Memoirs & Journals

17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung’s growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red-light precinct in China...

In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebeca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting ...

Life in McIvor Street, Broadmeadows was unpredictable. Cally Egan grew up expecting and experiencing the best and worst of her 1960s Australian wor...

Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, B...

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a wh...

The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wea...

From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the mo...

In Coming to My Senses Alice retraces the events that led her to 1517 Shattuck Avenue and the tumultuous times that emboldened her to find her own ...

Xu Xi's body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalis...

Translated by Jamey Gambrell A moving collection of autobiographical essays from a Russian poet and refugee of the Bolshevik Revolution. Marina Tsv...

The first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day. Jane ...

The first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previous censored material restored. Mohamedou Ould Sla...

Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a de...

In August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. Being a writer, she decided to write ...

In the course of compiling his highly acclaimed, three-volume life of Kafka, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: original wri...

Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkabl...

Karen is a giant in Asian American literature, and this new work is a skeleton key for her fiction, positioning it in relationship to her family hi...

When Frida was a teenager, a terrible road accident changed her life forever. Unable to walk, she began painting from her bed. Her self-portraits, ...

When Marie was young, she was unable to go to college because she was a woman. But when she was older, her scientific work was respected around the...

Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking for five years. However, M...

How did environmental activism begin in Malaysia? Who were the key players back in the 1970s, when the international community was just starting to...

Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our ...

What is a Eurasian? Are Eurasians Singaporean? What does it mean to be a Eurasian living in Singapore? While having existed in Singapore as long as...

Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America d...

edited by Jason Wee First published in 2006, the groundbreaking collection of coming out stories was the first affirming non-fiction volume accompa...

The sacrifices of migrant workers are written in every inch of Singapore – in the bricks of buildings, ship irons, under the floor of houses. Thous...

The Basics: Melanie Klein provides an accessible and concise introduction to the life and work of Melanie Klein, whose discoveries advanced those o...

Drawing on the author’s personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this timely and fascinating account offers an eyewitnes...

In 1929, M. F. K. Fisher, young and newly married, left her home in California and sailed with her husband to Dijon, at the time hailed as ‘the gas...

A classic of gastronomic writing that redefined the genre, The Gastronomical Me is a memoir of travel, love and loss, but above all hunger. Beginni...

The young naturalist W.N.P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It begin...

Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and at the time of his death...

Martin Luther King, Jr. had great success in helping to end segregation and the disenfranchisement of African-Americans. His famous 'I Have A Dream...

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by ...

This book celebrates the lives of 13 prominent personalities who had migrated from the small town of Muar in the Malay peninsula to Singapore, wher...

The Magic Circle tells the story of what happens when Charmaine Chan’s sister Elaine is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer. As the illness...

The Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the sixteen...

When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preser...

Letting go of a dear one is hard to do. What lies in the beyond is an ineffable mystery. But what place can concepts like the afterlife — or karma,...

illustrated by Christina Christoforou Antoni Gaudi has a reputation as monastic, mad and hermetic. But the architect of many of the buildings that ...

Dedicated to trans women everywhere, this inspirational collection of letters written by successful trans women shares the lessons they learnt on t...

In this eye-opening book, CN Lester, academic and activist, takes us on a journey through some of the most pressing issues concerning the trans deb...

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lun...