Memoirs Books
Academic Studies Press An Urban Odyssey
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£17.99
Academic Studies Press Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet
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£80.24
Academic Studies Press Memoirs of a Jewish District Attorney from Soviet
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£14.99
Permuted Press Animals I Want To See
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£18.70
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The Macau Maverick
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£15.29
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC A Resilient Mindset
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The Sweet Pain of Being Alive
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Dad A Son Remembers
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Stripping
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Back to the Trees and Caves
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Back to the Trees and Caves
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£999.99
Amplify Publishing Uncaged
Book SynopsisUncaged: A Good Girl's Journey to Reinvention is a story about the choices we make, the cages we build for ourselves, and how we can break free. From the quiet suburbs of Switzerland to the warm, familial settings of Greece and beyond, Uncaged takes readers inside a deeply personal journey from toxicity and heartbreak to self-discovery and transformation. Raised in a traditional Greek family, Katia enters the world with deeply ingrained beliefs about what it means to be a good girl, forced to put others' needs and desires above her own, while checking all the boxes of societal approvalacademic excellence, a promising career, a picture-perfect marriage. Yet, despite her many accomplishments, even strong-willed Katia struggles to fully love and accept herself, and progressively loses touch with her true essence, which deep down is playful, adventurous, and free-spirited. As a result of the false labels (selfish) and other painful childhood baggage she carries, Katia often expresses the outrage of an adolescent who wasn't permitted to feel her angeror even her grief. But as her story unfolds, the hardworking defense analyst learns (the hard way) to take risks and make mistakes, and finally, to embrace her true calling and a more authentic life. From rebelliously riding away on a lover's Harley to overcoming an embittered divorce to grieving the loss of her beloved father to finally embracing healthy loveKatia's story is raw, honest, vulnerable, and strong. Uncaged proves that we can change, risk, forgive, and grow. We can find genuine meaning and purpose. We can carve out life on our own terms. We can create home and belongingand even loveno matter where in the world we find ourselves.
£23.79
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The Meno Change Diary
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Me Myself I Remember Decatur and Beyond
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The O with the Green Leaves
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£7.99
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The Education of a Musicians Daughter
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The Education of a Musicians Daughter
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£15.29
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC My Grandpa
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC CRO67 a Golden Bear Story
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£14.39
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Impact
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£6.99
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Taiki Bansei
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£17.09
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Taiki Bansei
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£22.49
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Around the World Not Counting Days
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£15.29
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Long Ago Last Summer
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Doketo The 1960s Story of a Thoroughbred
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Its a Sign
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£999.99
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Its a Sign
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£999.99
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Therapized
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£13.49
Susan Schadt Press, LLC Chatterbox
Book SynopsisTo be seen and not heard was never going to happen for Barbara Worton, a.k.a. Chatterbox. Talking, which she started doing in full sentences at fourteen months, is in her DNA. Her Italian American mother was a champion talker. Her German Dutch father had to be a listener. Her mother's parents and ten brothers and sisters all talked at once. Music, both recorded and live, played constantly. Life was noisy, and Barbara watched and cataloged what she saw and heardthen and all through her life. As only a true chatterbox knows how, Barbara winds and weaves through stories from her Long Island childhood to life in the present. Each of her forty-three mini-memoirs paints a portrait of what makes the everyday beautiful, giving readers a wonderfully detailed glimpse into memories like being in her grandmother's kitchen (where making pasta sauce was almost a military maneuver). With wit and poignancy, she wrestles with the world's paradoxes and recalls moments that show just how much we all have in common. Life spills onto the page in all its noisy, glorious, and messy detail. In Barbara's both intimate and chatty voice, her stories take us from Buster Browns and Tonette Permanents to supermarket lines, John Travolta, the Tappan Zee Bridge, and the sleepless nights of adulthood. You can see and hear the characters in these stories. Anyone who has a family will see something of themselves in this book. Anyone who loves spaghetti and meatballs will need to go out for Italian food after reading Worton's ode to both. Each story in Chatterbox: Stories from a Noisy Life is the perfect pause, a moment to refresh and presents a mirror for readers to reflect on their own pasts, presents, and futures.
