Memoirs

The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutio...

The US Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment fields the best helicopter pilots in the world. Alan Mack was one of these intrepid Night Stalk...

I remember very clearly the day on which I was supposed to die So starts the story of Squadron Leader Hugh Mallory Falconer, British Special Operat...

The original version of this memoir was entitled The Lighter Side of a Tunneller s Life; he has hoped to get it published in the late thirties, but...

Irrepressible memories. Vacant eyes. A child being dangled from a third story window. A boy tied to a chair. Children sleeping in layers of clothin...

An emotional, funny, and fabulous memoir by trailblazing and award-winning Trans actor and activist Alexandra Billings. Born in 1962, Alexandra Bi...

The first part of the book reflects the context of life within the totalitarian systems of Communism and Nazism. The author witnessed the mass dep...

This book traces memoirs of a family doctor who shunned the notion of becoming a physician as he observed his family doctor father while growing up...

Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse. When ...

My Reminiscences (1917) is a memoir by Rabindranath Tagore. Published after Tagore received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, My Reminiscences co...

Caste and Outcast (1923) is an autobiography by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Published the year after Mukerji moved from San Francisco to New York City, Cas...

Amanda Prowse has built a bestselling career on the lives of fictional women. Now she turns the pen on her own life.I guess the first question to a...

Its a tennis story. Its a family story. Its a teamwork story. Its the story of how I got to where and who I am today. I'm only in my mid-...

All Is Not LOST is the sad, funny, self-effacing yet soul-bearing story of what happened when one woman set aside a lifelong dream in favor of her ...

Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observera  harmonious collage of worldview and character...

From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and...

Finding love is all a matter of timing in a surprising, complicated, and funny memoir by the author of A Marriage in Dog Years.When a mysterious wo...

From a daughter of Iranian revolutionaries, activists, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers comes a gripping and emotional memoir of family and...

In 2003, Thabo Jijana''s father was gunned down in a scrap between rival taxi associations who had been forced to operate from a single rank. A dec...

On a butterfly farm in the Maya Mountains, a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and author of the national bestseller The Tenth Island finds enduring...

The remarkable true story of one womans journey back from the brink. Newly widowed and faced with a deadly brain tumour, she was given two years to...

Anders Bortne has a nice life in Oslo. Married to a wonderful woman, with two delightful children, his days are occupied by his creative work. Not ...

Mike Sexton began playing poker at the age of 13 and became a full-time professional player in 1977. He moved from North Carolina to Las Vegas, Nev...

Autumn Light: My Fifty Years in Zen is the story of one womans witness to the remarkable half-century when Buddhist philosophy and practice took ro...

Amity Reed became a midwife to serve women, but the reality of working in over-stretched and underfunded NHS maternity services soon shattered her ...