Leanne Shapton Swimming Studies is a collection of autobiographical sketches that explore the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager, to meditative...

Kevin Sessums Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running...

David Sedaris Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is...

Adam Gopnik On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to...

Howard Marks The incredible story of an unconventional lifeDuring the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world.At...

John Grogan Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans. John and Jenny were just beginning their life...

Richard BransonOn its first publication, Richard Branson's bestselling autobiography was hailed as 'compelling' by the Sunday Times, and 'candid and humorous' by the Times. Now in this newly revised edition....

L Marie Adeline The hotly anticipated sequel to the erotic sensation S.E.C.R.E.T., where women’s sexual fantasies become realityStill wounded from a recent heartbreak over her boss and lover, Will, Cassie...

Edward W Said   Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late forties and early fifties. This account of his early...

Tessa SouterTessa Souter shows how she did it, going from teenage mom to success as a singer. Tessa provides step-by-step strategies for pursuing a creative dream.Published January 26th 2006 by...

Anya Von Bremzen A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations Born in 1963,...

Malala Yousafzai I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in...