Biography

In the hours after September 11, 2001, Aaron Tait deployed to the Persian Gulf as a seventeen-year-old military officer. This is the story of what happened next. Far Horizons is...

Flight to Fame , a classic adventure story, tells the hair-raising tale of the world-first flight from England to Australia, in the words of the pilot, (Sir) Ross Smith. In...

Glines provides a full and compelling portrait of a Norwegian American pilot overshadowed in his lifetime by Admiral Richard Byrd but whose expertise and vision continue to guide trans-Artic a...

In this guide to science and society, a cosmologist argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong. Years ago, cosmologist Stephon...

*AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'* 'Lip-lickingly, dance-around-the-living-room good... A smash hit' Observer 'Unflinching and heartwarming' - Adam Kay 'Tender, clever and as funny as it...

'The passages he addresses directly to Phoebe are as tender as the father-daughter letters in Karl Ove Knausgaard's Seasons Quartet' Times Literary Supplement 'This book tells the inspiring story of...

'I always wanted kids - but then again, I always wanted a loft conversion. Both are pretty easy to put off as they're very expensive and tend to wreck your...

Steve Backshall's love affair with the mountains has taken him to some of the world's wildest places, environments that have the power to make a human being feel very small,...

The book titled Into the Sun by the author Claude Thompson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Fred Mckay by the author Maisie McKenzie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Jack and Lem explores the enduring friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne Billings (aka "Lem"). Jack Kennedy and Lem Billings met at Choate and remained friends until the...

In the mouth-watering tradition of POMEGRANATE SOUP, a food writer finds her way back home to that most hauntingly beautiful, tragic and dynamic of cities, Beirut, through the dishes of...

An updated edition of this comprehensive reference book on deceased rock luminaries. It features obituaries of performers, writers, producers, managers and critics who have died since the emergence of rock'n'roll...

This book is a dramatic account of the making of a family of 'subversives' in Australia and the USSR during the Cold War. It also captures the texture of everyday...

Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and respected guitarists of...

Recounts the story of a seventeen-year-old German Jew hiding in Paris who set in motion the events that led to World War II.

The book titled A Damned Serious Business by the author Sir Rex Harrison. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical...

The book titled Jean Batten: The Garbo of the Skies by the author Ian Mackersey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'A must-read memoir that you'll want to share with all the women in your life' MICHELLE OBAMA 'A work...

The book titled Razzle Dazzle by the author Moira Watson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"She has a strange and wonderful mind, and the ability to speak it with enduring grace." - The New Yorker "A stand up ecstatic. . . . Like all great...

'The Leibniz biography for our time. It is difficult to even begin to do justice to his rich spirit, but Kempe succeeds' Daniel Kehlmann, author of Measuring the World Gottfried...

Writer and performer Hannah Silva interrogates her life with the input of two unreliable narrators - an algorithm and a toddler. Her living exploration of undoing and redoing love and...

King James, the greatest of all time. Named 'The Chosen One' at just age 17, and with the iconic number 23 set to retire with him at the end of...

Finnish-born writer Katja Pantzar was raised and educated in Canada, where the consumerist and materially obsessed culture left her feeling empty and unhappy. When she received treatment for depression in...

At last, here is the u ltimate celebration of the nation's beloved sitcom from its legendary creator, John Cleese. Enjoy the behind-the-scenes magic, with stunning on-set photographs from the archives...

When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music,...

'Norman Parkinson will never go out of style' VOGUE Meet the man who invented style. Through his beautiful photographs for British, American, French and Australian Vogue magazines, Norman Parkinson defined...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER " My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty...

Features the real-life saga of the experiences of the Pushman family in the Second World War. Illustrated with family photographs, this book gives the reader a personal glimpse into both...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2919 A wide-ranging memoir and biography box — major literary lives of Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Archibald MacLeish; Naipaul's India: A Million Mutinies...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2918 A diverse memoir box anchored by major literary and critical lives — Jeffrey Meyers on Edmund Wilson, John Barnes on Joseph Furphy,...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2916 Eighteen lives ranging across continents and centuries — Ranulph Fiennes on his extraordinary family history, Mary Robinson's authorised biography, Elizabeth Longford's memoirs,...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2912 Eighteen lives from across the world — David Remnick's biography of Barack Obama, Billy Connolly on the road, Sameem Ali's account of...

Secondhand Sports & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2914 A box spanning sporting memoir, broadcasting biography, and personal story — two Michael Parkinsons (his sporting life and his full autobiography), Ricky...

Secondhand Cricket & Australian Sports Biography Bargain Book Box SP2913 A cricket-heavy sports biography box dominated by the Don — three Bradman volumes (Our Don Bradman, Remembering Bradman, and the...

Secondhand Australian Natural History Bargain Book Box SP2935 Fifteen volumes from the beloved Periwinkle Colour Series — Australia's classic illustrated guides to native wildlife and natural environments, published from the...

Secondhand History & Biography Bargain Book Box SP2941 From the courts of Henry VIII to the Burma Railway, from the Congress of Berlin to the Elizabethan stage — this box...

Secondhand Biography, Memoir & Travel Bargain Book Box SP2939 This box won't keep still — it moves from Arctic ice to rural Provence, from Cambodian brothels to AFL football grounds,...

The astonishing true story of Heinrich Himmler's masseur who used his influence over the S.S. commander to save the lives of over a hundred thousand people, including sixty thousand Jews....

'I want to eat everything in this book every single day for the rest of my life.' James Acaster From Spaced and Hot Fuzz to Paul and Truth Seekers ,...

In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly discover filthy graffiti and frightening dogs, as well as...

After forty years in the Hells Angels, George Christie was ready to retire. As the president of the notorious Ventura chapter for the club, he had been the yin to...

'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary 'A...

Marking the forty-fifth anniversary of Apollo 11Õs moon landing, First Man by James Hansen offers the only authorized glimpse into the life of AmericaÕs most famous astronaut, Neil ArmstrongÑthe man...

An utterly riveting, moving and poignant memoir of grief and loss that will speak to anyone who's ever lost someone they love. 'P rofoundly moving, both a tender love letter...

"I am a work in progress. There are times when I feel in control and like I know what I'm doing...and there are times (quite a few)(actually lots) when I've...