Biography & Memoir

Rosemary Altea / Proud Spirit : Lessons, Insights and Healing from the Voice of the Spirit World

   Rosemary uses revealing episodes from her own personal life, as well as stories gathered from her work as a spiritual medium and a healer, to illuminate our understanding of what happens when we...

Augusten Burroughs / Running with Scissors

    This is the true story of a boy who wanted to grow up with the Brady Bunch, but ended up living with the Addams Family...     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Nujood Ali / I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

    "I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no." Nujood Ali's...

Lorcan Leavy / A Broken Hallelujah : The Making of a Christian Brother

   A Broken Hallelujah traces a young man's path through the Christian Brothers' regime from Juniorate through the Leaving Certificate year to Teacher Training, and from there to work `on the...

Jonathan Margolis / The Big Yin: The Life And Times Of Billy Connolly

    Unauthorised Biography of the internationally famous comedian and entertainer to the TV public, the stars and even royalty. Billy Connoly was the first rock/alternative comedian long before...

Anne Sebba / Mother Teresa

    In this fascinating biography, Anne Sebba reveals the truth behind Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity. hers was an extraordinary life, full of paradox and hypocrisy, but also one...

Lya Fett Luft / Losses and Gains

   In her bestselling book Losses and Gains, Lya Luft draws on her own experiences of loss and gain in marriage and family to address the universal themes of childhood, love and maturity. She...

Maria Augusta Trapp / The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing...

Michael Calvin / Living on the Volcano : The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager

   *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015*A man punches the wall in a strategic show of anger. Another complains he has become a stranger to those he loves. A third...

John Humphrys / Blue Skies & Black Olives : A survivor's tale of housebuilding and peacock chasing in Greece

   'A very funny tome' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Hilarious' DAILY MAIL'A profoundly instructive course in the idiosyncrasies of Greek law, custom and culture ... entertainingly chronicled' SAGA* * * * * *From...

Natalie Taylor / Signs of Life

   Signs of Life is Natalie Taylor's story. It starts the day her husband dies and ends sixteen months later on her son's first birthday. Natalie's journey from wife to widow to mother is...

T.J. Stiles / Jesse James : Last Rebel of the Civil War

   Stripped of the familiar myths surrounding him, Jesse James emerges as a far more significant figure: a ruthless, purposeful and intensely political man who used crimes and notoriety to promote...

James Spada / Bette Davies: More Than A Woman

    A biography of Bette Davis, revealing a life replete with scandal, sex, violence, courage, sacrifice and heartbreak. After three years of research and more than 150 interviews, James Spada...

Ruth Reichl / Garlic And Sapphires

   Garlic and Sapphires is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted and highly prestigious job of New York Times...

Tony Horwitz / Into the Blue : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

    Captain James Cook's three epic journeys between 1768 and 1779 were the last great voyages of discovery. Sailing some 170,000 miles, Cook's ships reached every continent and every ocean, from...

Kevin Skeleton / Sent by an Angel

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Victoria Mary Clark / Angel in Disguise?

    Victoria Mary Clarke lived a hard-partying lifestyle; sex, drugs, and rock and roll. But one day this girlfriend of former Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan had had enough. When she woke up to...

Chris Froome / The Climb

   WINNER OF THE 2018 GIRO D'ITALIA! THREE TIME WINNER OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE. THE FIRST MAN SINCE BERNARD HINAULT TO HOLD THE MAGLIA ROSA, THE MAILLOT JAUNE AND THE MAILLOT ROJO AT THE SAME TIME...

Trevor Rees-Jones / The Bodyguard's Story

    This is a first-hand account of the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, its causes and its consequences, by the bodyguard who survived it. As bodyguard to Diana's companion, Dodi...

Cheryl Jarvis / The Necklace

   One day a woman of average means waltzes by a jewellery shop window and spots a GBP20,000 diamond necklace. She can't get it out of her head. Eventually she gets the idea of sharing it with...

Steward McKinney / Roars from the Back of the Bus : Rugby Tales of Life with the Lions

   Roars from the Back of the Bus is an absorbing, amusing and at times moving collection of tales that give a rare insight into the camaraderie that exists between players at the top of their game,...

John Osborne / Almost a Gentleman: an Autobiography 195

    Following on from Osborne's first autobiographical book, "A Better Class of Person", this book looks at the period 1955 to 1966. It covers the foundation of the English Stage Company at the...

