Autobiography & Biography
Amanda Vaill - Hotel Florida (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Subtitled : Truth, Love & Death in The Spanish Civil War. A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War...
View full detailsPeter Hook - The Hacienda (How Not To Run A Club) (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the ...
View full detailsAlan Johnson - The Long & Winding Road (A Memoir) (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Winner Parliamentary Book Award for Best Memoir 2017. From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power...
View full detailsCarolyn Cassady - Off The Road (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Subtitled : Twenty Years with Cassady, Kerouac & Ginsberg. Off the Road tells the intimate story of two of the most famous, and yet ...
View full detailsAngela Steidele - Gentleman Jack (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Subtitled : A Biography of Anne Lister. Longlisted for the 2019 Portico Prize. The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian ...
View full detailsJames R. Hansen - First Man (The Life of Neil A. Armstrong) (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Now a major motion picture, the New York Times-bestselling, first-and only-definitive authorized biography of Neil Armstrong, one of Ame...
View full detailsNelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography credited to South African President Nelson Mandela. It was ghostwritten by Richard Stengel and ...
View full detailsTerry Waite - Travels With A Primate (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Subtitled : Around The World with Robert Runcie. The full humour of Terry Waite comes through in this entertaining collection of true li...
View full detailsDoris Kearns Goodwin - Lincoln (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Film Tie-In Edition. Based in Part on "Team of Rivals - The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and es...
View full detailsSusan Hill - Jacob's Room is Full of Books (A Year of Reading) (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and glori...
View full detailsBear Grylls - Mud, Sweat & Tears (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Gripping, moving and wildly exhilarating, Mud, Sweat and Tears is a must-read for adrenalin junkies and armchair adventurers alike. Bear...
View full detailsRob Jovanovic - George Michael, The Biography (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Early Biography. Despite being one of the most open and vocal pop superstars on the planet, George Michael is also fiercely protective o...
View full detailsJames Shapiro - Contested Will (Who Wrote Shakespeare?) (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then doze...
View full detailsGordon Ramsay - Humble Pie (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his bestselling real ...
View full detailsRobert Hilburn - Paul Simon (The Life) (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis A Times Book of the Year. Through such hits as "The Sound of Silence," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Still Crazy After All These Years," ...
View full detailsCathy Rentzenbrink - The Last Act of Love (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis In the summer of 1990 - two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school - Cathy Rentzenbrink's brother Ma...
View full detailsIsabel Allende - The Sum of Our Days (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Isabel Allende describes in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than...
View full detailsMichael Haag - The Durrells of Corfu (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the ...
View full detailsBill Bryson - The Life & Times of The Thunderbolt Kid (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Subtitled : Travels Through My Childhood. Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent ...
View full detailsStephen Fry - The Fry Chronicles (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Memiors #2 Moab Is My Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge best seller. I...
View full detailsSaroo Brierley - Lion (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Previously published as : A Long Way Home - A Memoir. Now a major motion picture. When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-l...
View full detailsPaul Morley - The North (And Almost Everything in it) (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from Manchester and even closer to Stockport. Ever since the age of seven Morley has ...
View full detailsAlan Bennett - Writing Home (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis This book brings together his diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews. The diary he kept during the production of his very f...
View full detailsThomas Hauser - Muhammad Ali (His Life and Times) (2nd Hand Paperback)
Synopsis Athlete, activist, rebel, poet, legend - Muhammad Ali stood larger than life in the imagination of hundreds of millions of people around t...
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