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Roads to Mussoorie
Ruskin Bond emerges again, with a delightful set of sketches set in and on the way to his beloved Mussoorie. With an endearing affection and nostalgia for his home of...
Dear Cancer, Love Victoria: A Mum's Diary of Hope
'I can't bear not to be with these three most important people in my life. I can't bear not to be there alongside Mark as my children grow up. My...
These Precious Days
An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally bestselling, Women's Prize-winning author of The Dutch House 'Any story that starts will also end.' As a writer, Ann Patchett...
Tracks
A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when...
Committed: A Love Story
________________ 'Like Eat, Pray, Love, her follow-up ... feels irresistibly confessional ... I found myself guzzling Committed, reading it in mighty chunks, far into the night. Whenever I put it...
Ring of Salt: Finding home and hope on the Wild Coast of Ireland
On her son's first birthday, Betsy Cornwell fled her home, checking into a hotel under a false name so her husband couldn't find them. In the uncertain months that followed,...
The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in the South of
'All my life, I have dreamed of acquiring a crumbling, shabby-chic house overlooking the sea. In my mind's eye, I have pictured a corner of paradise where friends can gather...
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
_________________ OVER 15 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE _________________ ' Eat Pray Love has been passed from woman to woman like the secret of life' - Sunday Times 'A defining work...
Love Works Like This: Travels Through a Pregnant Year
"Is even the most clenched heart capable of it?", asks Lauren Slater in this book about love. Slater, career-oriented and wilfully autonomous, charts her own personal journey and decision-making process...
Autobiography of a Yogi
This autobiography is written by a yogi who provides an account of his own search for a singular truth, interwoven with scientific explanations of the subtle laws by which yogis...
Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen
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Reissued with a new afterword Leonard Cohen is back! With a #1 bestselling poetry collection, The Book of Longing , flying off bookshelves; Lian Lunson's acclaimed documentary, Leonard Cohen: I'm...
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-85
These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman,...
Pleasures of a Tangled Life
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The book titled Pleasures of a Tangled Life by the author Jan Morris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Yeager: An Autobiography
The book titled Yeager: An Autobiography by the author Chuck Yeager. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Letters
The book titled Letters by the author Gustave Flaubert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Final Grain of Truth: My Autobiography
Jack Webster has had a lifetime of adventure as a respected and highly-commended journalist, meeting the rich and famous and experiencing what the world has to offer. From his upbringing...
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...
Last Paradise
The book titled Last Paradise by the author Tom Cole. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
One Love, One Life: Stories from the Stars
WHEN legendary music journalist Billy Sloan was fifteen years old he saw The Who play an incendiary live show at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow. It was the beginning of a...
Escape From St Hell
In the hilarious sequel to the Eisner-nominated Welcome to St Hell, Lewis Hancox explores the next stage on his way to becoming his own true self; starting his testosterone treatment,...
North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV
After "Unreliable Memoirs", "Falling Towards England" and "May Week Was in June" comes the next instalment in the ongoing saga that is Clive James's life. His fourth - and eagerly...
An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work
Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a "rigorous and compulsively readable memoir" ( New York magazine) exploring what it means to be...
Patrick Moore: The Autobiography
Throughout his distinguised career, Patrick Moore has, without a doubt, done more to raise the profile of astronomy amoung the British public than any other figure in the scientific world.As...
Fractured: Living nine lives to escape my own
Imagine what it would be like if your thoughts weren t the only ones in your head. And what if you had nine different personalities, all vying for your attention?...
Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid
Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the YearA Guardian Politics Book of the Year 2023 'An insightful and at...
From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
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The astonishing autobiographical story of a young man's upbringing in a remote tribal village in Burma and his subsequent journey from his strife-torn country to the tranquil quads of Cambridge....
Conundrum
As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition...
God, the Devil and Me
*Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022: Indigenous Writers' Prize, presented biennially* In this unique and highly entertaining autobiography, Alf Taylor chronicles his life growing up in the infamous...
Two Cultures, One Story
'I stood at the school gates with nothing but the clothes on my back. I had no money, no family, no home - nothing to show for the past 16...
Simply Ing
Longlisted for the 2019 Colin Roderick Award Born Ellie Nellie on an Aboriginal reserve in Western Australia's south west, she was nicknamed Ing by her family. Removed from her loving...
Ninu Grandmothers' Law
' This is my knowledge. It has been handed down to me from my grandmothers and grandfathers, my mothers and my fathers. I am sharing it with you because I...
Trouwerner
Trouwerner is an inviting yarn between Elder Aunty Patsy Cameron, the 28th Tasmanian Governor Kate Warner, and journalist Martin Flanagan. It weaves through the coming-into-being time, Trouwerner s colonisation and...
The Story of My Typewriter
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The story of a manual Olympia typewriter, more than 25 years old, and the agent of transmission for the work of one of the most varied and critically acclaimed contemporary...
'Tis
Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling 'Angela's Ashes'. 'Angela's Ashes' was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt's critically-acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Limerick...
You Do You: How to Be Who You Are to Get What You Want
From the 'anti-guru' author of the smash hit THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF NOT GIVING A F**K and the New York Times bestseller GET YOUR SH*T TOGETHER In THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC...
Survival in the Killing Fields
Best known for his academt award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and...
Lawless: A lawyer's unrelenting fight for justice in a war zone
In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was thirty-two...
We Will Not Be Saved: A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon
REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'An unforgettable memoir about fighting for your home and your heart.' - Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club November '24 Pick) 'Full of wisdom, sadness, flourishes of...
Journey from the North: A Memoir
After a lifetime of writing a novel every year, Storm Jameson turned to memoir with the ambition 'to write without lying'. The result was an extraordinary reckoning with how she...
Homesickness
'Stunning' - The Guardian 'This is an emotionally moving work that also pushes memoir forward. It asks intriguing questions about what the form can do and be, at the same...
Toy Fights: A Boyhood - 'A classic of its kind' William Boyd
'A classic of its kind.' - William Boyd'Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.' - Scotsman 'A work of dazzling craft.' - Times Literary Supplement 'A memoir in a million.' -...
A Puppy Called Aero: How a Labrador saved a boy with ADHD
Liam Creed was excluded from school more times than he can remember, his outbursts got him into nasty fights, he faced a constant struggle with medication, and his family were...
Name All the Animals
At home, Alison and her parents sleepwalk in shifts. Alison hoards food for her lost brother, hides in the backyard fort they built together, and waits for him to return....
No Safe Place: Murdered by Our Father
"My life will always be in danger. My beautiful sister Banaz Mahmod was murdered in an 'honour killing' ordered by our father and uncle. If those evil men find me,...
I'm Hungry, Daddy
In the tradition of Don't Let Her See Me Cry and The Long Way Home, a starkly beautiful and inspirational true story of the power of love - and how...
Growing Up In A War
A beautifully written evocation of lost world and a vanished childhood, by the author of Clouds of Glory. This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being...