Memoirs

Geoff Thomas's heroic battle to overcome leukaemia, and then take on the toughest sporting challenge: to ride the Tour de FranceWhen Geoff Thomas struggled to play a friendly game of tennis while on holiday in Mallorca in May 2003, he thought little of it.

The enchanting childhood memoirs of bestselling author Miss Read.

A fascinating, highly entertaining story of one woman's adventures in vintage clothingALLIGATORS, OLD MINK & NEW MONEY is a celebration of the clothes that capture our memories and imaginations.

A brilliantly funny guide to the trials and tribulations of hospitals and convalescence - from No.

A true story of abuse.

Sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller EVELYN, also a major film.

In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANEDuring the Second World War, John Stewart Collis volunteered to leave his comfortable life as an academic to work on the land for the war effort.

Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist.

This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold and a tortured soul.

When Leslie met her husband Conor she felt she'd found the man of her dreams.

Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo.

From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.

An eye-opening expose of and a heart-breaking lament for professional cyclingPaul Kimmage's boyhood dreams were of cycling glory: wearing the yellow jersey, cycling the Tour de France, becoming a national hero.

Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris.

Even the biggest cycling fan can one day wake up to find that he has lost his faith Bad Blood is the story of Jeremy Whittle's journey from unquestioning fan to Tour de France insider and confirmed sceptic.

A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world's most respected writers.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON'A stunning book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Dazzling' TARA WESTOVER'A story about hope, imagination and resilience'GUARDIANAn award-winning, inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience.

This is Andr Brink's story of a life lived in tumultuous times.

How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands?

In When I Was a Nipper Alan Titchmarsh goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through post-War Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of society.

Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, cereal packets - anything that might reveal a story.

Katie Price reveals all about her passionate and whirlwind romance with Peter Andre.

'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.

Beyond a Joke is a celebration of comedy - one of the modern world's most dominant and compelling art forms - but it is also the story of comedy's dark side, homing in on the scandals that have surrounded some of light entertainment's biggest stars, and telling it as it is, featuring insight from one who was there at the time.

'The message is consistent: it's not what you do in life, but how you do it.

A few months after two of his parents had died, Martin Rowson had a dream about the house he grew up in which was crammed with tons and tons of stuff, both physical and emotional.

In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government.

When his father sat him down and told him to 'make something' of himself, young vet Marc Abraham decided to do it the hard way - by setting up an emergency 'out of hours' clinic.

In Post Everything, Luke Haines demonstrates that the only way to survive the tyrannical scourge of Britpop is to become an Outsider.

In this new volume of memoirs, Frank Skinner describes his experience of going back on the road doing stand-up again, after many years spent working mainly on television.

You've installed your breadmaker in your kitchen, bought a couple of books and made delicious breads with rye flour, with seeds on top or even with chocolate and hazelnuts.

My brother Patrick remembers my first beating, of which I assume I was completely unaware.

The Lucky Charm.

What do you do when your wife abducts your children?

The immigration man read my deportation order, looked at it and handed it back to me.

From the late 1960s, Northern Ireland has been mired in violence.

Forget the Ryder Cup, forget Rory McIlroy, forget keeping your head still and correcting your putting stance.

A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child.

'This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending.

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.

Andrew Collins was born 37 years ago in Northampton.

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.

The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.

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

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

Winner of the J.

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

______________________________The original bestselling autobiography by comedian, novelist and national treasure Stephen Fry.