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Biography and Memoir

From celebrities and sportsmen to ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell, Mainstream's array of biographies and memoirs has something for everybody. 

Biography and Memoir Top 5
Ma, Now I'm Going Up In the World

1.Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World, Martha Long

In the latest instalment of Martha Long’s autobiography, Ma, Now I’m Goin Up in the World, her story continues through her teenage years.

Die Before I Wake

2. If I Should Die Before I Wake, Eileen Munro

'Capturing tenderly the range of emotions that motherhood brings, aligned with a passionate quest to trace her roots and find her birth mother. A compulsive read.'- – Sandra Brown OBE, author of Where There is Evil

Sugar Daddy Diaries

3. Sugar Daddy Diaries, Helen Croydon

Searingly honest . . . a fast-paced trip into a world most of us will never get to access
- News of the World

Hooked

4. Hooked:Confessions of a London Call Girl, Clare Gee

'Gripping and honest' – News of the World

Ghost Runner

4.The Ghost Runner, Bill Jones

A terrific story – a comic strip hero made flesh, with all the human complications that entails' – Daily Mail