Memoirs books

‘Fascinating… written with clarity and rooted in deep affection' Observer ‘A timely and balanced book that offers...  Read More >>

""Yiyun Li's remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James""--  Read More >>

Chopsy is a memoir like no other - a gut-wrenchingly powerful, yet frequently funny account of a life spent defying...  Read More >>

Dans cet ouvrage poignant, l'auteur donne la parole à sa grand-mère, fidaïya engagée dans la lutte pour l'indépendance...  Read More >>

Loin des clichés d'une vie de privilèges et de confort, l'auteur expose sans fard les réalités souvent ignorées...  Read More >>

Offers a startling new vision of motherhood: wild, intimate, diverse; as contested and extraordinary as the world...  Read More >>

Shocking and darkly funny, this is the bestselling explosive inside story of a senior executive at Meta (formerly...  Read More >>

An evocative, insightful, and unflinchingly raw odyssey of addiction, recovery, and the criminal underworld of Waikiki....  Read More >>

Darcey Steinke - the author beloved by Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson - examines the experience of pain, organ by...  Read More >>

A vivid and wide-ranging portrait of love, sex and death in contemporary Japan, which should provoke and engage...  Read More >>

A dazzling memoir about one woman's coexistence with bears in the boreal forest and a singular meditation on sibling...  Read More >>

The inspirational story of how a rehabilitation doctor overcame her devastating spinal injury with faith and determination,...  Read More >>

Surviving the unsurvivable. Healing from the unhealable. This is an inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery,...  Read More >>

In the pages of Pearls, Tracy Crisp entwines the pull of grief, the push of creative ambition, the messiness of...  Read More >>

'I am opposed to lots of things: capitalism, misogyny, the manufacture of armaments. Nevertheless, I am essentially...  Read More >>

What began as research for a trail guide became something far deeper: an odyssey of humility, wonder, and grit-forged...  Read More >>

Separated Lives is a true story about a search for a friend's birthparents. Much time was spent going through phone...  Read More >>

A searing memoir from Syrian activist and journalist Loubna Mrie about her country's political struggles and her...  Read More >>

A fiercely funny, feminist debut about mental health, motherhood and female rage from Bron Lewis – award-winning...  Read More >>

The star of classic television series, including The Jeffersons and 227, reveals her difficult journey from a tempestuous...  Read More >>

What began as research for a trail guide became something far deeper: an odyssey of humility, wonder, and grit-forged...  Read More >>

A stunning memoir of personal rebellion and political awakening from a young woman raised to be loyal to a brutal...  Read More >>

A new, genre-defying volume that explores family, marriage, motherhood, place and coming of age with singular wit...  Read More >>

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