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How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his...

The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated...

Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from...

The autobiography of an American icon

'I never think that people die. They just go to department stores'

Andy Warhol -...

This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses...

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of...

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a...

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an...

George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the...

A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent

In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh...

'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition...

'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and...

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his service in...

In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of...

Deep Country is Neil Ansell's account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales.

'I lived alone in this cottage...

The revelatory autobiography of a rugby colossus: Paul O'Connell. Winner of the Cross Sports Book Awards Rugby Book of the...

Discover the real Michael McIntyre through his remarkable and hilarious journey to comedy stardom in his first official...

Robert Penn's It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels is a paean to the humble bike; it's the story of...

This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psychobiography of a man whose once brilliant career has ruined...

Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of...

For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakinkept notebooks. In them, he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and...

Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and...

Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a...

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of...

Rupert Isaacson's The Horse Boy is one family's epic journey to rescue their son.

Rupert and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken...

‘Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I...

Sniper One is the gritty, awe-inspiring true story that takes you right into the heart of the Iraq war from Sunday Times No.1...

The only way to appreciate the legendary Mark E Smith is to encounter the man in his own words.

The Fall are one of the most...

The acclaimed autobiography of Fidel Castro, one of the towering political figures of our age, who dominated both Cuba and the...

Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography...