Biography & Memoir

Aubrey Malone / A Writing Life (Large Paperback)

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John F. Deane / Song of the Goldfinch (Large Paperback)

Once every blue moon a book is written on parchment and in dried blood. Here Huckleberry Finn meets Dylan Thomas on Achill Island, a lost world of corncrakes and ragamuffins. A Memoir.  This book is...

Peter Stringfellow / King of Clubs (Hardback)

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Condoleezza Rice / No Higher Honour: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (Hardback)

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Simon Thomas / Love, Interrupted (Large Paperback)

Simon Thomas (former Blue Peter presenter and, for so long, the face of Sky Sports Football) reveals how grief nearly destroyed him in his heart-breaking memoir.When Simon lost the woman he had loved...

Martin Naughton / Never Know Your Place (Large Paperback)

Richard Olivier / Melting the Stone: A Journey around My Father (Large Paperback)

Melting the Stone is the personal story of the son of the actor and director who was generally regarded as "the best in the world." This book is also the story of thousands of men around world...

George Weigel / Witness to Hope - Pope John Paul II (Large Paperback)

"Fascinating...sheds light on the history of the twentieth century for everyone."--New York Times Book ReviewNow, with an updated preface, the latest edition of the definitive biography of Pope John...

Kim Muench / Becoming Me While Raising You (Large Paperback)

In May of 2008, Kim Muench received a call from the eldest of her five children, twenty-year-old son Nick, who confessed that his life was being destroyed by alcohol abuse. During his spiral through...

Siobhan Mungovan with Carol Byrne / Me and My Backbone (Large Paperback)

My Journey With Spina Bifida Me and My Backbone is written by Connolly native, Siobhan Mungovan and journalist with the Clare Champion, Carol Byrne, tells Siobhan’s story living with Spina Bifida. It...

Harold Bloom / Genius (Large Paperback)

Genius: a Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds   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 a

James Fennell & Turtle Bunbury - Vanishing Ireland : Further Chronicles of a Disappearing World (Book 2) - HB - 2009

The second book in the ( hugely popular) Vanishing Ireland series .  Scratches and scuffing to front cover dustjacket.  1st PRINTING OF THE FIRST EDITION, 2009.  Closed tear to upper edge of front...

Anne H. Putnam / Navel Gazing (Large Paperback)

One Woman's Quest for a Size Normal Almost every woman worries about her weight. For Anne H Putnam, it became unavoidable - by the age of seventeen she weighed over twenty stone and had tried...

Barack Obama & Michelle Obama - 2 Book Lot - Becoming ( HB 2018) | A Promised Land ( HB 2020)

2 hardcover UK editions, both published by Penguin UK , of the autobiographies of husband and wife Michelle Obama and Barcak Obama.  Both good in solid copies, light edgewear to covers/ dustjacket (...

Molly McCloskey / Circles Around The Sun (Large Paperback)

In Search Of A Lost Brother When Molly McCloskey was a young girl, her brother Mike - fourteen years her senior - started showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia. By the time Molly was old enough to...

Naim Attallah , Sybille Bedford / In Conversation with Naim Attallah (Large Paperback)

Naim Ibrahim Attallah CBE was a Palestinian-British businessman and writer. He was the publisher of Quartet Books and the owner of The Women's Press.   This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Susan Faludi / In the Darkroom (Large Paperback)

When feminist writer Susan Faludi learned that her seventy-six-year-old father―long estranged and living in Hungary―had undergone sex reassignment surgery, the revelation would launch her on an...

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon / The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (Large Paperback)

Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Ta

Suzanne Strempek Shea / This Is Paradise (Large Paperback)

Your brakes fail and your car plunges from a pier into a February-frigid harbor. You are thrown to safety but your four-month old daughter, trapped in her car seat, drowns. Four years after that...

Miriam Lancewood / Woman In The Wilderness (Large Paperback)

My life is free, random and spontaneous. This in itself creates enormous energy and clarity in body and mind - Miriam Lancewood Miriam Lancewood is a young Dutch woman living a primitive, nomadic...

Georgina Pazcoguin / Swan Dive (Large Paperback)

The Making of a Rogue Ballerina Award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin, aka the Rogue Ballerina, gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet—the gritty,...

Phoebe Robinson / Everything's Trash, But It's Okay (Large Paperback)

Wouldn't it be great if life came with instructions? Of course, but like access to Michael B. Jordan's house, none of us are getting any. Thankfully, Phoebe Robinson is ready to share everything she...

Elliot Page / Pageboy (Large Paperback)

Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative...

