Autobiography: general

Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man.

'Magical' Daily Mail'I finished it with an ache in my heart and a tear in my eye' SpectatorFrom the author of Cider With Rosie, Village Christmas is a moving, lyrical portrait of England through the changing years and seasons.

Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763.

'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks.

The first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood.

Final Solution is an intelligent and thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust, by historian David Cesarani.

'Gloriously funny .

Conversations With Myself is a moving collection of letters, diary entries and other writing that provides a rare chance to see the other side of Nelson Mandela's life, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.

In diesem sehr persönlich gehaltenen E-Book nimmt die GenerationenBeraterin, Psychologische Beraterin und Heilpraktikerin Kirsten Schade Euch mit auf ihre Reise mit einem Lymphödem.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025'Unforgettable' SUNDAY TIMES'Courageous' OBSERVER'One of the most important books to be published in years' SARA COLLINS'There are few writers with Li's power' DOUGLAS STUARTThe best book I have read this year' DAVID NICHOLLS'I will return to it for the rest of my life' CHARLOTTE WOODA remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance from acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li as she considers the loss of her son James.

A Complete, Solid and Flexible Chess Opening Repertoire for Black & White with the King's FianchettoWhen experienced chess teacher Emmanuel Neiman learned that some of his pupils hesitated to play in competitions for fear of being crushed in the opening, he wanted to help.

Personal reflections by one of the makers of modern JapanOzaki Yukio, who was returned to his seat in the Japanese Diet twenty-five times, served in that body from its inception in 1890 to 1953.

'Powerful and poetic .

'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive .

'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary Mantel"e;There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims.

When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media--though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such revelations by America's greatest living playwright were called "e;a raw display of private life"e; by The New York Times Book Review.

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes this long-awaited memoir recalling Chinua Achebe's personal experiences of and reflections on the Biafran War, one of Nigeria's most tragic civil warsChinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart, was a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature.

Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up to the Mukutan, to watch the sun setting behind the lake, and the evening shadows settle over the valleys and plains of the Laikipia plateau.

In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders.

When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime Crown Prince, to be the next King of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Forces who discovered his life was in for a major upheaval.

In his talks to communities throughout the length and breath of Ireland, John Lonergan finds himself coming back to one theme: the importance of kindness.

Donal Og Cusack has been one of Ireland's leading hurlers for the past decade, winning five Munster titles and three All-Ireland medals with Cork, and establishing himself as one of the game's most compelling and articulate figures.

Published to coincide with the release of the film Bright Star, written and directed by Oscar Winner Jane Campion (The Piano, In the Cut), starring Abbie Cornish (Elizabeth: The Golden Age) and Ben Whishaw (Brideshead Revisited, Perfume)John Keats died aged just twenty-five.

Born Wild is a story of passion, adventure and skulduggery on the frontline of African conservation.

In 1996, Sheryl became the most famous footballer's wife in Britain when lurid stories of physical abuse by her husband Paul Gascoigne became front-page news.

'Darkly angelic prose.

'A landmark of feminist thought and a rhetorical masterpiece' GuardianRanging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given by Woolf at Girton College, Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics.

If you were enthralled by Fifty Shades of Grey you need to read Extra Confessions of a Working Girl, the real-life story of Miss S, a modern Working Girl.

When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked.

British poet Laurie Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship.

George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries.

The late great Dubliner, Ronnie Drew, was six months into writing his biography when he was diagnosed with cancer.

The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo.

'An astonishing work' - Joanne HarrisEvery parent's worst nightmare became a reality for Ian Clayton.

A House Unlocked is Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively's classic memoir.

'A joy.