Memoir and reportage by the outstanding foreign correspondent (who has covered conflict in Ukraine, Mali, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine), and an anthology of poems that spe... read more
It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandria childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestsell... read more
It is often supposed that Lovelock was a sort of hippie, but he worked for NASA in the 1960s, then MI5 and MI6; then Shell, whom he warned about the danger to the environment of fossil fuels... read more
The wounds of repeated leavings and accumulating loss. Sliding between generations, this memoir is an intimate, lyrical and compelling portrait of the lives altered by emigration, exile and ... read more
The daughter of Lord Mountbatten, Lady P was also Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen and married to David Hicks. This is a lavishly illustrated biog by her daughter.
For his first 36 years, Hölderlin engaged with the world. The second half of his life - the subject of this book, by the celebrated European philosopher - was spent as a 'madman' in the hom... read more
A year into university and wrestling with religion, Tóibín discovered Baldwin. These essays on freedom, truth and the hidden are wonderfully perceptive and articulate.
In the 1550s, a Venetian public servant produced three anonymous volumes of geographical data, some of it well known, some hitherto secret: Renaissance Wikileaks.
From the editor of Gunn's Letters comes the first biography of the poet whose complex sexual and cultural life led him to the California hippies and the AIDS crisis.
The story of the author's 25-year search for 'Agent Piccadilly' - the man who murdered Georgi Markov with a poisoned umbrella on Westminster Bridge in 1978.
Fuller's 20-year-old son died suddenly in his sleep. In this new volume of memoir, she writes of emotional devastation with courage, even flashes of humour. By the author of Don't Let's Go ... read more
Gloriously funny memoir by a Minnesotan food writer about moving to an unpretentious village in the Languedoc with his wife and two aghast children. Hoffman has previously won the James Bear... read more
The autodidact cultural critic has written an exhilarating and evocative memoir of his youth, the unstable fortunes of his family, and the diverse artistic tribes of NY before the catastroph... read more
Recounts the author's quest for Adele Hugo, who followed the object of her (unrequited) love, a British soldier, to the Caribbean, and then returned to live out the rest of her days in a Fre... read more
The distinguished historian uses neglected sources to present CdeM as a much-traduced campaigner for the peaceful coexistence of Catholics and Protestants, and as a patroness of the arts.
This Slightly Foxed reprint, unavailable since its 1955 publication, is a nurse's memoir of her days working in a clearing hospital in Normandy just after D-Day.
A love hotel on Japan's Inland Sea, H.G. Wells, Rebecca West, 1930s' physics: a mesmerising memoir of his parents by the author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Who were 'The Flappers'? A generation of women who broke with social conventions; exotic, often despairing, and influential. By the author of the excellent Tales from the Colony Room: Soho's... read more
The only woman to reach London from Warsaw during WW2, she was later parachuted back into Poland where she was deeply involved in the Uprising; she then disappeared into the Soviet prison sy... read more
A memoir by this most communicative classicist about her own experiences of suicide, and how she found consolation and understanding of herself and her family through close readings of clas... read more