Biography & Memoir

Various / Woman's Hour: From Joyce Grenfell to Sharon Osbourne

 Woman's Hour is one of Britain's greatest national institutions, entertaining millions of women (and men) since its first broadcast on 7 October 1946. For sixty years, the programme has championed...

Giovanna Fletcher / Happy Mum, Happy Baby : My adventures into motherhood

 CONTAINS A BRAND NEW CHAPTERSunday Times Number One Bestseller Happy Mum Happy Baby is now a Number One podcast.A positive and uplifting book about what it is to be a mother and all things mum and...

Richard McCann / The Boy Grows Up : The inspirational story of his journey from broken boy to family man

 Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller. In it he told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherless when the Yorkshire Ripper killed his first...

Tony Macaulay / Paperboy

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Tom Oldfield / Rafael Nadal : The Biography

  Rafael Nadal is a whirlwind of on-court power and dynamism. His unparalleled exploits in winning the French Open a record 8 times has earned him the title 'King of Clay'. His clubbing,...

Rob Temple / Very British Problems : Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time

 There's an epidemic sweeping the nationSymptoms include:*Acute embarrassment at the mere notion of 'making a fuss'*Extreme awkwardness when faced with any social greeting beyond a brisk handshake*An...

Russell Brand / Revolution

 Russell Brand wants YOU to join the revolution.We all know the system isn't working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and...

johan Bakker / Behind The Rainbow: The Tragic Life of Eva Cassidy : The Tragic Life of EVA Cassidy (Hardback)

  Eva Cassidy's story if one of the most compelling and poignant in recent music history. In this thoughtful and probing biography Johan Bakker re-evaluates her brief performing career and the...

Margaret O'Donnell / Margo: Queen of Country & Irish : The Promise and the Dream (Hardback)

 The official memoir of Margo O'Donnell, legendary Irish Country Music singerFor fifty years now the name 'Margo' has been synonymous with everything that is positive and enriching in Country and...

Andrew Ridgeley / Wham! George & Me : The Sunday Times Bestseller (Hardback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARGUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Charming, heartfelt . . . there's a real poignancy to Ridgeley's description of Wham!'s glory days' Sunday TimesFor the...

Gary Barlow / My Take (Hardback)

 Take That was the original and the best British boy band ever. Their records sold millions, and they sold out arenas in less time than it took to play one of their singles. Gary Barlow was the...

David Nokes / Jane Austen (Hardback)

  A biography of Austen which uncovers the psychological dramas which shaped her fiction and gave her an insight into human emotions. Nokes argues that her novels betray many disturbing reminders...

Gail Sheehy / Hillary's Choice (Hardback)

  This is a portrait of the First Lady, from the moment the Clintons' eyes met in school, through the humiliation of the Lewinsky affair, and the drama of the impeachment battle to reveal the...

Michelle Mone / Michelle Mone - My Fight to the Top (Hardback)

 Michelle's journey to the top hasn't been easy. Born in the east end of Glasgow, Michelle left school at the age of 15 to look after her father when illness left him confined to a wheelchair...

Jeremy Dronfield / The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz (Large Paperback)

 The inspiring, true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and to survive the Holocaust.In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his...

Jack Welch / Jack (Large Paperback)

  The American dream - Jack Welch, son of a railway conductor, became Chairman and CEO of one of the world's most profitable companies, General Electric. When he became CEO in 1981 the company was...

Ben Mezrich / Breaking Vegas (Large Paperback)

  For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; the biggest high roller to hit Sin City in decades, a hotshot, twenty one year-old kid with a seemingly unlimited bankroll and...

Hugo Young / One of Us

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John Hoskison / Inside - One Man's Experience of Prison (Large Paperback)

 This is a true story of a journey to hell and back. In 1994 John Hoskison was a highly respected and successful professional golfer. One evening he shattered his world when he broke a discipline he...

Jung Chang / Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister : Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Large Paperback)

 The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One...

Andy McNab / Immediate Action (Hardback)

  In "Bravo Two Zero", Andy McNab gave an account of his experiences as commander of an SAS patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq. Now he tells the story of his life, from the day he was found in a...

Chris Moyles / The Gospel According to Chris Moyles (Hardback)

  What is the truth? Who is Chris Moyles? And what does he have to say for himself when he's not on the radio? Who is this man they call 'The Saviour of Radio'? In "The Gospel According to Chris...

Ricky Tomlinson / Ricky (Hardback)

  "I know that I'm going to get stick over this book, but there you go - it can't be helped. And some readers might think I'm a terrible liar when they read what follows, but everything in this...

Bernard S Wilson - Miss Mary - BRAND NEW - ( illustrated by Julia Castano )

Michael Lynagh / Blindsided (Large Paperback)

 Former Australian rugby union legend and World Cup winner, now acclaimed television sports pundit, on his glittering career in the game - and how close he came to losing his life.Few players in the...

Ben Mezrich / Straight Flush (Large Paperback)

 Straight Flush is the true story of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the...

