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Brand: Random House
Garlic and Sapphires is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted and highly prestigious job of New York Times restaurant critic. Reichl knows that to be a good critic she h..
13.40£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' Barack ObamaMaya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving th..
13.02£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
"For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented, and acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner of The Color Purple. She intimately explores her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a wri..
37.94£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
The extraordinary, bestselling memoir from Japan's foremost geisha.'A glimpse into the exotic, mysterious, tinged-with-eroticism world of the almost mythical geisha' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail'[An] eloquent and innovative memoir' The Times 'I can iden..
13.23£
This acclaimed autobiography by one of the twentieth century's greatest satirical artists is as much a graphic portrait of Germany in chaos after the Treaty of Versailles as it is a memoir of a remarkable artist's development. Grosz's account of a w..
32.52£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
In January 1988, aged twelve, Martin Pistorius fell inexplicably sick. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound, being cared for at centres for severely disabled children. What no-one knew is that while Martin's body remained unrespon..
11.79£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Odette grew up on Hardinge Road directly across from the ocean. Everyday upon waking, she would rush outside to view the sea. Was it calm, with the sun dappling on the water, or was it stormy, with the waves crashing onto the shore? The sea was part..
13.76£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood … A masterpiece.' Rachel CuskGiving Up the Ghost is the shocking and beautiful memoir, from the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light'Giving up the Ghost' is award-winning novelist Hilary Ma..
13.02£
Brand: Random House
Have you ever kept a diary? This is the diary of a young girl growing up in sixties America - an honest account of teenage life. But as well as discovering new friends, dating and going to parties, the author of this diary discovers something else: ..
12.69£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
No good story ever started with: "I checked into my five-star hotel and ordered a pina colada." Mine starts with: "So, I'm dancing around the witch doctor's coffin in a small village on the Thai/Myanmar border." Grab your passport and come with me o..
14.41£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occup..
10.19£ 10.22£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Would you expect a suburban Melbourne solicitor to settle brothel brawls, to locate dead bodies and to search for buried bullion? The author relates all of these adventures and more as he explores engaging stories of humanity, gleaned from decades o..
12.98£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
In her The New York Times best-selling Between You & Me (ISBN 978 0 393 352146), Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's celebrated copy department. ..
20.68£
Brand: Ebury Publishing
Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city's most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley's young life was far from ordinary. From the grim and far-from-swinging 60s, to the discos of the 70s, to the tidal wave of heroi..
14.50£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters, "a startling portrait of one of our greatest tech visionaries, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh" (Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road), reporting on his short life and untimely death and what they mean ..
21.55£ 22.74£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or not-was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visit..
22.03£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
You will not be able to put this book down once you start! Hard Luck Motty has been through everything you can imagine. See if you can find someone who can top my life adventures! The famous people I have met and spent time with: Hollywood superstar..
15.51£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia Ahern__________Will you do my eulogy?With those words, Mitch Albom begins a remarkable eight-year journe..
7.56£ 10.22£
Brand: Random House
Bill Buford, an enthusiastic, if rather chaotic, home cook, was asked by the New Yorker to write a profile of Mario Batali, a Falstaffian figure of voracious appetites who runs one of New York's most successful three-star restaurants. Buford accepte..
14.70£
Prepare yourself for a journey into the indonesian penal system, a world where murder, torture and fights to the death are the norm.Hell's Prisoner is the powerful story of one man's battle to survive in some of the world's cruellest and most inhuma..
9.90£ 11.36£
One of few thoughtful Christians to emerge out of the chaos of mainstream US christianity, John Shelby Spong's autobiography is a triumph of reason over prejudice, racism, sexism, homophobia and the worst excesses of dysfunctional fundamentalism. IS..
23.13£
Brand: Olympia Publishers
In a powerful and harrowing life-story of deprivation, suffering and ultimate overcoming, one woman's personal struggle is depicted in raw, often brutal detail. This complex testimony of living in a dysfunctional family, with physical and sexual abu..
12.22£
Brand: Atria Books
"An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former diehard Trump supporter who nearly lost his life during the insurrection of January 6th. When Michael Fanone self-deployed to the Capitol on Ja..
30.03£ 31.84£
Brand: Alma Books COMMIS
After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell decided to join the Republican efforts to overturn Franco's Nationalists in the Span..
16.41£