In her memoirs, Simone de Beauvoir created a remarkable portrait of a twentieth-century woman’s struggle for independence.

In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter she describes her early life, from her birth in Paris, 1908, to her student days at Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul Sarte – ‘the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen’. Full of the most intimate detail and a true sense of discovery, it is a revealing account of her early development as a writer through her initial acceptance and then courageous defiance of the social conventions of her bourgeois family and class. An inspirational and often controversial figure, Simone de Beauvoir remains a powerful icon of early feminism.

The gripping true story of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Tete-Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa. When he discovered a book on Greenland as a teen, this distant land became an instant obsession - he was determined to journey to the place these pages had revealed to him and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. A book of rich and immersive travel writing, Michel the Giant invites the reader to journey alongside an audacious Kpomassie as he makes his way from the equator to the bitter cold of the artic and settles into life with the Inuit peoples, adapting to their foods and customs. Part memoir, part anthropological observation this captivating narrative teems with nuanced observations on community, belonging and the universality of human experience. This title has been previously published as An African in Greenland

James Kirkup (born April 23, 1918) is a prolific English poet, translator, travel writer and reviewer. He was brought up in South Shields, and educated at Durham University. He has written 30 books, including an autobiography and plays. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. fantasy of a homosexual soldier for the dead Christ, was banned in 1979 under the UK's blasphemy laws after Gay News published it on June 3, 1976. The blasphemous libel charge named Gay News Ltd and the editor, Denis Lemon and was brought by Mary Whitehouse, founder and first president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.