Självbiografier

'During the Tang dynasty, the Chinese artist Wu Tao-tzu was one day standing looking at a mural he had just completed. Suddenly, he clapped his hands and the temple gate opened. He …

This classic study of the working life of a professional writer is one of the best - and also one of the strangest - autobiographies ever written. After a miserable childhood and …

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), who lived nearly half of her life during the cinema age when she published many of her well-known works, acknowledged that she disliked the movies, …

Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on …

Zahava Hanan's struggle to save her ranch in Alberta from the threat of industrial pollution makes Heading for Home a modern tale on an epic scale. For twenty years she fought for …

Ma mere l'avouait elle-meme, elle souhaitait depuis toujours accoucher d'un garcon. Cependant, l'arrivee de celui-ci fut precedee de la naissance de quatre filles ; alors quand il …

Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir from a critically acclaimed writer. It s material, make a story out of it, was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw …

One of Egypt's greatest contemporary writers reflects on life and love This haunting memoir, written ten years before Ghitani's death, weaves together a series of vignettes in a …

In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a …

John Oliver Killens's politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion; or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His …