Naoki Higashida 'Composed by a writer still with one foot in childhood, and whose autism was at least as challenging and life-defining as our son's, THE REASON I JUMP was...

Patrick Leigh Fermor In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot—from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is...

Anne Frank   One of the most powerful personal accounts of the Twentieth Century.   Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of...

Primo LevyThe author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to...

Maxwell Taylor Kennedy A powerful memoir, compiled by Robert Kennedy's youngest son, contains stirring and compassionate writings recorded in the slain politician's personal journals throughout the 1960s. May 4, 1999...

Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau With a foreword by Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel!Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when the camp...

David Sedaris A guy walks into a bar...From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy...

Edited by Russell Davies Following the publication of "The Kenneth Williams Diaries", this is a collection of his letters. Corresponding with all manner of people, including Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith,...

David Steel Sir David Steel's own story of a life in politics, during which he was leader of the Liberal Party for 12 years, before helping to create the Alliance...

Ilham Omar Ilhan Omar was eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her mother had died while Ilhan was still a little girl....

Kay Wilson"Indelible mesmerizing a monumental debut." Julie Burchill, The Sunday Telegraph "An extraordinary account of survival against the terrorism that threatens us all today. Kay Wilson is one of the...

Amoz Oz   Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed...