Autobiography: literary books

The Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old, reissued alongside Athill's extensive backlist.  Read More >>

The truth is, the average British person moves house only once every 23 years and nowadays we are staying in our...  Read More >>

An ode to childhood and to “woolgathering” as the wellspring for a creative life—now in an expanded paperback edition...  Read More >>

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written in 1933 by Gertrude Stein in the guise of an autobiography authored...  Read More >>

Because Japan , is a truly unabashed account of the less publicised side of life in Tokyo for a 'foreigner'. The...  Read More >>

Whitworth family letters from the prairie (1884-1896), edited by Jane M. Renfrew  Read More >>

Published one year on from her death, at the age of ninety-four, Jan Morris' Allegorizings is the final despatch...  Read More >>

The third instalment of diaries from the inimitable Helen Garner covers four eventful years in the life of one of...  Read More >>

"""This tender memoir"" by the Rome Prize-winning novelist revisits the bohemian era of downtown Manhattan in a...  Read More >>

The autobiography of American playwright Arthur Miller, in which he tells of his early life in the Depression, his...  Read More >>

This book will help you write your life story in just 90 days, while spending only 22 minutes per day.  Read More >>

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

A shimmering jewel of a book about writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, to publish alongside...  Read More >>

Captivating and deeply moving, this story basket of memories tells one Indigenous woman’s journey of overcoming...  Read More >>

Jack Dunn's explosive true account of the greatest literary fraud in history and a book which will change forever...  Read More >>

US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation...  Read More >>

Everyone had a clearer vision of my body than I did. It didn't feel as if my body was really mine. At fourteen-years-old,...  Read More >>

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Everyone had a clearer vision of my body than I did. It didn't feel as if my body was really mine. At fourteen-years-old,...  Read More >>

Daniel Mendelsohn's Three Rings is erudition, essayism, and memoir, made to dance together like a visible clockworks–or...  Read More >>

Daniel Mendelsohn's Three Rings is erudition, essayism, and memoir, made to dance together like a visible clockworks–or...  Read More >>

A lavish gift edition of David Sedaris's best stories, spanning his spectacular bestselling career. Hand-picked...  Read More >>

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Ride shotgun down the back-roads of the Great Plains as Jim Reese becomes Willy the Wildcat at a small Division...  Read More >>