Autobiography: literary books

With characteristic self-deprecating humour, A.A. Milne recalls the formative events of his life: from a blissfully...  Read More >>

An intimate, eye-opening exploration of the trials - and joys - of life with a progressive disability Most stories...  Read More >>

Truth and Beautiful Meaningful Lies is a collection of memorable quotes from one of the most quoted writers in...  Read More >>

"Xiaolu Guo has been lauded as a ""voice . . . speaking with full freedom"" (Wall Street Journal), which has made...  Read More >>

"This is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some thirty years younger, when she...  Read More >>

Pocket of Pain is a coming-of-age story that takes place in a world of 80's popular culture, music, and fashion....  Read More >>

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Laura Cumming, a kaleidoscopic memoir connecting her life as an art critic...  Read More >>

Originally published: United Kingdom: HarperCollins, 2012.  Read More >>

In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the world’s best-loved storytellers explains how...  Read More >>

"""Originally published in French in 2020 by P.O.L., France""--Copyright page."  Read More >>

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the year Named...  Read More >>

This story of a writer finding her voice, struggling to have a room of her own, is the story of ALL women finding...  Read More >>

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“Victoria Chang is consistently a poet who resurrects mediums.” —THE MILLIONS  Read More >>

The much-anticipated memoirs of one of Britain's leading contemporary critics, both literary and cultural, and a...  Read More >>

An autobiography that explains what it means to be a black """"rebel sojourner"""" and presents the exposes of the...  Read More >>

From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabré ran with the wolves of Wall...  Read More >>

From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabré ran with the wolves of Wall...  Read More >>

Hungry Heart is a moving memoir exploring the manifold ways in which food has defined both the life of author Clare...  Read More >>

A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter...  Read More >>

Tells the improbable true story of Kelley Shinn, an orphan at birth who loses her legs at the age of sixteen to...  Read More >>

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"""Open this book and you can taste the tomatoes, hear the arguments, bemoan local politics, and feel the hugs from...  Read More >>

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary...  Read More >>

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary...  Read More >>