Biography

The book titled Is There A Moderate on the Roo by the author Tom Molomby. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In a nostalgic, yet nimble telling of his boyhood in Flushing, Michigan, Edmund Love notes that he was born into a world that ceased to exist almost as soon as...

In this elegant and affecting companion to her "extraordinary" memoir, Borrowed Finery, a young writer flings herself into a Europe ravaged by the Second World War (The Boston Globe) In...

Arriving at Ridgewell Air Base in Cambrideshire in July 1943, at a time when the loss rate for bomber crews was at its highest during the war, John Comer miraculously...

The book titled One Day at a Time: A Vietnam Diary by the author D.J. Dennis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Underestimated until recently in America, Melanie Klein was a leading figure in psychoanalytic circles from the 1920s until her death in 1960. From the moment she read Freud's paper On...

In May 1930, Amy Johnson, a typist from Hull, took off from Croydon Airport with a thermos flask and a packet of sandwiches to try to beat the world solo...

One of the greatest reporters of his day writes a brilliant and typically opinionated account of how the British press has reported key moments in our history. Through many decades...

I don't write about my experiences with depression to defend the legitimacy of my pain. My pain is real; it does not come to me because of my lifestyle, and...

The book titled Virginia Woolf by the author James King. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"Darius has always been one of my favorite people to sing with and to call a friend in this industry and yet even knowing him well for as long as...

A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themself WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD Amrou knew they...

The police. Theyre digging in the scrapyard . Cal Lovett has spent half his life telling other peoples stories on his true crime podcast. But the police are close to...

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...

'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.

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...

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...

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

'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...

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...

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,...

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 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....

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...

'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...

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'What will we find in the uncut grass? 'It depends on what we're looking for.' From the author of the #1 bestselling Born a Crime...

"An important and necessary book... a work of honesty and humanity," Mishal Husain "This is a unique and necessary book. The Good Russian takes us inside wartime Russia, to a...

The war letters of Arthur Alan Mitchell 1939-45. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Alan Mitchell was a foreman at McPherson's bolt factory in Richmond. Eileen Griffin was...