Biography & Memoir

Johnny Herbert / What Doesn't Kill You... (Hardback)

Johnny Herbert was one of the most brilliant natural talents to emerge in motor racing, but for all his bravery and prowess, he's lucky to be alive. After becoming British Junior Karting Champion...

Catherine Grace Katz / The Daughters of Yalta (Hardback)

The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the...

Kathleen Norris / Amazing Grace (Hardback)

The best-selling author of The Cloister Walk blends history, memoir, and theology with a strong grasp of language in a unique, personal, and compelling investigation into the key words of Christian...

Jo Hamilton / The Post Office Scandal and Me (Hardback)

*THE INSPIRATIONAL MEMOIR FROM JO HAMILTON, AND WINNER OF THE SPEAKIES AWARD FOR NON-FICTION* WITH A FOREWORD FROM SIR ALAN BATES 'Jo is an inspiration', Monica Dolan, who played Jo in the ITV drama,...

Beatrice Hopkinson / Nursing Through Shot and Shell (Hardback)

This recently discovered memoir gives an intimate glimpse into the Great War service of Beatrice Hopkinson, a Territorial Forces Nursing Service Sister, who remained steadfastly and true to her...

Huey Morgan / The Fun Lovin' Criminal (Hardback)

When Fun Lovin' Criminals released their debut album Come Find Yourself in 1996, its fusion of hip-hop, funk, blues and rock quickly became one of the most iconic and influential records of the...

Zarna Garg / This American Woman (Hardback)

Growing up in India, everyone called Zarna "so American" just for reading the newspaper, having deep thoughts, and talking back to anyone over the age of thirty. When Zarna's dad tried to marry her...

Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary (Hardback)

"The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English, with a foreword from American Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt. Renia...

David Leigh / High Time (Hardback)

Hardback book dealing with the criminal career of Howard Marks. He was involved in smuggling large amounts of marijuana, and was also involved with British Intelligence. Marks later wrote his own...

Mark Shriver / A Good Man (Hardback)

In this intimate portrait of an extraordinary father-son relationship, Mark K. Shriver discovers the moral principles that guided his legendary father and applies them to his own life When Sargent...

Anne Theroux / The Year of the End (Hardback)

A memoir of marriage, truth and fiction 'This memoir is based on the diary I kept during 1990, the year that my first marriage came to an end.' After 22 years, spent across four continents, with two...

Clive James / Somewhere Becoming Rain (Hardback)

A love letter from one of the world's best living writers to one of its most cherished poets. Clive James is a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of...

Aubrey Malone / Whirlwind (Hardback)

Jimmy 'Whirlwind' White is Britain's best-loved snooker player. A one-time ragamuffin straight out of the pages of Charles Dickens, he has enthralled audiences the world over for three decades with...

Martin Meredith / Nelson Mandela (Hardback)

Sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island for his part in organizing armed rebellion against South Africa's white rulers, Nelson Mandela stayed faithful to his goal of a peaceful, non-racial...

Annette Morreau / Emanuel Feuermann (Hardback)

The meteoric career of the Austrian cellist Emanuel Feuermann ended with his sudden and tragic death in 1942, aged only thirty-nine. A brilliant soloist and chamber performer, many expected him to...

Julie Gregory / My Father's Keeper (Hardback)

A powerful and compelling memoir of growing up with a schizophrenic father, who hid his mental illness behind a charismatic larger-than-life, gluttonous personality and found logical explanations for...

Sir Stanley Hooker / Not Much Of An Engineer (Large Paperback)

Stanley Hooker joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 and tugged a rather reluctant company into the jet age, determined to give real competition to Rolls-Royce. So successful was he that in...

Anupreeta Das / Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King (Large Paperback)

*LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* Chosen by as one of their BEST POLITICS BOOKS of 2024 'Anupreeta Das tracks the ups and downs of Bill Gates's career in her...

Kathryn Lynard Soper / Gifts (Large Paperback)

Having a baby with Down syndrome is not something most parents would willingly choose. Yet many who travel this path discover rich, unexpected rewards along the way. In this candid and poignant...

Emma Scrivener / A New Name (Large Paperback)

The face of anorexia is not a glossy model in a perfume ad. It's a starving animal, circling the empty cupboards, blank-eyed and vacant. It's a face frozen in a rictus grin, mouthing lies. 'I'm...

Kali Muscle / Xcon to Icon; The Kali Muscle Story (Large Paperback)

When you look at me what do you see? Do you see a man with a successful rising career, someone with a body of art, a man with a beautiful wife? Well it hasn't always been like that for me. Born into...

Argita Zalli / Good Morning, Hope (Large Paperback)

A memoir about Albanian twin sisters who flee their impoverished, war-torn homeland for England, only to face more hardship when they arrive.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get...

