In revisiting the life of Brooklyn Bridge engineer Washington Roebling, the author pushes beyond the limits of biography

Hearing the migratory birds respond to a folk musician in the Sussex woodland at the dead of night is a quasi-mystical experience

The natural world gave the writer a new lease of life, but the rural England of her novel The Given World is shadowed with class and loss

With her 10th novel, The Keeper, the crime writer proves herself to be a great chronicler of the nation

Fatima Bhutto opens up about her beloved dog, and an abusive relationship

In The Flower Bearers, the poet and artist recounts her marriage to Rushdie and the tragedies that followed

The posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl cuts through the tabloid stories about Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew to reveal the stark reality of a lifetime of abuse

Following her father-in-law’s death from cancer, nine days after diagnosis, the Essex Serpent author wrote the book she found herself lacking at the time – a clear-eyed companion to sickness, faith and care at the end of life

Molly Jong-Fasts’s brave but bleak memoir unpicks her complex relationship with her mother Erica Jong

A fractured narrative viewpoint electrifies this intimate story of a brain's betrayal