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Autobiography: general
Brand: Oneworld Publications
WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD 2022 FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY STORYTELLING AWARD 2021 'Riveting, taking in prejudice as well as sacrifice. There are 4.30am starts, lost instruments, fractured wrists, all captured with ..
14.29£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
WINNER OF THE 2020 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD-ISRAEL FISHMAN NONFICTION AWARD"Jones's voice and sensibility are so distinct that he turns one of the oldest of literary genres inside out and upside down." NPR'S Fresh Air Jones tells the story of a young, b..
13.42£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
The world is not what it seems! The adventures in a person's life can be of all types. However, the underlying meaning in life will always be the same. This book is based on the travels of a woman through the adventures of life, where the only const..
12.13£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in ..
12.58£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Here is the story of a man's life that has been riddled and ruffled with emotionally unstable personality disorder, a known mental illness. Despite spending a considerable part of his life at various rehabilitation facilities, Eugene's life was larg..
15.64£
Brand: Orion
*Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize*'Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world' J K Rowling'Inspirational and powerful' GRAZIA'For sheer inspiration read I Am Malala' SUNDAY TIMES'A tale of immense courage and conviction' INDE..
13.75£
Brand: Transworld
'So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it' - Phoebe Waller-BridgeNow with an introduction from Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love, revealing how a new generation of women can take inspiration from N..
13.67£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Part of the Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf. 70 books, one life-changing collection. View the Five Foot Bookshelf collection. __________________________ The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brillia..
12.39£
One of the most original, rebellious, and idiosyncratic directors in the American cinema, Nicholas Ray lived and worked with an intensity equal to that of his films. Best known for his direction of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), he is a..
32.24£
Brand: Quercus Publishing
Originally published as Relish, a fully revised and updated edition of the eye-opening story of one woman's incredible appetite for life: Dame Prue Leith, judge of hit show GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF, tells all from childhood in South Africa to becoming..
14.48£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
This book recounts the life of a young girl who has to battle paranoid schizophrenia. It began when she turned nineteen and little did she know that she would be stripped of many opportunities like school and work because of it. Her one escape throu..
19.26£
Brand: Troubador Publishing Ltd
This book is the autobiography of one of the Baby Boomer generation of individuals who now stand accused of all manner of heinous crimes, including ruining the world and generally enjoying themselves in the process. This is, of course, a fallaciou..
20.46£
Brand: St. Martins Press-3PL
Featured on Dateline and CNN, the true story of a young man destined for greatness on the football field--until a few wrong turns led him to a ten-year prison sentence. He was offered an impossible mission: Coax a confession out of a fellow inmate, ..
24.12£
Brand: OUP Oxford
'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymou..
11.77£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the..
12.91£
Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition ..
33.09£
Brand: National Geographic Society
The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania reveals the secret military missions behind his famous exploits and unveils a major new discovery on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Titanic find. Best known for finding the wreck of the Ti..
22.74£
Brand: Ebury Publishing
'Where have you been all our lives, Mindy?' GlamourMindy Kaling has lived many lives: comedienne, actress, obedient child of immigrant professionals and, now, writer. With a blend of witty confessions and unscientific observations, Mindy writes abou..
15.43£
Brand: Unicorn Publishing Group
In 'Is That Really True, Sir?', the artist, barrister, schoolmaster, musician, journalist and explorer Michael Aubrey negotiates a succession of improbable events and narrow escapes. Starting with a vivid account of his wartime childhood, Aubrey sha..
36.90£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
In the heart of Ashington - a bustling Geordie mining town - a handsome red-brick vicarage, surrounded by rambling gardens, stands proudly among the rows of terraced houses. It is the perfect place for playing games, keeping secrets and chasing the ..
13.41£
Diagnosed with chronic paranoid schizophrenia in 1988, this book charts the struggles experienced by Cameron and his music teacher wife, Tara.It is co-written, allowing each to express what life is like with mental illness at the centre of their rel..
9.64£ 12.50£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch whic..
13.89£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Times were hard in the 1940s and early '50s: kids went hungry and food was rationed; some families had to beg, steal or borrow to survive. But Charlie found his own way out. On a routine basis, together with his childhood gang, they became kid graft..
15.17£
Brand: Orion
JAM BUTTIES AND A PAN OF SCOUSE is a gritty yet heart-warming memoir set against the backdrop of Liverpool's tightknit working-class docklands community. The story covers Maggie Clarke's upbringing in the tenements close to the docks, the River Mers..
12.56£