Bestsellers

Navigate death and grieving with greater openness, honesty, and preparation thanks to the supportive expertise of Singapore's leading 'life celebrant'. Growing up with a hardworking undertaker father known as the...

The rich and deeply personal debut memoir of motherhood via surrogacy, by award-winning Palestinian-American poet and novelist Hala Alyan. At first, Hala's baby is the size of a poppyseed. Then...

A book for anyone who has been told they're too much In this vulnerable and enlightening new memoir, globally renowned performer Cynthia Erivo draws from her singular life experience to...

A Memoir 'Moving and generous'  Isabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost 'Fire in Every Direction is a marvel' Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against...

How do you rebuild yourself when your whole world changes overnight? Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban's brutal attack on her life, Malala quickly...

An unshackled history of pain found deep in the present moment, turned into perception by the author's adventurous journey through the hills and valleys in the constancy of joy, love,...

In this wondrously unusual memoir, a woman retreats into her shell in the aftermath of her divorce, and must choose between the pleasures and the perils of a closed-up life—a...

Following the award-winning bestseller They Called Us Enemy, George Takei's new full-color graphic memoir reveals his most personal story of all-told in full for the first time anywhere!George Takei has shown the...

An Investigation of Missing Sound Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he had missing sounds - bird calls, whistles, kettles, alarms. Teachers...

The incredible and courageous diary of an Afghan women's writing group during the Fall of Kabul 'A real-time, moving and intimate portrait of a year living under the Taliban' DUA LIPA'S...

16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets...

Ecological horticulturalist Poppy Okotcha maps moments through a year in her wild garden, sharing the joy, pleasure and beauty of working with the natural world, and what we need to...

Reflections on Self-Delusion A Times book of the yearA Guardian book of the year What happens to our behaviour when we live most of our lives online? What does it...

First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal...

Three Begums revolves around the lives of three ordinary women-Hamida, Merryl and Saliha- who lived extraordinary, interwoven lives of fabulous joy, fierce pain, and untold trauma. Like many who came...

Lana was born on on 3 March 1994 in a dilapidated hospital on the outskirts of Yekaterinburg, Russia, thousands of miles away from Chechnya, the place that would become her...

A Memoir Dr SA. If you saw my initials you would not know what they represent except that I am a doctor.My first name is Sarah. So now you know...

TRANSLATED BY ANJALI SINGH Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution.The brilliant graphic memoir...

White Hibiscus is a meditation on how trauma casts stones into the strange waters of our lives, creating ripples that stretch on long after the stones have sunk.White Hibiscus is a...

A memoir that combines political and economic commentary with personal and national history. Mohammad Tarbush was born in British Mandate Palestine. As an infant, he and his family were forced...

On Pain, Disability, and Doom The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and...

SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A VARIETY MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR...

The New York Times Bestseller from the Award-Winning Entertainer THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning, multihyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer comes the inspiring true story of her...

Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her...

From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysedOn Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came...

Polly and Wiki and all the other kuia ride on the roof of Kerry’s Toyota Corona with its navy blistered bonnet . . . They do this for all the moko; they...

An inspiring exploration of womanhood, trauma and healing When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind, or to craft a...

An Ode to My Black Queer Body An intimate meditation on bodies, age and self-acceptance, from the author of The Black Flamingo You've fought and you've run away.You've danced with...

A Guide to Allyship and Empathy Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But...

Memories of Girlhood One of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time. 'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth...

An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey “Searching and intimate, this impresses.”—Publishers Weekly In a...

A summoning cry to rid our lives of 'terrible men' and fight outdated patriarchal ideals by a young activist with more than 9 million followers The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first...

A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets A STYLIST BEST NON-FICTION PICK A gripping and emotionally eloquent memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in...

A POWERFUL DEBUT FROM AN EXTRAORDINARY VOICE, GENTLE IN THE FACE OF EXTREMITY Khin's sister Theda has a strange illness and a euthanasia drug locked in a box under her...

‘In all of the madness stood two addicts: one severely addicted to alcohol and drugs, and the other just as addicted to the addict… In my sickness ― the sickness...

Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE (affectionately known as Aunty Marge) was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences. If Everyone Cared (1977) was a...

The Instant Sunday Times #1 Bestseller - a moving, life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from Booker Prize winner Salman RushdieOn the morning of 12 August 2022,...

'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter...

The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are...

A heartbreaking and powerful story of a mother's quest for connection with her lost son 150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one...

A Memoir of Words and Wars A STORY OF SURVIVAL, AND A MEDITATION ON DESIRE AND LOSS, LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE In Abbas El-Zein's new memoir, conflicts abound - either tragic...

A brilliant, devastating memoir about the very act of writing memoir, and what it means to bear witness to atrocityBorn in, and named after, Thailand's Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, Y-Dang Troeung...

A journey from religion to reasonIn much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. The inextricable embedment of religion...

The bestselling memoir of 2014 Nobel Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai, the school girl who stood up to the Taliban. In 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu...

My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverished childhood and crime-filled adolescence to ascend through the top...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020 Ruqsana Begum's account of how she rose to become a Muay Thai world champion is only a small...

An explosive insider's account of racism, homophobia and wrongdoing in today's police force and his fight for change. Kevin Maxwell was a dream candidate for the police force - he...

The much-anticipated and inspiring memoir by Indra Nooyi, the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo, offering clear-eyed insight and a call to action for how our society can really blend work...

A Memoir of Race, Family and Home Brown Baby is a powerful exploration of fatherhood, grief, racism and hope. It is also a love letter to the author’s daughters that...

A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World The powerful memoir of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter which explores how the movement...