Madam, Where are Your Mangoes? - An Episodic Memoir
This is the fascinating story of Desmond de SilvaÂ’s life an...
Dear Madam President - An Open Letter to the Women Who ...
DEAR MADAM PRESIDENT is an empowering letter from former Hil...
Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin...
Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Repu...
Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin...
Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Repu...
Madam Secretary - A 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Switched On - A Memoir Of Brain Change, Emotional Awakening,And The Emerging Science Of Neurostimulation
For the first time in my life, I learned what it was like to truly ‘know’ other people’s feelings. It was as if . . . suddenly I could see everything – and particularly other people – in brilliant beautiful colour.’ People with autism have trouble reading the unspoken signals of others. The conventional wisdom says they don’t have the wiring in their brains to do it. But now, thanks to ad...
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...
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...
Shoe Dog - A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
‘A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like … It’s an amazing tale’ Bill Gates ’The best book I read last year was Shoe Dog, by Nike’s Phil Knight. Phil is a very wise, intelligent and competitive fellow who is also a gifted storyteller’ Warren Buffett In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a ...
Negroland - A Memoir
The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago’s black elite. She calls this society ‘Negroland’: ‘a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty’. With privilege came expectation. Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical m...
Shoe Dog - A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Â’A refreshingly honest reminder of what the path to business success really looks like Â… ItÂ’s an amazing taleÂ’ Bill Gates Â’The best book I read last year was Shoe Dog, by NikeÂ’s Phil Knight. Phil is a very wise, intelligent and competitive fellow who is also a gifted storytellerÂ’ Warren Buffett In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a ...
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...
Running Like China - A memoir of a life interrupted by madness
‘When I was eleven years old Mum told me, “One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.” Even before I heard these words I was always a child who crammed intense joy into tiny pockets of time.’ One day Sophie Hardcastle realised the joy she’d always known had disappeared. She was constantly tired, with no energy, no motivation and no sense of enjoyment for surfing, frien...
Madam, Will You Talk?
The original queen of the page-turner Mary Stewart leads her readers on a thrilling journey through a dangerous and deadly Provence in this tale perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym. Â’Mary Stewart is magicÂ’ New York Times Â’One of the great British storytellers of the 20th centuryÂ’ Independent Â’The terrible thirsty heat of the Provencal summer, the noise of the cicadas, the ...
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...
Hard Choices - A Memoir
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON’S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA’S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. ’All of us face hard choices in our lives,’ Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the centre of world events. ‘Life is a...
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...
Hope - A Memoir of Survival
‘We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to know- we survived, we are free, we love life.’ On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland home and called 911, saying- oHelp me, I’m Amanda Berry . . . I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for ten years.o A horrifying story rap...
Everything That Remains - A Memoir by the Minimalists
“Like Henry David Thoreau, but with Wi-Fi.” -Boston Globe What if everything you ever wanted isn’t what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the lif...
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...
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...