£18.00
Penguin Putnam Inc StreetWise
£19.66
HarperCollins Publishers Dancing in the Mosque An Afghan Mothers Letter to
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers The Good Hand A Memoir of Work Brotherhood and
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers A Page from My Life
Book SynopsisWe asked listeners to be honest, creative, funny, engaging and evocative in their writing to try to make us laugh, cry and think. We never imagined we would get the quantity and quality of entries that we did for A Page from My Life.' Ray D'ArcyIn the midst of the Covid crisis, the Ray D'Arcy Show invited RTÉ Radio 1 listeners to send in A Page from My Life': 500 words on a memorable event, or a story simply worth sharing. The response was overwhelming. Ray and his team were inundated with over 2,500 entries, from authors of all ages and all walks of life.And what those entries created was an extraordinary picture of Irish life in microcosm. Funny and heart-breaking, poignant and surprising, they told a series of unforgettable stories moments that changed everything, and where life itself seemed to hang in the balance. Quiet reflections on the meaning of love and loss. Hilarious tales of everyday mishaps, chance encounters, and feats of pure imagination. It was a timely reminder of Trade Review‘How timely this collection seems now, a melting pot of hope and hilarity and remembrance, 150 snapshots (all framed within 500 words) and unspooled under the L-banners of Life, Laughter, Lockdown, Love, Little Ones and Loss. It’s a collection that is inspiring, provocative and tailor made for these uncertain days’ – RTÉ Guide ‘Ray D’Arcy has a talent for staying ahead of the curve, and his latest venture – a book of stories written by the Ray D’Arcy Show listeners on RTÉ Radio One – show his instincts haven’t waned. In A Page from My Life, created to benefit the LauraLynn Children’s Hospice, 150 of his listeners offer up important moments in their lives … Whether read straight through or opened at random, there’s plenty here to hold the attention and capture the imagination’ – Business Post
£12.74
HarperCollins Publishers Raven Smiths Men
Book Synopsis''A brilliant writer.'' Russell ToveyThoroughly entertaining.' OTEGHA UWAGBAFunny and beautifully revealing.' BELLA MACKIEWise, sharp and naughty.' THE OBSERVERHerein lie the men of Raven Smith. Each of them has left a mark, a memory, a stain, whether they meant to or not. Some hit deep, and I caught feels. Some I discarded like a clip-on neck tie'From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits, comes a pin sharp, hilarious and incisive exploration of what it means to be a man in the modern day.This book is about men because, in an annoying way, everything is. Funny men, tall men, charming men. Stepdads, actual dads and ripped sports dads'. Raven Smith has been trying to distil what it is about men that has kept him intrigued his whole life.Part memoir, part exploration of the peculiar dynamics and amorphous boundaries of masculinity, Raven looks unflinchingly at his own history, offering a cautious reverence of a life lived in parallel with other men. BlendiTrade Review PRAISE FOR RAVEN SMITH’S MEN The antithesis to the plot of Pride and Prejudice, Raven Smith retains both his pride and prejudice as we cringe along to his multifaceted sexual conquests and misdemeanours. Constantly reminding us of our own rush from puberty to adulthood, Raven’s searingly honest voice spirals us downwards into an ever shifting personal rabbit hole from which, presented with a much needed emotional hand job, we climb back out into the light. A brilliant writer, he takes up all the space, pushing over extended budgie smugglers into gaps that have been missing from the contemporary autobiography for far too long.” RUSSELL TOVEY, ACTOR, WRITER & BROADCASTER ‘A thoroughly entertaining, no-holds-barred examination of modern masculinity that offers up conclusions as surprising as they are perceptive." OTEGHA UWAGBA ‘Raven Smith’s Men is a book both unfairly funny and beautifully revealing. I felt like a curtain had been pulled back, allowing me not only to inhabit his brain for a while, but also to look at men through the eyes of one who finds them so interesting, frustrating and addictive. Raven himself is the lynchpin of this book, and his writing is so near perfect I could read about this particular man all day.’BELLA MACKIE ‘MEN is stylish, funny, and acid-tongued, which is to say it’s everything I love about Raven Smith’s writing” MONICA HEISEY ‘In a nutshell: Boys boys boys. Writer, charmer-about-town and meme magician…part-screamingly funny memoir, part-treatise on men, patriarchy and masculinity – and where he fits into it all.’ EVENING STANDARD ‘Raven Smith’s Men is a new collection of essays about the writer’s conflicted love for men, and it’s just as wise, sharp and naughty as you’d expect from one of the funniest men on the internet.’ THE OBSERVER
£14.99
HarperCollins Publishers Two Sisters
