(Paperback)
By: Bruce Chatwin
ISBN: 9780099769811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1999
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'
(Paperback)
By: Roger Lewis
ISBN: 9781444708691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 10th May 2012
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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From the author of the critically acclaimed Christmas bestseller Seasonal Suicide Notes.
(Paperback)
By: Joan Didion
ISBN: 9780007178872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.
(Paperback)
By: Alan Garner
ISBN: 9780008306007
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.
(Paperback)
By: William Graves
ISBN: 9780712601160
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2001
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2001
Publisher: Vintage
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William Graves conveys the texture of life in Majorca, where he lived from the age of five in the household of his father, the poet Robert Graves. The book is also a portrait of Robert Graves, his "Muses" and his entourage, and a study of how the son of a famous father finds his own identity.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9780571283248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Paul Auster's unforgettable account of the abandonment of his family by his father, told from the point of view of his mother.
(Paperback)
By: Meredith Hall
ISBN: 9780807072745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether.
(Paperback)
By: David Thomson
ISBN: 9780099359913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1994
UK Publication Date: 17th February 1994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. He stayed for ten years.
This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves - for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupil.
(Paperback)
By: Claire Lorrimer
ISBN: 9781473633988
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Author Claire Lorrimer's fascinating autobiography: a rich tapestry of a life and remarkable career that has spanned the twentieth century.
(Paperback)
By: John Metcalf
ISBN: 9781927428955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Biblioasis
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The memoir of the man who "has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."Alice Munro
(Hardback)
By: Stephen Brennan
ISBN: 9781626361386
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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Joseph Conrad (Born Jozef Teodor Kpnrad Korzeniowski in 1857) was a Polish writer who learned to read, write, and speak English after he was granted British Nationality in 1886. Although his peers accepted him as a British gentleman, he never forgot where he came from. This book tells his story.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Twain
ISBN: 9781513282077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Paperback)
By: Dhan Gopal Mukerji
ISBN: 9781513218595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Hardback)
By: Dhan Gopal Mukerji
ISBN: 9781513133010
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: West Margin Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jim Tilley
ISBN: 9781597092647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Red Hen Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jim Tilley
ISBN: 9781597095365
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Red Hen Press
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The second collection from award-winning poet Jim Tilley, who writes "finely crafted poems in which readers will find bits and pieces of their own lives" (Stephen Dobyns).
(Hardback)
By: Deni Ellis Bechard
ISBN: 9781571313317
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
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A moving story of rebellion, lost love, criminal daring, and restless searching.Leonard Gardner, author of Fat City
(Paperback)
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
ISBN: 9781551526003
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
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A transformative memoir by a queer disabled brown femme and abuse survivor: an intersectional, tragicomic story told with wild abandon.
(Hardback)
By: Bruce Piasecki
ISBN: 9781632261274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Easton Studio Press
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(Paperback, Reissue)
By: George Mackay Brown
ISBN: 9781846975110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 27th June 2019
Publisher: Birlinn General
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(Hardback)
By: Frederic Raphael
ISBN: 9781849548700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
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Going Up is a journey from Chicago to Putney, to Charterhouse, on up to Cambridge, and beyond to Hollywood and France, recording experiences that were absorbed in his opulent novels and screenplays. Raphael is the author of over twenty novels, the most celebrated being The Glittering Prizes
(Paperback)
By: Amy Fusselman
ISBN: 9781566895132
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Coffee House Press
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Recovery, motherhood, queerness--Idiophone is a striking meditation on risk-taking in art, from a distinctively feminist angle.
(Paperback)
By: Nin Anais
ISBN: 9780720615821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: Nin Anais
ISBN: 9780720609059
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1993
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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Anais Nin recounts a life filled with unrestrained sexual exploits.
