Autobiography: general

'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like.

'Well told, personable, fast-paced, and undoubtedly a fascinating read' Daily TelegraphGripping, moving and wildly exhilarating, Mud, Sweat and Tears is a must-read for adrenalin junkies and armchair adventurers alike.

Father and son: arguably the most complex of all family relationships.

'For almost all my life, I've been the person you crossed the street to avoid.

THE SUDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe laugh-out-loud funny memoir and book of anecdotes about his life and loves from the nation s favourite Big Dog celebrity Traitor!

When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy's great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard.

When Jon Katz hears about Izzy, a three-year-old Border collie kept alone in a field on an abandoned farm, his heart speaks louder than his head and he agrees to take him in.

'Thick with rolls of gleaming new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound's thick mud walls.

He street jams in spandex and wrestles in lycra.

The day I was appointed Chair of the shop union was the same day the Pope was elected.

Melissa Wareham always wanted to work with dogs.

In February 2005, Edwyn Collins suffered two devastating brain haemorrhages.

When Ann Kenny was four years old her foster mother hit her across the face with a fireplace shovel.

In this remarkable book, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, tells her extraordinary life story.

Jon and his wife live in a New Jersey suburb with two perfectly behaved Labradors.

Leaving his abusive Irish boarding school after eight long years, Patrick Touher thought his troubles were over.

'This account will not hide from the truth of what this illness does to the one who is suffering, and to all those whom that person loved the most.

The Price of Passion is the eagerly awaited sequel to Carla van Raay's international bestselling memoir, God's Callgirl.

Emily Halban developed anorexia in her final year at school.

Given away by her mother at five months old, raped on the day of her first communion at age seven - when Celine Roberts was told 'No one wants you', she believed it.

'There is a new boy I like.

On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again.

In Norah Vincent's acclaimed first book she described how she spent eighteen months disguised as a man, an experience that ended on a locked ward in a psychiatric hospital.

Matt Lowe's childhood was outwardly idyllic.

Sue Martin was not three years old when she began life at her first children's home: a home that could at best be described as cold and regimented; at worst, torturous and terrifying.

As a young boy, Alexander Sinclair was the target of his mother's irrational hatred.

In Whatever She Wants, Andrew Rosetta lifts the lid on the mysterious, sexy and little-known world of the male escort.

Whether he was performing the circus as a reluctant child juggler, living in a punk rock commune or staying with a coke-addled cop in Mexico on a school exchange program, Oran Canfield never had a 'normal' childhood.

As a result of a genetically-transmitted gene, all three Bryan sisters, Felicity, Elizabeth and Bunny have had cancer.

This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being taught the facts of life.

On the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped by a car-full of gun-toting thugs.

In 1977 Eamonn Cooke was a household name in Ireland.

Katie Price has led a rollercoaster life and the excitement, glamour and emotional twists and turns show no signs of slowing down.

'IT'S TIME YOU KNEW THE TRUTH, ' 'ABOUT YOUR FATHER.

The honest, compassionate and vital guide to getting older, from dementia to finances, medication to care homes'The most important book about the second half of your life you'll ever read.

A richly recounted memoir of growing up in an Irish farming community in the 1940sA love of Ireland and the Irish is what shines through this little memoir.

With the outbreak of Gulf War hostilities a unit from 22 SAS slipped quietly over the border and into the enemy's backyard.

An American Hero: One Man's Legacy of Fatherhood and Faith is a poignant and inspiring journey through four generations, revealing how one World War II survivor's resilience, integrity, and unwavering faith forged a life-giving legacy that transformed not only his family but also countless lives around him.

PERFECT for fans of Roald Dahl.

You've seen Manhunt, now read this powerful and personal account from Milly Dowler's sister Gemma .

THE STORY BEHIND THE HARDEST CLIMB IN HISTORY & ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY 'DAWN WALL' 'Heart-stopping, absorbing' Daily Mail 'The most daring free climber on the planet' The Times__________ In 2015, climber Tommy Caldwell took on the hardest challenge of his life, spending 19 days freeclimbing Yosemite's vertical, 3000-foot Dawn Wall - regarded as the most difficult climb in history and a route nobody had ever done before.

Discover a magical true story of the power of love and motherhood .

Unforgivable is the shocking real-life story of suffering and survival from child abuse victim Collette Elliott.

***If you loved Alan's first memoir - Look Who It Is!

Sheila Tofield tells her moving true story about being a single mother in 1950s Britain, in The Unmarried Mother.

The heartbreaking but inspiring true story of a childhood of abuse, and finding a way out of the darkness.

'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack Obama'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book' The Times'Burns with the luminosity of faith in the invincible nature of human hope and dignity' Andre Brink'Splendid.

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD 'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN 'Combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf' CYRIL CONNOLLY Rosamond Lehmann, one of the most distinguished British writers of this century, published eight acclaimed works of fiction.

A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer.

A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose.