Autobiography: literary books

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The Scent of Flowers at Night: a stunning new work of non-fiction from the bestselling author of Lullaby

The Scent of Flowers at Night: a stunning new work of...

Author: Leïla Slimani ,  Sam Taylor
ISBN: 9781529399653
Format: Hardback
$39.99

From the internationally bestselling author of Lullaby and Adèle comes a stunning work of non-fiction on art, life...  Read More >>

A Life in Medicine: From Asclepius to Beckett

A Life in Medicine: From Asclepius to Beckett

Author: Eoin O'Brien
ISBN: 9781843518686
Format: Paperback
$56.93

In his memoir, A Life in Medicine: From Asclepius to Beckett, Eoin O’Brien, a cardiologist with an international...  Read More >>

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Author: Elizabeth Smart
ISBN: 9780008610005
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described...  Read More >>

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

Author: Jonathan Bate
ISBN: 9780008167493
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, purloined diaries, and other theatrics of exile

Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, purloined diaries, and...

Author: Maxim D. Shrayer
ISBN: 9781644699980
Format: Paperback
$34.99

From a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this movingand humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and...  Read More >>

Time Come: Selected Prose

Time Come: Selected Prose

Author: Linton Kwesi Johnson
ISBN: 9781035006328
Format: Hardback
$44.99

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

Cells: memories for my mother

Cells: memories for my mother

Author: Gavin McCrea
ISBN: 9781914484988
Format: Paperback
$25.85

From the author of Mrs Engels and The Sisters Mao, an intimate family memoir about filial love and its limits, separation,...  Read More >>

The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World's Greatest Negotiator

The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World's Greatest Negotiator...

Author: Rich Cohen
ISBN: 9781250867148
Format: Paperback
$47.52

"""Rich Cohen tells the story of the one-of-a-kind Herbie Cohen: the king of Bensonhurst, the world's best negotiator,...  Read More >>

Water in a Broken Pot: A Memoir

Water in a Broken Pot: A Memoir

Author: Yogesh Maitreya
ISBN: 9780670095186
Format: Hardback
$34.10

Having hopped from gig to gig to make ends meet, he writes of his eventual discovery of the written word, literature...  Read More >>

Laughing at the Dark: a memoir

Laughing at the Dark: a memoir

Author: Barbara Else
ISBN: 9780143777618
Format: Paperback
$34.99

'My own first memory is the cupboard door, and laughing, erupting with laughter' - a memoir about finding an identity,...  Read More >>

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone...

Author: Amy Key ,  Amy Key
ISBN: 9781666633771
Format: Audio
$131.97

This soul-stirring debut probes the art of living without romance.  Read More >>

Look at the Lights, My Love

Look at the Lights, My Love

Author: Annie Ernaux ,  Alison L. Strayer
ISBN: 9780300268218
Format: Paperback
$26.95

A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux  Read More >>

Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays

Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays

Author: Barry Lopez ,  Rebecca Solnit
ISBN: 9781912559558
Format: Paperback
$33.61

An urgent – and final – work from the award-winning author of Arctic Dreams whose writing, fieldwork and mentorship...  Read More >>

Upfield at Albermarle

Upfield at Albermarle

Author: Maxine Withers
ISBN: 9781922698773
Format: Paperback
$24.95

A study of Arthur Upfield and his long-term relationship with Albermarle station, in north-western NSW from the...  Read More >>

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone...

Author: Amy Key ,  Amy Key
ISBN: 9798212989237
Format: Audio
$110.85

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by--and for--oneself. Inspired by Joni Mitchell's...  Read More >>

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone...

Author: Amy Key ,  Amy Key
ISBN: 9798874612481
Format: Audio
$110.85

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by--and for--oneself. Inspired by Joni Mitchell's...  Read More >>

Based on a True Story

Based on a True Story

Author: Anthony Holden
ISBN: 9781471154690
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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

We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of An Unlikely Friendship

We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of An Unlikely Friendship...

Author: Will Schwalbe
ISBN: 9780241594612
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A heart-warming tale of a life-changing friendship spanning forty years By the time Will Schwalbe was a junior...  Read More >>

Inconceivable: Heartbreak, bad dates and finding solo motherhood

Inconceivable: Heartbreak, bad dates and finding solo...

Author: Alexandra Collier
ISBN: 9780733648250
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Written with warmth, intelligence and humour, Alexandra Collier's inspiring memoir takes us on the wild ride of...  Read More >>

Illuminated By Water: Nature, Memory and the Delights of a Fishing Life

Illuminated By Water: Nature, Memory and the Delights...

Author: Malachy Tallack
ISBN: 9781529176070
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

Author: Ada Calhoun
ISBN: 9780802162137
Format: Paperback
$44.88

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her...  Read More >>

Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint

Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and...

Author: Lee Durkee
ISBN: 9781982127145
Format: Hardback
$71.28

"*Winner of the 2024 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Life Writing* ""A wickedly entertaining""...  Read More >>

Courting Celebrity: The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese and Teresa Bandettini

Courting Celebrity: The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese...

Author: Adrienne Ward ,  Irene Zanini-Cordi
ISBN: 9781487546403
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This is the first bilingual annotated edition of two landmark autobiographies by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

Author: Howard Jacobson
ISBN: 9781529115673
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer 'One of the all-time great...  Read More >>

Understanding Your Father: A Memoir for My Sons

Understanding Your Father: A Memoir for My Sons

Author: Joseph M Flora
ISBN: 9798218164225
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Memoir of Joseph M. Flora. In Joe's own words: This memoir takes the reader to the Great Depression years in...  Read More >>

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