Biography & Memoir

Timothy West / Pru and Me (Hardback)

After first meeting over sixty years ago while filming a costume drama for the BBC, Prunella Scales and Timothy West have enjoyed a partnership like no other; from appearing together in hit sitcoms...

Meghan O'Rourke / The Long Goodbye (Hardback)

Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the...

Nigel Hawthorne / Straight Face (Hardback)

Very sadly, Nigel Hawthorne died on Boxing Day 2001. He had just completed his exceptional autobiography about a life which had by no means taken a straight path. His ambitions to be an actor when a...

Eddie Maher / Fast Eddie (Hardback)

9.30am on 22 January 1993. The moment in crime history that one of Britain's most audacious thefts ever took place and the legend of 'Fast Eddie' was created. This is the story of how Securicor guard...

Primo Levi / The Search for Roots (Hardback)

"The Search for Roots is an anthology of writings that Primo Levi considered to be essential reading. Beginning with the Book of Job, that drama of the just oppressed by injustice, these thirty...

Chris Gayle / Six Machine (Hardback)

'If the ball's there, hit it. Don't worry about what might happen. Play for the glory. Play for the six' Chris Gayle is the only man to have ever hit a six off the first ball of a Test match. But...

Martin Amis / Koba The Dread (Hardback)

Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political (while remaining personal). It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century...

Sylvie Bigar / Cassoulet Confessions (Hardback)

Cassoulet Confessions is an enthralling memoir by award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar that reveals how a simple journalistic assignment sparked a culinary obsession and transcended into...

Jay Rayner / The Man Who Ate The World (Hardback)

The Man Who Ate The World is a journey through the great cities of the world. It's about extraordinary restaurants and the people who visit them. It's about the globalisation of high culture, the...

Etgar Keret / The Seven Good Years (Hardback)

Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly...

Angela Levin / Harry (Hardback)

PRINCE HARRY, AUTHOR OF SPARE, IN HIS OWN WORDS - INCLUDING EXCLUSIVE ACCESS AND INTERVIEWS Once a reckless rebel, now a respected role model, Prince Harry is one of the world's most popular royals...

Virginia Sole-Smith / The Eating Instinct (Hardback)

An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today's toxic food culture. Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best...

Horatio Clare / Heavy Light (Hardback)

'An extraordinary book: deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful' Robert Macfarlane Heavy Light is the story of a breakdown: a journey through mania, psychosis and treatment in a psychiatric...

Kathy Burke / A Mind of My Own (Hardback)

'Irrepressibly funny' - The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year THE INSTANT BESTSELLER 'Vivid, bright and beautiful' - Guardian 'Wonderful. I wish I'd written it - I couldn't put it down' Miriam...

William Woodruff / The Road to NAB END An Extraordinary Northern Childhood (Hardback)

William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later...

Traudl Junge / Hitler's last Secretary (Hardback)

n 1942 Germany, Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime. At the age of 22, she became private secretary to Adolf Hitler, and...

Mira Jacob / Good Talk (Hardback)

'By turns hilarious and heart-rending. Plunges fearlessly into the murky grey areas of race and family, of struggling to find common ground, of trying to talk to our children and help them make sense...

David Lan / As If by Chance (Hardback)

"A family day at the beach. There's a song, an argument, a dash across the white sand and into the high rolling waves. We're in Cape Town and David Lan is ten years old. Cut to 1969 and, visiting...

Deborah Cavendish / Counting My Chickens (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Ashley C Ford / Somebody's Daughter (Hardback)

"Beautifully written, searingly honest, and deeply affecting... when the book ended, I only wanted more" - Roxane Gay "Ford is a writer for the ages, and Somebody's Daughter will be a book of the...

Roman Kemp / Roman Kemp: Are You Really OK? (Hardback)

"The book is stunning. It brought me to tears at times" OK! magazine "This is brilliant. Thank you Roman, you're amazing" This Morning "Unflinching, life-affirming and filled with vital advice, this...

Viv Albertine / To Throw Away Unopened (Hardback)

Brave, intimate, and confessional, this is the long-awaited follow-up to the bestselling memoir Clothes Music Boys by Viv Albertine, a 'visionary cultural force' (Chris Kraus)     This book is second...

John P. Foppe / What's Your Excuse? (Hardback)

A Zig Ziglar motivational speaker who was born without arms shares his personal story of overcoming his own physical and emotional challenges, outlining how to overcome negative thinking in order to...

Bill Murray / Cinderella Story (Hardback)

The popular actor and comedian describes his lifelong love affair with golf as it reflects his odyssey from a youthful caddy on a public golf course to a world-renowned entertainer and participant in...

Cheryl Richardson / Waking Up in Winter (Hardback)

Internationally recognized coach and New York Times bestselling author Cheryl Richardson has toured the world empowering others to make lasting change. But when Richardson's own life no longer worked...

