Home Truths: Life Around My Father
The life of John Junor, Fleet Street legend, explored in movingly honest detail by his daughter, the journalist and broadcaster Penny Junor.
Autobiography: arts and entertainment
The Kenneth Williams Letters
Following the bestselling publication of THE KENNETH WILLIAMS DIARIES, the devastating self-portrait of one of our most loved and complex performers is completed with this marvellous selection of his letters.
Dear London: Notes from the Big City
A wonderfully original, warm and witty account of London over the past 3 decades that simultaneously charts the author’s rise from incidental tourist to internationally renowned agony aunt.
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion based on her Memoir
‘This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you…’
Cancer Vixen
What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, madly-in-love, single-forever, about-to-get-married big city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds…A LUMP IN HER BREAST!?
The Other Side of Me
A brilliant, highly spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon’s early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy a narrative as any of his bestselling novels.
Out of the Frying Pan: Scenes from My Life
Keith Floyd’s exuberant personality, as much as his cooking skills, has made him a favourite both as bestselling author and as television presenter. But here, for the first time, he tells his own story – and it is full of surprises.
Cash
This fascinating autobiography of the country music legend recounts the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs of his remarkable life.
The Kenneth Williams Diaries
‘I’ll put you in my diary!’ comedian Kenneth Williams was known to threaten on occasion, although tantalisingly he kept the journal to himself during his lifetime. Here at last, in one spellbinding volume, are four million words of it.