Biography

"Autobiography" covers Morrissey's life from his birth until the present day. Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982 1987),...

In late summer 1940, Hitler told his army to prepare to invade England. The nation waited, breathless with tension, for the Nazi threat to become real. Acclaimed author Midge Gillies...

Wry, off-beat and subversive - a Jewish family memoir like no other, from the author of the cult classic novel Submarine Joe Dunthorne's great-grandfather was a family legend: the eccentric...

'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN 'A masterpiece ' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... funny and moving' ADAM...

After years behind bars, hundreds of men and women with incontrovertible proof of their innocence have been released from America's prisons. They were wrongfully convicted because of problems that plague...

More than Nadja Spiegelman's father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and more than most mothers, hers - French-born New Yorker art director Fran oise Mouly - exerted a force over reality...

Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and...

In 1970's New York, the ruthless Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in more than a million dollars a day. At the height of his...

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of...

Two-time Dakar Rally champion, seven-time Finke Desert Race winner, FIM World Rally Champion and one of Australia's most popular motorsports athletes shares his inspiring story of every bump in the...

Set in humanitarian disaster zones around the world, Tsunami and the Single Girl is the story of Krissy Nicholson's journey to become an aid worker and her (seemingly) never-ending search...

The first book to tell the full story of Eleanor Roosevelt's unprecedented and courageous trip to the Pacific Theater during World War II. On August 27, 1943, news broke in...

The incredible true story of how a street-fighting petty criminal, who was kicked out of school at fourteen, became one of Australia's most celebrated and successful portrait artists. Raised amid...

A fascinating, definitive, and very personal rumination on the history, science, philosophy, art, and literature of walking, by a skilled cultural commentator. Geoff Nicholson, author of Bleeding London and Sex...

It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and...

'Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book' Marian Keyes 'This book made me cry' Sara Cox After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her...

Step inside Louis' life like never before as he turns his critical eye on himself, his home, and family and tries to make sense of our weird and sometimes scary...

An exciting account of the international adventures of fashion model Pat Cleveland-one of the first black supermodels during the wild sixties and seventies. "Taking her reader through fifty years of...

The Great Storm of 1987 is etched firmly into the national memory. Everyone who was there that night remembers how hurricane force winds struck southern Britain without warning, claiming eighteen...

From Cradle to Stage shares stories and exclusive photos featuring mothers of rock icons, the icons themselves, and their Behind the Music-style relationships While the Grohl family had always been...

'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness was laughter and time. With enough of both of these things...

'Growing up in Queens, I didn't know being named Shenequa was considered "ghetto" or uncouth. It was only later in life that I realized I was being judged by a...

BLACK RAINBOW is the powerful first-person story of one woman's struggle with depression and how she managed to recover from it through the power of poetry. In 1997, Oxford graduate,...

'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard Osman Whatever I now know about life - or think I know - I found out through failure, disappointment, mortification. I'm writing it...

CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST NATURE WRITING BOOKS OF 2024 'A beautiful book' Greg James There's no love quite like that between a dog and their human....

This moving and poignant work gives the reader a rare insight into the contented 'milk and honey' life of a simple Afghan family before the civil war ripped their country...

Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth always makes news. From Hollywood to murder trials to the corridors of politics, this National Magazine Award winner covers lives led in public, on camera, in...

In this hilarious romp through England, one of America's preeminent humorists seeks the answer to an eternal question: What makes the Brits tick? One semitropical Fourth of July, Joe Queenan's...

'There is no good flock without a good shepherd, and no good shepherd without good dogs.' These age-old words of wisdom have always guided Devon sheep farmer David Kennard. But...

The Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller We all know that growing up is hard to do, and sometimes the only thing that makes it better are the reassuring words of...

Nostalgic book takes you back to a different age, remembering what life was like for those growing up in the 1930s. Do you remember collecting birds' eggs and cigarette cards?...

The book titled Dickens by the author Peter Ackroyd. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The popular film stars best known for their respective appearances in the latest Star Wars trilogy recount their three-month, 20,000-mile motorbike journey through some of the harshest terrains on earth,...

Kim Phuc was nine years old in 1972. Severely burned by napalm, she ran from her burning village and was captured on film. Denise Chong relates Kim's experience and recovery...

The book titled The Australian Light Horse by the author Roland Perry. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

There is something different about adventurers; about the way their minds work. They look at the world as a place of challenges and though they know what fear is, they...

'Composed of heartbreak, hope, poignancy and candor... Kabul Beauty School is laid out masterfully, pulling readers in from the very first page.' LOS ANGELES TIMES Enter the war-torn capital of...

When Mrs Jerry Newsham read one of Australia's favourite books, "Over the Top With Jim", she liked it so much she sent it to the presenter of her favourite radio...

the European settlement of terra Australis was motivated by a desire to find somewhere to put people who didn t fit in. Right from the start Australia has taken that...

The Jimmy Choo founder's jaw-dropping account of her life in the fashion business 'From her troubled childhood and her time as a young editor, to her partnership with Jimmy Choo...

In her mid 30s and trying to make sense of her floundering relationship, Regina is restless. Throwing caution into the wind, she books herself a one-way ticket to the Caribbean...

... We had become radicalised during the rise of urban policy in Labor's opposition program, and now we were working for them in government ... As a technocrat in the...

'These days, watching television is like sitting in the back of Travis Bickle's taxicab, staring through the window at a world of relentless, churning shod . . .'Cruel, acerbic, impassioned,...

Louis Ferrante was a young rogue who made his reputation on the streets of New York and later hooked up with the infamous John Gotti Jr and the Gambino crime...

Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world's most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia,...

As recalled in Honky , Dalton Conley's childhood has all of the classic elements of growing up in America. But the fact that he was one of the few white...