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Autobiography: general
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
How did a fishmonger's son from Tyneside, growing up in the 1950s with a Geordie accent, become the person who recorded over 900 audiobooks and received an MBE from the queen in the Birthday Honours of 2017. This 'charming', 'entertaining' and 'hear..
13.91£
Brand: Granta Publications
Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul and Philip Roth. From the pleasures, intrigues and c..
13.39£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
In these autobiographical essays by pioneers in the field of animal behavior, the authors discuss childhood, education, moments of discovery, and the attractions of the research that each pursued. The field of animal behavior has been interdisciplin..
64.64£
Brand: Vanguard Press
An Italian city girl living in Chicago has to adjust to life in the 'burbs when she and her husband move and leave her beloved city behind. A no-holds-barred commentary on everything that is wrong with the suburbs ensues, as tales of suburban life d..
10.24£
In association with Planet Books, a new edition of this seminal book of Welsh literature with an introduction by Professor Hazel V. Carby. ISBN: 9781914595219Publisher: Parthian BooksImprint: ParthianPublished date: 01 Sep 2022DEWEY: 942.9085092DEWE..
13.89£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
The hysterical, shocking and incredibly intimate memoir from one of the most original and unique comedians alive today.Hello! I'm Brian Limond, aka Limmy. You might know me from Limmy's Show. Or you might not know me at all. Don't worry if you don't..
13.56£
Brand: Head of Zeus
A book about intense physical and personal experience, narrating how Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of escaping a failing marriage. This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring ho..
12.21£
Every story begins with a word. As a young woman, Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew carried a word within her so potent that it spread through every artery and vein. But she carried it in secret until she was shown a different way and the word inside her tur..
19.49£
In an innovative critique of traditional approaches to autobiography, Anne E. Goldman convincingly demonstrates that ethnic women can and do speak for themselves, even in the most unlikely contexts. Citing a wide variety of nontraditional texts-incl..
28.01£
The sharp, funny recollections of Nettie Baker, eldest daughter of legendary drummer Ginger Baker. From poverty to riches and back, featuring a colourful cast of characters. Famous faces of the music world and aristocracy are scattered throughout th..
19.71£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Aged 21, Owen has lost all his self-worth and self-control. Addicted to crack and trying to get clean, he falls back into the same cycle again and again. Losing his mind and falling deeper into depression, he needs to make a change before he loses h..
13.60£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
English is the world's international language. Consequently, many speakers of other languages have taken great pains to make English their second language, mainly for practical reasons rather than for love of the language itself. Practical reasons i..
27.32£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Since the accession of Xi Jinping as the supreme Chinese leader, the empire has been becoming increasingly aggressive, to the point of bullying. Its so-called "Belt and Road Initiative" seems designed to lure poorer nations into a debt trap, forcing..
29.25£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
In the third and final book of Jess Smith's autobiographical trilogy, Jess traces her eventful life with Dave and their three children, from their earliest years together. Their adventures and achievements are interspersed with stories of her parent..
13.58£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
It doesn't matter whether your own teenage years are a distant memory or only yesterday, you will love this book. If you have your very own living, barely functioning teenager at home, you'll laugh until you cry. Or just cry. If you have younger chi..
14.44£
Having flown an astonishing 400 different aircraft, as a licensed Category 1 test pilot and flight test instructor for both aeroplanes and helicopters, Chris Taylor is arguably one of the best qualified and widely experienced test pilots working tod..
32.48£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
The author always enjoyed a sense of freedom, whether roaming around the Somerset countryside as a child or later on, living offshore with her husband and three daughters on a boat. She considers nothing strictly 'out of bounds', and for seventy yea..
11.22£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
This is a true story of physical, mental and sexual abuse of a child by someone who you trust the most - a father. Taking place in the '60s where this sort of crime was unheard of, let alone reported as nobody believed that it happened, this book is..
12.68£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Life has many different stages, phases, and seasons. There's time for everything, a time to rejoice, a time to cry, and a time to mourn. But no matter where you may find yourself in life, you should know there's no situation or circumstance that God..
20.03£
Brand: Oneworld Publications
WINNER OF THE MARCO POLO OUTSTANDING GENERAL TRAVEL THEMED BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2018 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS The story begins in a public square in New Delhi. On a cold December evening a young European woman of noble descent appe..
13.83£
Deeply funny and deeply sad, this memoir is a frank look into a childs tumultuous mind, a classic story of a working-class girl growing up in the sixties. Her Catholic upbringing, a father torn between daughter and new wife, her irreverent imaginat..
14.77£
Brand: Hodder & Stoughton
'Forget routine; now is the time to embrace the unknown, step out of your comfort zone and open the gateway to the Art of Exploration.''Britain's best loved adventurer' (The Times) talks about his secrets of discovery for the first time in this reve..
20.17£
Novelist Guanlong Cao's autobiographical account of growing up in urban Shanghai affords a rare glimpse into daily life during the forty turbulent years following the Communist Revolution. Forced to the bottom of Chinese society as "class enemies," ..
28.42£
Welsh poet and writer William Henry Davies' 1908 autobiography, detailing the way of life of the tramp during a time of migration and railway building. ISBN: 9781908946072Publisher: Parthian BooksImprint: ParthianPublished date: 01 May 2013DEWEY: 82..
13.85£