Biography & Memoir

Frannie Hopkirk / Brett (Large Paperback)

Frannie is from one of Australia's most pre-eminent art families, the Whiteley's - she is Brett Whiteley's sister, both having grown up amidst Australian art royalty. Frannie twice sat for William...

Gerry Slevin / Through Memories Haze (Large Paperback)

Published 2008, Borrisokane This book of G.A.A. memories started out as a series of articles for The Guardian in the early months of 2007. They were based on memories gleaned in over four decades of...

Peter Godwin / Exit Wounds (Large Paperback)

When she turned ninety, my mother sprang a final surprise on us. She started speaking in the voice of a stranger. Peter's mother is dying. She finally drops her guard, losing all fear of conflict to...

Boris Johnson / Unleashed (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...

Arthur Abell / Talks With Great Composers (Large Paperback)

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Humphrey Lyttelton / It Just Occurred to Me (Large Paperback)

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Frank Marshall / Grandad, You're Not Painting between the Lines - A Memoir of Sorts (Large Paperback)

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Malachi O'Doherty / On My Own Two Wheels - Back in the Saddle at 60 (Large Paperback)

  When Malachi was diagnosed with diabetes in 2009, just a few months before his sixtieth birthday, he knew he had to take hold of his life and make some changes; dusting down the old bicycle parked...

Val Corbett / Robin, Lord Corbett of Castle Vale (Large Paperback)

A Life Well Lived   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...

Michael Harding - Midwinter : A Journey Through a Season - HB - SIGNED

Hardcover, published by Hachette Books, 2025. Illustrated by Enagh Farrell ( and the artwork is excellent )  An 'as new' copy, signed by the author, undedicated, there is an eason 'signed copy'...

Caitlin Doughty / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Large Paperback)

A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves. It is the only event in her life more awkward than her first kiss or losing her virginity. The hands of time will never move quite so slowly as...

Paul Monette / Borrowed Time | Love Alone | Becoming a Man (Large Paperback)

This Triangle Classics edition brings together Paul Monette's three most celebrated works -  Borrowed Time - An Aids Memoir; Love Alone - Eighteen Elegies for Rog; and Becoming A Man - Half a Life...

Dave Pelzer / A Man Named Dave (Large Paperback)

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Fiona York / A Life in Many Acts (Large Paperback)

Fiona York’s life has been one of stark contrasts. On one side is the world of theatrical glitz where she rubs shoulders with the famous in London and Hollywood; on the other, the smell of freshly...

Nuala O'Faolain - Are You Somebody (30th Anniversary edition) - PB - BRAND NEW

Upon its original publication in 1996, Nuala O'Faolain's Are You Somebody? quickly became an cultural sensation in Ireland, sparking an 'emotional episode in public life in Ireland'. O'Faolain's...

Corinne Hofmann / Reunion in Barsaloi (Large Paperback)

The White Masai #3 Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lk

Michael Durkan / The Way it Was (Large Paperback)

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Andy Collings / Harry, Me and Boiled Bacon (Large Paperback)

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Gearóid Willie ó Fátharta - Mo Scéal Fhéin - PB - BRAND NEW - 2026

Foilsithe ag Cló Iar Chonnacht, 2026, . Clúdach bog.  Is as Cois Fharraige i gConamara don údar, chaith sé na blianta fada i Meiriceá Theas, i Chile agus sa mBrasil mar shagart, agus ansin d'fhág sé,...

Stephen Davis - Hammer of the Gods : The Led Zeppelin Saga - HB

If ever there were Satanic Majesties of rock their name was Led Zeppelin. The band that out-sold the Rolling Stones and made Robert Johnson's deals with the devil look like a playground game of...

Tess Holliday / Being a Fat Girl (Large Paperback)

MUM. FEMINIST. SIZE 26. SUPERMODEL. LOUD. PROUD. BODY ACTIVIST. BEAUTIFUL. BUSINESS WOMAN. HOMEMAKER. CAT OWNER. FUNNY. OUTSPOKEN. WIFE. DAUGHTER. LOVER. FIGHTER. SURVIVOR.Tess Holliday is many...

Denis Tuohy / Wide-Eyed in Medialand (Large Paperback)

Memoirs of the journalist, who was born and got his start in reporting in Belfast.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

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, 

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)

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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

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

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)

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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...