Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP4147

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP4147

Twenty-one biographies and memoirs, nearly all hardback with jackets: Flea’s Acid for the Children, Will Sergeant’s Echoes, Mike Love’s Good Vibrations, Tom Bower’s Revenge, Mark Watson’s Mortification, Tommy Jessop, Patricia Wiltshire’s Nature of Life and Death, The King’s Speech, Don Vito and the Mafia, Ravi Shastri, Lucasta Miller’s L.E.L., Ben Yagoda’s B-Side and more. Music, royals, crime, cricket and an Australian flying vet.

1. My Family and the Galapagos — Monty Halls — The Channel 4 marine biologist takes his wife and small daughters to live on the islands. Iguanas on the beach, and the kids in the water with them. Hardback.
2. Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy — Mike Love with James S. Hirsch — The cousin who sang the hits and fought with Brian Wilson for fifty years tells his side. Self-serving and fascinating. Hardback.
3. The B-Side — Ben Yagoda — The death of Tin Pan Alley and the rebirth of the great American song: how Sinatra and the LP saved Gershwin and Porter from rock and roll. The best book on the American songbook since Alec Wilder’s.
4. Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them — Mark Watson — The comedian on the moments that killed him on stage and off. Brilliant, says Jason Manford; hilarious, says Sara Pascoe. Hardback.
5. A Life Worth Living — Tommy Jessop — The first actor with Down’s syndrome to star in a prime-time drama, Line of Duty, on acting, activism and everything else. Simply wonderful, says Stephen Fry. Hardback.
6. The Nature of Life and Death — Patricia Wiltshire — Every body leaves a trace: the forensic ecologist who solves murders from pollen on a shoe. Tales from forty years of crime scenes. Hardback.
7. Three Dads Walking — Tim Owen, Mike Palmer & Andy Airey — Three fathers who each lost a daughter to suicide walk 300 miles between their homes. Foreword by Dan Walker; an epic journey, says Lou Macari. Hardback.
8. Every Second Counts — Donald McRae — The race to transplant the first human heart: Barnard, Shumway, Lower and Kantrowitz, 1967, told as a thriller. From the award-winning In Black and White author.
9. Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors — Tom Bower — The number-one Sunday Times bestseller, and the most hostile account of the Sussexes in print. Explosive, says the Sun. Hardback.
10. Stargazing: The Players in My Life — Ravi Shastri — The Indian all-rounder and coach on the cricketers he’s played with and against, from Gavaskar to Kohli. HarperCollins India hardback.
11. L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon — Lucasta Miller — The celebrated female Byron, the most famous woman poet of the 1820s, dead at thirty-six in West Africa with a bottle of prussic acid. Miller’s rediscovery, and the best literary biography of its year.
12. The Flying Vet — Dr Ameliah Scott — A young vet flies herself to station properties across outback New South Wales. Her journey to the skies and the people and animals of the outback. Australian, hardback.
13. The Power in You — Rachaele Hambleton — How to live and love your life, from the Part-Time Working Mummy blogger. Sunday Times bestseller.
14. Dead Gods: The 27 Club — Chris Salewicz — Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Cobain and Winehouse, by the NME veteran who interviewed half of them.
15. Acid for the Children — Flea — The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist on growing up in Melbourne and LA, the drugs, the jazz, and meeting Anthony Kiedis at fifteen. Harrowing but hilarious, says the Guardian, and the best rock memoir of its decade.
16. Echoes: A Memoir Continued — Will Sergeant — The Echo and the Bunnymen guitarist on the band’s early days, from the Bunnyman author. A magical record of Echo and the Bunnymen’s turquoise days, says the TLS. Sunday Times bestseller.
17. The King’s Speech — Mark Logue & Peter Conradi — How one man saved the British monarchy: Lionel Logue’s diaries, discovered by his grandson, and the real story behind the film. Hardback.
18. Don Vito and the Mafia — Massimo Ciancimino with Francesco La Licata — Living with my father’s secrets: the son of Palermo’s Mafia mayor on what he saw.
19. Death in the Afternoon — Ernest Hemingway — Bullfighting, death and how to write about them, with the Thurber Carnival alongside in the box. Penguin.
20. The Thurber Carnival — James Thurber — The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the drawings, and the fables. Orange Penguin.