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When Men & Mountains Meet Paperback: Like the desire for drink or
We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy. One more Himalayan season was over. It was time to begin thinking of...
Return to Paris: A Memoir with Recipes
In "Apricots on the Nile", Colette Rossant's best-selling memoir, we left her as a 15-year-old sailing away from her beloved Cairo to her mother's family in France. It is 1947...
Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1: 1940-1956
An "exhilarating" (Chicago Tribune) selection of Jack Kerouac's most personal, truthful, and mesmerizing letters that trace his life and craft-edited by Ann Charters "As we just now begin to map...
Menagerie Manor
Most children at the tender age of six or so are generally full of the most impractical schemes for becoming policemen, firemen or engine drivers when they grow up...I knew...
What the Grown-ups Were Doing: An odyssey through 1950s suburbia
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Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s - a suburban Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials....
A Long Way From Paradise: Surviving the Rwandan Genocide
Leah Chishugi grew up in eastern Congo but, aged seventeen, she moved to Kigali, the Rwandan capital, to work as a model. She married and had a son. Then in...
Daughter of Empire: A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's
A source of inspiration for the film Viceroy's House Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis...
Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten
Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the Twenties into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his glamorous wife Edwina Ashley, she was...
Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan
British soldiers never fought against the Soviet army, right? Wrong! In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets has invaded...
Slum Boy: 'One of the most moving accounts of non-fiction ever
'A heart-breaking, inspiring read' ALAN CUMMING 'ONE OF THE MOST MOVING ACCOUNTS OF NON-FICTION EVER WRITTEN' GUARDIAN 'If you like Shuggie Bain , then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN...
Girl in Paris: A Persian Encounter with the West
At the age of 17, Shusha Guppy left Iran and her family to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. Diving into the unknown - a world of unimagined freedoms and...
A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of a Romany Childhood
Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional Gypsy wagon and grew up in the fields of the English countryside. In this beautiful and evocative memoir, she recounts her...
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught...
Heart of Fire: Missing - From Child Soldier to Soul Singer
Born in 1974 to an Ethiopian mother and an Eritrean father, Senait was abandoned by her parents as a baby and spent her early years in a state orphanage before...
Mr. Wu and Mrs.Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper,
Tells the story, via the letters they wrote to each other, of the relationship between Evelyn Waugh, author of "Brideshead Revisited", and Lady Diana Cooper, actress and hostess. The two...
About Time Too: 1940-78
With this second volume of autobiography Penelope Mortimer covers the three decades, from the acceptance of her first novel in 1945 ("intended as an immense historical saga about the collapse...
The Light of Common Day
The second volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of a bygone age. Lady Diana Cooper had been famous from her earliest youth, the...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **WINNER OF THE...
Agent Undercover
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga
Author: Olaudah Equiano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Equiano's narrative is the most significant autobiographical account of slavery to emerge from Britain's centuries as a slave trading and slave...