Biographies & Autobiographies books

A gorgeously readable, insightful dual biography of British brother and sister artists Gwen and Augustus John, perfect...  Read More >>

A remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of the '90s alternative era by the bassist of Hole and The Smashing...  Read More >>

Oliver James went viral on TikTok after he shared five simple words: “What's up? I can't read.” Thus began a journey...  Read More >>

Hemingway’s Spanish Table takes you on a culinary journey through Spain with 60 authentic recipes inspired by Hemingway’s...  Read More >>

A story of violence, murder, and despair in a remote camp surrounded by razor wire-but also of love and life against...  Read More >>

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Brigid Lowry s reflections on ageing are a gentle, wise companion full of grace, gratitude, and loving kindness....  Read More >>

Evil, Goodness, and Creating Active Bystandership shares the remarkable journey of Ervin Staub, a scholar and actor...  Read More >>

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A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned...  Read More >>

The powerful NYT bestseller is now in paperback. “Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe...  Read More >>

The so-called Golden Age of Athens, during and after the primacy of Pericles, was in fact a time of ruinous culture...  Read More >>

Evil, Goodness, and Creating Active Bystandership shares the remarkable journey of Ervin Staub, a scholar and actor...  Read More >>

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This autobiography is told through the eyes of a child growing into a teen from the last gasping thousand-year empire...  Read More >>

How artists of interwar Paris created an ""art of living,"" treating their daily lives as an aesthetic, ethical,...  Read More >>

A young machine gunner's war with the Big Red One;from D-Day through the Hurtgen Forest;the Battle of the Bulge;Remagen...  Read More >>

During an age of extreme gender polarisation when women were confined to the domestic sphere, Sarah Jane Rees (18391916)...  Read More >>

The page-turning story of three women reporters and the way they changed the world, work, and journalism.  Read More >>

The Drama of War and Postwar Italy Through the Life of One of Its Most Celebrated Icons.  Read More >>

By a prize-winning historian: The dramatic story of a Black man’s relentless search for freedom in Revolutionary-era...  Read More >>

An energetic and impassioned work of popular science about scientists who have had to fight for their revolutionary...  Read More >>

Tamara Karsavina (1885-1978) was known as a renowned ballerina, writer, and intellectual. Drawing from Karsavina's...  Read More >>

This autobiography is told through the eyes of a child growing into a teen from the last gasping thousand-year empire...  Read More >>