Book Synopsis''Tender, vivid and achingly sad'' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEARTWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison's ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way for a new genre of confessional memoir.She's gone, that's all, and though there's no retrieving her I'd like to make sense of who she was and what she became. It wasn't just that she changed over time. She could change from day to day. Drink made it worse but the origins went deeper. You never knew which you'd get, the kind and loving Gill or her doppelgänger. Two sisters.'Blake Morrison has lost a sister and a half-sister in recent years. Both are the subjects of this remarkable and heart-breaking memoir, along with a forensic examination of sibling relationships in history and literature.Blake's sister Gill struggled with alcoholism for a large part of her life, and her shocking death is the starting point for Two Sisters. Blake returns to their childhood to search for the originTrade Review‘A book at once bold, magnanimous, heart-breaking and riveting…’ HOWARD JACOBSON ‘Beautiful. Affecting. Erudite.’ SUSIE ORBACH 'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘A ground-breaking confessional memoir’ BBC Books of 2023 ‘Pungent, disturbing, entirely unforgettable’ THE TIMES ‘Morrison writes with a reckless respect for the truth’ GUARDIAN ‘Harrowing, candid and clear-eyed, unflinchingly honest and self-critical. Two sad stories. The strangeness of families and the weight of the past. The guilt of being OK’ NICCI GERRARD ‘Few writers can claim to have affected the literary landscape like Blake Morrison… Two Sisters is not an easy book to read, but it is a bracingly honest one’ MAIL ON SUNDAY, Book of the Week ‘A wonderfully heartfelt and tender thing: delicate and unstinting and clear-eyed’ OBSERVER, Book of the Week ‘Engrossing’ SPECTATOR ‘A beautiful, brave and brutal memoir that does not shy away from hard truths’ THE TIMES ‘An acute, wonderfully adroit book, overflowing with sharp yet compassionate observations about human nature’ THE INDEPENDENT ‘A writer of undoubted skill’ NEW STATESMAN ‘Painful, hesitant, honest, agonised, controlled and (especially the latter) full of love’ DAILY MAIL ‘True to a complex, many-layered grief’ TLS ‘'Morrison has a startling gift' LITERARY REVIEW ‘Blake Morrison is a writer who tenderly and relentlessly lifts every stone, and the stones beneath, searching for the roots of human feelings and human relations, and revealing them to the reader’ LOUISA YOUNG ‘Affecting… it could help those who have lost a sibling’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Remarkable and heart-breaking’ SHEER LUXE
£16.99
HarperCollins Publishers Whats Wrong With Me 101 Things Midlife Women Need
Book SynopsisThis comforting memoir will help us all feel less alone as we navigate the emotional turmoil of midlife' Davina McCall, author of MenopausingFrom the bestselling author of Mum, What's Wrong With You?' comes a witty, compelling, honest and reassuring guide to living a magnificent midlife.If I was removed from the hurly burly of these overwhelming days, I would be able to patiently and logically think it all through. To untangle this conundrum. I would be able to find the thing I had lost. Probably the most important thing I owned. My identity.Tackling everything from empty nest, career reinvention, sex, marriage, brain fog, burnout, perimenopause and menopause this laugh out loud memoir is a pathfinder for women whose messy midlife rage caught them by surprise. With advice from experts, celebrities and personal stories, the book will help women feel less alone as they embrace this liberating and transformational new stage of life.Trade Review‘This comforting memoir will help us all feel less alone as we navigate the emotional turmoil of midlife. It's full of advice and stories to support everyone who needs a bit of reassurance that it really is all going to be ok and the best is yet to come… coz it really is’ Davina McCall, author of Menopausing ‘At last, a book that we can all relate to in so many different ways! Lorraine uses her vast experience, both personally and professionally, to educate, reassure and guide us to have the most positive and healthy midlife’ Dr Louise Newson, author of Menopause ‘Read Lorraine's words, take comfort in them and then equip yourself with the advice she has gathered. Use it to navigate your way through your midlife years. The power of sharing our feelings and experiences and supporting one another cannot be underestimated and that’s what this book does. There’s magic within these pages’ Jo Whiley ‘Few books tackle both the physical and emotional elements of women's midlife experience but this one does with warmth, wit and seriously helpful advice. It's a practical and gentle nudge for women towards a happier, healthier and more uplifting midlife experience’ Julia Samuel MBE ‘This book is hilarious, honest and brilliantly relatable, it reads like a warm hug from a best friend who will hold your hand and support you despite all your foibles. Thank you for making me feel I am not alone in the confusing muddle and malaise of midlife. This book is hilarious, honest and brilliantly relatable’ Louise Minchin, author of Fearless
£16.99
HarperCollins Publishers Boleyn Boy My Autobiography
Book Synopsis *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became ‘Mr West Ham’: a one-club man who lived the dream.
