Memoirs & Journals

This is a personal and philosophical account of schizophrenia that aims to raise awareness of mental health issues. The personal aspect of the book...

Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new bo...

Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life--from 1929, when Isherwood left Eng...

'I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the story of those five years, where I lived...

For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to ...

For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters ...

Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies on her heels; but when she died aged only thirty-four...

Volume 9 contains photos and scanned images of letters and documents. Bilingual in Chinese and English. Paperback: 207 PagesProduct Dimensions: 178...

'This is the story of someone who--almost--wasn't there; who vanished into thin air. Her names, dates, family and experiences very nearly disappear...

With the release of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives in 1998, journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer "capable of befriending his rea...

Titanic: First Accounts compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence B...

We think of Voltaire as the archetypal figure of the enlightenment; in his own time he was also the most famous and controversial figure in Europe....

In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house...