Michael Freedland / Bob Hope: An Illustrated Biography (Coffee Table Book)

This is the story of Bob Hope's rise thro

B.J. Penn / Why I Fight: The Belt Is Just an Accessory (Large Paperback)

B.J. Penn, Dave Weintraub Street fighting.Brazilian jujitsu.Grappling.Welcome to BJ Penn's island. (Don't worry, he won't hurt you . . . much.) For the last decade, BJ Penn has been one of the most...

Mark Sampson / Bloody Murder On The Dog's Meadow (Large Paperback)

Building a straw-bale grand design in France

Conor Niland / The Racket (Large Paperback)

On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99% 'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidenti

Sophie Harrison / The Cure For Good Intentions (Large Paperback)

The Cure for Good Intentions is about a life-changing decision. At the age of twenty-eight, Sophie Harrison left her job as an editor at a prestigious literary magazine and put herself through...

Robert Jobson / William & Kate: The Love Story (Hardback)

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Hunter Davies / The Beatles, Football and Me (Hardback)

Instead of writing about others, as he is

Edir Macedo / Nothing to Lose (Large Paperback)

Edir Macedo is a Brazilian evangelical bishop, writer, billionaire businessman, and the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. He is the owner and chairman of a television network in...

Brigitte G Browne / My Shadow: A Childhood Memoir overcoming shadows (Large Paperback)

Shadows can be dark, large and looming to a child or everyone. And sometimes we like to use those shadows as our hiding place and too often we forget that we all have to step out of the shadows into...

Seamus O'Rourke / Leaning on Gates (Large Paperback)

In the sequel to award-winning playwright Seamus O'Rourke's popular first memoir, Standing in Gaps, this innocent Leitrim lad finally flees the nest, briefly sampling life in New York, Dublin and...

Tim Bradford / Small Town England: And How I Survived It (Large Paperback)

Small Town England paints a portrait of the energy and melancholy at the heart of Tim's generation, the inability to live for now and the feeling that something better is just around the corner—too...

J. Paul Lennon / Our Father, Who Art in Bed (Large Paperback)

A Naive and Sentimental Dubliner in the Legion of Christ From age 17 to 41 the author was a member of the Legion of Christ, a lesser known but important Catholic religious order. Led b

Winifred Foley / A Child in the Forest (Large Paperback)

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William Fiennes / The Music Room (Large Paperback)

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Ranulph Fiennes / Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Hardback)

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Michaela Coel / Misfits: A Personal Manifesto (Hardback)

A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life.In this sensational agenda-setting début, Michaela Coel, BAFTA-winning actor and writer of breakout...

Daphne Simpkins / The Long Good Night: My Father's Journey into Alzheimer's (Hardback)

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David Jason / My Life (Hardback)

Born the son of a Billingsgate porter at

Toby Young / The Sound of No Hands Clapping (Hardback)

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Geraint Anderson / Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile (Hardback)

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Bexy Cameron / Cult Following (Large Paperback)

Devastatingly moving, brilliantly inspiring and utterly unforgettable, Cult Following is a searing memoir of survival, love and transformation.Bexy Cameron was in her late twenties then the dark...

Julian Lloyd Webber - Travels With My Cello - HB -1984

Autobiography by the noted English cellist and musician - Julian Lloyd Webber is a musician, conductor and broadcaster, a former principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the founder of the In...

Tim Blanchard / Being Gregory : Bill Forsyth, Gregory's Girl, the lot (Large Paperback)

In 1980, a 34 year-old Glaswegian got the chance to turn his first screenplay into a feature film. With a small budget and support from a youth theatre in an area of ‘multiple social deprivation’,...

Donncha O Dulaing / Walking and Talking with Donncha O Dulaing (Large Paperback)

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Marc Shapiro / Stephenie Meyer: The Unauthorized Biography of the Creator of the "Twilight" Saga (Large Paperback)

This book answers fans' most burning ques

Pat Sheedy / A Hundred to One: 100 convictions. 1 Million Euro. The devastating true story of a compulsive gambler (Large Paperback)

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Emma Beddington / We'll Always Have Paris: Trying and Failing to Be French (Hardback)

As a bored, moody teenager, Emma Beddington came across a copy of French ELLE in the library of her austere Yorkshire school. As she turned the pages, full of philosophy, sex and lipstick, she...

Kathleen Klawitter / Direct Hit: A Golf Pro's Remarkable Journey back from Traumatic Brain Injury (Large Paperback)

Kathleen Klawitter knows the real meaning of resilience. It's evident in her courageous, yet captivating, journey from being a pioneering golf pro teaching the holistic approach in the early 90's, to...

Peter Ackroyd - T.S.Eliot : A bIOGRAPHY - HB - 1984

Peter Ackroyd's 1984 biography gives new insights into the renowned poet T.S Eliot's life and work. The author also wrote "First Light", "Chatterton" and "Hawksmoor". Edgeweat to the dustjacket ( esp...