Memoirs

Hoxton today is one of the most fashionable parts of inner London, yet before the Blitz, it was the capital's most notorious slum area.

For the last year Hephzibah Anderson has flirted, dated, swooned, and sighed.

Donkey's Years and Dog Days were the first two volumes of these remarkable memoirs, of which The Whole Hog now completes the Higgins Bestiary.

The Hour.

'At the turn from our bedroom into the hallway, there is an old full-length mirror in a wooden frame .

Why are adolescent girls prone to depression, eating disorders, addictions and suicide attempts than ever before?

'In retrospect, I can see I was the perfect candidate for child abuse.

Power struggles - Lack of communication - Unconscious needs - Fear of rejection - Different interests - Out of date habits - Fear of intimacy - High expectations - Too busy.

'I could see what he was doing to the other girls because he had been doing it to me for as long as I could remember'At just six years of age, Audrey Delaney's childhood was cut tragically short when her father first abused her.

'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered .

'I have long wanted to write a book about my life and the extraordinary years I spent with my husband Howard Marks.

'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now.

The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.

In the early 80s, after a decade of drug abuse and borderline mental illness, John Burnside resolved to escape his addictive personality and find calm in a 'Surbiton of the mind'.

"e;My God, where did you learn to handle cows like that, Doc?

Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour.

'If you are hungry for truth and beauty, read this book' Roisin Ingle, The Irish Times'A demonstration of a will to live that is breathtaking .

From the author of the international bestseller The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the enduring power of books - a must for all passionate book lovers, exploring books as diverse as The Girl on the Train, The Little Prince and David Copperfield.

When broadcaster and journalist Evelyn O'Rourke was on maternity leave with her first child she discovered that she was pregnant for the second time.

Black Rainbow is the powerful first-person story of one woman's struggle with depression and how she managed to recover from it through the power of poetry.

Read what happened next in the follow-up to the bestselling The Wolf of Wall Street, now a major motion picture directed by MARTIN SCORSESE, starring LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, JONAH HILL, JEAN DUJARDIN, KYLE CHANDLER and JOANNA LUMLEY.

In this vivacious memoir, Thomas Keneally conjures up his youthful self at a pivotal period in his life - as a red-haired teenager who idolised Gerald Manley Hopkins, had visions of being a sporting hero, and dreamed of winning the heart of the alluring Bernadette Curran.

'A compelling memoir.

Conor Maynard shot to fame posting cover versions of Usher, Drake and the Kings of Leon on YouTube.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith a new chapter detailing the events that have taken place since Ronan's passing in February 2013.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Lauren Goodger!

In this enhanced edition of Is It Just Me?

Kath grew up on a vast council estate in the 1950s, the second youngest of ten children.

'I want to be in the company of her frank intelligence forever' Nigella LawsonIn our mothers' day there were good mothers, indifferent mothers, and occasionally, great mothers.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat would you do with one last year?

Dream of living on a remote Scottish island?

An extraordinary true story of survival against all odds - and a fascinating eyewitness account of one of the darkest periods in human history.

'Mark Radcliffe: the world of rock salutes you' Melody MakerMark Radcliffe recalls his less-than-glittering rock career in a succession of bands which all ended in ignominy and frustration.

One Million Lovely Letters is one woman's inspirational journey to recovery.

'A fine book' The Sunday Times 'Powerful' Guardian 'Wonderful' The Telegraph'Moving, funny, warm' Mail on Sunday'Brave, compassionate, tender and honest' Metro'This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I had to hand.

It's March in Ireland - the flat season is about the start and Irish Times racing correspondent, Brian O'Connor has decided to boldly go where no racing correspondent has gone before.

John Carthy was an average guy, a hard-working young man devoted to his mother and sister, who also happened to suffer from depression - in common with one in four Irish people today.

Dubliner Graham Dale, an IT specialist living in Texas, was working as a volunteer with a fire department when he heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Centre in New York.

Alice Herz-Sommer, 1903-2014The pianist Alice Herz-Sommer survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attended Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, and along the way befriended some of the most fascinating historical figures of our time, from Franz Kafka to Gustav Mahler, Leonard Bernstein and Golda Meir.

Se n O'Connor was born in Francis Street, in the Liberties of Dublin, a neighbourhood famous over the centuries for the sturdy independence of its people.

In May 2007, while on a family holiday, B bhinn Ramsay's husband Alastair woke in the middle of the night with a fever.

In this hilarious, no-holds-barred account, journalist Philip Nolan packs his bag (maximum 10kg, please) and takes us on an adventure that is not for the faint-hearted as he flies with Europe 's biggest low-cost airline.

Jonah entered Helen Brown's life not long after she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had begun recovery from a mastectomy.

Rachel Roddy's Five Quarters won the Guild of Food Writers' First Book award and the Andr Simon Food Book award 2015.

Emma Bridgewater's cheerfully distinctive kitchen pottery - manufactured and traditionally hand-decorated in the Staffordshire Potteries, just as it would have been 200 years ago - has found its way onto the dresser shelves and kitchen tables of homes all over Britain and beyond.

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Lucid, absorbing and vigorous'Independent'Richly intelligent'Financial TimesIn these fascinating essays, Siri Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction: an abiding curiosity about who we are and how we got that way.

A book that everyone should read The TimesA harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.

Pilgrim State is a stunning memoir which tells the story of Dorothy Walker - equal parts beautiful, headstrong, brave and tragic.

'I asked Jai what she has learned since my diagnosis,' Randy Pausch wrote about his wife in THE LAST LECTURE.

When Mary Kennedy wrote Lines I Love a few years ago, it struck a chord in the hearts of Irish people across the country, quickly becoming a firm favourite with readers.