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1	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft more books like this by Stephen King (Read by) add to wishlist In this combination memoir and writing guide, best-selling author Stephen King tells of how he came to be a writer and, in the process, explores many aspects of writing, from plot construction through some of the nuts and bolts of getting a book published. Much of his advice is quite traditional: find a quiet place to work, concentrate on ... see all copies from £2.32! new only from £6.77! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Liar's Club: A Memoir more books like this by Mary Karr add to wishlist Mary Karr's astonishingly candid--and controversial--account of her childhood and the abuses she sustained as the daughter of an alcoholic mother with a 'nervous' condition. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £8.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books more books like this by Azar Nafisi add to wishlist Azar Nafasi formed a book club in Tehran comprised of seven young women who got together to discuss such books as THE GREAT GATSBY, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, DAISY MILLER, and, of course, LOLITA--books forbidden by the Islamic government. In this memoir, Nafasi, who was expelled from the country for refusing to wear the veil, writes about those women, ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Year of Magical Thinking more books like this by Joan Didion add to wishlist In THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, Joan Didion writes an account of her life since the 2003 death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion's grief was profound and debilitating; she and Dunne had been married for nearly 40 years, during which they were hardly ever apart. But in the course of her mourning period, she also gained crucial insights ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Naked more books like this by D Sedaris add to wishlist Through a series of comic anecdotes, quirky essayist David Sedaris touches on the highlights of his life to date, including his cross-country hitchhiking trip; his discovery of Shakespeare in rural North Carolina; his various odd jobs as a migrant fruit picker, a jade polisher, and a woodwork refinisher; a family Christmas Eve spent with a ... see all copies from £4.91! new only from £5.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Running with Scissors: A Memoir more books like this by Augusten Burroughs add to wishlist When his dysfunctional family sent Augusten Burroughs away to be raised in the home of his mother's therapist, he became part of an even more dysfunctional and unusual family dynamic. In this bestseller, which has become a classic of the wackier side of memoir literature, Burroughs doesn't flinch at any grotesquerie or atrocity, recording it all- ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Three Weeks with My Brother more books like this by Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks add to wishlist When the Sparks brothers--bestselling writer Nicholas and his older brother Micah--set off on a trip around the world, they saw it as an opportunity not only to see temples and ruins but to talk about their childhood and the fate of their family, in a fraternal bonding experience that would enlarge both their lives. As they traveled, they also ... see all copies from £3.28! new only from £4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Teacher Man: A Memoir more books like this by Frank McCourt add to wishlist Frank McCourt, the author of ANGELA'S ASHES and 'TIS, wraps up his trilogy of memoirs with this account of the 30 years he spent teaching in New York public high schools, from his rocky beginning as a young man teaching English in a vocational school to his eventual destination--the rarefied halls of the elite Stuyvesant School. Throughout, ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Letters to a Young Poet more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist Relatively early in Rilke's literary career, these letters began as advice addressed to a young student who had solicited it by sending Rilke some poems. The two authors never met, but over the course of several years a correspondence developed in which Rilke composed astoundingly elegant and eloquent characterizations of the craft and discipline ... see all copies from £1.84! new only from £1.84! \| first editions
10	Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany more books like this by Bill Buford add to wishlist From Bill Buford, one of our most interesting literary figures--eight years as fiction editor at "The New Yorker"--comes a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. A marvelous hybrid, "Heat" offers a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure as well as an illuminating exploration of why food ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away more books like this by Bill Bryson add to wishlist Bill Bryson lived in Britain for 20 years, then returned with his family to the U.S. Here he writes about the process of re-entry--the shocks, the adjustments, the excesses, and (especially) the funny bits. see all copies from £3.63! new only from £7.17! \| first editions
12 view cover	Survival in Auschwitz, The Nazi assault on humanity. more books like this by Primo Levi add to wishlist Originally entitled, IF THIS IS A MAN, Levi's narrative of his experiences at Auschwitz is unique among Holocaust memoirs for its simplicity, its lack of self-pity, and its objectivity; he often emphasizes not his own sufferings but the many instances of goodness he found among his fellow prisoners. In an appendix, Levi stated: "[I]n writing this ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.14! \| first editions
13 view cover	Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life more books like this by C S Lewis add to wishlist C.S. Lewis documents his search for joy, starting with his childhood in Belfast, through a period of atheism, and then back to Christianity through a course of rational thought. This book was initially published in 1955. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Teacher Man more books like this by Frank McCourt add to wishlist Available at last in paperback is Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller about how his 30-year teaching career in the public schools of New York City shaped his second act as a writer. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.87! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Cherry: A Memoir more books like this by Mary Karr add to wishlist "The Liars' Club" were the memoirs of Mary Karr up to the age of ten. "Cherry" follows Mary through her tumultuous and itinerant adolescent years up to the age of 17. We see her abiding friendships, her sexual awakening, her high school years and her time with a gang of drug-taking surfers. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness more books like this by William Styron add to wishlist The novelist William Styron realized during the summer of 1984, when he was 60 years old, that the joylessness, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts he had been experiencing were not simply part of an episode of harmless melancholy, but the marks of a severe and terrifying depression (he calls it "madness") that had become debilitating. As he ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Magical Thinking: True Stories more books like this by Augusten Burroughs add to wishlist Augusten Burroughs continues his series of memoirs with this wild collection of stories. Here Burroughs confesses to various outrageous thoughts, including his desire to murder his cleaning lady and an obsession with becoming a transsexual. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	John Adams more books like this by David McCullough add to wishlist His first book since Truman, from one of America's most distinguished and popular biographers. Destined for the same kind of sweeping success as his Pulitzer Prize-winning Truman, John Adams is a powerful, deeply moving biography that reads like an epic historical novel. Breathing fresh life into American history, it takes as its subject the ... see all copies from £4.61! new only from £6.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	All Over But the Shoutin more books like this by Rick Bragg add to wishlist A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's account of making his way in the world, from a humble beginning in poverty-stricken rural Alabama to international fame as a "New York Times" reporter. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou add to wishlist In this first volume of her celebrated collection of memoirs, the poet Maya Angelou describes in vivid, lyrical detail her childhood as a young black girl in the South. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	A Man Without a Country more books like this by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. add to wishlist Kurt Vonnegut's first new book in nearly 10 years is a collection of the essays he has published during that time, illustrated with his inimitable--and often hilarious--line drawings. Vonnegut writes on such topics as death, literature, the state of the American soul, the necessity for making art, and, of course, the administration of George W. ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare more books like this by Professor Stephen J Greenblatt add to wishlist Greenblatt interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's life. Readers see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world. see all copies from £1.25! new only from £5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Out of Africa more books like this by Isak Dinesen add to wishlist OUT OF AFRICA is the classic account of the experiences of Karen Blixen (aka Isak Dinesen) in Kenya, where she managed a coffee plantation for 17 years, from 1914 to 1931, first with her difficult husband the Baron von Blixen and, after their divorce, by herself. One of the most popular books of the 20th century, it provides a vivid and lyrical ... see all copies from £1.61! new only from £9.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Shakespeare: The World as Stage more books like this by Bill Bryson add to wishlist In this new installment in the critically acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Bryson explores the life and work of Shakespeare in a typically Brysonian fashion. That is to say, he has crafted a travelogue of sorts, narrating his quest for the Bard. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.74! \| first editions
25 view cover	Growing up more books like this by Russell Baker add to wishlist A reissue of the original prize-winning memoir by journalist Russell Baker. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.01! \| signed copies \| first editions

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