From New York Times-bestselling, three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a consideration of what makes for a life well lived—for readers of Oliver Sacks’s Gratitude and Deborah Levy’s Cost of Living.
From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality and grief
The story of a garden brought back from the dead and the wildlife that returns to it, set amidst the chaos of new beginnings, old haunts and nearly losing everything.
Part Chasing the Scream, part How to do Nothing, Breaking Awake is a riveting journey into the world of modern drug use and the global mental health crisis, and a search for reasons and answers.
A memoir of a husband's grief, and an unforgettable portrait of a marriage; a profound examination of sorrow, and a great celebration of love - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author James Runcie
A chance to move to the US Wild West allows TV presenter Philippa Forrester to fulfil a lifelong dream of living among and learning all she can about wolves.
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as ‘a roadmap to my life’.
A compelling combination of literature and memoir revealing the big experiences and little moments that shaped Ann Patchett as a daughter, wife, and writer
A straight-talking, honest, warm and funny call-to-arms for women as they get older to remember their value, feel more confident and change their lives for the better - written by television star and Loose Women favourite Sue Cleaver.
The much-anticipated memoirs of A. N. Wilson, one of Britain's leading contemporary critics, both literary and cultural, and a figure celebrated for his waspish and subversive writing.
THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES ONE OF THE MOST PICKED BOOKS IN THIS YEAR'S SUMMER READS
A stunning multi-generational account of the Nazi occupation of Greek Salonica that, like Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Française and Viktor E. Frankl’s A Man’s Search for Meaning,shines a much-needed personal light on a Holocaust tragedy of epic scale.
The hilarious trials and tribulations of stand-up comedian Paul Tonkinson as he attempts to beat the much lauded 3-hour mark at the London Marathon. With a supporting cast of fellow comedians, this is a warmly written and wonderfully honest adventure-through-sport that will both entertain and inspire.
Wise and tender, this astonishing memoir bravely interrogates a personal story of mental health through a family history of murder, dispossession, silence, and the long echo of the Holocaust across generations
