Becoming Myself - A Psychiatrist's Memoir
The must-read new memoir from one of psychiatryÂ’s most impo...
Becoming Myself - A Psychiatrist's Memoir
‘When Yalom publishes something – anything – I buy it, an...
Loud in the House of Myself - Memoir of a Strange Girl
Stacy Pershall grew up as an overly intelligent, depressed, ...
Stolen Innocence - My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamo...
In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, s...
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl - A Memoir
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a youn...
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl - A Memoir
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a youn...
Many Lives, Many Masters - The true story of a prominen...
A few years ago, psychiatrist Brian Weiss was approached for...
Becoming Myself - A Psychiatrist's Memoir
Priestdaddy - A Memoir
‘Glorious’ Sunday Times’Laugh-out-loud funny’ The Times’Extraordinary’ Observer’Exceptional’ Telegraph’Electric’ New York Times’Snort-out-loud’ Financial Times’Dazzling’ Guardian’Do yourself a favour and read this memoir!’ BookPage The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed’ The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas’ by The New York Times, was unusual in ma...
Becoming Myself - A Psychiatrist's Memoir
‘When Yalom publishes something – anything – I buy it, and he never disappoints. He’s an amazing storyteller, a gorgeous writer, a great, generous, compassionate thinker, and – quite rightly – one of the world’s most influential mental healthcare practitioners’ Nicola Barker, Guardian Best Books of 2017 ’Wonderful, compelling and as insightful about its subject and about the times he liv...
Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club) - A Memoir
THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOKCLUB 2016 SELECTION | A #1 NYT BESTSELLER ’IT’S AS IF SHE REACHED INTO HER HEART, CAPTURED THE RAW EMOTIONS THERE, AND TRANSLATED THEM INTO WORDS THAT ANYONE WHO’S EVER KNOWN PAIN OR SHAME CAN RELATE TO’ OPRAH WINFREY ’THE VITAL, LONG-OVERDUE, MUCH-NEEDED SISTER MEMOIR TO EAT PRAY LOVE’ ELIZABETH GILBERT | ‘BLEW ME AWAY’ BRENE BROWN Just when Glennon Doyle Melton wa...
Becoming the Iceman
Becoming the Iceman is a project inspired by Wim and Justin to show the world that anyone can adopt the ability to become an Iceman or Icewoman. The project’s goal is to show that the ability to control the body’s temperature is not a genetic defect in Wim, but an ability that can be adopted by everyone. For many generations, we have been taught to fear the cold: “Don’t forget your jacket! You...
Once We Were Sisters - A Memoir
ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE’S BEST NEW BOOKS “A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly.” —The BBC “An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss.” —People When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immedi...
Is This My Beautiful Life? - A Memoir
‘Her honesty shatters the mask of stoicism…the impact of her revealing memoir should not be underestimated.’ Sydney Morning Herald ’…open and touching.’ Book’d Out Journalist, celebrity, television presenter, author, ambassador for beyondblue and patron of its work on post-natal depression, Member of the Order of Australia, risk-taker, social commentator, charity worker, public speaker, p...
Primates of Park Avenue - A Memoir
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Primates of Park Avenue is an “amusing, perceptive andÂ…deliciously evil” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the most secretive and elite tribe-ManhattanÂ’s Upper East Side mothers. When Wednesday Martin first arrives on New York CityÂ’s Upper East Side, sheÂ’s clueless about the right addresses, the right wardrobe, and the right schools, and sheÂ...
A Certain Light - A Memoir of Family, Loss and Hope
‘Life is not defined by the bad things that happen to us. It certainly isn’t for me.’ Written for her young son so that he would know what had happened to his mother, Cynthia Banham’s inspiring family memoir uncovers a true picture of what survival means: ’This book tells a story that I tried to write many times before, but couldn’t. For a long time, it was too painful to tell. It is also ...
The Auctioneer - A Memoir of Great Art, Legendary Collectors and Record-Breaking Auctions
Simon de Pury is the art world’s ultimate insider. His roles have included curator of the world-famous Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, and founder and owner of Sotheby’s rival Phillips de Pury. His exuberant style, showmanship and iconoclasm in a highly conservative profession saw him described as ‘the Mick Jagger of auctions’. His memoir of a life lived within th...
White Dresses : A Memoir of Love and Secrets; Mothers and Daughte
In this riveting; poignant memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them—television producer Mary Pflum Peterson recounts a journey through loss and redemption; and her battle to rescue her mother; a former nun; from compulsive hoarding.As a successful television journalist at Good Morning America; Mary Pflum is known as a polished and highly organized pro...
A Memoir of Jane Austen - and Other Family Recollections
‘I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.’ James Edward Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward’s two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continu...
The Maddie Diaries - A Memoir
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF DANCE SUPERSTAR MADDIE ZIEGLER! Maddie Ziegler had hoped to become a star – she just didn’t know how soon that day would come. At just eight years old, she was cast on hit reality show Dance Moms and quickly won the hearts of fans everywhere with her natural talent and determination. Soon, she was catching eyes all over – including those of pop supersta...
Madam Secretary - A Memoir
A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of AmericaÂ’s first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill ClintonÂ’s two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic events of our time-from the pursuit of peace in the Middle East to NATOÂ’s intervention in the...
Becoming Myself - A Psychiatrist's Memoir
The must-read new memoir from one of psychiatryÂ’s most important figures. Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye upon himself. He opens his story with a nightmare- He is twelve, and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her...
Dancing with Myself
In this original memoir following Billy Idol from his childhood in England to his fame at the height of the punk-pop revolution, the iconic superstar tells the real story behind the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll that he is famous for. A member of the punk rock revolution whose music crossed over into the pop mainstream during the 1980s, Billy Idol is a rock ‘n’ roll legend. Dancing With Mysel...
How to Murder Your Life - A Memoir
From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in Ameri...
It's Arts Play - Belonging, Being and Becoming through the Arts
Developing children through arts experiencesIt’s Arts Play is a professional and practical resource that shows how the expectations of developing the whole child – their belonging, being and becoming – can be pursued through arts experiences that exemplify the play-based approach to learning within the context of the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum.Australia’s eth...
On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft
There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Guardian as ‘the most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature’, Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the w...
The Bright Hour - A Memoir of Living and Dying
In 2015 poet and writer Nina Riggs was diagnosed with breast cancer, and it metastasised later that year. She was thirty-eight years old, married to the love of her life and the mother of two small boys; her mother had died only a few months earlier from multiple myeloma. The Bright Hour- A Memoir of Living and Dying is Nina’s intimate, unflinching account of ‘living with death in the room’. S...
'Tis - A Memoir
A #1 New York Times bestseller and the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning AngelaÂ’s Ashes, this masterpiece from Frank McCourt tells of his American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank McCourtÂ’s glorious childhood memoir, AngelaÂ’s Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound hu...
First Confession - A Sort of Memoir
NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Most politicians write autobiographies to ‘set the record straight’ and provide retrospective justification for their careers. That is not the case with this book. ‘It occurred to me that to track down myself would enable me to discuss an issue that had begun to intrigue me, namely the relationship between politics and identity, the things that had shaped m...