Biographies & Memoirs

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Desert Flower
Waris Dirie
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* Inspirational, dramatic and extraordinary - the autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 5, sold in marriage at 13, who became an American model and is now at the young age of 30, the UN spokeswoman against circumcision


Princess Spider: True Experiences of a Dominatrix
Princess Spider
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Princess Spider is the best-known Female Dominatrix in the UK fetish scene, and a Sky TV television personality. In this book, she offers unrestricted and unprecedented access to her fascinating, shocking, and very bizarre world.


The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby
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One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written.

The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A masterpiece and a bestseller in France.


Eating Pomegranates: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters and Genes
Sarah Gabriel
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After a troubled upbringing that saw the early death of her mother from cancer, Sarah Gabriel had created a happy home life with her partner and two beautiful daughters.


Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved
Dr Kate Bowler
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A savagely witty, warm and profound memoir by a young woman with a terminal illness, who
contends with the terrifying fact that, even for her beloved husband and son, she is not the
lynchpin of existence and life will go on.


A Mother's Disgrace
Robert Dessaix
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£9.99

The autobiography of one of Australia's finest writers


Arabesques
Robert Dessaix
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£9.99

An extraordinary travel memoir by one of Australia's finest writers


A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy
Jeremy Dronfield, Deborah McDonald
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A story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe and saw a woman born to indulgence and selfishness sacrifice everything for love - only to be betrayed


Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
Caroline Moorhead
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Her canvases were the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; the Great Terror; America at the time of Washington and Jefferson; Paris under the Directoire and then under Napoleon; Regency London; the battle of Waterloo; and, for the last years of her life, the Italian ducal courts. She witnessed firsthand ...


My Mother Laughs
Chantal Akerman
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In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. My Mother Laughs is both the textual distillation of the themes Akerman pursued throughout her creative life, and a version of the simplest and most complicated love story of all: that between a mother and a daughter.


Nevertheless: A Memoir
Alec Baldwin
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"A thorough and sophisticated effort to answer an interesting question: How did an indifferently raised, self-flagellating kid from a just-making-ends-meet, desultorily functioning Long Island family, in Massapequa, turn into Alec Baldwin, gifted actor, familiar public figure, impressively thoughtful person, notorious pugilist?


Talking to Women
Nell Dunn
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In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. After more than forty years out of print, Talking to Women is still as sparkling, honest, profound, funny and wise as when it was first published.


Am I Ugly?
Michelle Elman
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A memoir about a woman's journey to body positivity.


In Black and White: A Young Barrister's Story of Race and Class in a Broken Justice System
Alexandra Wilson
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Alexandra Wilson, a young mixed-race barrister, provides a compelling insight into the systemic racism in our legal system.


In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II
Pope St John Paul, II
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Since his early years as a priest in the 1960s, up until 2003, Pope St John Paul II kept a spiritual diary. These diaries provide an intimate insight into the longest-serving pontiff of our time.


Last Don Standing
Larry McShane, Dan Pearson
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As the last Don of the Philadelphia mob, Ralph Natale, the first-ever mob boss to turn state’s evidence, provides an insider’s perspective on the mafia. Natale’s reign atop the Philadelphia and New Jersey underworlds brought the region’s mafia back to prominence in the 1990s. Smart, savvy, and ...


Maker of Patterns
Freeman Dyson
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Having penned hundreds of letters to his family over four decades, Freeman Dyson has framed them with the reflections made by a man now in his nineties. While maintaining that "the letters record the daily life of an ordinary scientist doing ordinary work," Dyson nonetheless has worked with many of the ...


Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender
Linda McDougall
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The first ever biography of one of the most influential and maligned women in British politics in the 1960s and 1970s.


Ordinary Dogs
Eileen Battersby
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The dogs became her most loyal companions for over twenty years, witnesses to an often difficult human life and more important to her than most other humans.

This book is about two animals with personalities, emotions and prejudices.


Ordinary Dogs
Eileen Battersby
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The dogs became her most loyal companions for over twenty years, witnesses to an often difficult human life and more important to her than most other humans.

This book is about two animals with personalities, emotions and prejudices.

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