The first volume of Anthony Burgess's two-volume autobiography. Complete in itself, it tells the story of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to the …
Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up …
This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental …
In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her life with Sartre, the …
