Biography & Memoir

Dylan Jones / Mr Mojo - A Biography of Jim Morrison

Peter Sheridan / 44: A Dublin Memoir (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Sue Bender / Plain and Simple - A Woman's Journey to the Amish (Large Paperback)

A Woman's Journey to the Amish Richard Bender (Illustrator) Charmingly illustrated and refreshingly spare, 

Mary-Ann Kirkby / I Am Hutterite (Large Paperback)

The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage In 1969, Mary-Ann Kirkby’s parents did the unthinkable. They left a Hutterite colony near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba,...

James Park / Cultural Icons (Large Paperback)

This book includes all the major style-makers, world-wide, from 1945 to the 1990s. A wide range of human endeavours, including art, life and culture, fashion and philosophy, psychology and...

Kate Garraway / The Strength of Love (Large Paperback)

Kate Garraway had to learn how to adapt ever since her husband Derek began his fight against the devastating impact of Covid, a condition that left him needing 24-hour care at home and long spells in...

Austin Clarke - A Penny in the Clouds - HB - Autobiography 1968

Austin Clarke, born in 83 Manor Street, Stoneybatter, Dublin, was one of the leading Irish poets of the generation after W. B. Yeats. He also wrote plays, novels and memoirs. This book, EX LIBRARY...

Samantha Power - The Education of an Idealist - PB

 'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world' Barack ObamaTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...

A & C Black Publishers - Who's Who 1974 - HB ( UK Reference )

In the era before the internet, books like this were standard works of reference, updated in yearly installments, ( here in the 126th edition, a testament to its popularity) - and also in huge size -...

John O'Farrell / Things Can Only Get Better (Large Paperback)

Things Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter, 1979-1997

Bill Clinton / Citizen (Hardback)

Citizen: My Life After the White House  

David Bret / Rock Hudson (Hardback)

This biography gives a full account of mo

Caroline Flack / Storm in a C Cup: My Autobiography (Hardback)

In December 2014 Caroline Flack danced her way into the nation's hearts when she raised the BBC's coveted Strictly Come DancingGlitterball. Known for her throatylaugh, edgy humour and quick-fire wit,...

Richard Holmes / Coleridge : Early Visions (Hardback)

Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets. ‘Coleridge:...

Suzana Braga / Tatiana Leskova - A Ballerina at Large (Large Paperback)

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Denise Welch / Starting Over (Hardback)

The next installment in a powerful and extraordinary life story by one of Britain's best-loved television starsDenise Welch has always been open about her life, and has refused to let media...

Denis Mukwege / The Power of Women (Large Paperback)

'These w

Jean-Dominique Bauby / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Large Paperback)

Jeremy Leggatt (Translator) In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the forty-three-year-old editor of French Elle, suffered a mas

William Oliver O'Neill / Stories from Ireland and America (Large Paperback)

 This collection of stories spans 70 years from his childhood in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s Ireland to his more-than-50-year ministry in the United States. Some of the stories in this collection may...

Hillary Rodham Clinton / Stronger Together (Large Paperback)

A Blueprint for America's Future   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing...

Michael Collins - Leo XIV - Builder of Bridges - PB

The first pope from North America, following the enormously popular Pope Francis, Leo XIV has caught the popular imagination both in his homeland and across the globe. In his new book, Michael...

Anne Chambers - Living Lives : A Biographer's Journey - PB - BRAND NEW

Living Lives: A Biographer’s Journey by Anne ChambersAnne Chambers has lived her life through the lives of others. Over the past 40 years she has written award-winning biographies of pirates,...

Terry Prone - I'm Glad You Asked Me That : The Political Years - HB - BRAND NEW

I’m Glad You Asked Me That: The Political Years by Terry ProneTerry Prone has been powerful in Irish politics for more than fifty years, even though she came from a non-political family and was never...

David Mas Masumoto / Epitaph for a Peach - Four Seasons on My Family Farm (Large Paperback)

A lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer, Epitaph for a Peach is "a delightful narrative . . . with poetic flair and a sense of...