G Willow Wilson / The Butterfly Mosque (Hardback)

The extraordinary story of an all-American girl's conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the...

Khizr Khan / An American Family (Hardback)

The story of one family's pursuit of the American dream and why, especially in these tumultuous times, we must not be afraid to step forward for what we believe in when it matters most, by the man...

Steven Kotler / Gnar Country (Hardback)

The New York Times bestselling author and human performance expert tests his knowledge and theories on his own aging body in a quest to become an expert skier at age fifty-three. Gnar: adjective,...

Gary Paulsen / Winterdance (Hardback)

Fired by a passion for running dogs, award-winning author Gary Paulsen entered the Iditarod, a gruelling 1180-mile race across Alaska, in dangerous ignorance and with fierce determination. After a...

Sherwin B. Nuland / Lost in America (Hardback)

The author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die offers a poignant account of his father's life, from the turn-of-the-century arrival of a young immigrant from Russia to his struggle to...

Tom Pocock / Alan Moorehead (Hardback)

Alan Moorehead was lionized as the literary man of action: the most celebrated war correspondent of World War II; author of award-winning books; star travel-writer of "The New Yorker'; pioneer...

Grace Dent / Comfort Eating (Hardback)

From one of the nation's best-loved food writers and inspired by the award-winning podcast, Comfort Eating is a wonderfully delicious, life-affirming journey through the foods that really mean the...

Adam Mars-Jones / Kid Gloves (Hardback)

NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into...

Antonin Scalia / Scalia Speaks (Hardback)

This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a...

Moeen Ali / Moeen (Hardback)

Longlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards, 2018 Longlisted for The Telegraph's Sports Book Awards - Autobiography of the Year, 2019 One of the Daily Mail 's and the Observer 's Books of the...

Julia Fox / Jane Boleyn (Hardback)

Jane Rochford was sister-in-law to Anne Boleyn and Lady of the Bedchamber to Katherine Howard, whom she followed to the scaffold in 1542. Hers is a life of extraordinary drama as a witness to and...

David Nobbs / I Didn't Get Where I am Today (Hardback)

This autobiography of the man who created the Reginald Perrin recounts how he was catapulted into the world of satire at the BBC when he rang "That Was the Week that Was" with a joke and got through...

Mary Tyler Moore / Growing Up Again (Hardback)

The Emmy Award-winning actress and activist author of After All describes her forty-year battle with Type-1 diabetes, an effort that was influenced by alcoholism, her career, and her personal and...

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith / Girls of Tender Age (Hardback)

Mary-Ann Tirone Smith grew up in New England during the 1950s, the daughter of an extended French-Italian family. Smith's neighbourhood was typical small-town America - everyone's door was left...

Dorothy Herrmann / Helen Keller (Hardback)

Helen Keller couldn't hear, couldn't see, and, at first, couldn't speak. Three decades after her death in 1968, she has become a symbol of the indomitable human spirit, and she remains a legendary...

Chandler Burr / The Emperor Of Scent

In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for...

Yrsa Daley-Ward / The Terrible

**WINNER of the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize** 'A major literary talent... speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way... you'll find it hard...

Stewart / Faithful

Who better to follow the fortunes of a 'cursed' team like the Boston Red Sox than two renowned horror writers and lifelong Red Sox addicts? Red Sox fans have seen it all since 1918...except that...

Carolyn Landon / Jackson's Track

Penguin Paperback 1999 edition ' Set in the heart of Australian bush, this spellbinding memoir recaptures a community & a way of life now vanished from sight. It tells of one man's courage &...

Sonia Purnell / Kingmaker

An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE 'Supremely enjoyable... With a historian's eye...

Alison Weir / Elizabeth, the Queen

Elizabeth the Queen begins as the young Elizabeth ascends the throne in the wake of her sister Mary's disastrous reign - both a woman and a queen, Elizabeth's story is an extraordinary phenomenon in...

Austin Reed / The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict

The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer--recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars--sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and...

Katie Price / Jordan (Large Paperback)

Katie Price has led a rollercoaster life and the excitement, glamour and emotional twists and turns show no signs of slowing down...Katie Price has led a rollercoaster life and the excitement,...

Marva Collins / Marva Collins' Way (Large Paperback)

Marva Collins offers a beacon of hope in the midst of America's educational crises. In this work, Marva Collins recounts her successful teaching strategies and offers inspirational advice on how to...

Kris Waldherr / Doomed queens (Large Paperback)

Illicit love, madness, betrayal--it isn't always good to be the queenMarie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold,...

Norman Cousins / Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient (Large Paperback)

The basic theme of this book is that every person must accept a certain measure of responsibility for his or her own recovery from disease or disability. This notion of patient responsibility is not...

Sue Monk Kidd / When the Heart Waits (Large Paperback)

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