...

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...

'A tender appreciation of lifes beauty' - Matt Haig, The GuardianIn How to Feel Better, bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shares the advice tha...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be ...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of Americas most influential writers that reveals the surp...

'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph'Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Sim...

If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew.In the Nekepmxcín language, spílxm are remembered stories, of...

The revealing and candid memoir of Australia's legendary playwright and screenwriter The definitive memoir of David Williamson, author of iconic dr...

'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times 'An ...

An intimate glimpse into the life and letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century.   In July 1921, disp...

If he is to become a man, what sort of man should Thomas Page McBee be?To find out, McBee must confront the suffering he has endured at the hands o...

'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of hea...

'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James...

'The book I've been waiting for my entire life' DOLLY ALDERTONIs it possible that life without romantic love isn't so bad?When poet Amy Key was gro...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024****WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION**A beautifully illustrated new memoir of...

The Times Food Book of the Year. A soul-searching memoir for foodies everywhere. Let award-winning food writer Clare Finney take you on a passionat...

Key to understanding Black British history The Sunday TimesSharp and still relevant Zadie SmithOne of the great poets of modern times, and a deep...

Discover the inspirational coming-of-age memoir about modern poverty in Britain and the liberating power of education.'An astonishing tale, well st...

WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE THE STARS?'Look at a satellite image of the Earth. Where it was once as dark as night, it is now lit up like a Christmas tree...

An extraordinarily brilliant and pleasurably naughty (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting ...

From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty ...

Available for the first time in English, the complete, uncensored diaries of one of the twentieth centurys most influential writers 'The writing gl...

International bestseller Leïla Slimani's elegant meditation on life and death, art and beauty, translated by Sam Taylor 'A revelation - I have nev...

Stefan Zweig's seminal memoir recalls the golden age of pre-war Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall. Through the ...

Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she was born in Russia and has live...

After a lifetime of writing a novel every year, Storm Jameson turned to memoir with the ambition 'to write without lying'. The result was an extrao...

Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests ...

The exciting story of a newspaper reporter who risked his life in Nanking, Singapore, and Manila to provide the world with riveting coverage of Wor...