Biography - Secondhand

This is the true story of a boy who wanted to grow up with the Brady Bunch, but ended up living with the Addams Family...

Earlier this year, a dog danced his way into the history books as the first canine winner of Britain's Got Talent . En route to the title, Pudsey and his...

Lee Evans is one of the best-loved comedians in the country; a Hollywood star able to sell out arenas in the blink of eye. But he was not always such...

My Animals and Other Family by Clare Balding is a funny, brave, tender story of self-discovery 'I had spent most of my childhood thinking I was a dog, and suspect...

Author: A.L. RowseBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, London, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsA Cornishman Abroad presents a captivating collection of observations and reflections from a distinguished...

Author: edited by Enzo OrlandiBinding: HardbackPublished: Paul Hamlyn, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThe Life and Times of Washington, edited by Enzo Orlandi and...

Author: Virginia HaggardBinding: HardbackPublished: Donald I. Fine, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling memoir, "My Life With Chagall: Seven Years Of Plenty With The Master As Told...

Author: J C SmutsBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1952Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cloth in good condition. Tears on...

Author: Compton MackenzieBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto and Windus, 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCompton Mackenzie’s My Life and Times: Octave Two,...

Author: Patrick WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: London, Jonathan Cape, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFlaws In The Glass: A Self-Portrait presents an intimate and unvarnished look into the life and...

Author: Dame Mabel BrookesBinding: HardbackPublished: MACMILLAN, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsMemoirs chronicles the extraordinary life of Dame Mabel Brookes, offering an intimate look into her experiences as...

Author: Malcolm MuggeridgeBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn A Valley Of This Restless Mind presents a compelling collection of essays and reflections from the incisive...

Author: Justin KaplanBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerJustin Kaplan's Walt Whitman: A Life chronicles the extraordinary journey of one...

Author: Townsend HoopesBinding: HardbackPublished: Andre Deutsch, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spine and some minor wear to corners, previous owner name...

Author: Ross McmullinBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWill Dyson: Cartoonist, Etcher And Australia's Finest War Artist" chronicles the remarkable life and artistic...

Author: Leon JaworskiBinding: HardbackPublished: Gulf Publishing Houston, 1961Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Beige cloth in good condition. Light foxing on book...

Author: Meryle SecrestBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight lean to book. Meryle Secrest's "Kenneth Clark: A Biography" chronicles the...

Author: Alan CarterBinding: HardbackPublished: The Australian Antique Trader, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spine, previous owner name insideThis is a book...

Author: Oswald ZieglerBinding: HardbackPublished: Oswald Ziegler, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsER II: 25 Years, edited and published by Oswald Ziegler, presents a richly...

Author: Alasdair McgregorBinding: PaperbackPublished: Viking - Penguin, 2009Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Small bruise on spine. Light bumping on corners. Light...

Author: Lucy IrvineBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has minor wear at corners/edges, previous owner name insideThis book chronicles the harrowing...

Author: Patricia CockburnBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, Hogarth Press, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Spine and top of dust jacket have tanning (see photo), page edges...

Author: Brian SweeneyBinding: HardbackPublished: Clouston and Hall, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling memoir chronicles the unique journey and perspectives of Brian Sweeney. Through a series of candid...

Author: Rod MarshBinding: HardbackPublished: Lansdowne Publishing, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket spine has tanningThis compelling memoir chronicles the illustrious career of one of cricket's...

Author: Wilfrid BluntBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Russell, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has light tanning along spine, This compelling autobiography, "Married To A Single Life,"...

Author: Cecil LewisBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spine and front, first page has previous owner marks and remains...

Author: Susan CheeverBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket price clippedThis intimate memoir, "Home Before Dark," chronicles the complex life and...

Author: Joyce NicholsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Nelson, Australia, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical fiction novel, "The Convict's Daughter" by Joyce Nicholson, chronicles the life of Sarah, a young...

"Anything Goes" gave you the story so far. "I Am What I Am" reveals more about the man behind the television sensation, focusing on John's unique approach to life and...

The award-winning actress and New York Timesbestselling author pens the funniest, most accessible and timely book of her career, detailing all the things she's over ... and a few things...

Volume 2: The Heroic Delusion Winner of the John W. Dafoe Prize for Distinctive Writing This volume describes in fascinating detail the abiding liberal Pierre Trudeau's quixotic confrontations with his...

An intelligent, inspiring book about the author's quest to find purpose with profit for his company, helping readers with businesses of all sizes to see the value of ethical policies...

'What a story and what an inspirational human. Ed is a total legend.' Joe Wicks 'A life-affirming story . . . inspirational' Tim Peake As seen in the Daily Mail...

No one is more responsible for Britain's current obsession with celebrity culture than the late, great gossip columnist Nigel Dempster (1941-2007). For a quarter of a century, as the editor...

Everyone has an opinion about Winnie Mandela, and usually a strong one. She has been adored, feared and hates more than any other women in South African history. But few...

Inspired by a celebrated photographic exhibition in Sydney last year, First Kiss is a collection of Lisa Tomasetti's gloriously intimate portraits of couples along with interviews by actor and journalist,...

While on a business trip to Singapore in 1992, 41-year-old Peter Couche, a London-based stockbroker and father of three, suffered an irreversible brain-stem stroke. Twenty-four hours later he was paralysed:...

A 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile run make up the Ironman triathlon. It's not for the faint-hearted. What possesses an overweight, thirty-something librarian who can't swim,...

Rod Laver's memoir is the inspiring story of how a diminutive, left-handed, red-headed country boy from Rockhampton became one of Australia's greatest every sporting champions. Rod was a dominant force...

Autobiographical and idiosyncratic, this is a collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings, assembled by Bennett himself from 25 years of diaries, reminiscences, broadcasting and reviews. It includes his address at...

Along with my own personal story, I am going to write down a few things that may amuse you (or even take you down some other emotional path) and I'll...

As war rages in her beloved homeland and her husband is taken away to fight in it, a young mother faces the most difficult decision of her life -- which...

With humor and insight, John Glassie returns Kircher to his rightful place as one of history's most unforgettable figures. The interests of Athanasius Kircher, the legendary seventeenth-century priest-scientist, knew no...

Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told. THE MATRIARCH tells the riveting tale of a woman...

IN THIS LUMINOUS MEMOIR, LEGENDARY SINGER AND ACTRESS NATALIE COLE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, AND THE STORY OF A DEATH THAT BROUGHT NEW LIFE. In...

Describes the Clintons' troubled marriage and why they have remained married in spite of the President's infidelities.