From Harvey River
Lorna GoodisonRRP: £9.99
Lorna Goodison’s family made their home in the Jamaican village to which her great-grandfather gave his name: Harvey River. Her mother Doris was a big-hearted lover of big stories and raised Lorna on …
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The Pattern in the Carpet
Margaret DrabbleRRP: £22.50
A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw puzzle and the part it has played in its distinguished author’s life. Weaving together memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of p …
The Dancer from Khiva
BibishIn a narrative that flows like a late-night confession, Bibish recounts her story… Born into an impoverished family in a deeply religious village, Bibish was named ‘Hadjarbibi’ in honour of her gran …
The File
Timothy Garton AshRRP: £12.99
In 1978 Timothy Garton Ash went to live in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later, by then internationally famous for his reportage of the …
Confessions of a Mullah Warrior
Masood FarivarMasood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in a then peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion of 1979. Fleeing across the border to Pakistan, Masood entered a …
Too Many Mothers
Roberta TaylorRRP: £7.99
‘I was born in a sideboard.’ So begins Roberta Taylor’s bittersweet memoir of her early years, a book that proves beyond doubt that real life is stranger than any soap opera.It’s Boxing Day, 1956 in E …
The View from Here
Joan BakewellRRP: £8.99
Built loosely on her much-loved Guardian column – Just 70The View from Here is Bakewell’s discerning and heartwarming account of life at 70 and beyond. A household name and a popular radio and TV broa …
Encyclopaedia of an Ordinary Life
Amy Krouse RosenthalRRP: £7.99
What can you say about an ordinary life? Well, quite a lot actually. Most of us live them, complain about them, worry, laugh and cry about them. In a world saturated with stories of the extraordinary …
Cockeyed
Ryan KnightonRRP: £8.99
On his eighteenth birthday Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. Blending …
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44 Things
Kirsty GunnA distinguished literary novelist celebrates marriage, friendship and motherhood in this rich and breathtakingly intimate treasury of stories, essays, poems and letters.In 44 Things, Kirsty Gunn celeb …
Keeping Mum
Brian ThompsonRRP: £7.99
‘The prefect antidote to the ‘misery memior’.’ — The Judges, Costa Book Award 2006 for BiographyMum and Dad – Squibs and Bert – were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson, as he grew up in Cambridge a …
Self-Made Man
Norah VincentRRP: £12.99
Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man’s world. Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as …
Vulnerable in Hearts
Sandy BalfourRRP: £8.99
Part memoir, part history, part entertainment, Vulnerable in Hearts is a meditation on how we communicate; why we play games; and the ways in which we love.Sandy Balfour’s father and the game of contr …
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Breakfast Epiphanies
Sara HulseRRP: £7.99
The instant Sara and Toby met, they just knew that they were made for each other. But they soon discovered that they had very different ideas about how to get married. For Sara, God and Love were inse …
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My Father's Rifle
Hiner SaleemMy Father’s Rifle is a beautiful narrative about the life of boy named Azad and his coming-of-age in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture, to a family that is p …
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Frankie's Place
Jim SterbaRRP: £8.99
‘It took me places I hadn’t expected to go. I loved it.’ Tom BrokawOne summer, Jim Sterba accepts an invitation from Frances FitzGerald to visit her log cabin.Imagine a secluded little house in the wo …
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