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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Ri...

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...

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...

When Breath Becomes Air

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

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, ...

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...

Pablo Escobar - My Father

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM PABLO ESCOBAR'S SON Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Lion - A Long Way Home

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

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...

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...

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...

The Fry Chronicles

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our...

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...

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...

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...

Out of Egypt

All the Living and the Dead - An Exploration of the People Who Make Death Their Life's Work

'A superlative piece of writing... provocative, loving and profound' THE TIMES 'Without exaggeration, an awe-inspiring achievement' NIGEL...

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...

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

**OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD**THE PERFECT BOOK TO FIND UNDER THE TREE AT CHRISTMAS** 'The gossip is stupendous but it's also tremend...

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 ...

West with the Night

'Beryl Markham lived out past the edges of herself, and that boldness and sheer originality come through on every page of West With the N...

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...

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...

Abroad in Japan - The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Chris Broad explores Japan in all its quirky glory..Endlessly fascinating!' Will Ferguson, author of Hokkaido ...

More Fool Me

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

Taste - My Life Through Food

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in an...

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 ...

Infidel

The international bestseller now in paperback, INFIDEL shows the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished- and sometimes reviled- pol...

The Hare with Amber Eyes - A Hidden Inheritance

Edmund de Waal's porcelain is shown in many museum collections round the world and he has recently made installations for the V&A and Tat...

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

'Ravishingly beautiful' Observer 'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' Irish Times 'Provocative and rich' Economist 'Daring,...

The Cost of Living

Deborah Levy is a British playwright, novelist and poet. She is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants (1986); Swallowing Geograph...

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...

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...

Really?

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

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...

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...

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...

Mean Baby - A Memoir of Growing Up

Selma Blair has played many archetypal roles: gullible ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Fire-starter in H...

The Outrun

Amy Liptrot has published her work with various magazines, journals and blogs and she has written a regular column for Caught by the Rive...

Have a Little Faith - A true story

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of For One More Day and The Five People You Meet in Heaven -- a new nonfiction book about p...

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...

Nothing to be Frightened Of

Paperback edition of Barnes's very funny rumination on death, the fear of death, god, nature, nurture and his own childhood. The closest ...

Anna - The Biography

Fascinating' Sunday Times 'Deeply sourced and rich with anecdotes' The Times 'Like a nonfiction version of The Devil Wears Prada' Elizabe...

Last Witnesses - Unchildlike Stories

Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph 'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring w...

Ghost Boy

In January 1988, aged twelve, Martin Pistorius fell inexplicably sick. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound, being car...

These Precious Days

An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally bestselling, Women's Prize-winning author of The Dutch House 'An...

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

In January 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked on the journey of a lifetime when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom flat in East Lo...

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...

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 ...

Border

Takes the reader on a vivid journey through the haunted borderlands that once made up the easternmost stretch of the old Iron Curtain - t...