Memoirs

'A strange, enchanting book .

A lauded contemporary classic of the memoir form: devastatingly powerful, moving and uplifting.

With an introduction by author Anne Enright.

'The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time' - John Le CarreThe groundbreaking work of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film, Full Metal Jacket.

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year Award'Extraordinary' Daily Telegraph'Breathtaking' Guardian Skybound by Rebecca Loncraine is a book for anyone who has looked up and longed to take flight.

For the past fifty years, Monday afternoons in New Haven have always been the same: Roz, Rhoda, Bea, Jackie and Bette - the Bridge Ladies.

Alison Hewitt was in the midst of training to be a family doctor when she met Al Amin Dhalla through an exclusive dating agency.

Jon Ronson's Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie is a memoir of funny, sad times and a tribute to outsider artists too wonderfully strange to ever make it in the mainstream.

Louise Johncox comes from a long line of bakers and confectioners.

The Skeleton Cupboard is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her years of training as a clinical psychologist, when trainees find themselves in the toughest placements of their careers.

As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.

Les Cummings was three when he was sent to the Children's Cottage Homes in Portsmouth.

Ronald White-Cooper may have worked as a doctor in London's slums and tended to badly wounded men on the Western Front, but when he arrived in Dartmouth in 1920 to set up as a GP he found himself facing some unique challenges.

The touching true story of a young 1920s 'flapper', who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl 'Early that January, there was snow on the ground, and Victoria Carmen took a violent chill.

'Sharp, direct, witty .

For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes Furiously Happy from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened.

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.

There was in Sir Francis Chichester a restless spirit never satisfied with his achievements.

From time immemorial, few narrative genres have had the power to so stir the emotions or captivate the imagination as the true account of a lone adventurer's triumph over the titanic forces of nature.

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.

As a teenager in Nottingham, Tom Cox was possessed.