Memoir Relationship

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a successful novelist, Memoirs offers extraordinary insights into a unique literary life.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing to date—a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance and self-acceptance. A profound...

Robert Dessaix’s Chameleon is about everything that matters, a book of memories that flow so freely they seem to happen as we read. Cartwheeling from story to story, Dessaix describes an identity in flux: his beginnings as an adopted child named Thomas Robert Jones, his youthful interest in...

Leslie Morgan Steiner met the love of her life at age 22, soon after graduating from Harvard and starting her first job at Seventeen magazine in New York. She fell for his self-deprecating wit and street smarts - and especially his unabashed worship of her. They married and spent four years together. At first Leslie felt like the woman of his dreams. Then she discovered her husband had been beaten as a child, taught by his parents that intimacy and rage danced together.

Rewritten is a transformative guide for anyone who is learning to heal after heartbreak, rebuild their identity, and break the patterns that have held them back for years. Through poetry, vulnerable storytelling, and raw honesty, Emily Orta offers the truth so many of us forget: time doesn’t heal you, you do.

Brought to you by Penguin. New Methods for Women believes: 1. You already know what you want. 2. But sometimes things can get in the way. 3. You can design your life how you want. 4. You just try a New Method. 5. Until you reveal your true self. For too long, women have worked hard to fit into a...

What happens when a man finally tells the truth he spent years avoiding? Dear Ex-Wife is a raw, adult, deeply personal memoir about love, marriage, masculinity, temptation, betrayal, and the long road to accountability. Written as a confession to the woman he once promised forever, it follows one man's life from a childhood in Charleston, South Carolina, through the choices, secrets, and consequences that shaped the husband he became. This is not a revenge story, and it is not written to blame the woman he hurt.

Martin Amis blends vivid memories, sharp wit, and tender honesty to deliver an unforgettable memoir that explores his relationships with family, personal tragedies, and the absurdities of being known. "...[Narrator Alex] Jennings's portrayals of Lionel and his circle are tremendous fun." —...

Read by the author, Molly Jong-Fast. An honest, heartbreaking and brutally funny memoir about losing a mother you never really had - and a comfort to anyone who loves someone who drives them crazy. 'I was just bowled over by this book' - Nigella Lawson 'A gripping memoir about mothers and...

You’ll be taken on a journey through my eyes, from childhood to adulthood, where you’ll experience my biases and see how I justified my actions (whether right or wrong), and how I perceived the world. Experience my confusions and revelations as I learned to grow, but most of all, you’ll feel my pain and anguish as I am hurt and abused by those whom I loved. I have been beaten down, hated, abused, and stomped on physically and mentally, but I sit here today, unashamed and stronger than ever. I wear my scars like a badge of honor. These are my battle wounds, and I survived.

***** 'A sexy, messy, necessary look at polyamory' -Advocate 'All the makings of a juicy beach read-romance - sex, deception, and twists - except it's an account of a real-life open relationship.' -VOGUE Rachel Krantz is a 27-year-old journalist living in Brooklyn when she meets Adam, who is...

There are moments that can split a life in two. For Luke, it began with a sudden swirling current rising around his spine, as if something ancient had finally awoken. In an instant, the world he had built —business, long-term love, belonging —cracked open, and instead of wondering what to make for dinner, he found himself wondering whether he needed an exorcist. Doctors named nothing; his therapist named too much. For a year, he moved through days that felt like smoke, haunted by a sorrow he could neither escape nor understand.

Winner of the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize 2024 Mary Anne is haunted by the death of her sister and worn down by depression. She's not a good wife and she's not a good mother. Then, one morning, she wakes to find her life completely unfamiliar to her, and she leaves her family to become...

When her six-year-old daughter found her collapsed on the kitchen floor, Rachel had no idea how much her life was about to change. A brain scan revealed a dark shadowy mass, a huge abnormal growth of tissue that, whilst benign, was still growing and would surely kill her. It was too big to operate on. It needed to be "managed", and Rachel had, at best, two years to live. Refusing to accept the bleak prognosis, Rachel was determined to stay alive.

WINNER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK DESIGN AWARDS 2025 BEST DESIGNED NONFICTION COVER WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS FOR NON FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA GENERAL NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 There's a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It's love and beasts and...

After two life-shaking events—losing her father and divorcing the man she’s spent half her life with, who happens to be an actor from a famous family—Rachel Lithgow leaves a thirty-year career to write full-time and pursue a relationship with a calming, delightful man she recently met online. She thinks she has it all figured out . . . until he announces he’s joining a cult and moving to Phoenix with a blonde real estate agent.

Inspired by the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Kat and Adam Kramer and their two young children left a conventional life in Minnesota to experience a simpler way of living, close to nature in the peaceful Northwoods of Wisconsin. They built a five-hundred-square-foot one-room house with limited plumbing, grew most of their food, raised chickens and rabbits, and learned to forage and prepare wild edible plants. Living in beautiful but isolated surroundings, Kat finds that the lack of a social life and Adam's growing moodiness are becoming almost unbearable.

In I'll Give You Something to Cry About, Elizabeth Acker gives a stunning account of growing up under the abusive control of an emotionally and mentally ill mother. Elizabeth is forced to become estranged from her father, and struggles alone to create hope and meaning for her life, while serving her mother like a slave. This audiobook is a true account of a daughter's struggle to survive a mother with paranoia, schizophrenia, and manic depression.

From the age of four, Eve wandered through a maze of injustice, exploitation, and unthinkable parental betrayal. After escaping home at the age of 15, it disheartened Eve to find that her childhood was only the beginning of a road fraught with violent relationships. Come along on her journey of perseverance through intense psychotherapy as she learns it is possible to not only survive the aftereffects of deep childhood trauma, but also break the generational cycle for her own family.

This book is about the universal struggle between who we think we are and who we've actually become. It's about the fine line between being the life of the party and being destructively out of control. It's about learning that vulnerability isn't weakness and that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is admit you need help.