Biography and Memoir

Discover the stories of their lives, in recent biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs.
Updated March 11, 2025
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Knife : meditations after an attempted murder
Rushdie, Salman
Paper Book
**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the...
The Friday afternoon club : a family memoir
Dunne, Griffin
Paper Book
A charming, hilarious account of Griffin Dunne's coming of age among a family of larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan.
Well-Trained Wife: My Escape From Christian Patriarchy
Levings, Tia.
Paper Book
The instant New York Times bestseller:"Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me." Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant...
Sociopath : a memoir
Gagne, Patric
Paper Book
'Deliciously wicked and insightful.' - The Guardian 'Addictively page-turning.' - The Telegraph 'Thought-provoking and surprisingly life-affirming.' - Cosmopolitan Sociopath: A Memoir is the astoundingly honest true...
Sonny Boy
Pacino, Al.
Paper Book
From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by...
Elements of marie curie: how the glow of radium lit a path f
Sobel, Dava
Paper Book
Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory. 'A fresh and feminist study of the pioneering Nobel laureate...
Men have called her crazy : a memoir
Tendler, Anna Marie
Paper Book
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.
All that glitters : a story of friendship, fraud and fine art
Whitfield, Orlando
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Award for Non-FictionA BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'A 2024 Book of the Year pick in the Economist, Independent, Prospect, Apollo, New Yorker and at Waterstones A 2024 Summer Read in the Economist, Telegraph, Guardian, New Yorker, i, and the Evening Standard'An art...
Who could ever love you : a family memoir
Trump, Mary L.
Paper Book
Who Could Ever Love You is an intimate, heartbreaking memoir of a father, a mother, and a family's exile.Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch's relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate...
Kingmaker : Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power
Purnell, Sonia
Paper Book
An electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century's greatest unsung power playersWhen Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were scathing - and many downright sexist. Written off as a social climber, her glamorous social life and infamous erotic...
Hunting the Falcon : Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
Fox, Julia
Paper Book
"A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Anne's triumph and tragedy." --Tina Brown, New York Times Book Review "A sumptuous drama of lust, intrigue, and betrayal, underpinned by...
Reagan : his life and legend
Boot, Max
Paper Book
In this "monumental and impressive" biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred of the fortieth president's aides, friends, and family members, as...
Rebel girl : my life as a feminist punk
Hanna, Kathleen
Paper Book
'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE 'Radical, funny and fearless' VANITY FAIR 'Gripping' NYLON 'Raw' GUARDIAN An electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre Hey girlfriend I got a...
We are the stars: ; a misfit's story of love, connection and the glorious power of letting go
Chick, Gina.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2025 Indie Book Awards, Non-Fiction Gina Chick, the inaugural winner of Alone Australia, tells the story of her extraordinary, indomitable life in one of the most powerful, moving memoirs you will ever read. ...
Dropping the Mask
Hazlehurst, Noni.
Paper Book
An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own. A fourth-generation performer, Noni Hazlehurst has storytelling in her blood. She has graced our screens, stages and airwaves for fifty years - and won our hearts...
KLIM
Klim, Michael.
Paper Book
As one of Australia's most celebrated athletes, Michael Klim's impact extends far beyond the pool. Klim's journey to greatness began behind the Iron Curtain, in communist-era Poland. His family made a bid for freedom in the 1980s and immigrated to Australia, where swimming...
Henry V : the astonishing rise of England's greatest warrior king
Jones, Dan
Paper Book
'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' - Observer Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was...
Joyful recollections of trauma
Scheer, Paul
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Paul Scheer delivers a deeply funny, personal and moving account of how joy and pain are the perfect ingredients for a happy and funny life."--Amy Poehler "It's a hilarious essay collection about trauma. Yes, really."--People Magazine ...
Unleashed
Johnson, Boris
Paper Book
THE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSON A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, DAILY MAIL, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES 'ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE' ED BALLS 'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAIL Boris Johnson has always been...

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