Jeannette Walls Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did; So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age...

Stephen Fry Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me. 'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be...

Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time.Close friends...

Sheila Hancock When John Thaw, the star of "The Sweeney", Inspector Morse and Goodnight Mister Tom, died in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors. Sheila Hancock lost...

Gerda Weissmann KleinAll But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko)...

Mo Farah Hodder & Stoughton admire Sir Mo's bravery in revealing his experience of being trafficked as a child. His memoir TWIN AMBITIONS, published in 2013, is based on the...

Beck Dorey-Stein VOTED ONE OF GLAMOUR'S BEST BOOKS TO READ IN 2018The compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir that takes readers inside the Obama White House, through the eyes of a young staffer learning...

Joan Didion   'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'From one of America's...

Stephen Fry Spanning 1979-1987, The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday.'Stretching from Fry's success at Cambridge, where he met the comic love of his life, Hugh...

Nicole Graev Lipson “Sensitive, searingly intelligent, and beautifully written.” —Claire Dederer, author of  A Fan’s Dilemma“This is—for real—a masterwork, one I will return to over and over." —Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger YearIn...

Doug Gold   The Note Through The Wire: The unforgettable true love story of a WW2 prisoner of war and a resistance heroine   'An unforgettable love story set in...

Roy S Neuberger The author details his dramatic transformation from a privileged rich kid with an empty secular life to a deeply religious Jew, detailing his immersion in Hinduism, Buddhism,...