Biographies & Memoirs

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Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone
Stewart Purvis, Jeff Hulbert
Condition: Used, Good
£25.00   £4.99

The first, full biography of Guy Burgess reveals the extent of his espionage and culminates in new relevations about his last days in Moscow.


Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone
Stewart Purvis, Jeff Hulbert
Condition: Used, Very Good
£25.00   £8.45

The first, full biography of Guy Burgess reveals the extent of his espionage and culminates in new relevations about his last days in Moscow.


Amazing Careers
Charles Margerison
Condition: New
£8.45

How did Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Coco Chanel choose their careers? Discover how these and other high achievers became successful in 'Amazing Careers' brought to you by Amazing People Worldwide(R). In life, the work we do often determines our status in society as much as the money we earn. ...


Amazing Entrepreneurs
Charles Margerison
Condition: New
£8.45

Were the people who developed successful businesses lucky or did they have special talents? In 'Amazing Entrepreneurs' you can explore these questions through the lives of some of the world's most inspirational people and perhaps be motivated to do likewise! Helena Rubinstein was lucky to find a sponsor ...


Lecretia's Choice: A Story of Love, Death and the Law
Matt Vickers
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£12.99   £3.45

A successful young lawyer in Wellington, Lecretia Seales met and fell in love with Matt Vickers in 2003. In Lecretia’s Choice, Matt tells the story of their life together, and how it changed when his proud, fiercely independent wife was diagnosed with a brain tumour and forced to confront her own mortality. ...


Amazing Love Stories
Charles Margerison
Condition: Used, Very Good
£7.45

What is it that makes one person fall in love with another? Explore this eternal question in Amazing Love Stories, which provides a unique perspective on great love stories that feature amazing characters including Emperor Napoleon and Josephine, Marina Gamba and her lover Galileo, William Shakespeare ...


Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956 - 1963
Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Alongside a selection of photographs and Plath's own drawings, they masterfully contextualise what the pages disclose.

This later correspondence witnesses Plath and Hughes becoming major, influential contemporary writers, as it happened.


Halfway to Venus: A One-Armed Journey
Sarah Anderson
Condition: New
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This book is about Sarah Anderson's life with one arm. It is also about other people who have lost their arms, about phantom and prosthetic limbs, about what hands and arms mean in different cultures and how they are portrayed in art and literature. Life with one arm is different in many subtle ways ...


George Sand
Martine Reid
Condition: New
£24.95   £5.99

A biography of the celebrated nineteenth-century author George Sand. Examines her public image, her relationships with her husband, lovers, and children, and her lifelong political commitment.


Desert Flower
Waris Dirie
Condition: New
£8.99   £4.99

* 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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£7.99   £2.25

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
Condition: New
£8.99   £3.99

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
Condition: New
£8.99   £3.75

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.


A Mother's Disgrace
Robert Dessaix
Condition: New
£9.99

The autobiography of one of Australia's finest writers


Arabesques
Robert Dessaix
Condition: New
£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
Condition: Used, Very Good
£9.99   £2.75

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
Condition: Used, Very Good
£13.43   £3.99

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 ...


Talking to Women
Nell Dunn
Condition: Used, Like New
£10.99   £6.99

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
Condition: New
£14.99   £9.99

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
Condition: New
£8.99   £4.95

Alexandra Wilson, a young mixed-race barrister, provides a compelling insight into the systemic racism in our legal system.

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