Literární biografie v angličtině

Malcolm X

Originally published by Grove Press in 1965.

Franz Kafka

David Sheff

Blaine Harden

The heart-wrenching "New York Times"-bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped. Harden unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian…

Stephen King

Reissue.

Susanna Kaysen

James Bowen

The uplifting, true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets and the ginger cat who adopts him and helps him heal his life. Bowen was living hand to mouth on the streets of London…

Alan Rickman

Through his never-before-seen diaries - a twenty-five-year passion project - Alan Rickman invites readers backstage and into his life. He takes us behind the scenes on films and plays ranging from Sense…

Tom Felton

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Uproarious memoir packed with anecdotes about the Harry Potter films' Daily Mail 'Very funny and fascinating' Mail on Sunday 'Brave and brilliant'…

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and…

Adam Kay

William Kamkwamba

This immensely engaging tale relates how an enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity--and a future--to his family.

Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux

John Green

Haruki Murakami

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such…

Joan Didion

Just before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne's and Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock. She was put into…

Hisham Matar

Now in paperback, this is the true story of Hisham Matar's return to Libya, 22 years after his father was kidnapped and taken to prison there. He never saw his father again, but the fall of Gaddafi…

Marjane Satrapi

Satrapis groundbreaking two-part graphic memoir of her unforgettable girlhood within a large family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution--now available in one volume--has been transferred to the big…

Mary Karr

A guide to writing memoirs, which draws on the author's experiences as a writer, reader and teacher, and lays bare her own writing process.

Lidia Yuknavitch

Nicholas Pileggi

Amy Liptrot

Paul Kalanithi