Biography & Memoir


New Biographies & Memoirs | July 21
21 Jul 2015

New Biographies & Memoirs | July 21

Read about victories an journeys in this week’s Biographies and Memoirs. From Eunsun Kim’s personal journey out of North Korea to a tale of professional sports greatness, by Filip Bondy. Sign up for our email and we’ll send you the best new books in your favorite genres weekly. 


Interview with Emily Bingham, author of Irrepressible
13 Jul 2015

Interview with Emily Bingham, author of Irrepressible

Tell us a little bit about your new release, Irrepressible. My great aunt Henrietta Bingham was almost never mentioned while I was growing up in the 1970s and 80s, but when I heard that she'd spent time in London among the Bloomsbury crowd (the coterie of intellectuals and artists that formed around Virginia Woolf and her sister the painter Vanessa Bell) I took notice. And when my grandmother said in an aside during an oral history I did with her in the 1990s that she was incredibly sophisticated and alluring, but "an invert, you know," I was intrigued.


New Biographies & Memoirs | June 30
30 Jun 2015

New Biographies & Memoirs | June 30

True stories of laughter, tears, growing up and self discovery await the non fiction reader this week. We are particularly excited for Mandy Smith’s Cabin Fever, a hilarious, eye opening aviation memoir!   Sign up for our email and we’ll send you the best new books in your favorite genres weekly. 



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