Biographies & Memoirs

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The Early Diaries: including An Unnatural Pursuit and How's That for Telling 'Em, Fat Lady?
Simon Gray
Condition: New
£14.99   £8.99

'There are few things more enjoyable than reading the diaries of Simon Gray.' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

Simon Gray's witty, painful, and acutely observed Early Diaries chronicle the highs and lows of bringing two of his plays to the stage.


Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters
Natasha Walter
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£10.99   £4.99

From the acclaimed writer and thinker, a moving memoir about losing her mother as well as honouring the legacy of a family whose members struggled bravely against some of the worst crises of the twentieth century.


Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story
Solomon Northup
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£7.99   £3.99

The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.


Have You Been Good?: A Memoir
Vanessa Nicolson
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A powerful memoir from the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, chronicling holidays at Sissinghurst, reckless youth, and the tragic loss of her 19-year-old daughter Rosa


Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936
Volker Weidermann
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A dazzling portrait of a community of intellectual exiles, during the extraordinary summer of 1936.


Takeaway: 'A warm incandescent memoir' Annie Lord
Angela Hui
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An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway


The Chateau - Forever Home: The instant Sunday Times Bestseller, as seen on the hit Channel 4 series Escape to the Chateau
Angel Strawbridge, Dick Strawbridge
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Jump into life at Chateau-de-la-Motte Husson in the spellbinding memoir from Sunday Times bestselling authors, Dick and Angel Strawbridge.


Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia
Janice Ross
Condition: Used, Like New
£63.00   £13.45

The powerfully moving story of the Russian Jewish choreographer who used dance to challenge despotism


Oscar: A Life
Matthew Sturgis
Condition: New
£25.00   £18.99

The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years is the most complete telling of his life and times to date.


Sky's Story
Louise Allen
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£8.99   £2.99

Louise is called up again to step in and help young Sky. From the author of the foster care series - Thrown Away Children - comes a new challenge and a precious life to save.


The Blink of an Eye: How I Died and Started Living
Rikke Schmidt Kjaergaard
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The powerful and moving memoir by a scientist and mother of three of how she learned to live again, after a sudden severe infection caused her to die and then revive, but locked in - completely paralysed, and only able to blink an eye. With a foreword by Bill Bryson.


Buscando Mi Estrella: Una memoria del amor perpetuo de una madre y un secreto sin contar
Maruchi Mendez
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?Cuanto vale la vida de un joven atleta? ?Quien los cuida?Cada ano, el sistema de busca-talentos universitario monitorea el desempeno, la fortaleza, la velocidad y hasta el promedio de notas de los atletas, pero no logra hacer lo mismo cuando se trata de su salud. Los padres, ajenos al peligro, no toman ...


Beyond the Secret Garden: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett (with a Foreword by Jacqueline Wilson)
Ann Thwaite
Condition: New
£9.99   £3.99

The definitive and revealing life story of the author of The Secret Garden, Ann Thwaite creates a sympathetic but balanced and eye-opening biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett who enchanted numerous generations of children.


Tiger Woman: A Wild Life
Betty May
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The fearless tale of the original 'Party Girl', in her own frankly scurrilous words: a Duckworth contemporary classic, beautifully repackaged for its 125th anniversary


The World of Simon Raven
Simon Raven
Condition: Used, Very Good
£5.50

Once famous above all for his classic novel series about the misdeeds of English society in the 1950s and 1960s, "Alms for Oblivion", Simon Raven is now also recognized as a travel writer, a reporter at large of the seamier side of English upper-class life, and a commentator on the sexual mores of gay ...


How to be Champion: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography
Sarah Millican
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Sarah Millican's autobiography will make you laugh, feel normal and probably sniff your leggings.


The Gangbuster - To Catch a Gangster, You Have to Live Like One
Peter Bleksley
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Heroin.' As part of Scotland Yard's undercover team, it was Peter Bleksley's job to infiltrate some of the capital's most dangerous gangs and bring them down. Now a renowned policing and crime expert seen on the BBC and as the Chief on Channel 4's Hunted, Peter Bleksley reputation still precedes him the world over.


I Am Here: stories from a cancer ward
Johannes Klabbers
Condition: New
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What comfort can an agnostic give people who are suffering or dying?
Looking for more meaning in his work, Johannes Klabbers gave up a tenured academic position to spend his days caring for the sick and dying. He trained as a secular pastoral carer in a cancer hospital, and from the patients there he ...


Tesla: The Man, the Inventor, and the Father of Electricity
Richard Gunderman
Condition: New
£20.00   £12.99

The biography of Nikola Tesla, known as the father of modern electricity.


Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
Alice Robb
Condition: Used, Very Good
£5.99

Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals?

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