Jean Sasson / Princess Sultana's Daughters (Large Paperback)

The Princess #2 Readers of PRINCESS were gripped by Jean Sasson's powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil. Now, in the comp

Hugo Hamilton / The Speckled People (Hardback)

The chil

Susan Boyle / The Woman I Was Born To Be (Hardback)

The fascinating story of Britain's Got Ta

Tom Gilmore - Big Tom : The King of Irish Country - HB

A tribute to Big Tom McBride, 'the Johnny Cash of Irish country music'.From labourer to music star, the journey of the singer who brought so much joy to fans at home and to emigrants abroad over five...

James Rhodes / Fire On All Sides (Large Paperback)

For many of us who suffer from depression or anxiety, the simple act of endurance, of having to appear "normal" is a daunting, painful, and heroic task. Getting out of bed, packing the kids off to...

Armando Iannucci / Hear Me Out (Large Paperback)

A celebr

P.J Taylor - Who's Sorry Now : 1962-1969 - A Memoir - HB

Hardcover, published by Original Writing, Dublin 2010. This copy signed and inscribed by teh author to a former owner.  The sequel to Between The Three Bridges, the fisrt book of the author's account...

Ann Leslie / Killing My Own Snakes (Large Paperback)

A Memoir An autobiography of a Fleet Street legend. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author...

Rowan Jette Knox / Love Lives Here (Large Paperback)

A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were loving...

Suzanne Finstad / Natasha : The Biography of Natalie Wood (Large Paperback)

Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood

Josh Axelrad / Repeat Until Rich (Large Paperback)

'I was t

Clementine Ford / How We Love (Large Paperback)

How We Love: Notes on a Life -Clementine Ford

Andrea R. Frazer / Happily Ticked Off (Large Paperback)

Happily Ticked Off: A Mom's Journey Through Her Son's Tourette

Shayne Ward: My Story (Coffee Table Book)

With a combination of talent and good looks, Shayne Ward has turned heads and stolen hearts across Britain. His victory on X Factor launched his career, but there is much more to Shayne than talent...

Sarah Silverman / The Bedwetter (Hardback)

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee  

Jeremy Clarkson / The World According to Clarkson (Hardback)

The worl

Edouard Louis / Who Killed My Father (Hardback)

Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy – the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father. In Who Killed My Father, Édouard Louis explores key moments in his father’s life,...

Colm Ó Briain - A Coat of Many Colours - PB - BRAND NEW

Colm Ó Briain (1943–2020) was perhaps the single most important and influential figure in the Irish arts world from the 1960s to the early 21st century. As founder of the Projects Arts Centre, as...

Michael Heatley / John Peel : A Life in Music (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Pat McGinty - I Have Often Wondered - HB - Mayo Biography

Hardcover, published 2012, signed and dedicated by the author to the title page.  Pat McGinty was born in Castelbar in 1938, his mother was in the Tuam Mother and Baby home, and subsequently moved to...

Danny Sugerman - Wonderland Avenue ( Ubersetzt von Denis Scheck) - GERMAN EDITION

Paperback, published by Heyne Germany , 1991.  Danny Sugerman ist dreizehn Jahre alt, als er bei einem Konzert Jim Morrison kennenlernt, den legendären Sänger der Doors. Die Begegnung verändert...

Monty Halls / Beachcomber Cottage (Large Paperback)

Former Royal Marine Monty Halls recreates the simple life of a crofter on the west coast of Scotland, living off the land, raising sheep, pigs and cattle, and growing his own vegetables. It’s a...

Polly Devlin / Writing Home (Large Paperback)

Polly Devlin is a writer, broadcaster and filmmaker. She holds an OBE for services to literature. After spending her childhood in Northern Ireland, at the age of twenty-two she took up her first...

Bob Goff / Love Does (Large Paperback)

 Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World As a college student he spent 16 days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. As a father he took his kids on a world...

Sheila Kohler / Once We Were Sisters (Large Paperback)

Once We Were Sisters

Elvis Costello / Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Lynda La Plante / Getting Away With Murder (Large Paperback)

A memoir.My unexpected life on page, stage and screen.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same...

Derek Frost / Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS (Large Paperback)

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