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Saving Freud - A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

March 1938: German soldiers are massing on the Austrian border, on the cusp of fulfilling Hitler's dream of absorbing the country into th...

Get Over It!

Get Over It! traces the path from heartbreak to happiness, using humor and honesty to describe each break-up milestone.

Sontag - Her Life

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANC...

Smile - The Story of a Face

'Her story is intimate and revealing about what it is to smile and what it means when you can't' Cynthia Nixon The extraordinary story of...

A Carnival of Snackery - Diaries: Volume Two

There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing y...

The Instant

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

The Boy from Auschwitz - Peter Höllenreiner - The Sinto who was also a Jew

This is the obituary written for a man who first had his concentration camp number removed and decades later had it tattooed back in - wi...

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...

Between Them - Remembering my Parents

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of h...

Joseph Anton - A Memoir

For over a decade, Salman Rushdie lived with a death sentence to his name. He dwelt in a world of security guards and armoured cars, of a...

Lab Girl

'Leaves become elegant machines, soil is the interface between the living and the dead, and seeds, well, they are transformed into the mo...

The Penguin Lessons

Tom Michell was born and grew up on the rural downs of southern England, where he grew to love animals, birds and plants. After living in...

README.txt - A Memoir

An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women. In 2013, Chels...

A Woman's Battles and Transformations

Édouard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' Guardian One day, Édouard Louis finds a photograph of his m...

Constructing a Nervous System - A Memoir

Dear Reader - The Comfort and Joy of Books

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Cathy Rentzenbrink's Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to reading...

Bear Woman

A beautifully written and astonishing memoir of a woman - a writer - in the midst of motherhood, marriage and life. While struggling with...

Unbowed - My Autobiography

The compelling autobiography of the Kenyan peace activist and environmentalist, who in 2004 became the first African woman to win the Nob...

The Stories of My Life

'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton 'The whole story of his truly astonishing life' Bob Woodward 'The book was d...

Left on Tenth - A Second Chance at Life

A story of hope, love and life in the face of cancer, and the miracle of second chances. Soon to be a major movie! When Delia's beloved f...

Imagine a City - A Pilot's Love Letter to the World's Greatest Cities

A pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring 'A journey around both the aut...

Charles: The Heart of a King

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 'Breathtaking' The Times '[The book that] made headlines around the world.' Independent The former Pr...

From a Mountain In Tibet - A Monk's Journey

Lama Yeshe didn't see a car until he was fifteen. But everything changed with the arrival of Chinese army vehicles in 1959. In the wake o...

This is Not a Pity Memoir - The heartbreaking and life-affirming bestseller from the writer of The Split

The instant SUNDAY TIMES bestseller: 'Breathtaking . . . this book is a gift' MERYL STREEP

Quilt on Fire - The Messy Magic of Friends, Sex & Love

A frank, funny and inspiring new memoir from the bestselling author of The Language of Kindness about the search for meaning in midlife '...

A Line Above the Sky - On Mountains and Motherhood

Guardian Books to Watch 2022 Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022 Bookseller Editor's Choice Winner of the Boardman Tasker Award for Moun...

Heartsick

An instant Australian bestseller, Heartsick is a deeply moving, compelling account of the most universal of human experiences - heartbreak.

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...

Mother's Boy - A Writer's Beginnings

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

The Faraway Nearby

Consent - A Memoir of Stolen Adolescence

The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen `Dazzling¿ New Yor...

Red Dust Road

A memoir and soul-searching journey by Jackie Kay.

Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

In The Shadow of the Mountain

Inspiring mountaineer takes a group of abused young women on an epic trek to Mount Everest Base Camp, before climbing the mountain hersel...

Broken - (in the Best Possible Way)

A new book from Jenny Lawson is always cause for celebration, and Broken is the party of the year . . . I loved it' - Sarah Knight, bests...

The Disconnect - A Personal Journey Through the Internet

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...

The Yellow House - WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

A Guardian Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year One of Barak Obama's Books of the Year 'A brilliant account of life before an...

Three Mothers - How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER `A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history ¿ Eye-opening, engrossing¿ Brit...

Busy Being Free - Starting Again on Your Own

'It utterly thrilled me. How wonderful to be shown so vividly that the end of a relationship is not the end of a life' Megan NolanBusy Be...

Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

A reissue of the third title in the bestselling autobiography series. In this volume, music and her son are the focus of her life and she...

Dancing in the Mosque - An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother¿s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghan...

Revenge - Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors

All the details. All the gossip. The only place to read the FULL story, before you read Spare. The Sunday Times NO. 1 bestseller, now upd...

Barracoon - The Story of the Last Slave

Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph A major literary event: a ne...

The Palace Papers - The Sunday Times bestseller

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

Brown Baby - A Memoir of Race, Family and Home

'Brown Baby is a beautifully intimate and soul-searching memoir. It speaks to the heart and the mind and bears witness to our turbulent t...

black girl, no magic - reflections on race and respectability

In a complex world, who is allowed to be complicated? Who is entitled to a messy life full of triumphs, mistakes and tedium? Until recent...

Ponies At The Edge Of The World - On nature, belonging and finding home

'Striking' THE TIMES 'Uplifting and moving' BBC RADIO 2 'A meditation on connection between humans and animals, and the homes we make in ...

On the Road - Adventures from Nixon to Trump

The acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster on US politics and the American dream, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.

Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn

Book of the Year Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, The Times, Evening Standard 'A compelling read from one of the greatest artists of our ti...

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The Speckled People

`This is the most gripping book I've read in ages ¿ It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.¿ Roddy Doyle

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

Belonging - One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies

One woman, the secrets of a small town, and a story that rocked a nation - a riveting and important personal account of Catherine Corless...

Somebody's Daughter

'If family was everything, the source of all that was needed to complete the picture, I was a wilfully missing piece of the puzzle...' Th...

Letters of Note: Love

The Boys of My Youth

Beard writes with perfect pitch as she takes readers through one woman's life--from childhood to marriage and beyond--to memorably captur...

Yoga - From the bestselling author of THE ADVERSARY

This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carrère embarks on a ...

This Girl Ran - Tales of a Party Girl Turned Triathlete

When Helen's friends all started settling down and having kids, she was determined to fill her weekends with something other than cocktai...