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Heart Earth

by Ivan Doig

Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in...


The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws

by Margaret Drabble

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and...


The White Door: Four Novellas

by Stephen Chan

The White Door is a fictionalised account of growing up Chinese in New Zealand by a scholar, diplomat and martial artist.

“Stephen Chan’s novel is a magical masterpiece that fascinates and moves the reader...


Jane Austen

by Helen Lefroy

Jane Austen's reputation rests on the six novels she wrote in her short life - enduringly popular novels which have become part of the fabric of English life, and which have reached new audiences through recent...


The Shakespeare Diaries: A Fictional Autobiography

by J. P. P. Wearing

Blending fact with fiction and written in diary form, this unique biography of Shakespeare encapsulates his life like never before—from his views on daily events to vivid impressions of the Elizabethan era...


Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934-1938

by Anais Nin

In this “erotically charged”(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-”that brilliant giant toy”...


Seventy Years Young: Memoirs of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall

by Pamela Hinkson

This book is one of the most remarkable and the most entertaining of its kind ever published about late Victorian and Edwardian Ireland.' - Peter Costello, Sunday Independent. 'A woman of considerable style...


Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

Costa Book Award for Biography 2002

by Claire Tomalin

For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin...


Cheever

National Book Critics Circle for Biography 2009

by Blake Bailey

John Cheever spent much of his career impersonating a perfect suburban gentleman, the better to become one of the foremost chroniclers of postwar America. Written with unprecedented access to essential sources—including...


Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

by Graham Swift

In his first-ever work of nonfiction, Graham Swift—Booker Prize-winning author of Waterland and Last Orders—gives us a highly personal book: a singular and open-spirited account of a writer’s life.

 

Here...


A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East

by Tiziano Terzani

Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani — a vastly experienced Asia correspondent — took what he called “the first step into an unknown world. . . . It...


Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life

by Susan Hertog

An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--loyal wife, devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling Gift from the Sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh has been one of the...


A Book of Reasons

by John Vernon

"History in its minute particulars touches us all, and in the least expected ways." Every family has its odd character, the one member who never seems right with the world. In his brilliant pairing of family...


Stealing History

by Gerald Stern

In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermingling pieces that constitute a kind of diary of a mind, Stern...


Off to the Side: A Memoir

by Jim Harrison

Selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Off to the Side is the tale of one of America's most beloved writers. Jim Harrison traces his upbringing in Michigan amid the austerities of the Depression...


The Royal Nonesuch: Or, What Will I Do When I Grow Up?

by Glasgow Phillips

Glasgow Phillips published his debut novel Tuscaloosa at the tender age of twenty-four. The results were disastrous: encouraging reviews, translations, a paperback sale, a film option, and a Stegner Fellowship...


The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

by Catherine Millet

A national best-seller that was featured on such lists as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly, The Sexual Life...


The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen

by Jacques Pepin

From the moment of its publication, The Apprentice established itself as an “instant classic” (Anthony Bourdain). With sparkling wit and occasional pathos, the man whom Julia Child has called “the best...


The Education of a Coach

by David Halberstam

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Halberstam's bestseller takes you inside the football genius of Bill Belichick for an insightful profile in leadership.

Bill Belichick's thirty-one years in the NFL have been marked...


Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters

by Anne K. Mellor

An innovative, beautifully written analysis of Mary Shelley's life and works which draws on unpublished archival material as well as Frankenstein and examines her relationship with her husband and other key...