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Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family
$15.00
Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Author: Joanna Biggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I took off my wedding ring - a gold band with half a line of 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath etched...
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork: The Sunday Times Business Book of the Year
Author: Reeves Wiedeman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 **The Sunday Times Best Business Book of the Year 2020** 'A satisfying ticktock of the company's rapid rise and crash, culminating...
The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir
Author: Victoria Belim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent' Bookseller 'A paean to hope and...
The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England
Author: Elizabeth Foyster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat ... or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen...
Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988 1998
Author: Michael Palin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 10 years in different directions. The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries. TRAVELLING TO WORK is the third volume of...
Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business
Author: Andrew Lauder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people...
Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow
Author: Deyan Sudjic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously...
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music
Author: Philip Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin...
The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Family
Author: Mary-Kay Wilmers (editor) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the...
Philip Larkin: Letters Home
Author: Philip Larkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his...
The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone
Author: Camille Kouchner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD, THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIES THE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL...
Under the Camelthorn Tree: The Impact of Trauma on One Family
Author: Kate Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Kate Nicholls left England to raise her five children in Botswana: an experience that would change each of their lives. Living...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Among the greatest of poets, TS Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going...
This Is Your World: The Story of Bob Ross
Author: Sophia Gholz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 Bob Ross continues to inspire young and old alike with his public television painting program, "The Joy of Painting," almost 30...
Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them
Author: Mark Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard Osman Whatever I now know about life - or think I know - I...
Philip: The Final Portrait - THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Gyles Brandreth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history....
Raceless: 'A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family and secrets' GUARDIAN
Author: Georgina Lawton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A jaw-dropping story, told deftly... a gripping, thought-provoking book.' The Sunday Times 'Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of...
Things Joe Biden's Father Told Him: A Treasury of Bidenisms (and Other Malarkey)
Author: John Guinness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Joseph R. Biden Sr. never held political office, but that didn't stop him from imparting a lifetime's worth of guidance to...
Tom Stoppard: A Life
Author: Professor Dame Hermione Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 992 In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her biography is...
Life: My Story Through History
Author: Pope Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events...
Mina Loy: Apology of Genius
Author: Mary Ann Caws Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe, and finally, Aspen,...
Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers
Author: Valerie Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the true story behind the creation of the world's most beloved nanny, now appearing in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns. Mary...
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River
Author: John N Maclean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "Beautiful. ... A lyrical companion to his father's classic, A River Runs through It, chronicling their family's history and bond...
Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
$10.00
Author: Nelson Mandela Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
$12.00
Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
A Visible Man: The Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Edward Enninful Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Edward Enninful became first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, few at the heights of the elitist world of fashion wanted...
You're That B*tch: & Other Cute Stories About Being Unapologetically Yourself
Author: Bretman Rock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "This book is hilarious and that bitch made me laugh out loud."-Chelsea Handler A chaotically joyous collection of essays from one...
Reckoning
Author: V (formerly Eve Ensler) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling...
Forever Friends: A Keepsake of Questions and Answers for Best Friends: Volume 25
Author: Editors of Chartwell Books Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 204 The best of friends share the best of themselves and they're all the better for it. Interactive...
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
Author: Roisin Kiberd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Author: Keiron Pim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an...
Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life
Author: Kristine Philipp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Girl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office...
Solid Ivory
Author: James Ivory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life in the world of world cinema' Wes Anderson 'Jim...
Same Old Girl: Staying alive, staying sane, staying myself
Author: Sylvia Patterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'There's no mistaking the writing of Sylvia Patterson' Sunday Times 'One of the finest writers in the world' David Quantick How...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
My Country: A Syrian Memoir
Author: Kassem Eid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 On 21 August 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500...
Apollo's Fire, a Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination
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Author: Michael Sims
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Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table
Author: Stephen Westaby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir...
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home
Author: Benjamin Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." -Kirkus...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER A TIMES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2023 From one of South Africa's...
The People On The Street: A Writer's View Of Israel
Author: Linda Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The highly-acclaimed writer, Linda Grant, attempts to try and understand the Israeli situation. 'Although I am not an Israeli, but a...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in....
Wildflower: An extraordinary life and untimely death in Africa
Author: Mark Seal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 WILDFLOWER is naturalist, filmmaker and lifelong conservationist Joan Root's gripping life story - a stunning and moving tale featuring a remarkable...
True You
$12.00
Author: Janet Jackson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm...
Modern Warriors: Real Stories from Real Heroes
Author: Pete Hegseth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A New York Times bestseller. From FOX & Friends Weekend cohost Pete Hegseth comes a collection of inspiring stories from fifteen...
Confessions of a Puppetmaster: A Hollywood Memoir of Ghouls, Guts, and Gonzo Filmmaking
Author: Charles Band Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "Confessions of a Puppetmaster is a fast, funny, wild ride through some wild times. Plus, Charlie compares me to Harrison Ford,...