Barry Levine / All the President's Women (Large Paperback)

"Based on groundbreaking original reporting, an extensive new look at Donald Trump's relationships with women, revealing new accusations of sexual misconduct, exploring the roots of his alleged...

Tom Bower / Boris Johnson

Guardian 'literary highlights of 2020' Sunday Times 'books to watch out for in 2020' New Statesman 'books to read in 2020' Evening Standard 'thirteen titles to look for in 2020' As divisive as he is...

Alex Horne / Birdwatchingwatching

Alex Horne is not a birdwatcher. But his dad is, so with the prospect of fatherhood looming on his own horizon, Alex decided there was no better time to really get to know both his father and his...

Jude Rogers / The Sound of Being Human

A book about how music shapes every emotional stage of our lives from one of the most high-profile female pop writers in the UK today     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Gitta Sereny / The German Trauma

Gitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together the best of her writing on Germany from over sixty years. It amounts to an extraordinary...

Craig Bromfield / Be Good, Love Brian

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Johnny Sexton / Obsessed

'Sexton will go down as Ireland's greatest ever player ' Gordon D'Arcy, Irish Times No Irish rugby player has ever achieved more, or been a source of more inspiration to teammates and fans alike,...

Hugh. Leonard / Home Before Night (Vintage Paperback) (2)

'Our dog, Jack, was anti-clerical...but my father clung to the theory that the dog simply detested the colour black...' Hugh Leonard's delightful autobiographical evocation of his Dublin childhood in...

Jeremy Bernstein / Einstein (Modern Masters) (Vintage Paperback)

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Alfred Einstein / Mozart: His Character, His Work (Vintage Paperback)

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John Lyons / Chomsky (Modern Masters) (Vintage Paperback)

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Dale Evans Rogers / Woman (Vintage Paperback)

A discussion of the views of a well-know celebrity on women, teen-age motherhood, divorce, remarriage, and other issues that affect women.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture...

Joni Eareckson / A Step Further (Vintage Paperback)

Written by a woman who has been a quadriplegic since the age of seventeen, this deeply personal and religious book reflects the spiritual insight and maturity with which she views her suffering    ...

James Herriot / If Only They Could Talk (Vintage Paperback) (5)

When newly qualified vet James Herriot arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea what to expect. How will he get on with his new boss? Herriot's books form the basis of the...

Andrew Turnbull / Scott Fitzgerald (Vintage Paperback)

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James Herriot / Let Sleeping Vets Lie (Vintage Paperback) (3)

With two years experience behind him, James Herriot still feels privileged working on the Yorkshire moors as assistant vet to the Darrowby practice. Herriot's books form the basis of the popular BBC...

James Herriot / Let Sleeping Vets Lie (Vintage Paperback) (2)

With two years experience behind him, James Herriot still feels privileged working on the beautiful Yorkshire moors as assistant vet at the Darrowby practice. It's not all chasing livestock around...

Spike Milligan / Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (Vintage Paperback)

'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy." I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train...' Spike...

Peggy Anderson / Nurse: Story of Mary Benjamin (Vintage Paperback)

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Charlie Chaplin / My Autobiography (Vintage Paperback)

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David Thomson / Woodbrook (Vintage Paperback)

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Peter Ustinov / Dear Me (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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Mary O'Hara / The Scent of the Roses (Vintage Paperback)

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Shari Franke / The House of My Mother

From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog - now the subject of a new Disney+ docuseries - and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of...

Christian Lewis / Hildasay to Home

The number one Sunday Times bestseller 'Bursting with positivity and hope' - Ben Fogle Walking saved his life. Now it will help find him a family. In the follow-up to the acclaimed Finding Hildasay,...

Michael Munn / Sinatra Untold Story

'Ava tells me she's told you things you shouldn't know. Let me tell you this: you never tell anyone - not in my lifetime.' This is the warning that Michael Munn received over the telephone from...

Gretel Ehrlich / The Solace of Open Spaces

'I suspect that my original motive for coming here was to 'lose myself' in new and unpopulated territory. Instead of producing the numbness I thought I wanted, life on the sheep ranch woke me up.' In...

Bill Hayes / Insomniac City

A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks    ...

James Orbinski / An Imperfect Offering

Born in Britain in 1960, James Orbinski's family moved to Canada when he was seven years old. As a young man, he became a medic to learn how to help, and deal with, the suffering of others. From then...

Christy Dignam / My Crazy World

THE IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'He holds nothing back and gives everything' Bono Christy Dignam, lead singer of Aslan and one of Ireland's greatest rock stars, reveals all in this...