Biography

Sort by:
A Simple Story: In Search of Argentina's Gaucho Dancers

A Simple Story: In Search of Argentina's Gaucho Dancers

$24.99$12.00
Author: Leila Guerriero Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 For four minutes and fifty-two seconds, the night became a thing that he pounded with his fist... Every year, at the...
Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

$55.00$20.00
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...
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

$59.99$25.00
Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s,...
Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow

Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow

$60.00$30.00
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...
In The Shadow of the Mountain

In The Shadow of the Mountain

$45.00$22.50
Author: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I'm in awe of her...
Up In Smoke - Stories From a Life on Fire: 'Fascinating, funny, moving' Richard Herring

Up In Smoke - Stories From a Life on Fire: 'Fascinating, funny, moving' Richard Herring

$49.99$15.00
Author: Leigh Hosy-Pickett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'Hilarious' Russell Brand 'Fascinating, funny, moving' Richard Herring 'Totally engaging, highly inspiring and impossible to put down' Nazir Afzal OBE Leigh...
Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

$55.00$15.00
Author: Will Sergeant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Scenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo &...
Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness from Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018 to 2022)

Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness from Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018 to 2022)

$34.99$15.00
Author: Scott Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith...
Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness

Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness

$44.99$25.00
Author: Scott Morrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith...
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

$49.99$20.00
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...
Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

$26.99$12.00
Author: Mary Trevelyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Completely fascinating, revelatory . . . A classic of its kind.' - WILLIAM BOYD'Compelling . . . compulsive.' - MARGARET DRABBLE,...
Philip Larkin: Letters Home

Philip Larkin: Letters Home

$59.99$30.00
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...
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

$32.99$15.00
Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is...
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

$27.95$10.00
Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of...
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire

The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire

$59.99$30.00
Author: Michael Wolff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH - AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional...
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

$39.99$20.00
Author: Nigel Slater Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

$24.99$12.00
Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story...
XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness

XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness

$49.99$20.00
Author: Cody Rigsby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The beloved Peloton instructor chronicles his journey from small-town North Carolina to New York City stardom in an empowering story that...
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking

Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking

$49.99$20.00
Author: Kerryn Phelps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Power of Balance is the landmark memoir from Dr Kerryn Phelps AM that explores the events and ideas that have inspired...
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

$55.00$20.00
Author: Mick Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it...
Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ

Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ

$45.00$17.50
Author: Annie Nightingale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'I loved this book. Annie Nightingale is my heroine. The woman is a legend' Irvine Welsh 'A joy to read' Guardian...
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy

When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy

$49.99$15.00
Author: Christine Toomey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began...
The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers

The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers

$29.99$15.00
Author: Dr Ali S. Khan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Next Pandemic is a gripping book that confronts the most urgent question facing our species: when, where, and...
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

$26.99$12.00
Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding, tell the story of...
The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone

The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone

$22.99$10.00
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...
Why We Play: How to find joy and meaning in everyday life

Why We Play: How to find joy and meaning in everyday life

$24.99$12.00
Author: Joanna Fortune Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Discover how to reconnect with the child in you and unlock the transformative power of play to live a more joyful...
Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion - A Financial Times Book of the Year

Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion - A Financial Times Book of the Year

$49.99$25.00
Author: Alfons Kaiser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A revelatory biography of Karl Lagerfeld, introducing readers to the public and private life of the charismatic designer Karl Lagerfeld lived...
To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

$49.99$20.00
Author: Rupert Everett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A Times, Telegraph and Guardian Book of the Year 2020 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times 'Everett...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

$49.99$25.00
Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

$34.99$15.00
Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A...
The Smallest Lights In The Universe

The Smallest Lights In The Universe

$32.99$10.00
Author: Sara Seager Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

$45.00$10.00
Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography

Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography

$32.99$12.00
Author: Chris Salewicz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Founder of one of the most influential and successful rock bands of all time, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy...