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Brand: Random House
'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton'The whole story of his truly astonishing life' Bob Woodward'The book was damn near addictive. I loved it' Ron Howard'At times his poignant narrative will bring you to tears' Patricia Cornw..
25.28£
Brand: Unicorn Publishing Group
Jill Kennington was among the most successful models of her generation, embodying a fresh, youthful, and dynamic ideal of beauty that came to define the Sixties. Jill's memoir takes the form of an extended interview in which she responds vividly and..
32.39£
Brand: University of Toronto Press
Josep Pla is Catalonia's foremost twentieth-century prose writer. He witnessed and wrote about some of the twentieth-century's most notable events including the Spanish Civil War and the foundation of the state of Israel. Due to a lack of translatio..
77.41£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) that inspired Julie & Julia, the major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Juli..
14.15£ 20.46£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel 'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman 'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate Summerscale Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2021 A Sunday ..
15.07£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown.Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine."Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bour..
32.53£
"Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett." --Teju Cole In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose - began a project that would round off his strange career as a ..
13.49£ 13.64£
Brand: Hardie Grant Books
Introducing a bold new voice in Australian nonfiction, Late Bloomer is a heartfelt coming-of-age memoir that will change the way you think about autism.Clem Bastow grew up feeling like she'd missed a key memo on human behaviour. She found the unspok..
19.52£
Brand: North Atlantic Books
In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was thirty-two at the time, a mother of three who had never travelled outside the United S..
22.65£
Brand: Ebury Publishing
Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of bestseller lists internationally, igniting global conversations about women and ambition. ..
15.11£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States'No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world ... the idiosyncrasies of a cou..
18.53£
Raised on a farm near Changi (visited by Albert Einstein in the 1920s), Anthony Teo attended Singapore's 19th century St Anthony's Boys School and St Joseph's Institution. Having completed a course at the 330-year-old Harvard at new Cambridge in Mas..
28.05£
Brand: Blink Publishing
100 remarkable people from the worlds of entertainment, politics, food, sport and business write letters to their younger selves in this collection taken from The Big Issue's popular feature If you could write a letter to your younger self, what w..
14.68£
One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewe..
35.76£
Brand: Columbia University Press
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was one of the most original political thinkers in Western Marxism and an exceptional intellectual. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom, yet he wr..
33.73£
Brand: Columbia University Press
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was one of the most original political thinkers in Western Marxism and an exceptional intellectual. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom, yet he wr..
88.08£ 96.66£
Written while Nat Love was living in California, this autobiography is an invaluable record of the wildness of the American West in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Filled with tales of adventure and danger, The Life and Adventures of Na..
7.67£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
If your taste in autobiography is only for the rich and famous, then this is the wrong book for you. However, if you are curious about someone who has had a possibly strange start in life, followed - maybe as a result - by a low-key, hell of a teena..
18.82£
Brand: Olympia Publishers
llana G. Holloway was born in Transylvania, Romania. A high achiever, as a teenager, she was part of the Romanian Junior Olympic Team at the 1972 Munich Games. She went on to earn a Master's Degree in Architecture at Ion Mincu in Bucharest. Desperat..
22.21£
Brand: Granta Publications
Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth'. In a celebration of her life and writing, Life Class brings together..
14.22£ 14.77£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
This book is about a Yorkshire miner's son who moves around the world in ships and planes. He seems to defy convention and succeeds where other people fail. Within these pages is a life of satisfaction in achievement. ISBN: 9781528997485Publisher: A..
18.47£
Brand: Unicorn Publishing Group
Soldiering is a serious, frequently bloody business. That aspect has been documented endlessly. But behind the blood, thunder and de-humanising aspects of conflict are people - people in uniform and people supporting them. All of them have personal ..
25.44£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Pasis when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Palo..
14.97£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Graham Badrock was born in 1954 in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. That indeed made him a baby boomer. Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, life was uncomplicated and easy. He recalled asking his father, "Are we middle class, Dad?" ..
14.46£