Biography & Memoir

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...

Donald Thomas / Cochrane

   Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than...

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)

 

Dominique Enright / The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill (Hardback)

 

Max Hastings / Warriors

   An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military...

Eva Petulengro / Caravans and Wedding Bands

   For Romany Eva Petulengro, marrying outside her culture was a big step to take. And now she had to adapt to living with a gorger - and her husband had to adapt to living with her! In this...

Kate Lock / Confessions of an Eco-Shopper

    - Are muddy carrots worth the hassle? - Can a natural deodorant survive a salsa class? - Will clothes swapping ever replace clothes shopping? Two years ago Kate Lock set herself a series of...

Mark Owen / No Easy Day : The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden

   THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTIONFor the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist...

Gillian Hick / Vet On A Mission

   With the imminent arrival of her third child, veterinary surgeon, Gillian Hick, decides to abandon the perils of mixed animal practice, in a favour of setting up a small animal practice from home...

Chesley B. Sullenberger / Sully

    Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks-the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger-the...

Luca Caioli / Messi - 2017 Updated Edition : More Than a Superstar

   Lionel Messi is the greatest footballer of our time: a magician with uncanny ability to beat defenders, find space and score goals. 2016 saw him win the Ballon d'Or for a record fifth time,...

Misha Glenny / McMafia : Seriously Organised Crime

   **Now a major BBC series starring James Norton** Have you ever bought a pirate DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam? Organised crime is part of all our worlds - often without us even...

Nathaniel Fick / One Bullet Away : The making of a Marine Officer

   The most eloquent and personal story of a young man at war since Geoffrey Wellum's FIRST LIGHTUntil a winter evening in 1998 Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career...

Marianne Talbot / Keeping Mum : Caring for Someone with Dementia

   "At 3am I was startled awake by the opening of the stairgate. Leaping out of bed I found Mum, clothes on over her pyjamas, grumbling she was fed up of being moved from pillar to post and was...

Audrey Delaney / Innocent : The Story of a Shattered Childhood

   Audrey was just six years old when her father began sexually abusing her. At first she believed his behaviour to be a normal expression of love. But by the time she reached her teens her father's...