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The eighth volume in the acclaimed series of selected letters from T. S. Eliot.

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Delve into the letters of one of the most respected and cherished poets of the 20th century.

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This selection includes correspondence from Hughes's marriage to Sylvia Plath, and his letters to those he trusted reveal much about his feelings for her.

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No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimir's letters to his beloved Vera form a narrative arc that tells a forty-six year-long love story. This book features these letters that tell us much about the man and the writer.

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON

Subtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in Londons Bohemia.

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In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the worlds best-loved storytellers explains how he evolved from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to claim their own lives.

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Agatha Christies widowers recollections of his archaeological triumphs and life with Agatha.

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'A glowing masterpiece.' - Hilary Mantel; the moving story of the great Irish novelist's childhood and family

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Called "a rich, disquietingly good book" by The New York Times, the five interconnected stories in Memoirs of an Anti-Semite provide a panoramic yet intimate view of the deterioration of the European aristocracy in the years preceding World War II and the difficult decades that followed.

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J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, Empire of the Sun, this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life.

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A charming, moving and witty childhood memoir from one of Britain's best-loved writers.

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW

In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties.

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The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.

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After The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation.

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'Britain's greatest living nature writer' The Times

Rediscover the extraodinary power of nature and the British wilderness, from award-winning naturalist and author Richard Mabey

In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression.

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The author of Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain tells his own immigrant's tale, where what is lost in translation is often as hilarious as it is harrowing.

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Angela Huth is one of our best-loved English authors: a writer of great elegance, compassion and nuanced observation. Not the Whole Story is her long-awaited memoir . . .

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Tove's tribute to her island refuge and the art of Tuulikki Pietila.

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'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard.

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A final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Gunter Grass - a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world. It features a wealth of stories that is condensed into artful miniatures. Combining poetry, lyric prose and drawings, it is a farewell gift, a sensual, melancholy summation of a life fully lived.

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An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China's heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system