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'Nemonte's writing is as provocative as it is inspiring' EMMA THOMPSON ' One of the most effective leaders for indigenous rights and environmental justice' LAURENE POWELL JOBS 'I'm here to...

The inspiration for seasons one and two of the hit Netflix series Sex/Life One woman's secret journal completely changes her marriage in this hilarious and biting memoir. School psychologists aren't...

Imagine a former French major getting vocabulary tips from her young children! That was the experience of Kristin Espinasse, an American who fell in love with a Frenchman and moved...

These memoirs by novelist and historian Pete r Vansittart chart his literary course from early childhood through schooldays to the present, as author of over forty w orks of fiction...

Bestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed "Super Shopper Suzy" by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt, breezy, and funny story of starting over in Paris. Suzy had...

Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else did Judith's husband persuade her to give up her career and move from her beloved London to Northumberland with two toddlers in tow?...

In a delightful book, Nicholas Henderson turns the pages of a varied and interesting life, and remembers. The memories are mostly portraits, often triggered off by passing incidents. The subjects...

Years later, when I found my mother, I asked, 'Why did you let me go?' My mother told me, in a very soft voice, 'My son, you were going to...

The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...

Nicola Barry grew up in well-to-do Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Her father was a hospital consultant, her mother was medically trained, her brothers boarders at public school. But behind the closed doors...

Norman Lewis recounts the first half of his adventurous life with his dry, infectious, laconic wit. He takes us on a journey that transforms a stammering schoolboy into a worldly-wise...

This is a journey both into a time and a place - the South of Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The author describes a childhood outside the main currents...

"Even if you have never thrilled to the drone of powerful cars jockeying for position on a racetrack," writes London's "Literary Review, ""Miranda Seymour's biography of the daring female driver...

Henry Adams has been called an indispensable figure in American thought. Although he famously "took his own life" in the autobiographical Education of Henry Adams , his letters-more intimate and...

This is his account of the new life-journey he embarked on back then. It is a self-help book for cynics, in which it becomes clear that "going Buddhist" is neither...

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...

These extraordinary tales will leave you breathless, dazzled, and inspired by King's persistence and sheer courage in bringing history to life. Over the last 40 years, Jonathan King has brought...

On April 20, 1999, Kacey Ruegsegger Johnson was a newly transferred junior at Columbine High School. As she sat down to read a magazine in the school library, she had...

For readers of Hyperbole and a Half and Am I There Yet ?, Bless the Messy is a compassionate, distinctive, and voice-driven illustrated personal growth book, one that gives readers...

There was one subject that was never mentioned when Helena Frith Powell was growing up - her eccentric Italian father. But one day a letter arrived saying that he wanted...

The true story of a woman torn between two worlds. The true story of a woman torn between two worlds. Michelle Nouri was born in Prague but grew up in...

Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the , a ,...

The book titled R. D. Laing: A Biography by the author Adrian Laing. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In her stunning memoir, Wendy Lawless tells the often heartbreaking tale of her unconventional upbringing with an unstable alcoholic and suicidal mother-a real-life Holly Golightly turned Mommie Dearest-and the uncommon...

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....

Growing up on the streets of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s, the author of this autobiography was poor, Irish-Catholic and fatherless. According to his mother, who fought...

Bearded Tit is Rory McGrath's story of life among birds. From a Cornish boyhood wandering gorse-tipped cliffs listening to the song of the yellowhammer with his imaginary girlfriend, or drawing...

A New York Times Editors' Choice One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "A beautifully wrought ode to life...a precious gift to the world." - The Washington Post From...

Baptised in the Birmingham Oratory by a follower of Cardinal Newman, Lavinia Byrne lived a devout and pious Catholic childhood. It brought her to the Convent, which she entered at...

The book titled Two Sides of the Moon by the author David Scott. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Martin Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to Tel Aviv bureau chief for NBC News. His extraordinary, real-life adventure...

Hoping to improve her Chinese and broaden her cultural horizons, Rachel DeWoskin went to work for an American PR firm in China. Before she knew it, she was not just...

LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 `Nothing wilfully invented. Memory invents unbidden.' The 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades's detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were...

On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York. The parents who are determined to get their...

Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she...

'Compelling... This is a captivating account of Glossip's fight for truth.' - Sir Richard Branson A tense mix of Dead Man Walking and Making a Murderer, Surviving Execution combines the...

Your guide to finding your inner power and living a life you LOVE Finding light in the dark can be hard when life takes you on a rollercoaster of highs...

Your guide to finding your inner power and living a life you LOVE Finding light in the dark can be hard when life takes you on a rollercoaster of highs...

The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania looks back on his life behind his famous exploits and unveils a major new discovery on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of...

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn't commit - and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though...

This story poses a profound question - do we accept the hand that fate deals us, or do we battle to make the most of the life we have and...

Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a lady's maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat. R aising two...

Separated from her brother Bryan, and passed from caretaker to caretaker, Jenny discovers -- as she rebels her way through high school and into adulthood -- that the past can...

Frances Partridge is the oldest surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. Most of its leading members she knew well - Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Virginia Woolf - and this book...

When his marriage ended, Peter Nichols had to sell the only thing he and his wife owned- their boat. With only his sextant, his instincts as a seasoned sailor and...