The Chinese-born novelist moved to Britain and then to the US. Her memoir glints with her fascination with the West as well as her nostalgia for the East.
Do the pram in the hall and other domestic tentacles make a life of intellectual fulfilment impossible? The author unravels the work of Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Ferrante, Zo... read more
She was the only writer towards whom Virginia Woolf acknowledged jealousy. Harman is the distinguished biographer of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Fanny Burney and others.
An entertaining and affecting memoir of the great pianist's youth and early training, which began in a suburb of post-war Liverpool. Told with candour and simplicity.
A former editor of The Times Literary Supplement argues that the trajectory of Rome's richest man presents pertinent questions about the intertwining of money, ambition, and power.
In 2011 Taseer was kidnapped in Lahore by Taliban-affiliated gunmen; only a few months earlier his father, the governer of the province Punjab, had been murdered. It is thought that Taseer w... read more
The first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army, fresh from his student days at Cambridge, grappling with the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality and the formation of a ... read more
She grew up in Chelsea (indeed her father was a John Sandoe customer); she was a deb in 1958. Then she devoted herself to the IRA and became a terrorist.
The story of PayPal, a Silicon Valley startup with a few scruffy tech-heads at the helm. It is now one of the most successful and ubiquitous companies in the world, whose alumni aren't doing... read more
This marvellous memoir of her youth in Tottenham ends when her theatrical career takes off: forthright, transparent, dry, funny - there is nothing remotely precious about Dame Eileen's accou... read more
The two authors - husband and wife - settled in the west of Ireland over thirty years ago, casting off from their life in the US on a romantic impulse to begin a new life near Christine's fa... read more
A sequence of lively anecdotes from a mercurial mind: Gekoski has led several careers, as a publisher and more recently as a fine novelist; he is also the doyen of dealers in rare modern fir... read more
A slim volume on life and thought of one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. It ranges over her dramatic life, her love affair with Martin Heidegger, exile, Eich... read more
A memoir from one of the world's great handbag designers: a hugely successful entrepreneur, Anya is also a trustee of the Royal Academy and of the Design Museum; she's a Greenpeace ambassado... read more
FSS is an excellent and varied writer. In this new book, she looks at her father's life through the papers in a suitcase revealing how he was exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey th... read more