Biography and Memoir

Discover the stories of their lives, in recent biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs.
Updated June 28, 2024
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Making It So: A Memoir
Patrick Stewart
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER   'He writes as well as he acts, with insight, truth and passion' - Sir Ian McKellen 'Highly entertaining... You don't need to be a fan of Stewart the man of stage and screen to be as beguiled...
The Woman in Me
Britney Spears
Paper Book
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her...
My Name is Barbra
Barbra Streisand
Paper Book
A SUNDAY TIMESBESTSELLER and THE TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023. The exhilarating and startlingly honest autobiography of the living legend. ''Over almost a thousand pages, the diva to end them all documents her rise to the top and the tears and joys that...
Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne
Named a most anticipated book of 2024 by Vulture, LitHub, The Guardian, and Cosmopolitan.'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capable of almost...
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
Safiya Sinclair
Ebook
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'Heart-stoppingly gripping' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Dazzling' TARA WESTOVER 'A story about hope, imagination and resilience' GUARDIAN An award-winning, inspiring memoir...
Our Fight: A Memoir
Ronda Rousey
Paper Book
From Sunday Timesbestselling author, British Sports Book of the Year Award winner, and trailblazing athlete Ronda Rousey, an unfiltered and entertaining chronicle of her last decade, tackling not only UFC and WWE but also parenthood, overcoming adversity, and finding meaning in life's...
A Very Private School: A Memoir
Charles Spencer
Paper Book
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Shocking and moving' Guardian 'A tour-de-force' Washington Post At eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most exclusive boarding schools. In...
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
RuPaul
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing to date--a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance and self-acceptance. ...
Cloistered: My Years As A Nun
Catherine Coldstream
Paper Book
After the shock of her father's death, and with her family scattered, twenty-four-year old Catherine was left grieving and alone. A search for meaning led her to Roman Catholicism and the nuns of Akenside Priory. Cloisteredtakes us beyond the grille of an enclosed monastic world...
Erotic Vagrancy
Roger Lewis
Paper Book
'The book of the year' SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY 'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE 'Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy' CRAIG BROWN 'Unputdownable' TONY PALMER 'A genius writer...

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