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The Hour of the Wolf

Fatima Bhutto

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Another World

Melvyn Bragg

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The Flower Bearers

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

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The Colour of Home: Growing up in 1970s Britain

Sajid Javid

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Auslander: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile ...

Michael Moritz

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A vivid and moving account of moving from Delhi to a derelict cottage in an old hill station. An accomplished novelist, Roy's text is augmented by her own watercolours.

Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya

Anuradha Roy

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Himmler’s Curtains: A Memoir of Loss and Concealment ...

Simon Weisz

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The novelist's memoir takes him from a rural postwar childhood to boarding school, Fleet Street and fame as the author of Birdsong and many others.

Fires Which Burned Brightly

Sebastian Faulks

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A memoir-of-sorts of her beloved house in Campden Hill Square, home to Fraser since 1957, to Harold Pinter, to her children, and to animals - feline, canine and literary.

The House that Spoke: The History of a Home

Antonia Fraser

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More entertaining tips and tales from the enterprising dowager of chic and mistress of the well-deployed vodka and tonic.

Manners & Mischief: An A-Z of a Life Lived Well ...

Anne Glenconner

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Thoughts on childhood, old age, nature, politics... Includes some stories and poems.

Funny Thing, Getting Older: And Other Reflections

Michael Morpurgo

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Remember those groovy windows in Knightsbridge? Transforming the fusty into the outrageous, Portas defined an era.

I Shop, Therefore I Am: The ’90s, Harvey Nicks – and Me ...

Mary Portas

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This dynamic memoir by the political campaigner and Booker-winning author of The God of Small Things centres on her relationship with her mother.

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy

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A remarkable memoir by a man who came to England in the 1980s as a refugee, when refugees were allowed to work. He has led an exceptionally industrious and successful life since then, but in... read more

No Safer Kinder Hatred: How Racial Hatred and Ethnic Violence Shaped Z ...

Frank Thabani Sayi

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A zestful and humorous memoir of a well-lived life by the self-confessed 'ordinand, banker, serial volunteer and laterpreneur'. Only missing from his description of himself is 'and thoroughl... read more

The Curious Adventures of a Polymoth

Julian Sturdy-Morton

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Reissued by Slightly Foxed as one of their lovely clothbound hardbacks, this is the classic WW2 memoir of a Spitfire pilot who joined up in 1939 at the age of 17 - and survived. First pub... read more

First Light

Geoffrey Wellum

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Ypi follows her prize-winning memoir of growing up in Hoxha's Albania - Free: Coming of Age at the End of History - with an investigation of her aristocratic Ottoman grandmother, filling in... read more

Indignity: A Life Reimagined

Lea Ypi

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One of the few accounts by a POW of the Japanese during WW2, these clear, humane diaries - edited by his daughter - bear remarkable witness both to horrors and to the will to survive.

A Cool Head in Hell: The Wartime Diaries of a British Doctor from Dunk ...

Harry Silman

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The first-person account of a Palestinian man in his thirties, whose everyday existence is disrupted by the brutal realities of war and occupation.

Who Will Tell My Story? A Gaza Diary

Anonymous

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With an apt nod to Vasily Grossman in its subtitle, this offbeat memoir doubles as a treatise on the dangers of totalitarianism. From the annexation of Crimea in 2014, when Alyokhina was re... read more

Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia

Maria Alyokhina

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A deadpan memoir of hard-scrabble work in the gig economy with its performance metrics, night shifts and low pay. This has been a best-seller in China.

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: On Making a Living

Hu Anyan

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A memoir by the inventor of the internet - a man who gave it away to all of us for free and will no doubt be canonised one day, if we survive as a species.

This is For Everyone

Tim Berners-Lee

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This love letter to the commonality of knowledge from the founder of Wikipedia ponders what truth and trust mean in a 'post-truth' age.

The Seven Rules of Trust: Why It Is Today’s Most Essential Super ...

Jimmy Wales

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Following her biographies of Kierkegaard and George Eliot, this is a series of six philosophical meditations on what it means to write about a person's life, whether the singularity of a lif... read more

Transcendence for Beginners

Clare Carlisle

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First collection of her essays. Her subjects range from literary investigations into shame to travel memoir and political writing.

Attention

Anne Enright

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Story-telling as the route to personal freedom, to change one's trajectory and to live fully. Memoir and criticism in JW's elegant stride.

One Aladdin Two Lamps

Jeanette Winterson

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Pieces together the story of a young woman who fell ill in a tower on a hill, was confined there by her father for three years and eventually died. Using fiction, fairytale and memoir, Lena... read more

The Tower

Thea Lenarduzzi

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The art - or work - of living, by the great photographer who also happens to string thoughts and words together better than most.

Art Work: On the Creative Life

Sally Mann

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A memoir by the well-known curator.

Life in Progress

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Hujar's photos of his friend and lover as well as many letters and postcards between them, illuminating their relationship till they parted in the mid 1970s.

Paul Thek and Peter Hujar: Stay Away from Nothing

Paul Thek

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When the Rocky Horror Show was still running in Chelsea, its star regularly caused eyes to swivel in Blacklands Terrace. Here, he looks back on his upbringing in an English military family, ... read more

Vagabond

Tim Curry

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A memoir from childhood in Port Talbot to his time at RADA under the mentorship of Laurence Olivier, and on through his illustrious career and frequent battles with sobriety. Hopkins writes ... read more

We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir

Anthony Hopkins

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A delightful memoir of CT's dance tour from Nova Scotia to Sweden, London and Paris in the late 1930s. It's an unusually funny portrait of pre-war Europe, with a plucky, adventurous young ba... read more

Les Girls

Constance Tomkinson

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She began performing as a child, singing to troops during WW2. She has hardly stopped since and, after selling an estimated 100 million records, hers must be one of the longest and most succ... read more

Is That You, Petula?

Petula Clark

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The new memoir from this magnificent story-teller and musician is perhaps her most personal yet.

Bread of Angels

Patti Smith

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After serving as a Captain in Gunnery on aircraft defences during WW2, Montagu spent three years touring the US by Greyhound bus. A cousin of Clementine Churchill's, she later married Milton... read more

The Greyhound Diary

Judy Montagu

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