Memoirs

In June 1962 Francis Chichester set out from Plymouth once again to cross the Atlantic single-handed in his 13-ton yacht, Gipsy Moth III, in an attempt to beat the 40-day record he set up himself in 1960.

A brave man in a small boat alone on a big sea .

This is a celebration of the countryside, and fishing and shooting, in particular.

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.

Even when I was funny, I wasn't this funny'Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors Have you ever embarrassed yourself so badly you thought you'd never get over it?

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

An award-winning and highly distinguished documentary film-maker, Leslie Woodhead has written a funny, sad and highly atmospheric memoir of what it was like to be hurled into maturity amidst the peculiar circumstances of the Cold War.

Nanny Pat has always been the heart of her family, and her children and grandchildren regularly pitch up at her house for a cup of tea, a slice of her famous sausage plait and some wise advice.

Life for East End families like Pat's was always a struggle.

In the summer of 1992, Jeremy Howe and his wife, Lizzie, were tending to last-minute holiday preparations.

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.

'So you think because you've watched TOWIE you've got us Essex Girls figured out?

For Romany Eva Petulengro, marrying outside her culture was a big step to take.

All Terrie ever wanted was to be part of a normal family.

'A modern classic' - The Sunday Times'This story starts roughly in the 1970s, a few years after I was born, about the time when I began to have memories and my father's codename was already long established as "e;Andronic"e;, a name we learned about only last summer .

The third book in V.

The compelling story of a woman who survived marriage to one of the UK's most notorious serial killers.

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.

'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity.

Scratch the surface of any family and you will find stories of intrigue, abuse and illegitimacy.

When she made the decision to join the police force, Anne Ramsay had imagined what she would look like in a police uniform.

From the grand houses of Brighton to imposing London mansions, life as a kitchen maid could be exhausting and demoralising.

Living the high life in LA - cocktail parties, exotic restaurants and a cosmopolitan boyfriend - Ree Drummond thinks she's got it all figured out.

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight.

Born into a Romany gypsy family in 1939, Eva Petulengro's childhood seemed to her to be idyllic in every way.

Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London, fifteen-year-old Margaret's life in service was about to begin.

You're about to turn thirty, all your friends are getting engaged and pregnant - and your body-clock is ticking.

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.

Der True-Crime-Bestseller von Michael Tsokos in einer Taschenbuch-Neuausgabe!

As a teenager in Nottingham, Tom Cox was possessed.

'You're Joseph Heller's daughter?

In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana's revelations about life in Saudi Arabia's royal family.

'This is the most glorious of books.

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.

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

For many the daily grind can feel like a trap - work, gym, drinks, shops, home, bed, work.

'They say you can always remember where you where when pivotal moments happen, such as losing your virginity or Elvis dying.

'We were quickly learning to live with war.

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

Dyslexia is a common diagnosable condition that is estimated to affect at least one child in ten.

Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm like no player in the history of the game.

If you are accompanied by a dog you can talk to anyone, and anyone can talk to you about anything And they do.

Foreigners who spend time in Russia soon discover two distinct worlds: the public Russia, often perceived as cold and shadowed, cautious and traditional; and the private Russia, where warmth and hospitality flourish over tea at a friend's kitchen table or saut ed mushrooms in a village dacha.

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.

The great C L R James once asked: 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga.

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?

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA poignant and moving account of the author s search for the man his father was and the life he led as a well-known footballer, blending the personal and the historical into an unforgettable story Stewart Imlach was an ordinary neighbourhood soccer star of his time.

In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Ireland.