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Almost a Gentleman: an Autobiography 195
Following on from Osborne's first autobiographical book, "A Better Class of Person", this book looks at the period 1955 to 1966. It covers the foundation of the English Stage Company...
Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
"This might be the funniest music book ever written" - Sean O'Hagan, Observer Music Monthly Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands,...
Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong: The
'This book is both heart-rending and gorgeous. It crosses the line many times but ultimately, it's about love. He teaches us humanity.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'Thank you, Joey, for getting your...
Arguments with England
In the days when Australians called England 'home', Michael Blakemore, an eager young man en route to RADA, made the long sea voyage to 1950s London to find himself in...
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more...
Paper Doll: Notes From A Late Bloomer
'AN ESSENTIAL READ FOR ANYONE WITH A HEART' JOE LOCKE, star of Heartstopper 'SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO EXPAND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY' Kristin Chenoweth...
Walking Disaster
This candid memoir of punk rock, fame, and endurance from Deryck Whibley, lead singer of Sum 41, follows Whibley's rise from a punk kid in Canada to an international star....
Free: My Search for Meaning
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...
Free: My Search for Meaning
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...
Redemption Road: A Thug's Journey Towards Enlightenment
Struggling to stay alive with a gaping wound across my back, I desperately wondered how I got to this point. My knife-wielding opponent was not the attacker... He'd been defending...
Remarkable Montana Women
The book titled Remarkable Montana Women by the author Gayle Corbett Shirley. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
America 1933: The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt,
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The first account of the remarkable eighteen-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the...
Where There's a Will
Following the bestselling "Summer of a Dormouse", Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian and erstwhile QC - offers up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. What would...
Priceless: The Memoirs and Mysteries of Britain's No.1 Art Dealer
Roy Miles is one of the most prolific, talented and knowledgeable art dealers in the world. He once owned one of the largest galleries in London: from Canaletto to Gainsborough,...
One Day at a Time: An inspiring memoir about the power of hope and
A treasured son. A rare condition. A memoir of loss and joy and everything in between. My mind is racing. I'm trying to make sense of what the doctors have...
Authentic Cambodian Recipes: From Mother to Daughter
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Authentic Cambodian Recipes: From Mother to Daughter charts the turbulent life story of Sorey Long through authentic Cambodian fare. Together with her daughter Kanika, Sorey gathered her memories and wrote...
Crimeson: From the Dark Streets of Death and Crime in the UNDERBELLY
CrimeSon is the extraordinary story of Justin Gardner's life. Saved from the dark streets of death and crime in Melbourne, he was called by God to reach out to the...
Crocodile Safari Man
Recounts Keith Adams' Tasmanian childhood in the Great Depression and fifty years of extraordinary desert and crocodile safaris in an old Buick to the Gulf of Carpentaria and Borroloola.
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
A Washington Post Book World Rave Harriet McBryde Johnson's witty and highly unconventional memoir opens with a lyrical meditation on death and ends with a bold and unsentimental sermon on...
From The Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey
The astonishing story of a young man's upbringing in a remote tribal village in Burma and his journey from his strife-torn country to the tranquil quads of Cambridge. In lyrical...
The Hacienda: My Venezuelan Years
Married at sixteen to a man twenty years her senior who spoke no English, she was taken to his ancestral home and estate where she found herself living in the...
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...
Lady in Waiting: The charming, word-of-mouth bestseller, with over
** SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** ** SUNDAY TIMES FAVOURITE PAPERBACKS OF 2020** 'The best royal book by miles . . . funny, gossipy and riveting' JANE RIDLEY, SPECTATOR...
The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: Life, Death and Everything Afterwards
In 2004, bad boy Billy Fingers Cohen, a homeless small-time drug dealer and addict in a state of drug induced euphoria, ran into a busy intersection and was killed instantly...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
A Pound Of Paper
By the 1960s a copy of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock without its dust jacket was worth about o500. But with its dust jacket more like o2,000 - if you could...