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Eye-opening, honest and frequently funny, How Was It for You? is a memorable peep behind the shadowy scenes of the sex industry.

A searing memoir of Rose Boyt's relationship with her father, the renowned artist Lucian Freud.

A ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about an elusive mother's encroaching dementia and a reckoning with a complicated childhood.

The epic story of Rama, hero and prince who must battle for justice and righteousness against forces of chaos and evil

A grand saga of divine wisdom, epic battles, and the eternal quest for justice, distilled into the lives of warriors and deities across the vast expanse of ancient India

John Grisham, the master of the legal thriller, teams up with Jim McCloskey, who has dedicated his life to exonerating innocent people, to uncover stories that shine an astonishing light on miscarriages of justice. All the cases in this book are simply extraordinary. And all are true. Joe Bryan suffered the unbearable tragedy of his wife’s murder, only to be tried and found guilty of the

The much-anticipated fourth volume of the beloved Michael Palin's celebrated diaries

Under A Rock, the first memoir from Blondie's Chris Stein, is a quintessentially New York story of the golden age of the East Village and the makings of international superstars, with a foreword by Debbie Harry.

A creative, honest and funny account of an LA childhood growing up as the first daughter in the wildly unconventional and dysfunctional Zappa family

The compelling biography of Novak Djokovic, the greatest male tennis player of all time - looking at past events, his beliefs and what has made him one of the most enigmatic and successful sportsmen throughout history.

'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar's complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achievement'
Joanna Lumley

In 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon, Clare Hammond discovered an obscure map that showed a web of new railways spanning the length a

Yoko Tawada's first book of essays in English, both a brilliant exploration of language and its relationship to power, colonialism and history and an introduction to an electrifying new side of the National Book Award Winner

A poignant and darkly comedic memoir from a mother who opened an ethical escort agency in small town New Zealand - and dared to make a difference. Now a major international TV series starring Rachel Griffiths and Martin Henderson.

Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have.

King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal acci

In his debut memoir, renowned author Paul Auster shares heartfelt and personal meditations on fatherhood that "integrates heart and intellect, sensation and speculation . . . as it relentlessly tries to make sense of the shocks of living"

Following a run of concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland as a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the ye