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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. It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, one of Gunter Grass' finest works. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum.

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In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots.

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Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.

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Presents a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long.

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Restoration Heart is William Cash's 'restore-a-wreck' memoir of house and heart.

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Restoration Heart is William Cash's 'restore-a-wreck' memoir of house and heart.

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Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace, courage, honesty and wit.

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Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jos Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon.

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

Born in 1922 in the tiny Portuguese village of Azinhaga, Jos Saramago was only a baby when his family moved to a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon.

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The Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old, reissued alongside Athill's extensive backlist.

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The beautiful, signed, limited edition version of David Hare's shockingly funny and brilliant memoir.

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The extraordinary, posthumously published memoir in letters of a Colombian artist whose writing was championed by Gabriel Garca Mrquez - 'startling and astringently poetic' The New York Times

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The last journals of Charles Bukowski, illustrated by the comic art of Robert Crumb. Following a world-weary Bukowski as he nears the end of his life, most of the entries are written in the middle of the night, during the precious hours when the ever-present shadow of mortality was held at bay.

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Collected in one spellbinding volume for the first time, these are the digressive, exuberant, rip-roaringly funny diaries of one of Britain's best playwrights and heaviest smokers

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A beautiful new edition collecting together Gray's two early diaries published by Faber.

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How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality

What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake

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Arturo Barea's astonishing Spanish trilogy is both the autobiography of a man and the biography of a nation during the first four decades of the twentieth century, one of the most crucial periods in Spain's long history.

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A new edition of a wonderful Birmingham working-class childhood. As memorable as William Woodruff's Nab End series.

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The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted for his mother and "summoned her dead." She was murdered three months later.