Elizabeth Gilbert / Committed : A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Large Paperback)

  At the end of Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born Australian citizen. Resettling in America, they swore eternal fidelity, but also (each a survivor of a...

Maura O'Halloran / Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind : The Life and Letters of an Irish Zen Saint (Large Paperback)

  One of the most beloved Buddhist books of all time-having inspired popular musicians, artists, a documentary film, and countless readers-is now in an expanded, new edition, loaded with extras...

James B. Comey / A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Large Paperback)

 The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his...

Michael Harding / Chest Pain : A man, a stent and a camper van (Large Paperback)

 In late 2018, Michael Harding was in a hotel room in Blanchardstown experiencing severe pains in his chest. He eventually phoned an ambulance and was admitted to hospital, suffering from an acute...

Alfred J. Roach / Fire in My Belly (Large Paperback)

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Elaine Crowley / Cowslips and Chainies : Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Large Paperback)

  This account of growing up in inner-city Dublin during the 1930s is a combination of personal memoir and social document. It gives descriptions of pawnbrokers and money-lenders, of how a family...

Janette Byrne / If it Were Just Cancer (Large Paperback)

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Jay-Jay Harvey / Life on the Edge (Large Paperback)

 Jay-Jay Harvey has been at The Edge radio station since it started 22 years ago, helping it to become New Zealand's most popular radio station with nearly 700,000 listeners.She has been paint...

Jason McAteer / Blood, Sweat and McAteer : A Footballer's Story (Large Paperback)

 The fighting McAteers: that's how the McAteer family of title-winning boxers were known throughout Birkenhead, across the Mersey from Liverpool. But for eleven-year-old Jason McAteer, growing up in...

PHYLLIS WHITSELL / A Song for Bridget

 The unforgettable true story behind the Sunday Times bestselling memoir Finding Tipperary Mary.Bridget 'Tipperary Mary' Larkin faced poverty, bereavement, cruelty and abandonment many times over,...

Marni Mulholland / Raw

 'How does it start? A look, a smile, a laugh, a hug, a play, a game. A cuddle, a fumble, a touch'Marni thought she'd found a friend in her social worker, Matthew. But he groomed her from the moment...

Brian O'Connor / Add A Zero : From EURO5,000 to EURO50,000 in an Irish Racing Season

  It's March in Ireland - the flat season is about the start and Irish Times racing correspondent, Brian O'Connor has decided to boldly go where no racing correspondent has gone before. He puts...

John Fleetwood / In Stitches : The Diary of a Student Doctor

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Ian Botham / Head On - Ian Botham: The Autobiography

 Voted the greatest English cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, Sir Ian Botham is the English game's one true living legend and his story both on and off the pitch reads like a Boy's Own...

Giles Milton / Samurai William : The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan

 In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of...

Steve Collins / The Good Guys Wear Black

  In his four years with S019, the Metropolitan Police Special Firearms Wing, Steve Collins has been in over a thousand contacts: that is gun battles, with Yardies; IRA gunmen; East End gangsters,...

Carol Drinkwater / The Olive Harvest : A Memoir of Love, Old Trees, and Olive Oil

 "The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginningto rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras of light,appear and disappear ... The silence is truly...

Rory O'Neill / Woman in the Making : Panti's Memoir

 'Today, as I walked through Dublin city centre, I saw gay couples casually holding hands as they strolled, and kissing each other goodbye at bus stops in the late spring sunshine, and it seemed to...

Jill Anderson / Unbroken Trust : The Forbidden Goodbye of a Husband's Suicide

 In 2005, Jill Anderson went on trial at Leeds Crown Court for the manslaughter of her husband of eight years. Paul, a 43-year-old linguist, had been suffering for several years from the debilitating...

Caitriona Perry / In America : Tales from Trump Country

 While much of the US media and the professional political classes whip themselves into a frenzy as to how President Trump got into office and how he is behaving there, the views that really matter -...

Robert W. Greene / The Sting Man : The True Story Behind the Film AMERICAN HUSTLE

 The Sting Man: The True Story Behind the Film AMERICAN HUSTLEThe inspiration behind the film American Hustle, directed by David O'Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter) and starring...

Daphne Phelps / A House in Sicily

  Near Mount Etna in Sicily lies Casa Cuseni, a beautiful house built in golden stone - and the home which Daphne Phelps was astonished to find she had inherited in 1947. At the age of 34,...

Greg Mortenson / Stones into Schools

  In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in...

Veronica Williams / The Joy of Surrender Unto Him

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Alice Taylor / Home For Christmas (Hardback)

 Join Alice Taylor this Christmas as she welcomes us into her home and shows us the traditions of her family's Christmas. Alice looks back over her past Christmases and prepares for this Christmas...

Jeff Stelling / Jelleyman's Thrown a Wobbly : Saturday Afternoons in Front of the Telly (Hardback)

 The cult SkySports Soccer Saturday anchorman delivers a volley of entertaining and informative anecdotes about life in front of the videprinter. Jeff Stelling is a legend amongst football fans. To...