£19.80
HarperCollins Publishers The Tourist
Book SynopsisWhat Goes on Tour, Stays on Tour…Until Now!
£19.80
HarperCollins Publishers In Harms Way
Book SynopsisWhen the system fails the parents, how can it protect the children?Welcome to the secretive world of the Family Court.What''s it like to act for a father who has recently overcome his drug problem but risks losing his beloved son to foster care?Or to represent a young mother whose abusive childhood has left her depressed and struggling to cope, to the point where the local authority is seeking to persuade the Family Court to place her small children for adoption?In this hard-hitting account of her work representing parents in care proceedings in the Family Court, child protection lawyer Teresa Thornhill conveys the dilemmas inherent in the job and shows how our under-resourced system of child protection in both its social work and legal aspects often fails to provide support that could enable the most vulnerable parents to continue to care for their children.A vivid account of all the terrible things that can happen to children and all the challenges facing lawyers and social workers
£20.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc What It Takes to Save a Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book holds out an invitation. Dr. Kwane Stewart's vulnerability, tender heart, and longing to make the homeless and their pets less invisible, calls us all to kindness and loving attention." — -FATHER GREGORY BOYLE, New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos On the Heart and Founder, Homeboy Industries "Stewart's memoir is a guaranteed tearjerker...Through it all, the animals prevail." — Booklist
£20.90
Penguin Random House India Escaped
Book SynopsisLondon is a safe haven for Indian fugitives like Mallya and Modi. "Escaped" book reveals their lavish lifestyles, legal battles, and evasion tactics. It discusses extradition loopholes, historical cases, and challenges in bringing fugitives back to India.
£13.95
Penguin Random House India Behind Bars in Byculla
Book SynopsisBehind Bars in Byculla traces the intricate web of power dynamics that govern the inmates of a prison and what it takes to survive behind bars.
£999.99
Penguin Random House India The Elephant in the Womb
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£16.71
Penguin Random House India Unloved
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£14.11
Vintage Publishing The Hour Sporting immortality the hard way
Book SynopsisThe Hour. It''s the only cycling record that matters: one man and his bike against the clock in a quest for pure speed. No teammates, no rivals, no tactics, no gears, no brakes. Just one simple question - in sixty minutes, how far can you go?Michael Hutchinson had a plan. He was going to add his name to the list of record-holders, cycling''s supermen. But how does a man who became a professional athlete by accident achieve sporting immortality? It didn''t sound too hard. All he needed was a couple of hand-tooled bike frames, the most expensive wheels money could buy, a support team of crack professionals, a small pot of glue, and a credit card wired to someone else''s bank account. Still, getting the glue wasn''t a problem...Michael Hutchinson became a full-time cyclist in 2000 after becoming disillusioned with an academic career. Over the following six years he has won more than twenty national titles, and the gold medal in the MasTrade ReviewIn this warm, gently wise book, Hutchinson tells of his attempt at the Hour, the history of the record, and the men who have claimed it ... Whether he added his name to that illustrious list is unimportant ... because, as with all great quest stories, this is not about the destination, but the journey -- Angus Batey * The Times *Hutchinson proves as good a writer as he is rider (praise indeed) - congenial, funny and insightful ... A very fine way indeed to spend an hour, any hour -- Matt Seaton * Guardian *Has the rare quality in any sports-writing of propelling the reader into the intensity of the sporting moment itself -- David Horspool * Times Literary Supplement *Sometimes painful, often hilarious... One of the most insightful and entertaining accounts of the cycling world to make it into print * Cycling Weekly *Constantly absorbing, very funny... Michael Hutchinson pulls off a real blinder * Daily Telegraph *
£16.34
Penguin Books Ltd The Crane Wife A Memoir in Essays
Book Synopsis''Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and generous'' Roxane Gay''Frank, funny, enthralling... Think of it as rehab for road-weary romantics, inviting us to redefine what constitutes a love story'' Observer''Warning: you will WhatsApp multiple quotes to your friends from your sun-lounger'' IndependentTen days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up to live somebody else''s life.In this intimate, frank and funny memoir in essays, CJ Hauser lets go of ''how life was supposed to be'' and goes looking for more honest ways of living. She kisses internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility clinic. She reads Rebecca in the house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose you
