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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the long...

Testament of Youth - An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925

In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the li...

Total Recall - My Unbelievably True Life Story

Total Recall is the unbelievably true story of Arnold Schwarzenegger's life. Born in the small city of Thal, Austria, in 1947, he moved t...

A Street Cat Named Bob - How one man and his cat found hope on the streets

The uplifting, true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets and the ginger cat who adopts him and helps him heal his...

My Life in France

The bestselling story of Julia's years in France in her own words-and the basis for the film Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy...

Moab Is My Washpot

Stephen Fry was born in Hampstead in 1957 and, following a troubled adolescence, went on to study English Literature at Queen's College, ...

When Breath Becomes Air

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life wo...

The Year of Magical Thinking

Just before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne's and Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell ill. At first they thought it was flu, t...

Letter to My Daughter

A collection of memoir, poetry and guidance from Angelou, addressed to a daughter she never had. Provides glimpses of the life that led h...

The Continuum Concept

Jean Liedloff has written for the Sunday Times and was a founding member of the Ecologist magazine. She lectures and broadcasts around th...

Madly, Deeply - The Alan Rickman Diaries

Through his never-before-seen diaries - a twenty-five-year passion project - Alan Rickman invites readers backstage and into his life. He...

When Breath Becomes Air

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of...

The World According to Bob - The Further Adventures of One Man and His Street-Wise Cat

Since Bob had appeared, I'd made huge strides in my life. For more than a decade I'd been a homeless drug addict. I'd been lost to the wo...

Kitchen Confidential

THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER: 'The greatest book about food ever written' 'A compelling book with its intriguing mix of clever writing and kitc...

Lion - A Long Way Home

Saroo Brierley is an India-born Australian businessman. He grew up with an adopted family in Tasmania, Australia.

Adventures of a Young Naturalist - The Zoo Quest Expeditions

In 1954, a young television presenter named David Attenborough was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding ra...

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson OBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn¿t work...

The Fry Chronicles

A grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect anecdotes and genuine readerly excitement. Ste...

A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

In the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking re...

Journeys to the Other Side of the World - further adventures of a young Naturalist

During the late 1950s and early 60s, David Attenborough embarked on a series of remarkable travels, a long way from home. From Madagascar...

This Much is True - 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL

From Blackadder to Call the Midwife, from PG Tips to Harry Potter, Miriam Margolyes is Britain's favourite national treasure -- this is (...

Save Me the Waltz

'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save M...

A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

With a new afterword, Why You Are Here: A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summit As a young man, I felt I was out there in the...

Educated - 'A remarkable memoir' - Barack Obama

I'm standing on the red railway car that sits abandoned next to the barn. The wind soars, whipping my hair across my face and pushing a c...

My Body

A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate cele...

Letters to Milena

Franz Kafka (1883¿1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he ...

Challenge Accepted! - 253 Steps to Becoming an Anti-It Girl

Comedy sensation Barber combines elements of memoir and advice manual, celebrating a realistic, self-deprecating and irreverent way of be...

Blue Nights

A New York Times Notable Book and National Bestseller From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a ...

Reborn - Early Diaries 1947-1963

The influential American writer and literary critic's diaries from her early thirties present her powers as a culturally important intell...

In Real Life - My Journey to a Pixelated World

"Twenty-[four]-year-old Joey Graceffa has captured the hearts of millions of teens and young adults through his playful, sweet, and inspi...

Diddly Squat - A Year on the Farm

Pull on your wellies, grab your flat cap and join Jeremy Clarkson in this hilarious and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the infamou...

Chicken with Plums

"Chicken with Plums is a feast you'll devour.” —Newsweek Acclaimed graphic artist Marjane Satrapi brings what has become her signature hu...

Calypso

If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting wit...

Lady in Waiting - My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

Now in paperback, this is a revealing memoir by a Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid in Honour at the Queen's Coron...

Out of Egypt

West with the Night

First published in 1942, this is the autobiography of a remarkable aviator and racehorse trainer, based largely in Kenya. Reissue.

The Woman Warrior

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could b...

Say Nothing - A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

The story of Jean McConville's 1972 abduction from her Belfast home, never to be seen alive again, revealing the culture of silence and p...

More Fool Me

Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable MORE FOOL ME.

Really?

A new collection of Jeremy Clarkson's "Sunday Times" motoring columns, with the former "Top Gear" presenter on irreverent and straight-ta...

Diddly Squat: 'Til The Cows Come Home

THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Head back down to Clarkson Farm with the bestseller from our favourite welly-wearing wannabe farmer, Je...

This is Going to Hurt - Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. ?Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow ...

A Mother's Reckoning - Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbi...

In the Dream House - Winner of The Rathbones Folio Prize 2021

A Matter of Death and Life - Love, Loss and What Matters in the End

Wise, beautiful, heartbreaking, raw' The Times 'A beacon of hope to all of us who will be bereaved' Kathryn Mannix 'An unforgettable and ...

Lily's Promise - How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

A heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming Holocaust survivor story that demonstrates the power of love to see us through the darkes...

Mom and Me and Mom

'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning po...

The Opposite of Loneliness - Essays and Stories

An inspiring, deeply affecting posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories from a young author who has become an icon for h...

No Friend but the Mountains - The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee

'A powerful, devastating insight into a situation that's so often seen through a political - not personal - lens.' GQ In 2013, Kurdish jo...

Ma'am Darling - 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Princess Margaret's storied and eccentric run-ins with the most famous individuals of the twentieth century, alongside her personal traje...

The Beauty of Living Twice

THE TIMES #1 BESTSELLER THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Vogue's Best Books to Read in 2021 One of O Magazine's 55 Most Antic...

Art Sex Music

This is the fascinating story of Cosey Fanni Tutti - a pornographer, pioneer, punk and provocateur - whose art and music inspired a gener...

Slow Days, Fast Company - The World, The Flesh, and L.A.

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated "its own kind of moral laws," spectacular teeth, and a figure that wa...

Just Mercy (Film Tie-In Edition) - a story of justice and redemption

An account of an idealistic lawyer's coming of age in relation to mass incarceration and racial injustice across the United States. Soon ...

11 Life Lessons from Nelson Mandela - Life Lessons from my Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

Ndaba Mandela is the grandson of Nelson Mandela. He is the co-founder and co-chairman of the Africa Rising Foundation, an organization de...

Elon Musk - Risking It All

A NEW EDITION OF MICHAEL VLISMAS' EYE-OPENING BIOGRAPHY OF ELON MUSK, NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL COVERING THE LATEST IN MUSK'S FAMILY AND BUSI...

Living the Château Dream - Give the gift of comfort this Christmas

Dick and Angel Strawbridge share more charming stories from their life at the Chateau-de-la-Motte Husson. The follow-up to the massive Su...

Tiny Beautiful Things - A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick soon to be a major series on Disney+

Rich with humour, insight, compassion - and absolute honesty - Tiny Beautiful Things is a balm for everything life throws our way, admini...

Call The Midwife - A True Story of the East End in the 1950s

Tie-in edition to the new BBC 6-part series, due to air on primetime Sunday evenings from February 2012, starring Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferr...

Notes on Heartbreak - the must-read book of the summer

Dark, fierce and raw, Notes on Heartbreak is a love story told in reverse, starting with a devastating break-up. As Annie Lord deals with...