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From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road, a heart-enriching celebration of what makes us great: our friends.If we are lucky, in our lives, our friendships will be rich and varied. They will be shared with those with two legs, with four legs, with whiskers or clean faces; they will...

Night by Elie WieselElie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics. Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentra...

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overca...

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man...

From the beloved New Yorker writer Susan Orlean, Joyride is a masterful memoir of finding her creative calling and purpose.'The story of my life is the story of my stories,' writes Susan Orlean in this extraordinary, era-defining memoir from one of the greatest practitioners of narrative nonfiction ...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY'A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence' GUARDIAN'A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights' NEW YORK TIMES'This is memoir perfection … I adored it' CARIAD LLOYDThe...