Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2899

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2899

From Harold Evans in Fleet Street to the Prince of Wales writing to his married mistress — eighteen lives at full volume, from wartime trenches to a year in China to a quarter-life crisis on the far side of the world.

1. Confessions of a New Boy — Donald Horne (Penguin) — the second volume of Horne's autobiography, charting his years in Sydney journalism with his characteristic dry wit.
2. Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I — Stephen O'Shea — O'Shea walks the entire Western Front on foot, uncovering what the landscape still holds.
3. Further Particulars — C.H. Rolph — the second volume of memoirs from the journalist and social commentator who wrote under the name C.H. Rolph.
4. Plumer: The Soldiers' General — Geoffrey Powell (Pen & Sword Military Classics) — the biography of Field Marshal Plumer, one of the Great War's most effective and decent commanders.
5. Letters from a Prince: Edward, Prince of Wales to Mrs Freda Dudley Ward, March 1918–January 1921 — ed. Rupert Godfrey — the love letters of the future King Edward VIII, intimate, passionate, and revealing.
6. Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev — Robert Dessaix — Dessaix follows Turgenev across Europe, meditating on love, illness, and the writing life.
7. Connie Sweetheart: The Story of Connie Robertson — Valerie Lawson (William Heinemann Australia) — the biography of one of Australia's most remarkable women journalists.
8. The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China — Rosemary Mahoney — a memoir of teaching English in China in the 1980s, acute and affectionate.
9. A Scar is Also Skin: A Memoir of Stroke, Heart Attack and Remaking — Ben Mckelvey — a searching account of medical crisis and the slow reconstruction of a life.
10. Tuning Out: My Quarter-Life Crisis — Katrina Blowers — a frank and funny account of leaving a successful career to work out what actually matters.
11. A Girl in Paris: A Persian Encounter with the West — Shusha Guppy — the memoir of an Iranian woman discovering Paris, music, and the possibilities of a life between cultures.
12. Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime — Scott Simon — the NPR broadcaster's moving account of his mother's final weeks, told in real time through Twitter.
13. S.J. Perelman: A Life — Dorothy Herrmann — a biography of the great American humorist, beloved by the Marx Brothers and Groucho in particular.
14. The Mighty Franks: A Memoir — Michael Frank — a brilliantly controlled memoir of a larger-than-life Hollywood aunt and the family she shaped and distorted.
15. Give Me Excess of It — Richard Gill — the memoir of a life in music, teaching, and the joys of excess.
16. Breakfast with Beaverbrook: Memoirs of an Independent Woman — Ann Moyal — the Australian historian's account of her extraordinary life in science, history, and public affairs.
17. Father, Dear Father: Life with Woodrow Wyatt — Petronella Wyatt — Petronella Wyatt's portrait of her father, the flamboyant Labour peer turned Thatcher confidant.
18. My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times — Harold Evans — the legendary Sunday Times editor's memoir of Fleet Street's golden age and the journalists who made it.