Biography & Memoir

Viktor E. Frankl’s classic account combines his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps with his psychological insights into suffering, survival and the search for meaning. As a psychiatrist, Frankl observed how people responded to extreme deprivation and found that those who retained...

Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal is a genre-defying work of literary biography and investigation. Mersal becomes fascinated by the forgotten Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat, whose only novel was published posthumously after her suicide in 1963. Through archival research, interviews, diaries and visits to...

Mother Mary Comes to Me is Arundhati Roy's first memoir. It explores her complicated relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, an influential women's rights activist and educational reformer. Beginning with the death of her mother, Roy reflects on childhood, family, grief, freedom and the...

Charles Spencer offers a personal memoir of growing up with his sister Diana, reflecting on their childhood, her public life and the events surrounding her death in 1997.

A Woman of No Importance tells the remarkable true story of Virginia Hall, an American woman who became one of the Allies’ most effective secret agents during the Second World War. Despite losing part of her leg in a hunting accident and facing discrimination,...

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook’s potential and knew it could change the world for the better. But, when she got there and rose to its top ranks, things turned out a little different....

Long Walk to Freedom is Nelson Mandela’s powerful autobiography, tracing his life from childhood in rural South Africa through his political awakening, decades of resistance to apartheid, imprisonment and eventual emergence as a national leader. Mandela recounts the personal sacrifices, hardships and relationships that...

Patti Smith reflects on the people, places and creative experiences that shaped her life. Moving from childhood and artistic beginnings through love, loss, music, travel and resilience, Bread of Angels brings together personal memory and observation. Written in Smith’s distinctive literary voice, this memoir...

Judi Dench looks back on a life in theatre and film with the wit, curiosity and mischief that have marked her career. The memoir moves through performances, friendships, travel, family life and memorable moments on and off stage. Rather than a formal career chronology,...

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A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world’s most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories. Agatha Christie is revered worldwide for her books and her many film and TV adaptations. Less well-known today...

I Am Malala tells the story of Malala Yousafzai, who grew up in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and became a powerful voice for girls’ education. As the Taliban gained control of her region, Malala continued speaking out for the right to attend school. After being...

Agent Sonya tells the extraordinary true story of Ursula Kuczynski Burton, a German-born communist who became one of the Soviet Union’s most remarkable spies. Living outwardly as an ordinary wife and mother in wartime Britain, she secretly gathered scientific intelligence that helped Moscow develop...

Night is Elie Wiesel’s deeply personal memoir of his experiences as a Jewish teenager during the Holocaust. Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, Wiesel was deported with his family to Auschwitz and later Buchenwald. He recounts the brutal conditions, loss of family, struggle...

Lily's Promise is the powerful memoir of Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert, recounting her childhood in Hungary, deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 and struggle to survive Nazi persecution. After liberation, Lily rebuilt her life first in Israel and later in London, carrying the memories of...

Strangers by Belle Burden is a memoir about the sudden collapse of a twenty-year marriage. In March 2020, during the early days of the pandemic, Burden's husband unexpectedly announces that he is leaving her, overturning the life she thought they had built together. As...

Famesick by Lena Dunham is a candid memoir about fame, creativity, illness, relationships and the personal cost of ambition. Dunham reflects on her rise through Girls, the pressures of public life, years of searching for medical answers, addiction and the challenge of reconnecting with...

'You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business' As a struggling writer in his twenties, Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society. In this, his early memoir, Orwell...

Flight-Lieutenant Colin Bell's Bloody Dangerous is a powerful and inspiring portrait of bravery in action, full of touching admiration for his RAF comrades - one in three of whom were killed. He paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of what it was like to fly a Mosquito...

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! is Liza Minnelli's long-awaited memoir, telling the extraordinary story of one of entertainment's most iconic performers in her own words. Daughter of Hollywood legends Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, Liza reflects on her remarkable journey from Broadway and...