Biography & autobiography / Personal Memoirs

What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me

von Rielle Hunter

The John Edwards–Rielle Hunter affair made headlines for years. “One of the biggest political scandals of all time,” “a fall from grace,” “a modern-day tragedy”—it’s a story that has been reported,...

Opening Doors and Windows: A Memoir in Four Acts

von James Roose-Evans

James Roose-Evans' list of accomplishments is formidable. Fifty years ago, he founded the Hampstead Theatre. He has written seventeen books, including the best-selling 'Inner Journey: Outer Journey' and 'Experimental...

Once in a Blue Moon: Life, Love and Manchester City

von Steve Worthington

Once in a Blue Moon is the story of one man's never-ending affair with Manchester City. Be it playing, watching or managing, Steve 'Worthy' Worthington's life in football has never been easy. Having suffered...

Belle of the Brawl: Letters Home from a B-17 Bombardier

von Gary A A Best

This wartime biography follows the life of a Second World War B-17 bombardier from the beginning of the war to its conclusion. Based on the 150 letters the airman, Fred Lull, wrote home to his mother, much of...

Another Life: Lawrence After Arabia

von Andrew R B R B Simpson

T E Lawrence found global recognition for his leadership of the Arab Revolt during World War I, preparing the ground for the final Allied offensive in 1918. He was hailed as a hero, but little is known about...

Among Muslims: Meetings at the Frontiers of Pakistan

von Kathleen Jamie

When ten Pakistani men walk into Kathleen Jamie’s small Scottish town on a peace march, in November 2001, she is thrown back to her own travels in Northern Pakistan and a book she wrote a decade earlier.

Among...

The Phoenix Land

von Miklós Bánffy

Phoenix-like the Hungarian people survived the horrors of the war, the disappointment of the first socialist republic, the disillusion of the brief but terrifying communist rule of Bela Kun, and the bitterness...

My Mother Wore A Yellow Dress

von Christina McKenna

'I learned about conflict from my parents.' So begins Christina McKenna's haunting memoir of her lonely early life. Recounting scenes from her chlldhood in Ulster, she paints a memorable and poignant picture...

Tango 190: The David Rathband Story

von David Rathband & PC David David Rathband

On 1 July 2010, Raoul Moat was released from Durham Prison. Within forty-eight hours he had shot his ex-partner Samantha Stobbart and brutally murdered her new boyfriend, Chris Brown. In the early hours of 4...

It Shouldn't Happen to a Midwife!

von Jane Yeadon

As the Swinging Sixties continue, Jane Yeadon is ready to start her training as a midwife. With general nursing already under her belt, it’s time for a whole new adventure – and another very steep learning...

My Traitor

von Sorj Chalandon

My Traitor tells the story of Antoine, an idealistic young French violin-maker, who takes a train from Dublin to Belfast in 1977 and is propelled into the heart of the Falls Road and the Republican movement,...

What the Curlew Said: Nostos Continued

von John Moriarty

'Now again I live in a river-mirrored house, the house a cottage, and the river that mirrors it broadening out twice a day into an estuary lake fished by otters and herons and, when the salmon are running, by...

Serious Sounds

von John Moriarty

A wonderful walk through the story of Moriarty's childhood growing up on a small farm in north Kerry, and his lifelong engagement with traditional Catholic sacraments, taking as his point of departure Philip...

McDowell on McDowell

von R.B. B. McDowell

Between clubs, dining halls, libraries, institutions and good addresses in the country, R.B. McDowell, born in September 1913, had led the charmed and energized existence of a distinguished bachelor don, embellishing...

The Songman

von Tommy Sands

With a Fenian fiddle in one ear and an Orange drum in the other', singer Tommy Sands was reared in the foothills of the Mourne mountains, where he still lives. As a child, he was immersed in folk music - his...

Pagan Time: An American Childhood

von Micah Perks

With little more than a run-down Jeep and their newborn baby in tow, author Micah Perks' parents set out in 1963 to build a school and a utopian community in the mountains. The school would become known as a...

A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying

von Bingying Xie & Barry Brissman

For the first time, a complete version of the autobiography of Xie Bingying (1906-2000) provides a fascinating portrayal of a woman fighting to free herself from the constraints of ancient Chinese tradition...

Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

von Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley & William J. Kennedy

Here, for the first time, is the private and most intimate correspondence of one of America's most influential and incisive journalists--Hunter S. Thompson. In letters to a Who's Who of luminaries from Norman...

The Sinatra Club: My Life Inside the New York Mafia

von Sal Polisi

The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America—too dangerous and too deadly to fail. Until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed, and the decline of its traditional crime Family values.

And by...

Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China

von Aminta Arrington

When all-American Aminta Arrington moves from suburban Georgia to a small town in China, she doesn't go alone. Her army husband and three young children, including an adopted Chinese daughter, uproot themselves...