Autobiography: literary books

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

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

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

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

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

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 >>

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

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

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

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

"Stage and screen actress June Wilkinson, born in England in 1940, pulls back the curtain on her long career and...  Read More >>

"Stage and screen actress June Wilkinson, born in England in 1940, pulls back the curtain on her long career and...  Read More >>

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

An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on...  Read More >>

And A Dog called Fig is a study of how animals help writers deal with the challenges of the creative process, interspersing...  Read More >>

Taken together these varied writings constitute a major document of modern art. Whether the reader sits back and...  Read More >>

"Schiffy - The Life and Times of Somebody You Probably Don't Know, But Should is the story of David ""Schiffy""...  Read More >>

An elegy to a golden age of literature, Circus of Dreams divulges how the British literary scene underwent an unrecognisable...  Read More >>

In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political...  Read More >>

Grove chronicles not only his own fascinating Anglo-Argentinian background growing up in Buenos Aires but also the...  Read More >>

In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black,...  Read More >>

In late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black,...  Read More >>