Biography & Memoir

Hooman Majd / The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay

What happens when you move to Iran, heartland of the 'Axis of Evil', with your family in tow? - asks Hooman Majd, author of the acclaimed The Ayatollah Begs to Differ and The Ayatollah's Democracy...

Lena Mukhina / The Diary of Lena Mukhina

In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova - the boy she liked - liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also...

Robert Harling / Ian Fleming

Forged during the Second World War, the close and abiding friendship of Robert Harling and Ian Fleming, one of the twentieth century's most iconic authors, would go on to define the lives and...

Robin Bruce-Lockhart / Reilly Ace of Spies

A huge figure in the history of British espionage and one of the models for James Bond, Sidney Reilly was born in Russia in 1873. To his employers, the British Secret Service, his background was a...

William K. Parke - A Fermanagh Childhood - PB - 1988

A Fermanagh Childhood describes with remarkable clarity village life in Ulster over 80 years ago. PB - Friar's Bush Press, 1988

Andrea Susan Glass / How Did I Get Here? (Large Paperback)

How Did I Get Here?: A Journey of Resilience and Reflection In this captivating memoir, Andrew Fitzgerald takes you on a transformative journey through his life, filled with moments of triumph and...

Jones / The Life of Beethoven (Large Paperback)

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Ulrik Skotte / The Umbrella Murder (Large Paperback)

'This masterly investigation... exposes an assassin worthy of James Bond' - Observer, Book of the Week London, September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight...

Ian Botham / Head On - Ian Botham (Large Paperback)

Ian Botham, voted the cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, was a genuine all-rounder who, when on form, was simply unstoppable. In his miraculous early career, he broke all the records- the...

James B. Stockdale / Thoughts of a Philosphical Fighter Pilot (Large Paperback)

Thoughts on issues of character, leadership, integrity, personal and public virtue, and ethics, the selections in this volume converge around the central theme of how man can rise with dignity to...

Judi Dench / Shakespeare (Large Paperback)

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER Let Dame Judi Dench take you behind the scenes of a life loving the Bard - as she shares her story with, and enduring affection for, William Shakespeare. 'A...

George S. Patton / War As I Knew It (Large Paperback)

The personal and candid account of General Patton's celebrated, relentless crusade across western Europe during World War Ii First published in 1947, War as I Knew It is an absorbing narrative that...

John Grogan / Marley (Large Paperback)

A heart-warming story about the World's Worst Dog, adapted from John Grogan's phenomenally bestselling memoir, Marley & Me. Meet Marley, a yellow furball of a puppy who quickly grows into a large,...

Gregor Von Rezzori / The Snows of Yesteryear (Large Paperback)

Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine--a town that...

Elizabeth Norman / Women at War (Large Paperback)

Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women-members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps-who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons...

Abraham Verghese / My Own Country (Large Paperback)

From the author of The Covenant of Water and New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone: a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears...

Ingrid Carlberg / Raoul Wallenberg (Large Paperback)

An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the height of the Holocaust saved countless lives, and...

General Jack Seely / Warrior (Large Paperback)

Warrior was a huge best-selling title in 2011. Unlike the book and film War Horse, Warrior is the true story of the thoroughbred horse Winston Churchill's great heroic friend, Jack Seely, took to...

R. M. Williams / Beneath Whose Hand (Large Paperback)

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Peter Guralnick / Last Train to Memphis (Large Paperback)

Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis' humanity in a...

Jean Sasson / Desert Royal (Large Paperback)

Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary autobiography, Princess, were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. In Desert Royal she continues...

M. M. McAllen / Maximilian and Carlota (Large Paperback)

In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoléon's installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and...

Maeve Binchy / Maeve's Times (Large Paperback)

'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am obsessively interested in what some might consider the trivia of...

Margaret Trudeau / Changing My Mind (Large Paperback)

Canadians fell in love with Pierre Elliott Trudeau's beautiful and high-spirited bride when he brought her to the world stage as the youngest First Lady in the history of the country. But the...

Biz Stone / Things A Little Bird Told Me (Large Paperback)

Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses innovation, creativity and the secrets of being a successful entrepreneur, through stories from his remarkable life and career. THINGS A LITTLE BIRD...

Benazir Bhutto / Reconciliation (Large Paperback)

Completed shortly before her assassination on December 27, 2007, this is Bhutto's assessment of the nature of Pakistan's relationship with the West, with Islam and with extremism. She demonstrates...

