Peter RatcliffeA fast-paced, dramatic, funny and occasionally disturbing account of Peter Ratcliffe's 25-year career in the SAS. It is laced with first-hand descriptions of ferocious and bloody fighting, sudden death...

Adeline Yen Mah   Born in 1937 in a port city north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges...

Pico IyerThe author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From...

Author: John Lanshester In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of Fragrant Harbour and Capital , John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets -...

Jennifer WorthWhen 22-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies...

Natan Sharansky   Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of us—which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten...

Erica Jong Addressing the conflicting roles and fluctuating expectations faced by today's women baby boomers, a humorous look into the second half of life applies the author's insight to such...

Vivian Gornick Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the...

Lauren BurnsWhen Lauren Burns won a gold medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, she became an instant Australian hero and the proverbial ‘overnight sensation’. But her journey was a...

Pauline W Chen A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition.When Pauline Chen began...

Rosie O'DonnellPart memoir, part mystery, a compelling tale that will break readers' hearts even as it heals them. Paperback, 224 pages Published April 1st 2003 by Grand Central Publishing (first...

Richard Branson Never lose the thrill of trying something for the first time.Fifty years ago, Sir Richard Branson started his first business. In his new autobiography, Finding My Virginity ,...