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'Immensely enjoyable... Ros's experiences are fascinating. She's clearly a woman and who doesn't let the obstacles life throws at her get her down' Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons...

'Fascinating reminiscences of her past.A wonderfully vivid evocation of a lower-middle-class childhood of oil lamps and gas mantles, water heated up in a coke boiler for the weekly bath, liberty...

The book titled Child Star: An Autobiography by the author Shirley Temple. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

One of the best-loved stars of classic American cinema tells all in this wry, funny, and poignant memoir Leslie Caron is one of the most cherished and admired international film...

The paperback of Untold Stories contains new unpublished diaries, as well as a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary...

The book titled Conversations: The Autobiography of Surrealism by the author Andre Breton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this memoir by Vali Myers' long-time companion, Gianni Menichetti, Vali's life and life's work are brought into beautiful, clear focus with wit, candor, and great affection. Vali was an...

A fascinating insight into the mind and motivations of the notorious British 'Master Spy' and Soviet double agent. In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that...

There will be pain ahead, and trouble and problems that I won't be able to fix on my own. But in them all, I know God will be there, calling...

The book titled Sex, Surrealism, Dali and Me: Memoirs of Carlos Lozano by the author Carlos Lozano. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The candid memoirs of the celebrated photographer of White Women and Sumo recount his birth to a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin, early fascination with photography, escape to China in...

Norman Lewis's autobiography was originally published as "Jackdaw Cake" in 1985. It is now re-published with 50 new pages increasing in depth the story in the 1960s and 1970s, recording...

70th anniversary edition of the world's most famous diary 70th Anniversary Edition In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were...

The third volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of glittering high society in the aftermath of the Second World War This last volume...

An autobiography, revealing Nabokov's comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, army of relations and family hangers-on and of lovely civilized houses in St Petersburg...

When Harry Carey, Sr. died in 1947, director John Ford cast Carey's 26-year-old son, Harry, Jr. in the role of The Abilene Kid in 3 Godfathers. Ford and the elder...

New York Times bestseller A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the...

This is television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it,...

In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to leave the city. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named...

When Del Ellis was growing up, he lost his way. Turning to crime, he was on the wrong path -a one-way ticket to a life of regret and pain for...

New York Times bestseller A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the...

Witty, tender and daring essays from the British David Sedaris 'A lovely writer: supple, stylish and almost effortlessly witty.' Daily Mail 'Made me laugh out loud and then properly cry.'...

In War And Peace is the autobiography of a truly remarkable woman, Daphne Pearson, born May 1911, was the first woman to receive the George Cross for acts of courage...

In this elegant and affecting companion to her "extraordinary" memoir, Borrowed Finery, a young writer flings herself into a Europe ravaged by the Second World War (The Boston Globe) In...

Shocking, moving and beautifully written Korean woman's memoir, from abused and ostracized childhood to cathartic return to Korea as an adult. I don't know how old I was when I...

Tatiana du Plessix, the wife of a French diplomat, was a beautiful, sophisticated "white Russian" who had been the muse of the famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Alexander Liberman, the...

Society darling, actress, wife of key WW2 politician Duff Cooper... Here are Lady Diana Cooper's sparkling letters to her son John Julius The glittering letters of British socialite Lady Diana...

The book titled All My Yesterdays: An Autobiography by the author Cecil Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping...

THE UK'S NO.1 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING TRUE CRIME AUTHOR - A PETRIFYING GLIMPSE INTO THE MOST EVIL MINDS OF OUR TIME... 'No one else does true crime quite like it,'...

As befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman's sparkling memoir is as entertaining as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer...

Carol Thatcher has one of the most famous surnames in the world. The daughter of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, Carol is a national treasure with a unique story to...

'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book . . . taps into a widespread feeling that we...

'In this comprehensive volume, we see the actor in a range of roles: loving son, wicked gossip, star actor, indecisive director, anguished lover, brilliant anecdotist...This splendid book reveals an infinitely...

The book titled The Autobiography by the author Arthur Ransome. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Ever wondered whether change is possible? Respected businesswoman Stacey Currie is proof that it is. Raised in housing commission accommodation, Stacey was pregnant at 15. At 19, she had two...

It has been Gorky's great misfortune to be remembered mostly for the wrong things - for his apparent support of the Stalin regime; for his direct involvement in the foundation...

Chronicles the author's life in the mid-1960s, when she was struggling to come to terms with existence after the deaths of both her husband Ralph and her son Burgo. Coping...

Shockingly honest, richly detailed, and pulling no punches, Friends and Enemies traverses the highs and lows of Barbara Amiel's storied life in journalism and high society. From her early childhood...

Author of the celebrated and hilarious THE DUD AVOCADO, the classic novel about a young American ingenue in Paris, Elaine Dundy was born in New York in the 1930s. Her...

The book titled Bernard Shaw: 1856-1898: The Search for Love by the author Michael Holroyd. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The second of two volumes of Elizabeth Smart's journals, covering the mid-1940s during her affair with the poet George Barker to her death in 1986. Born in Canada, the book...

First time in Modern Classics for Penelope Lively's evocative memoir of her childhood in Egypt. This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood...

A classic from the leader of the pop art movement - published to coincide with the opening of the exhibition Pop Art Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery (October 2007-February...

Memoirs is filled with Williams' amazing friends from the worlds of stage, screen, and literature as he - often hilariously, sometimes fondly, sometimes not - remembers them: Gore Vidal, Truman...

First time in Penguin Classics for this engaging and anecdotal self-portrait by one of the most influential figures in the history of science The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide...

A memoir in which our hero blends autobiography with moral, political and cultural reflections. thoughts about god, evil, suffering, death and tragedy are interwoven with comic or moving scenes from...