Memoirs

What happens when a child dies? This title presents bereavement and recovery in graphic novel form - perceptive, funny and moving all at once.

This memoir written from the perspective of Bodacious the cat presents the early mornings and frosty starts alongside rare-breed sheep that characterise Bodacious's experience on the farm. This title expands humorously and warmly on the content that brings about Bodacious's formidable online foll...

Kyle Thomas, our favourite TikTok star and his much-loved meerkat Mylo, find themselves drawn into an extraordinary and magical alternate world filled with strange and wonderful creatures that roam wild. Everything seems perfect here but danger is lurking, a dark creature has found its way throug...

Composed of interconnecting stories, The Night Alphabet is a mesmerising blend of memoir, fiction and poetry, from one of the most talented literary stylists writing today. 'Joelle Taylor has a Midas touch with words' Diana SouhamiA Cosmo best books to look forward to in 2024 pick 'A glorious jew...

Following the Kempowski family from the months before the outbreak of war through to the fall of Berlin, 'An Ordinary Youth' is the fascinating story of an ordinary childhood in extraordinary times. Here, Walter's academic struggle sits alongside his father's conscription; his brother's love of j...

Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always excruciatingly painful and an exacting process. Here, Ernaux revisits the peculiar kind of self-examination possible when one examines oneself in the aftermath of a love affair and, sometimes even, through the eyes of the lost beloved.

Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With c...

From her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege? But how can she just sit around writing a book when the world is hanging on a thread? In this hilariously s...

March, 1979. Sid Vicious is dead, Margaret Thatcher is very much alive, and Barry has just arrived in London. Twenty years old, Irish and angry, he cons his way into a job at Sellafield, home of Britain's military-grade plutonium. It's the start of a hilarious and hallucinatory coming-of-age tale...