Biographical and autobiographical fiction

The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller.

*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2017*Chicago, 1928.

The debut novel from much-loved writer, poet and broadcaster Clive James, Brilliant Creatures is a bold, hilarious satire of the media industry.

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.

Some Hope is the third of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose Novels, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.

Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.

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.

'Banville is superb .

The second volume of John Banville's Revolutions Trilogy and winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Kepler is a gorgeous historical novel exploring the life of Johannes Kepler, one of Europe's greatest mathematicians.

A Way in the World is a vastly innovative novel exploring colonial inheritance through a series of narratives that span continents, swing back and forth between past and present and delve into both autobiography and fiction.

Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Never Mind is the first in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.

At Last is the fifth and final instalment of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.

One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, an addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood, family and grief.

Scientist Nelly Senff is desperate to escape her life in East Berlin.

Three dramatic and emblematic stories intertwine in Sway - the early days of the Rolling Stones; the life of avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger; and the community of Charles Manson and his followers.

My enemy - I shall refer to him as B.

'A deliberate historical parable.

_____________________________________A wrenching novel about the life and death of Lady Jane Grey, one of the most complex and sympathetic figures in Tudor England, by popular historian Alison Weir: ideal for fans of Wolf HallLady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger.

London 1844, and a shy young woman has arrived to take up a new position in the grandeur of No.

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over.

'A book of excruciating sobriety and warmth and a magical concreteness of observation.

'A masterpiece, a perfect book' David NichollsDiscover this unmissable modern classic where the fragile friendship between two teenage boys has devastating consequences that echo throughout the years.

At seventy, Henri Matisse is a trim, clean old gentleman with a passion for naked women.

In Enniskillen, Co.

Alfred Wallis was born in 1855 and died in a workhouse in Cornwall in 1942.

'A gripping narrative - a deeply moving study of love, loss and solitude' Independent on Sunday Celebrated nineteenth-century concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms - Clara Schumann was also the wife of Robert Schumann, the mother of his eight children, and the woman who cared for him through a series of crippling mental illnesses.

Camden Town.

I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe.

Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare.

A love letter to Jane Austen and to the power of reading by an icon of British literature'Wise and wonderfully funny' The Times'Splendid'Guardian'It should be required reading'New York Times Book ReviewA special new edition of a modern classic, celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday: blending truth and fiction, the delightful collection of letters Fay Weldon sent her 'niece' about reading Jane Austen, the act of creation and the joys of writingIn this charming sequence of fictional letters - inspired by those Jane Austen sent to her own niece - 'Aunt Fay' writes to her niece Alice, an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring writer with green hair and zero interest in reading Austen for her college English class.

Engrossing historical fiction for readers of Bride of New France and The Birth House about one of Canadas most inimitable pioneers and her struggles to survive in the wilderness, brought beautifully to life in this accomplished debutTeetering on the edge of genteel poverty, Englishwoman Susanna Moodie agrees to leave behind her growing career as a writer to follow her husband from her beloved Suffolk to the backwoods of Canada.

"e;A reminder that age is no barrier to the unconventional and daring.

Sie trotzte den Elementen und schrieb Geschichte1927 träumt die junge Mercedes Gleitze davon, den Ärmelkanal zu durchschwimmen und damit Geschichte zu schreiben.

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee.

'A wonderful rites-of-passage novel' Mariella Frostrup'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father.

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2003In The Master of Petersburg J.

This early work is deeply personal and Jos Saramago 's most autobiographical, following the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family poor, landless peasants not unlike the author s own grandparents.

Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country.

Rumi is now acknowledged as one of the great mystical poets of the Western world, with huge sales of the many collections of his poetry.

'The funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew.

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, séptimo tomo.

Kaname s marriage is disintegrating.

Now a major TV series starring Martin Clunes, Arsher Ali and Art MalikFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011, an extraordinary true-life tale about a long-forgotten mystery.

A masterpiece of modern literature that mirrors Maugham s own career.

Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo.

Discover the brilliantly funny True Confessions of Margaret Hilda Roberts by Sue Townsend, 'the funniest person in the world' - Caitlin Moran, The Times Tuesday May 24thHad a lie in until 6am.

'Comyns's world is weird and wonderful .

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'She wrote exciting plots .

'Intriguing, funny and moving' EVE magazine'Simply mesmerising.