After losing five family members in as many months, RH began to run. She also began to research the trailblazing, tenacious women who first did outdoor sports in the late 1800s - often in lo... read more
From the back yard of a rough childhood to the fine gardens he has created professionally, Hamer shares the restorative consolations of the natural world and horticulture.
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
Gyari died in 2018 after a decade as chief negotiator with China over the status of Tibet. His account will be indispensable to anyone wishing to understand that country's modern history.
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.
The 40-year relationship between the prodigious writer and scholar (biographer of Gandhi, amongst other things, and a JS customer) and his original editor at Oxford University Press.
Grant is a distinguished actor with a fine narrative voice in his memoir - Withnail of course is here, but also his 40-year marriage to Joan Washington, and his aching grief at her death in ... read more
Gorer met Fran?ois 'F?ral' Benga, the great Senegalese dancer, in the interwar artistic community of Paris in 1934. This is a re-issue of Gorer's remarkable account of their travels around W... read more