Turkel was born in a Chinese 're-education' camp, and finally got to the US where he trained as a lawyer, specialising in Uyghur activism. This is his account of China's horrendous oppressio... read more
Written during lockdown, this is a book by a writer on top of his game. The ostensible subject is endings, last things, work produced in 'late style'... But, this being Geoff Dyer, it's abou... read more
A memoir about silence, from the mysterious things the adults didn't talk about during his childhood, to the vast silences of the Arctic that have occupied so much of his own adult life as w... read more
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
The novelist, historian and biographer morphs with supreme elegance into a memoirist, borne along by his gifts of intelligence, wit, culture and scrutiny.
Privilege and pain play out in this scintillating memoir that bounds across society's uplands, trips into alcoholism, and bravely clambers onto the wagon of recovery and the making of a new ... read more
Clark worked for several months as 3rd assistant on the film The Prince and the Showgirl that starred Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe - this is a reissue of his famously entertaining jou... read more
A re-issue of this charming, episodic memoir of the great illustrator's early life, filled with his sketches; he himself called it "an autobiographical fragment". Published here in a pocket... read more
On his impoverished childhood and the Christian ethics that together informed his political career. He was MP for Birkenhead for forty years and now sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lo... read more
The author and her brother spent a decade at sea; at sixteen she made it ashore in New Zealand, effectively abandoned by her parents. A startling and riveting memoir.
From New Jersey she went to Iran, where she abandoned her PhD on Jane Austen while fleeing the 1979 Revolution; then China and Saudi Arabia, before settling in Venice. There she began lookin... read more
Suburban decorum befriends dysfunction: a re-issue by Slightly Foxed of Cobb's famous memoir in which he recounts not only his schooldays shared with 'Edward', but also Edward's murder of hi... read more
CC withdrew to an enclosed world in her mid-20s, to emerge a decade later. This memoir of her private struggles and of tension within the institution is both moving and unexpectedly gripping... read more
Electrifying memoir by a former art dealer about his erstwhile friend Inigo Philbrick who, having cut his teeth at White Cube, went on to make millions but came a cropper. He was extradited ... 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
From the engaging author of Lady In Waiting, whose late flowering as a memoirist and author of a pair of deliciously silly thrillers make her a pin-up for so many.
Stewart's decade in Westminster. This will undoubtedly be the political memoir of the year: rational, intelligent, candid, passionate, angry, open-eyed, honourable.
A wry memoir of his recovery from a stroke in 2011, during which time his thoughts turned to his father too. Completed shortly before his death earlier this year.
A many-layered memoir from the Pulitzer-winning author of The Sympathizer: the American dream, the Vietnam War, the life of the refugee, adoption, violence, identity.
This is the first publication of Hugh Trevor-Roper's private journal of his visit to the People's Republic of China in 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution. It also d... read more
The former Editor of the Financial Times (2005-2020) was scribbling away during the tech boom, the global financial crisis, the rise of China, Brexit, etc...
BA, aka Lady Black, has led "more colourful lives than the most exotic Cheshire Cat", quoth Sir Elton John. Trailed as a candid account of a fairly kaleidoscopic existence, from not-quite-ra... read more
The author's mother came from a Sikh family that fled the Punjab in Partition; later she moved to Berlin and Washington. A fine memoir of family whose identity and roots have been complicate... read more
A memoir by the cultural historian and Maltravers Herald Extraordinary, redhead and exultant non-driver, whose arms include three stags trippant. His book on James Wyatt is still the best; ... read more
A re-issue of Leach's book, first published in 1978. Born in Hong Kong, he later lived for many years in Japan where he trained as a potter; eventually he settled near St Ives, built a Japan... read more
Neutral for fifty years in his work for the BBC, now he tells us what he thinks and thought about all those prime ministers, presidents, elections and scandals.
The town is Krakowiec, forty miles from Lviv. In a powerful combination of memoir, family history and scholarship, Wasserstein creates a lens through which the particular becomes exemplar.
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