Autobiography: literary books

"Niente elfi, niente maghi, ma sfortunatamente nemmeno nobili cavalieri. Solo persone come te e me. Una conoscenza...  Read More >>

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

Extinction Wednesday is a memoir that investigates the challenges of nostalgia, letting go of the past, and pursuing...  Read More >>

Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish...  Read More >>

""A granular, meditative, and beautiful portrait of a fascinating life."" --Booklist""Put this beautiful book on...  Read More >>

""A ... debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing...  Read More >>

""A memoir and coming-of-age story chronicling the successes and disappointments, wit and wildness of [the actor,...  Read More >>

Clever, funny and captivating The Writing School is a memoir told by way of a fictionalised account of the author's...  Read More >>

When British poet Amy Key was growing up, she envisioned a life shaped by love—and Joni Mitchell’s album Blue was...  Read More >>

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""A ... debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing...  Read More >>

An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough...  Read More >>

Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world.  Read More >>

In Doing More with One Life, best-selling author Piasecki welcomes the reader into his home, revealing the heart-breaking...  Read More >>

I Never Was A Cowboy is a compelling collection of personal narratives that traverse the author's life journey from...  Read More >>

A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that captures the author's...  Read More >>

An intimate story of exile and homecoming by the South African author whose TED Talk touched millions.  Read More >>

"Footprints are a collection of poems that were either written or revised recently or recalled from work begun and...  Read More >>

A rich and comic portrait of the radical changes in American life and the literary world over the last eighty years....  Read More >>

It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature’s capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming...  Read More >>

A dynamic selection of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s most powerful prose writings, brought together for the first time....  Read More >>

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The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby ‘There’s no one funnier...  Read More >>

Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind. Over...  Read More >>