Hitch-22 : a memoir —Hitchens, Christopher.

My turn to make the tea —Dickens, Monica, 1915-1992.

Never enough : a way through addiction —Hoskyns, Barney, author.

A few months after graduating with a 1st class honours degree from Oxford University, Barney Hoskyns sat in a damp Clapham basement and asked his best friend to inject him with heroinches From that moment on, for the nex...

The kindness of strangers —Adie, Kate.

Memoirs of an unfit mother —Robinson, Anne, 1944-

Koestler : the literary and political odyssey of a twentieth-century skeptic —Scammell, Michael.

Trowel and error notes from a life on earth —Titchmarsh, Alan.

Full marks for trying an unlikely journey from the Raj to the rag trade —Keenan, Brigid, 1939- author.

"From her early beginnings - a colourful childhood in India brought to an abrupt end by independence and partition, a return to dreary post-war England, and on to a finishing school in Paris - Brigid Keenan was never des...

My friend the mercenary —Brabazon, James.

Friends and enemies —Amiel, Barbara, author.

"The long-awaited memoir of one of Canada's most talked about and controversial figures, Friends and Enemies is shockingly honest, richly detailed, and pulls no punches as it traverses the highs and lows of Barbara Amiel...

Memories and adventures —Churchill, Winston S. (Winston Spencer), 1940-2010.

An education —Barber, Lynn, 1944-

The Co-op's got bananas a memoir of growing up in the post-war North —Davies, Hunter, 1936- author.

"Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with ...

Bits of me are falling apart : dark thoughts from the middle years —Leith, William.

Not everybody becomes middle aged - some, like James Dean, remain forever young. For others, it happens early - Paul Gascoigne experienced his mid-life crisis at the age of twenty-seven. For William Leith, middle age hit...

Mother country : memoir of an adopted boy —Harding, Jeremy.

Blinded by the light —Manzoor, Sarfraz, 1971- author.

Sarfraz Manzoor was two years old when his family emigrated from Pakistan to join his father in Bury Park, Luton. His teenage years were a constant battle to reconcile being both British and Muslim. But when his best fri...

Ian Fleming —Lycett, Andrew.

Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, the suave Old Etonian creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agen...

Chronicles of wasted time : an autobiography —Muggeridge, Malcolm, 1903-1990, author.

Small dogs can save your life : a story of survival —Mooney, Bel, 1946-

The storyteller's daughter —Shah, Saira.