Joanna Kavenna

A Room is Not Enough

A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

By Joanna Biggs

Frances Wilson

Memoirs, She Wrote

Rosemary Goring

Confessions of a Book Thief

Just Go Down to the Road: A Memoir of Trouble and Travel

By James Campbell

Anthony Daniels

When People Endured…

In the Land of Pain

By Alphonse Daudet (Translated by Julian Barnes)

Wallace Arnold

Lady Van Der Post Writes

A Little Light Friction

By Val Hennessy

Paul Bailey

Growing Pains

The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered

By Benjamin Taylor

Returning to Reims

By Didier Eribon (Translated by Michael Lucey)

The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

By Edmund White

Cosmo Landesman

Sexy Idiot

Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos

By Clancy Sigal

The London Lover: My Weekend that Lasted Thirty Years

By Clancy Sigal

Ian Sansom

A Life in Letters

The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale

By James Atlas

Stephen Amidon

Lack of Money Poisoned his Soul at First

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure

By Paul Auster

Jessica Mann

Importunate Biographers Well Kept at Bay

Time to be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

By P D James

Ian Sansom

Portrait of the City

Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir

By John Banville

A N Wilson

True Story of How He Finally Captured Her

Iris

By John Bayley

Valerie Grove

Portrait of the Author

A Life of My Own

By Claire Tomalin

Margaret Forster

In Love And Politics

Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, to 1962

By Doris Lessing

Muriel Spark

Harold Macmillan: A Memoir

Jan Morris

Forget the Fluff

With Chatwin: A Portrait of Bruce Chatwin

By Susannah Clapp

Maya Jaggi

Memories of a Makerere

Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening

By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o