Autobiography: general

Each house, like each place, has its own topography, its own lore.

According to statistics, one in three people in the UK today is likely to be involved in a step-family at some point in their life.

Shortly before his 44th birthday, John Diamond received a call from the doctor who had removed a lump from his neck.

With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life.

Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster.

'In many ways we were an ordinary family: mum, dad, two kids, three dogs, one rabbit, two guinea pigs.

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by heartbreak.

David Bennun had lived in Africa his whole life.

Through the telling of his own madcap childhood, David Benjamin pays homage to the exuberance of young boys at play.

Twenty years ago a young Londoner named Lucy arrived in the Dorset countryside as a rather bemused bride.

Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours.

'Never had I seen so many fleas!

After a troubled upbringing that saw the early death of her mother from cancer, Sarah Gabriel had created a happy home life with her partner and two beautiful daughters.

'I was born in a sprawling house by the Yamuna River in Delhi.

'In my work I am ruthless about one thing.

'What is your name?

As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair.

'A simply astonishing achievement.

'A compelling personal account of the dramas of a singular British band' Neil TennantThe trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Best New Band in Britain' and 'effete southern wankers' - is recalled with moving candour by its frontman Brett Anderson, whose vivid memoir swings seamlessly between the tender, witty, turbulent, euphoric and bittersweet.

Eddie Mair is, by his own account, one of Britain's most beloved broadcasters.

When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feared that her life was over.

For all the West's failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few - it has its upsides.

Since bursting into the spotlight aged nine, Coleen Nolan has experienced more highs and lows than most people have had hot dinners.

A charming and beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel - for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron and Eric Newby.

Daunted by the prospect of old age?

Winner of Best Memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2020'Dan Jarvis's story is a belter.

The whole world knows the face of the young man with the bright black eyes.

There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it.

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy.

Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities to give us a brutally intimate account of his early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States.

Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling.

As Izzy settles down to life on Bedlam Farm, Jon is amazed that all signs of the troubled rescue dog who first arrived have disappeared.

Few people have the opportunity to change the face of modern medicine.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers.

In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing.

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned.

Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was.

Summoned to Whitehall in 1949, Laurens van der Post was told that in old British Central Africa there were two large tracts of country that London didn't really know anything about, and could he go in there on foot and take a look, please?

This journey through the changing seasons at Rowfoot Farm - tupping time in the autumn, winters as wet, bleak and cold here in Cumbria as elsewhere, lambing and the glories of spring, a bucolic, bee-filled Eden Valley summer with its many shows and fairs - will reveal much that you need to know about the countryside, its quirky customs and ways, and most likely a great deal that you don't.

Adam Goodfellow and Nicole Golding run a stable in the Cotswolds and specialise in curing problem horses.

This is the beautifully told tale of Norton's growing love of the sea, from family holidays in Whitley Bay as a boy, to his first over zealous attempts at diving.

21ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHHe was Britain's most wanted man.

From the time he was three or four years old, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people.

"e;Why didn't you try to escape?

Harry Bernstein was born into a world of hardship and suffering in a northern mill town, in the shadow of the First World War.

An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty, violence and revenge, set against the unmistakable backdrop of New York City.

In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nine-year-old Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball.

How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are?

'I was warned by all those who knew me that to take on a project like this was madness.

**WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Edmund de Waal uncovers the history of a family through a turbulent century through 264 objects.