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Home in the World - A Memoir

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

The Art of Memoir

In The Art of Memoir, master memoirist Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker,...

Diary of a Young Naturalist

WINNER OF BOOK OF THE YEAR, NARRATIVE NON-FICTION BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2021 Rediscover the natural world with the multi-award winning phen...

Big Friendship - How We Keep Each Other Close

'Wonderful and intimate portrayal. A story is as universal as it is revolutionary' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON A close friendship is one of th...

Aftermath - On Marriage and Separation

Two of the critically-acclaimed author of the recent "Kudos"'s works of memoir, addressing aspects of the family dynamic, reissued and su...

Bread of Angels - A Memoir

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids A...

Resident Alien

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Kent Haruf, Including His Education, Analysis of His Best Sellers Such as the Tie That Binds, and Plainso

Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow

Dawson, W: BISMARCK & STATE SOCIALISM

Eastman, C: FROM THE DEEP WOODS TO CIVILIZ

Gasthof Engel

The story revolves around a Bavarian inn. The inn keeper's son returns from the WW1 battlefields of France. Trained as a mechanic, he end...

Wandering Through Life - A Memoir

`A delightful companion in life and on the page¿ The Times `Donna Leon has created a beautifully crafted looking glass into her world¿ TL...

The Palace Papers - Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

WITH AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTER FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION The Amazon No.1 Bestseller The Sunday Times Bestseller THE ROYAL BOOK OF THE YEAR...

Taste Makers - Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing h...

Leaving One's Comfort Zone - The Story of a Move to Italy

"What type of experience, do you think, would force an individual to leave the country one was born and brought up in, spoke its language...

The Instant

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney i...

Kim Porter's Legacy - The Tragic Death, Her Deep Bond with Sean "Diddy" Combs, and the Call for Justice

Kim Porter was more than a star-she was a beacon of love, resilience, and inspiration. In this gripping and heartfelt book, "Kim Porter's...

Daniel Craig - Life, Curiosity and Career: The official tribute to the man behind the iconic James Bond

Discover the extraordinary life of Daniel Craig, the man who reinvented the legendary James Bond and captivated millions of viewers world...

Slumberland

We're Queer And We Should Be Here - The perils and pleasures of being a gay football fan

Darryl Telles's sexuality is as important to him as his passion for Tottenham Hotspur, yet like other gay football supporters, he has had...

Blows instead of love! Love instead of blows? - Factual novel about a boy caught between abuse, faith and violence

Christoph's life begins unimaginably: as a toddler, his mother tries to sell him to America. When this plan fails, Christoph, who is just...

I wanted to marry a soldier and have twenty children - Maria Romanov - the third daughter of the last tsar, Nicholas II. - A biographical novel

The Heartbreaking Story of Maria Romanov - Daughter of the Last Tsar "When I was a little girl, I often sat on my father's lap, Tsar Nich...

The Dahmer Brothers' Story - The Impact of Jeffrey Dahmer's Crimes and the Quiet Life of David Dahmer-Family, Struggles & Moving Forward

The Dahmer Brothers' Story takes you on a deeply emotional journey through the lives of two brothers whose paths couldn't be more differe...

Immortal Valor - The Black Medal of Honor Recipients of World War II

The remarkable story of seven African-American soldiers denied the Medal of Honor for more than 50 years due to their race, and their ext...

Bizarre True Crime Volume 8 - 20 Madcap and Shocking True Crime Stories (Season Two)

20 Bizarre True Crime Stories to Give You Goose Pimples!"An ongoing resource for crime writers and true crime junkies!" Season two of Biz...

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man - A Memoir

As seen in The Last Movie Stars documentary - the raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 year...

Euphoria

A woman's life, erupting with promise, is fissured by betrayal and duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, ...

Toni Kroos - The Architect of Success-Maestro of the Midfield

Toni Kroos is a midfield maestro whose precision, vision, and consistency have redefined modern football. From his humble beginnings in G...

The Pigeon Tunnel - Stories from My Life

John le Carr¿/b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intell...

Knife - Meditations After an Attempted Murder

A moving and life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from internationally renowned writer Salman Rushdie'A st...

Babi Yar - A Document in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored Version

"[A] masterpiece . . . Babi Yar [is] every bit the peer of the canonical works of witness [such as] Anne Frank's diary . . . Wiesel's Nig...

More - A Memoir of Open Marriage

The instant New York Times bestselling memoir that everyone is talking about 'This book about open marriage is going to blow up your grou...

That Peckham Boy - Growing Up, Getting Out and Giving Back

'Kenny's story shows us that we all have the potential to achieve extraordinary things. What a hero.' Bear Grylls 'If you are compelled b...

The Survivor - How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A riveting, compelling, mesmerizing journey. Josef Lewkowicz is a hero in every sense of the word. The S...

Grief is for People - A Memoir

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A VOGUE, NEW STATESMAN AND TIME MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF 2024 AN OPRAH PICK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Obviously, Grief I...

The Memory Keeper - A Journey into the Past to Unearth Family Secrets

Berlin, 1942. Max and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported to Theresienstadt where they will starve to deat...

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun - A Memoir of a Kidnapping

VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Shane McCrae was born to a white mother and a Black father. At ei...

Parisian Days - The Rediscovered Classic Memoir

"Every so often a voice emerges from the archive so vivid that it seems impossible that it should ever have been forgotten." -- Evening S...

My Roman Year

The elegant and insightful memoir from the bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Find Me and The Gentleman From Peru.

My Battle of Hastings - Chronicle of a Year by the Sea

'This is urgent, compelling but also delightful writing' Lauren ElkinIn the depths of winter, Xiaolu Guo moves into a tiny dilapidated fl...

Conversations with Rilke

An intimate portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke's life and art in interwar Paris by his friend and translator, offering unparalleled insight i...

The Garden of the Gods

Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'Durrell has an uncanny kna...

White Girls

Hilton Als is a Pulitzer prize-winning writer and chief theatre critic at The New Yorker. He has received numerous awards, including the ...

The Bookseller's Tale

A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Clou...

English Pastoral - An Inheritance

THE SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR The new bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life 'A beautifully written story of a fami...

No Cure for Being Human - (and Other Truths I Need to Hear)

***A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** The bestselling author of Everything Happens ...

Stalking the Atomic City - Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl

Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

'Fascinating and enlightening' Choice Magazine In 2002, three young women with no business degrees, no formal training, and nothing to lo...

The Last Days of Roger Federer - And Other Endings

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK In this endlessly stimulating investigation into ?things coming to an end, artists' last works, time runni...

The Rooster House - A Ukrainian Family Memoir

'A captivating family memoir spanning four generations ... Belim blends the personal and the historical to tell a moving, century-long ta...

Beautiful Country - A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, OBAMA 2021 BOOK PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei G...

Begin Again - James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today

*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* 'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS 'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISH...

The Crane Wife - A Memoir in Essays

'Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and generous' Roxane Gay 'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alex...

Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the worl...

Rural Hours - The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann

WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 'A fascinating look at the impact of country home-making on the lives and work ...

Taking Sides - from war reporter to activist - finding my place in the fight against injustice

What does it take to report from conflict zones? What good is neutrality in the face of suffering, and how much difference can one person...

Learning to Think. - make believe, injustice and searching for truth - a memoir

''Tracy King''s memoir is heartbreaking and hopeful...An incredible true story of survival and forgiveness.'' TIM MINCHIN ''Raw and unfli...

Radical - A Life of My Own

Air and Love - A Story of Food, Family and Belonging

A gorgeous, evocative memoir of family, food and migration. As a child, Or Rosenboim's knowledge of her family history was based on the f...