Autobiography: general

'A strange, enchanting book .

With an introduction by author Anne Enright.

'Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists.

In June of 1997, over a century and a half of British rule in Hong Kong came to an end.

John Sergeant's acclaimed memoir takes us from his somewhat eccentric childhood to his thirty years' service with the BBC.

My Days is the only memoir from R.

Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off.

As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britain's Lord Chancellor.

A heartbreaking and moving true story of two sisters separated at birth, and their journey towards finding each other, celebrating the true meaning of family.

'To read this book is to understand Afghanistan as it exists today.

The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small.

'A superb account of journalists, soldiers and the experience of modern battle, written by one of the greatest war reporters of our time' - Robert Harris, author of An Officer and a Spy'Gripping and compulsively readable' - Saul David, Sunday TelegraphMax Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors.

From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of My Lives is an unforgettable memoir of a life forever marked by international conflict.

The third book in V.

Journeying from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping memoir, a story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny.

In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America.

From her early childhood, when her inspirational mother would take her on trips along her beloved Ridgeway in a horse-drawn cart, Candida Lycett Green has retained a love of green lanes and tracks, of moving along at horse's pace and casting an eye on the beauty of England through the back door.

When I was a teenager, I thought you could get pregnant from sitting in a jacuzzi.

Brought up as female for fifteen years, Jon can remember feeling different from other girls since he was only five years old.

Littlejohn s large-hearted nostalgia and aggression tempered with humour, remain a necessary tonic.

Like the swallows, our son Ollie came in the spring and left in the autumn.

On July 4, 1990, eighteen-year-old Stacey Lannert shot and killed her father, who had been sexually and emotionally abusing her since she was eight.

'Helen Parry Jones' turbulent journey to embracing her gift is sincere and elevating' Daily ExpressFor readers of Kyle Gray's Angels Are With You Now - the amazing true story of one woman's power to heal and the spirit and angels that guide herHelen Parry Jones has been a professional spiritual healer and empathic medium for thirty years.

In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister Amy wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer.

'If you say anything to your mother, I'll tell her it was your brother.

The CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award winning true story behind GoodfellasBy the son and daughter of Henry Hill - immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas - On The Run is the harrowing account of a childhood spent coping with an explosive father whilst dodging Mafia payback.

A young girl at the mercy of her abusive stepfather and the religious community that protects him - Bad Things in the Night is a moving true story of pain and triumph.

The true story of Donna Ford, who between the ages of five and eleven was abused by her stepmother Helen.

Traumatised by a terrible event in her childhood, Carla van Raay entered a convent at the age of eighteen.

'I was able to get on well with everyone below stairs and above, or so I thought until I began working for Lady Astor.

Lucilla Andrews was only eighteen when, as a volunteer nurse at the beginning of the second world war, she experienced the grim realities of wartime .

The Sunday Times Bestseller.

For as long as he can remember, Ben Fogle has been surrounded by creatures great and small.

How does an Italian become Italian?

"e;Am I giving the impression that I don't like the Veneto?

Conway opens with her assessment of her life, passions, possibilities and the making of her decision to leave Canada and return to the United States to become Smith's first woman president.

Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director.

The facts of life and death remain the same.

What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life?

In this remarkable book, Jane Miller writes about the experience of being a daughter and a sister, about the intensities of family life and the illuminations that come from the last days of parents.

Fanny Burney (1752-1840) is best known as the author of EVELINA, one of the most engaging novels of the eighteenth century.

'Magnificent Anthony BourdainA sharply crafted and unflinchingly honest memoir.

This is the story of Christopher Isherwood s parents their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father s death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960.

Elspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her 'memories of an African childhood' in THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA and THE MOTTLED LIZARD.

In this sequel to The Flame of Thika, Elspeth Huxley takes up her story after the family returns to Kenya after the First World War.

World's End is the story of Donald Wheal s childhood in Chelsea's World's End at the height of the Second World War.

The goal is ninety: just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything.

Susan was only nine when her beloved mother died.

This memoir was recently discovered and appears to have been written in the 1920s by somone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper.

Brought together for the first time in one edition, both of Christabel Bielenberg's bestselling memoirs give an incredibly moving, emotionally charged and compelling insight into life in Nazi Germany during The Third Reich and during the aftermath of World War Two.