Biography & Memoir

  What is love?It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts.In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, her first since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang draws...

Translated by Megan McDowell An incisive, stylish exploration of how Truman Capote wrote In Cold Blood and the ethics of storytelling by a star non-fiction writer. In 1960, Truman Capote arrived in...

Two Korean women, living life on their own terms - together. The warm and witty Korean bestseller that redefines family life. At some point between living alone and becoming single,...

Translated by Jack Hargreaves A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and a driving desire to thrive A Book of the Year in the Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial TimesHu...

A new translation of Lady Nijo’s diary—one of classical Japan’s greatest literary works Lady Nijo’s A Tale Unasked (Towazugatari) is the last, and arguably the finest, among classical Japanese literature’s...

The autobiography of the fabulous, rule-breaking, one-of-a-kind Josephine Baker, published in English for the first time.This is the iconic Josephine Baker in her own words.Funny, candid and unconventional- the wildly...

Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile An urgent and compelling graphic memoir about a Pakistani investigative journalist at odds with his fundamentalist family and the Pakistani military that attempts...

For the first time since his debut 35 years ago, horror master Junji Ito reveals exactly how he creates his unique worlds.Why are we drawn to fear?Horror manga legend Junji...

In 1966, the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti, then twenty-two, left his country to return to university in Cairo. A year later came the Six Day War and Barghouti, like many...

My Life with Che Guevara Che Guevara’s widow remembers a great revolutionary romance tragically cut short by Che’s assassination in Bolivia. When Aleida March first met Che Guevara, she was...

THE BOOKSHOP WOMAN IS A LOVE STORY, A LOVE STORY ABOUT BOOKS... A WATERSTONES NON FICTION MEMOIR OF THE YEAR 'Beautiful, very honest, and very good. I can't recommend it...

In this nonlinear graphic memoir, Powerpaola uses bicycles she’s owned as a vehicle to explore the world, her relationships, her memories ― and herself. “A bicycle is a machine that...

The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words Volume one of the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, the Arab world's leading feminist. In A Daughter of Isis,...

Translated by Anton Hur Further conversations with my psychiatrist The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur When Baek Sehee started...

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...

The T-Shirts I Love The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet — here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side...

Japan's most popular filmmaker speaks on life, love, and the world of anime. The Starting Point...of the Greatest Career in Animation History In the first two decades of his career,...

The second volume of legendary animation director Hayao Miyazaki’s career memoir continues with essays, interviews, and discussions about some of his most popular films, including Spirited Away and Ponyo. In...

The No. 1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling account of life as a child with autism, now a documentary film Winner of Best Documentary and Best Sound in the British...

Translated by Gila Walker In Blind Spot, Myriam Tadessé exposes the difficulty, even the impossibility, for France to truly understand and celebrate the lived realities of mixed or biracial French...

Translated by Jessica Powell With unguarded humor and breathtaking directness, Nine Moons questions the dogmas, upends the stereotypes, and embraces all the terror, beauty, and paradoxes of the propagation of...

Be Who You AreKodo Nishimura rose to fame following his appearance in Queer Eye: We're in Japan. Now this celebrity make-up artist and ordained Buddhist monk shares his unique and...

Translated by Melanie MauthnerFrom the author of the critically acclaimed novel Our Lady of the Nile, a haunting, delicately wrought work of non-fiction, memorialising a lost childhood, community and way...

A unique look into the mind of a master storyteller.In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a...

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...

Escape from China's modern-day concentration camps A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes — and the story of one woman's fight to survive. I will never...

THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK Published in celebration of BTS's 10th Anniversary, stories that go beyond what you already know about BTS, including unreleased photos, QR codes of videos, and...

The true life adventures of Shoji Morimoto, who launched a business in which he rents himself out to do nothing in Japan. Today, I’m starting a ‘rent a person who...

A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary woman's life during a turbulent century'A voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have been...

Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins A haunting, lyrical French bestseller set in Paris and Algiers about desire, shame and violence In All Men Want to Know the author traces her...

HARVEY AWARD WINNER The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman's exploration of...

One woman’s escape from North Korea The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. North Korea is an open-air prison...

Translated from the Chinese by Dylan Levi King An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and...

Translated by Joshua L. Freeman A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history'Essential reading'AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows'Deserves to be...

"Her life was a bridge from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from the time-hallowed beauty and rigidity of a samurai household to the disorienting, forward-looking freedoms of the West."...

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...

An emotional new diary comic from the award-winning creator of My Lesbian Experience with Lonelinessand My Solo Exchange Diary.Nagata Kabi's downward spiral is getting out of control, and she can't...

The Japanese art of meditative gardeningSpring, summer, autumn, and winter — wherever you are, the seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected.Japanese by birth, but transplanted to...

Translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedom The Orient Express hurtles towards the promised land, and Banine is...

An Odyssey to Europe A heartbreaking and magnificent account of a poor and illiterate young West African's odyssey. Ibrahima, whose family live in a village in the West African country...

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