2022 Releases

The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her...

A most powerful memoir of how we inherit violence and trauma, but also strength, resilience and joy'I am from a family of strong women.'Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she...

TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HURTHE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLERPSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?ME: I don't know, I'm what's the word depressed? Do I have to go into...

A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training.Yumiko Kadota was every Asian parent's dream...

A Memoir The most inspirational and important memoir of 2022 For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the...

A Black spirit memoirA raw exploration of identity that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self.In letters addressed to their friends, to members...

Throughout her adolescence, Ashley Ford doesn't know how to deal with the worries that keep her up at night. If only she could turn to her father for his advice...

The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine EvaristoBernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win — the first by a Black woman — was a revolutionary moment...

A Memoir of Healing from Complex TraumaA searing memoir of reckoning and healing which investigates the little-understood science behind complex PTSD.Every cell in my body is filled with the code...

A revelatory treatise from the Women’s Prize-winning, Booker-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life.What did your...

An Activist’s Life This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director...

On the choices of being a woman Part memoir and reflective analysis, Pragya Agarwal examines motherhood and fertility and how it shapes all our lives. In a world where women...

The celebrated chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious gets uncomfortably real in his debut memoir.In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in Manhattan's East Village.Its young chef-owner, David...

A memoir with biteGrowing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunctional family who only ever made peace over food...

A memoir of empowerment, community and hopeA powerful memoir about a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world. She squeezes my hand and smiles....

Reclaiming myself, my people, my countryA raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most captivating personalitiesMy story is about...

How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a NationIn her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible, moving story of three women...

Lessons from a Professional TroublemakerThe instant New York Times bestseller: a hilarious and transformational book about how to tackle fear — now with a brand new bonus chapter! From the...

Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian WomanA call to South Asian women to question everything they’ve been taught about self-love.Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for...

A First Nations Elder shares his extraordinary story of finding kindness in the midst of prejudice, and joy in living life to the full'Welcome to my story. It's a simple...

The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing Black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine EvaristoBeing denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office...

From the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright behind IN THE HEIGHTS comes a spellbinding coming-of-age story, and a vibrant and life-affirming celebration of the women who guide us.Born in Philadelphia to a...

The Epic Life of Toussaint LouvertureThe definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary heroThe Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with...

Some secrets should never be kept — a candid and heartfelt memoir about authenticity, difference, resilience, hope and love by an exciting new Australian voiceMy family may have been all...

The most famous memoir of its kind and a key text in the anti-slavery movement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass tells the striking and emotionally charged story of...

A Memoir of Love and Other MisadventuresYou can’t choose who you fall in love with, they say.If only it were that simple.Growing up in Walsall in the 1990s, Huma straddled...

A celebratory 20th anniversary edition of this landmark collection from Black writers across the literary spectrumThis ground-breaking anthology was first published twenty years ago, into a different literary landscape. Showcasing...

Police, Protest and the Pursuit of FreedomHow I became an abolitionist — a memoir of Black Lives MatterIn the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the ensuing uprising, police abolition...

In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler's road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better...

An African in Greenland Translated by James Kirkup The gripping true story of one man's ten-year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle — a rare...

On Feminism, Race, Faith and BelongingA collection of fascinating, highly relatable memoir-style essays about coming of age and finding your feet as a second-generation Australian Muslim.As a Pakistani-Australian teenager growing...

A Black Woman’s StoryThe incredible memoir of Elaine Brown — the first female leader of the Black Panthers"I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge...

Winner of the 2021 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Non-fictionShortlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize”I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being,...

Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in AurovilleA spellbinding story about love, faith, the search for utopia — and the oftendevastating cost of idealism.It’s the late 1960s, and two...

Translated by Zaman StanizaiAn Afghan Mother's Letter to her SonAn exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother’s unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. How...

YOU DON'T CONQUER A MOUNTAIN. YOU SURRENDER TO IT ONE STEP AT A TIME.Despite a high-flying career, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado knew she was hanging by a thread. Deep in the throes...

Lessons on Fear, Intimacy and ConnectionA blend of memoir, essay and affirmations exploring love in all its forms.Be Not Afraid of Loveis a stunning collection of interconnected essays and affirmations...

‘One of the most original and talented young writers we have.’ — Sathnam SangheraAn extraordinarily candid personal account of the ups and downs wrought by money, We Need To Talk...

A child's odyssey to reunite with his parents on the other side of the borderYoung Javier dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in the United States....

A diary of my sexual awakening...at thirty-three?!!Asuka is neither a woman nor a man — they're X-gender (a non-binary identity)-and they've realized they like women! Okay, now what? Adult films...

Natural histories of place, identity and homeReflecting on family, identity and nature, belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a...

On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced. For months the violence and civil unrest escalated. With millions of others, Marina...

In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I BelongA Guardian, Sunday Times, Evening Standard and Cosmopolitan book of the year for 2021‘Ideas from our parents form the...

In the spirit of Night by Elie Wiesel, Die Walking is the memoir of a Rwandan boy escaping genocide.In 1994, Obadiah was the thirteen-year-old son of a Hutu pastor dreaming...

At a time when every disagreement turns toxic, world champion debater Bo Seo reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasion.When Bo Seo was 8 years old, he and...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TIME MUST-READ BOOKA powerful and poignant memoir of survival and resistance by the critically acclaimed...

Edited by Valerie BoydFrom the acclaimed author Alice Walker — winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize — comes an unprecedented compilation of four decades' worth of...

A GUIDE TO LIVING BOLDLYRevered as much for her fierce spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a feminist symbol of daring creativity. Her paintings...

A puddle of water on a highway changed Dinesh Palipana's life forever. Halfway through medical school, Dinesh was involved in a catastrophic car accident that caused a cervical spinal cord...

How I Survived the Horrors of the Forgotten HolocaustOtto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and...