Autobiography: writers

A Truce That Is Not Peace

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY

‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’GUARDIAN

‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE

‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD

Prodigal

The extraordinary memoir from Dylan Thomas Prize-winning poet, Kayo Chingonyi.

100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events

A compendium of the most celebrated, revelatory, notorious and heart-wrenching diaries from the great, the good and the downright evil. Including the historical journals of Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank; snapshots of art and culture in the diaries of Frida Kahlo and Kurt Cobain; and windows into the past from Queen Victoria and John Adams.

Notes to John

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Utterly fascinating’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘A profound, rich document’NEW STATESMAN

‘An act of intimate storytelling’VOGUE

A recently discovered journal from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.

Four Stars: A Life. Reviewed.

The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby

‘There’s no one funnier than Joel Golby’ GREG JAMES

‘I love this book’ DOLLY ALDERTON

The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring.

The Voice that Thunders

A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker

‘His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction’ THE TIMES

‘The autobiography of one of the most distinct and profound writers we have’GUARDIAN

In the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction

‘I’ve never read a book like it. It’s as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote.’ Phoebe Waller-Bridge

‘A terrific read’ Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun

‘Remarkable…As a stark insight into the disease, In the Blood makes a mark…’ The Sunday Times Culture

Unleashed

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, DAILY MAIL, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES

‘ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE’ ED BALLS

‘SENSATIONAL’ DAILY MAIL

Perfect Bound: A memoir of trauma, heartbreak and the words that saved me

An unforgettable memoir and manifesto for living, from the woman who redefined magazines for the 21st century

‘Truly compelling.’ Cathy Rentzenbrink

‘Breathtaking … I loved it.’ Fern Britton

‘Courageous. Inspiring. Hopeful.’ Alastair Campbell

‘Gripping’ Observer

‘Brave and raw’ Daily Mail

How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

‘Vivid and empowering’ GILLIAN ANDERSON

‘A stunning book’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO

‘Dazzling’ TARA WESTOVER

‘A story about hope, imagination and resilience’GUARDIAN

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