Autobiography: literary books

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Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone...

Author: Amy Key ,  Amy Key
ISBN: 9798212989237
Format: Audio
$110.85

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by--and for--oneself. Inspired by Joni Mitchell's...  Read More >>

Based on a True Story

Based on a True Story

Author: Anthony Holden
ISBN: 9781471154690
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Anthony Holden, award-winning journalist and biographer, editor of Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, looks back whimsically...  Read More >>

We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of An Unlikely Friendship

We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of An Unlikely Friendship...

Author: Will Schwalbe
ISBN: 9780241594612
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A heart-warming tale of a life-changing friendship spanning forty years By the time Will Schwalbe was a junior...  Read More >>

Inconceivable: Heartbreak, bad dates and finding solo motherhood

Inconceivable: Heartbreak, bad dates and finding solo...

Author: Alexandra Collier
ISBN: 9780733648250
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Written with warmth, intelligence and humour, Alexandra Collier's inspiring memoir takes us on the wild ride of...  Read More >>

Illuminated By Water: Nature, Memory and the Delights of a Fishing Life

Illuminated By Water: Nature, Memory and the Delights...

Author: Malachy Tallack
ISBN: 9781529176070
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint

Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and...

Author: Lee Durkee
ISBN: 9781982127145
Format: Hardback
$71.28

"*Winner of the 2024 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Life Writing* ""A wickedly entertaining""...  Read More >>

Courting Celebrity: The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese and Teresa Bandettini

Courting Celebrity: The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese...

Author: Adrienne Ward ,  Irene Zanini-Cordi
ISBN: 9781487546403
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This is the first bilingual annotated edition of two landmark autobiographies by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

Author: Howard Jacobson
ISBN: 9781529115673
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer 'One of the all-time great...  Read More >>

Understanding Your Father: A Memoir for My Sons

Understanding Your Father: A Memoir for My Sons

Author: Joseph M Flora
ISBN: 9798218164225
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Memoir of Joseph M. Flora. In Joe's own words: This memoir takes the reader to the Great Depression years in...  Read More >>

Emily Dickinson Face to Face

Emily Dickinson Face to Face

Author: Martha Dickinson Bianchi ,  Anthony Madrid
ISBN: 9781946022585
Format: Paperback
$47.52

"""Emily Dickinson springs to life in this remarkable, long-out-of-print biography written by her niece . . . Though...  Read More >>

The Skinny

The Skinny

Author: Jonathan Wells
ISBN: 9781733540193
Format: Hardback
$68.64

"Vogue's Best Books of Summer 2021 ""Everyone had a clearer vision of my body than I did. It didn't feel as...  Read More >>

Stay: threads, conversations, collaborations

Stay: threads, conversations, collaborations

Author: Nick Flynn
ISBN: 9781733540117
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Known for his bestselling memoirs and as an acclaimed poet, Nick Flynn in Stay presents a self-portrait via a constellation...  Read More >>

Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion’s Light

Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by...

Author: Steffie Nelson ,  Jori Finkel
ISBN: 9781644281673
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a love letter and thank you note to Joan Didion. In The White Album, Joan Didion...  Read More >>

The Road Washes Out in Spring – A Poet′s Memoir of Living Off the Grid

The Road Washes Out in Spring – A Poet′s Memoir of Living...

Author: Baron Wormser
ISBN: 9781684581603
Format: Paperback
$40.95

A new edition of an evergreen back-to-nature book in the tradition of Thoreau.   For nearly twenty-five years,...  Read More >>

The Story of a Life: ‘A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement’ Telegraph

The Story of a Life: ‘A sparkling, supremely precious...

Author: Konstantin Paustovsky ,  Douglas Smith
ISBN: 9781784873097
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A remarkable new translation of Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in paperback. Discover one of Twentieth-Century...  Read More >>

Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first ever memoir

Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first...

Author: Melvyn Bragg
ISBN: 9781529394498
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which vividly...  Read More >>

Fierce Appetites: Lessons from my year of untamed thinking

Fierce Appetites: Lessons from my year of untamed thinking...

Author: Elizabeth Boyle
ISBN: 9780241992432
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty. All three happening together...  Read More >>

How to Feel Better: A Guide to Navigating the Ebb and Flow of Life

How to Feel Better: A Guide to Navigating the Ebb and...

Author: Cathy Rentzenbrink
ISBN: 9781035014255
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Killjoy: Taking on a macho media empire and winning

Killjoy: Taking on a macho media empire and winning...

Author: Jo Cheetham
ISBN: 9781509885619
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The true story of the No More Page 3 campagin, and the ordinary people who came together to take down a macho media...  Read More >>

Courting Celebrity: The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese and Teresa Bandettini

Courting Celebrity: The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese...

Author: Adrienne Ward ,  Irene Zanini-Cordi
ISBN: 9781487546397
Format: Hardback
$178.54

This is the first bilingual annotated edition of two landmark autobiographies by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

Author: Anna Julia Cooper ,  Shirley Moody-Turner
ISBN: 9780143135067
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays,...  Read More >>

Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

Author: Carl Bernstein
ISBN: 9781250869890
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The Pulitzer Prize winning coauthor of All the President’s Men - the chronicle of the investigative report about...  Read More >>

This Wide Terraqueous World

This Wide Terraqueous World

Author: Laird Hunt
ISBN: 9781566896672
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Haunting essays that balance intimate remembrance with an examination of the writing life  Read More >>

Mary and Mr. Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

Mary and Mr. Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

Author: Mary Trevelyan ,  Erica Wagner
ISBN: 9780374203184
Format: Hardback
$79.20

"""A rediscovered story of unrequited love, Mary and Mr. Eliot reveals an intimate new portrait of T. S. Eliot--and...  Read More >>

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