£16.99
University of Washington Press A Principled Stand
Book SynopsisAdds valuable context to the body of work by legal scholars and historians on the seminal Hirabayashi caseTrade Review"Hirbayashi's . . . struggle and case have been analyzed every which way—but one. It has not been, until A Principled Stand, The Story of Hirabayashi v. United States, that readers have had access to Hirabayashi's reflections at the time of his resistance." -- Peter Monaghan * The Chronicle of Higher Education *"A long-awaited and richly satisfying memoir that emerges from a dark place in Northwest history. . . . The book puts you there, as a good novel does." -- Mike Dillon * City Living *"A fascinating look into the inner workings of how one man, with the support of his Christian supporters, took on the U.S. government and ultimately won." -- Martha Nakagawa * Rafu Shimpo *"The book successfully reminds us of the struggles needed to secure our freedoms today." * Publishers Weekly *"A Principled Stand proves that boxes of paper hauled from home to home and stored in closets and garages can eventually become the meat of history. . . . A valuable book, highly recommended." -- Paula Becker * HistoryLink.org *"[T]he authors succeed in one of their main goals: letting people get to know Gordon the person, not merely Gordon the plaintiff in a noted legal case. . . .A Principled Stand should be added to the growing number of quality, firsthand accounts of that era." -- Troy Reeves * Oral History Review *"What a treat it is to spend a few hours with three of the finest minds that have ever addressed Japanese American history....[in this] memoir constructed out of the World War II diaries of Gordon Hirabayashi and other documents." -- Paul Spickard * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"A Principled Stand is more than the story of an important wartime incarceration case; it is also the story of a remarkable person…a must read not only for scholars of Asian American history but also for those interested in the relationship between faith and social justice. The book has lessons for us all." -- Stephanie Bangarth * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Acronyms Part I. An Issei-Nisei Family 1. Hotaka to Seattle 2. Growing Up in America 3. "You're Going to College" Part II. Challenges and Incarceration 4. World War II 5. Arraignment Summons 6. King County Jail 7. King County Jail Mates 8. Jail Visitations 9. World War II Interracial Marriage 10. Prison Meditations 1 11. Pretrial 12. Seattle Federal District Court 13. U.S. Supreme Court 14. Out on Bail 15. Thumbing to Jail 16. Catalina Federal Honor Camp 17. Federal Prison Again Part III. The Postwar Years and Vindication 18. Early Postwar Experiences 19. Coram Nobis Appendix 1. Major Publications Appendix 2. Professional Positions, Honors, and Awards Glossary of Names Further Reading About the Coauthors Index
£25.19
Yale University Press My Egypt Archive
Book SynopsisA prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in EgyptTrade Review“Mikhail casts the Cairo archive as a microcosm of modern Egypt. Its hierarchies, rivalries, petty cruelties, decay, neglect, corruption and anomie supply the material and the trigger for his reflections on the condition of his ancestral land.”—Wall Street Journal“An elegant and provocative account.”—Foreign AffairsWinner of the 2023 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology“What an entertaining, infuriating and incisive book Alan Mikhail has written. To assess the state of modern Egypt via the stories of its national archives is such a brilliant means of getting at the small workings of a society—from the maddening sludge of the country’s ever-present bureaucracy to the way so much of daily life revolves around arbitrary rules, selectively enforced. My Egypt Archive is a wonderful bridge of a book, spanning the chasm between scholarly research and deeply personal reflection, history as profession and history as marrow.”—Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise“In this beautifully written book, Mikhail records his personal story as a young Egyptian-American historian maneuvering the labyrinthine Egyptian archives. He cleverly interweaves entries on daily encounters with aloof bureaucrats and intimate interactions with fellow researchers with his critique of Egyptian politics and nationalistic history.”—Zeinab Abul-Magd, author of Imagined Empires: A History of Revolt in Egypt“A remarkably detailed ethnography and beautifully written, thought-provoking, and sensitive memoir that provides a fascinating perspective on state control, bureaucracy, and class structure in modern Egypt.”—Talal Asad, City University of New York
£23.52