Tim Willis / Madcap : Half-Life of Syd Barrett

    This text traces the history of rock's lost genius, through exclusive access to those closest to Syd throughout his life, and brings his crazy, illuminating story up to the present day...

D. Carswell / Real Lives

    James Fraser was only twentytwo when he abandoned a promising career and went to China. At first sight of the Lisu tribes people of Yunnan province he felt an immediate affection for them and...

Stephan Miller / Smart Blonde

    Dolly Parton is the most famous person ever to have emerged from the American country music scene with her iconic cartoon image - mountainous blonde wigs, pumped up breasts and dazzling...

Douglas Thompson / Cilla, Queen of the Swinging Sixties

    Cilla Black is one of Britain's best loved entertainers and an icon of the sixties. Known to one generation for a string of number one hits like 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' and 'You're My...

Saroo Brieley / Lion : A Long Way Home

   NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train...

Simon Pegg / Nerd Do Well

   From a filthy flat in Tufnell Park to the starship Enterprise, it's fair to say that Simon Pegg's career didn't go quite the way he expected. Zombies in North London, death cults in the West...

Jacqueline Pascarl / Once I Was a Princess

    Can you imagine what it would be like to be swept off your feet by a royal prince to live a charmed life in the marble palaces of an oil-rich nation - and then to watch your fairy-tale...

Ronald Skirth / The Reluctant Tommy

    In the First World War, Ronald Skirth was an ordinary tommy. His experiences were like those of many others, save in one thing. When Skirth went out into No Man's Land after Passchendaele and...

Clive James / Falling Towards England

   In the first volume of Clive James's autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs, we said farewell to our hero as he set sail from Sydney Harbour, bound for London, fame and fortune. Finding the first of...

Michael Kranish / Trump Revealed

   **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**`Excellent book... skilful and meticulous' David Aaronovitch, The TimesHailed as `authoritative' and `essential', Trump Revealed is the indispensable and updated...

Alex Montgomery / Martin O'Neill : The Biography

    Alex Montgomery's acclaimed biography brings O'Neill's story right up to date with an account of his first few months in charge at Aston Villa and deals with every aspect of his life and...

Michelle Obama / Becoming (Hardback)

 

Ronnie Drew / Ronnie (Hardback)

 

Bill Clinton / Giving (Hardback)

 

David Harvey / Obsession Celebrities and Their Stalkers

    "One million women and 370,000 men are stalked each year, and this exposT uses stalker incidents involving famous celebrities to explore the twisted mind of a stalker. Offering glimpses into...

Sheryl Sandberg / Lean In : Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

   Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of bestseller lists internationally,...

Hillary Rodham Clinton / Hard Choices : A Memoir

   HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE...

Frankie Boyel / Work! Consume! Die!

   Brace yourself, Frankie's back, and he's more outspoken and brilliantly inappropriate than ever.There are fears that this year could see the start of a double-dip recession, or worse still a...

John Daniell / Confessions of a Rugby Mercenary

   John Daniell is a rubgy mercenary. A brutal word for an often brutal game. In 1996, when Rugby Union turned professional, John emigrated to France where he played for a decade in top competitions...

Vikram Seth / Two Lives

    TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the...

Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana

    A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof...

Willy Lindwer / The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

    Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank - the extraordinary Diary that she wrote during her two years in hiding in the Secret Annexe. But few know how that story ended. Here six women whose...

Danny Wallace / Yes Man

   One word. Unlimited consequences.The book that inspired the major film starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel'I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do hereby write this manifesto for...

Julia Langdon / Mo Mowlam

    Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland until 1999, is arguably Britain's most popular politician and a woman who evokes immense personal empathy among politicians and, more...

Robin F. Cook / The Point of Departure : Diaries From the Front Bench

    As the Iraqi conflict led to his resignation from the Cabinet, Robin Cook, former Foreign Secretary, focuses on the build-up to and the consequences of the war. Through diary entries and...

Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994

   The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny...

Michael Wolff / Burn Rate: How I Survived The Gold Rush Years On The Internet

    Michael Wolff was a journalist and writer; in 1998 he is a journalist and writer again. But in the first half of the '90s he was an Internet entrepreneur, Chairman and CEO of Wolff New Media...

Richard Ayoade / Ayoade on Ayoade (Large Paperback)

 

Michael Harding / On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist : Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin (Hardback)

 

John O'Donohue / Eternal Echoes : Exploring Our Hunger to Belong (Hardback)