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Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian
'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times In Happy-Go-Lucky , David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious,...
In the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction
'I've never read a book like it. It's as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote.' Phoebe Waller-Bridge...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Collins Modern Classics)
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure...
Silk Dreams, Troubled Road
An enthralling and incredible journey through human relationships. While in Islamabad investigating the possibilities of setting up an adventure travel company, Jonny Bealby met the woman of his dreams. Not...
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
Henry Beston planned to spend only two weeks in his newly built cottage on the outer beach of Cape Cod. As summer drifted into autumn, however, he found himself so...
Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
An Amazon Best Memoir of the Month One of Elle Magazine's Best Books of 2017 Goodreads Best of the Month Daily Beast, "Books I Can't Live Without" Good Housekeeping, Best...
The Guv'nor: The Autobiography of Lenny McLean
A tale of one man's triumph against almost insurmountable odds... Lenny McLean was the deadliest bare-knuckle fighter Britain has ever seen. He had dear, powerful friends, but he also had...
Aiming For The Skies
Fay Marles has lived a life of firsts. As Victoria s first Commissioner for Equal Opportunity, she played an instrumental role in the landmark case that resulted in Ansett employing...
Things My Mother Never Told Me
'The must-read book of the year, Blake Morrison writes about his mother with the mind of a poet, the eye of a detective and the heart of a loving son'...
Always You
'I'm not going to tell you that everything happens for a reason. Those words are cold comfort in any traumatic moment. This is what I will say, though: I see...
Paula Yates: the Autobiography
The book titled Paula Yates: the Autobiography by the author Paula Yates. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Reflections Through the Periscope: My love letter to Dad
How does a daughter convey the lifelong influence of an exceptional father, taken far too soon? How does she distil the lessons learned through joy and heartbreak, from the campground...
City Lights: A Street Life
Keith Waterhouse was born into a world that has now vanished - a soot-blackened, tramcar-rattling provincial city, still late Edwardian or even Victorian in many of its ways, but full...
Suburban Boy: Growing Up in South-East London in the 1930s
Adrian Bristow came not from a working- or upper class background, but from that great unsung mass - the lower middle-class. Adrian Bristow describes what it was like to grow...
You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir
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A National Bestseller Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey, star of The White Lotus, Party Girl , and so many other favorite films?...
Notes to Self: Essays
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The international sensation that illuminates the experiences women are supposed to hide-from addiction, anger, sexual assault, and infertility to joy, sensuality, and love. WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK...
Grass Seed in June
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The book titled Grass Seed in June by the author John Martin Robinson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
World within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender
Virtually from its first appearance in 1951, this book was considered one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have come out of the 1930s and 40s. In writing it...
Oi Jimmy Knacker: A Memoir of an East Ender's Childhood
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Oi Jimmy Knacker is a vivid memoir of Ken Kimberley''s childhood and youth in the pre-war East End of London, illustrated in full colour by Ken''s own paintings and sketches.'
Vietnam My Great Escape
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"VIETNAM My Great Escape" takes you on a journey through war torn Vietnam to the streets of Melbourne. From peasant refugee to millionairess with all the twist and turns that...
Hilarity Ensues
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The New York Times bestselling author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell and Assholes Finish First delivers a new collection of thirty 100% true, 100% exclusive stories of...
This Way to the Sea
'How do you like the view?' the real estate agent asks. As if he doesn't know. Horses grazing on flat land below, hillsides of tall trees, uninterrupted ocean views, plumes...
Cracks In The Ceiling
Cracks in the Ceiling is the coming-of-age saga of John Cowell. John is the hugely likeable son of Winifred, whose story he told so movingly in the bestselling biography The...
Letters to His Family
These letters and sketches by Stanford White were left by Lawrence Grant White, when he died in 1956. He had mounted them in beautiful leather-bound books, each impetuously scribbled letter...
Tales from a Bondi Vet: An international hit TV series
Currently starring in CBS'S hit series DR CHRIS: PET VET in the US and delighting audiences in Australia as the host of I'M A CELEBRITY, GET ME OUT OF HERE!,...
A Lifetime of Riches: Revised Edition
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The book titled A Lifetime of Riches: Revised Edition by the author Michael J Ritt, Jr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
In a Single Bound: Losing My Leg, Finding Myself, and Training for
This is the story of how a feisty little girl from Long Island became one of the world's most famous disabled sports figures.
Food And Loathing
In FOOD AND LOATHING a bright, chubby girl believes that thinness is next to godliness, and so attends one of the first meetings of Overeaters Anonymous in 1975. Her twenties...
Paris or Die
Sharp, funny and unflinchingly honest, Jayne Tuttle's story lifts you off the page and into a Paris far beyond the postcards. This new edition of Paris or Die is a...
Ngoanyana: A South African Story
Ngoanyana: A South African story is a vivid portrayal of growing up White in apartheid-era South Africa. John Nieuwenhuysen's privileged upbringing on a South African farm as the grandson of...
Diaries: 1967-87
For over three decades Roy Sstrong has teased, tantalised, amused and sometimes enraged the British public, firstly in his capacity as the Director of two great cultural institutions, the National...
Well Remembered Friends: Eulogies on Celebrated Lives
A fascinating collection of memorial addresses on celebrated lives including WH Auden by Stephen Spender, Peter Cook by Alan Bennett, Kingsley Amis by Martin Amis, Stanley Matthews by Jimmy Armfield,...
The Letters
The painter, Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was also an accomplished writer, and this collection of his letters provides both a self-portrait and a picture of the contemporary cultural scene. The...
The Path To Freedom: Freedom in Exile and Ancient Wisdom, Modern World
FREEDOM IN EXILE - Here, in his own words, The Dalai Lama describes what it was like to grow up revered as a deity among his people, reveals his innermost...
Basil Street Blues and Mosaic
Michael Holroyd is one of the finest biographers of our time yet he was never interested in exploring his own family s history until the death of his parents in...
Driving with Dead People
At nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. Small wonder, with a father who drives his Ford pick up with a Kodak movie camera...
Sky Swimming: Reflections on auto/biography, people and place
'Late afternoon. An isolated lagoon, water glassy, teeming with birdlife-black swans, ducks, a pelican. Sunset begins to tint the sky. I point the camera at the water to catch the...
In Search of Silence: A memoir of finding life after loss
Winner of Red Magazine's Book of the Year 2019 'Raw, poetic and breathtaking' Fearne Cotton 'It is rare to find an author who writes with such authenticity, empathy and humour....
Committed: A Love Story
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At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when...
A Writing Life: Celebrating Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer began her writing life at a relatively young age. In 1991, that life received the ultimate recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In this...
Goodbye Soldier
In "Goodbye Soldier" the central pool of artists, now rechristened the combined services entertainment, complete with Gunner Miligan, now rechristened Lance-Bambardier, makes its way across Europe, via romantic Rome and...
The Secret Mothers' Club
One night, eight women, no kids, and no holding back ... Based on true conversations with real women, The Secret Mothers' Club is a funny, irreverent and often heartbreaking look...
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female,
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of The Roots' 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018 "A writer to be reckoned with." -Roxane Gay Named one of the Most Anticipated...
Manuscripts Don't Burn
In his own lifetime, Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov was scarcely published. A quarter of a century after his death, his novel, "The Master and the Margarita", has become...