Niall Williams & Christine Breen - O Come Ye Back to Ireland : Our First Year in County Clare - HB - 1988

This New York City couple who met as graduate students in Dublin, gave up the urban lifestyle to return to the land of their ancestors. Pursuit of their dream took them to the tiny village of...

James Herriot / Let Sleeping Vets Lie (Vintage Paperback) (1)

From the author whose books inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small, Let Sleeping Vets Lie is the third volume of James Herriot's classic memoirs; a book for all those who find laughter...

Laurie Lee / As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Vintage Paperback)

This autobiographical volume describes the author's departure from Stroud, his walk to London, and his months in Spain on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. His other works include A Moment of War and...

Spike Milligan / Monty (Vintage Paperback)

Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery...

Margery Forester / Michael Collins: The Lost Leader (Vintage Paperback)

In print continuously for more than thirty years, this book is long established as a reliable and affectionate portrait of Michael Collins. First, published in 1971, its great strength is that the...

Gayatri Devi ((Maharani D?ajpuru ;) / A Princess Remembers (Vintage Paperback)

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Frank O'Connor / My Father's Son (Vintage Paperback)

My Father's Son begins where the author's acclaimed previous memoir, An Only Child, left off -- with Frank O'Connor, at twenty-three, coming out of the internment camp where he had been imprisoned as...

James Herriot / Vet in Harness (Vintage Paperback) (1)

The Yorkshire Dales have never seemed more beautiful for James. Now he is married with a partner's plate on the gate and the usual menagerie of animals and owners demanding his constant attention...

Mary Main / Evita (Vintage Paperback)

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Richard Hough / Mountbatten (Vintage Paperback)

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John Mortimer / Clinging to the Wreckage (Vintage Paperback) (1)

This book is the autobiography of John Mortimer; the creator of the character Rumpole, a playwright, and the son who immortalised a parent in "A Voyage Round My Father."      All of our Vintage books...

Anne Cumming / Love Habit (Vintage Paperback)

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Norah Bradford / A Sword Bathed in Heaven (Vintage Paperback) (1)

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Norah Bradford / A Sword Bathed in Heaven (Vintage Paperback)

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Christy Brown / The Childhood Story of Christy Brown: (Previously titled My Left Foot) (Vintage Paperback)

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Thomas Hauser / Arnold Palmer (Coffee Table Book)

Over 250 classic and contemporary photographs, as well as fascinating text by bestselling author Thomas Hauser, reveal for the first time who Arnold Palmer, the man, really is. Telling anecdotes from...

Frank Browne / Father Browne's First World War (Coffee Table Book)

Best known for his remarkable photographs, few people are aware of Francis Browne's astonishing war record. Eddie O'Donnell SJ has written a fascinating account of Father Browne's war experiences,...

Patrick Jephson / Portraits of a Princess: Travels with Diana (Coffee Table Book)

From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Shadows of a Princess" comes the inside story of Princess Diana's journeys in public and private--with over 250 previously unpublished photographs...

Robert Moynihan / Pray for Me

Benedict XVI's retirement made news around the world, and changed the dynamics of the Catholic Church. The new pope, Francis I, has already brought a breath of fresh air into the papacy, the Vatican...

Thomas De Quincey / Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Suspiria de Profundis, and 'The English Mail-Coach' are De Quincey's finest essays in autobiography, published here with three appendices containing a wealth of...

Rachel Lane / Francis & Edith Schaeffer

Founders of L'Abri Biography for 9 - 14 year olds Part of the Trail Blazer series     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Thomas De Quincey / The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an account of the early life and opium addiction of Thomas De Quincey, in prose which is by turns witty, conversational, and nightmarish. 'On the Knocking at...

Milton Shulman / Marilyn, Hitler and Me: Memoirs of Milton Shulman

Milton Shulman has been a much-loved and outspoken arts critic for the Express and then the Evening Standard for forty years. These are his witty, anecdotal memoirs on the careers, interviews and...

Norman Mailer / The Armies of the Night

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award With a Introduction by Adam Gopnik Fifty years after the March on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer's seminal tour de force remains as urgent and...

John Keats / Selected Letters

Keats's letters are 'the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet' (T. S. Eliot). This new edition revises and updates Robert Gittings's selection and includes 170 letters, a...

Jonathan & Catherine Guinness / The House of Mitford - HB - 1984

 The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist...