By The Bookdiva on January 30, 2012
Catch up with Diva’s non-fiction from this month, from why people feared fruit to the life of the Swayze couple to Edward Thomas’s WWI poetry exchanges with Robert Frost.
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction | Tagged biography and memoir, Non-fiction
By Simon & Schuster UK on September 15, 2011
Elizabeth Turner discusses the loss of her husband in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, when she was seven months pregnant. She tells about her overwhelming grief and how she has managed to make a new life for her and her son.
Read an excerpt here.
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction | Tagged biography and memoir, grief, September 11
By Simon & Schuster UK on March 10, 2011
Thirty years after being told he was adopted and ejected from his family, Caradoc went in search of his natural family and began to make sense of the mystery of his two absent mothers.
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction | Tagged adoption, biography and memoir
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By Canongate on March 9, 2011
Miserable at an elegant day school for girls, Victoria Coren finds an escape in the mysterious world of poker. Twenty years later, she has won a million dollars and forgotten to have children. What price adventure?
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Win | Tagged biography and memoir, Competitions
By Bloomsbury on March 1, 2011
Heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor’s inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza and Israel regardless of their ethnic origin. It is also the story of a father, whose three daughters were killed by Israeli shells on 16 January 2009, during Israel’s incursion into the Gaza Strip.
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction | Tagged biography and memoir, love
By Bloomsbury on January 26, 2011
A modern-day fairy tale of New York, Your Voice in My Head is a dazzling and devastating memoir. In this clip, Emma Forrest discusses the doctor who saved her life, and finding art in talking to the dead.
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction | Tagged biography and memoir, death, memoir, mental illness, New York, psychiatry, self harm, Video
By Simon & Schuster UK on December 1, 2010
Portia de Rossi weighed only 82 pounds when she collapsed on the set of the film in which she was playing her first leading role. Read an excerpt from her book detailing her struggles with success, sexuality and weight – and how finding love helped her reclaim herself.
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Self image | Tagged anorexia, biography and memoir, eating disorders, Extracts, love, recovery
By Simon & Schuster UK on October 4, 2010
Dannii Minogue tells why she decided to write her autobiography, Danni: My Story, and touches on the personal, painful, and downright explosive events she reveals in her book.
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction | Tagged biography and memoir, celebrity, Video
By Simon & Schuster UK on November 9, 2009
If you were to write a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would it say? In Dear Me: A Letter To My Sixteen-Year-Old Self, some of the world’s best loved personalities have written just such a letter.
Posted in Non-fiction | Tagged Articles, biography and memoir, Extracts
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