Biography & Memoir

John Daniell / Confessions of a Rugby Mercenary

   John Daniell is a rubgy mercenary. A brutal word for an often brutal game. In 1996, when Rugby Union turned professional, John emigrated to France where he played for a decade in top competitions...

Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana

    A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof...

Willy Lindwer / The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

    Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank - the extraordinary Diary that she wrote during her two years in hiding in the Secret Annexe. But few know how that story ended. Here six women whose...

Danny Wallace / Yes Man

   One word. Unlimited consequences.The book that inspired the major film starring Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel'I, Danny Wallace, being of sound mind and body, do hereby write this manifesto for...

Julia Langdon / Mo Mowlam

    Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland until 1999, is arguably Britain's most popular politician and a woman who evokes immense personal empathy among politicians and, more...

Robin F. Cook / The Point of Departure : Diaries From the Front Bench

    As the Iraqi conflict led to his resignation from the Cabinet, Robin Cook, former Foreign Secretary, focuses on the build-up to and the consequences of the war. Through diary entries and...

Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994

   The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny...

Michael Wolff / Burn Rate: How I Survived The Gold Rush Years On The Internet

    Michael Wolff was a journalist and writer; in 1998 he is a journalist and writer again. But in the first half of the '90s he was an Internet entrepreneur, Chairman and CEO of Wolff New Media...

Richard Ayoade / Ayoade on Ayoade (Large Paperback)

 

Michael Harding / On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist : Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin (Hardback)

 

John O'Donohue / Eternal Echoes : Exploring Our Hunger to Belong (Hardback)

 

Dominique Enright / The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill (Hardback)

 

Max Hastings / Warriors

   An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military...

Eva Petulengro / Caravans and Wedding Bands

   For Romany Eva Petulengro, marrying outside her culture was a big step to take. And now she had to adapt to living with a gorger - and her husband had to adapt to living with her! In this...

Kate Lock / Confessions of an Eco-Shopper

    - Are muddy carrots worth the hassle? - Can a natural deodorant survive a salsa class? - Will clothes swapping ever replace clothes shopping? Two years ago Kate Lock set herself a series of...

Mark Owen / No Easy Day : The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden

   THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTIONFor the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist...

Gillian Hick / Vet On A Mission

   With the imminent arrival of her third child, veterinary surgeon, Gillian Hick, decides to abandon the perils of mixed animal practice, in a favour of setting up a small animal practice from home...

Chesley B. Sullenberger / Sully

    Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks-the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger-the...

Luca Caioli / Messi - 2017 Updated Edition : More Than a Superstar

   Lionel Messi is the greatest footballer of our time: a magician with uncanny ability to beat defenders, find space and score goals. 2016 saw him win the Ballon d'Or for a record fifth time,...

Misha Glenny / McMafia : Seriously Organised Crime

   **Now a major BBC series starring James Norton** Have you ever bought a pirate DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam? Organised crime is part of all our worlds - often without us even...

Nathaniel Fick / One Bullet Away : The making of a Marine Officer

   The most eloquent and personal story of a young man at war since Geoffrey Wellum's FIRST LIGHTUntil a winter evening in 1998 Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career...

Marianne Talbot / Keeping Mum : Caring for Someone with Dementia

   "At 3am I was startled awake by the opening of the stairgate. Leaping out of bed I found Mum, clothes on over her pyjamas, grumbling she was fed up of being moved from pillar to post and was...

Audrey Delaney / Innocent : The Story of a Shattered Childhood

   Audrey was just six years old when her father began sexually abusing her. At first she believed his behaviour to be a normal expression of love. But by the time she reached her teens her father's...

Jeff Bauman / Stronger

   Jeff Bauman woke up on 16th April 2013, in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs. Just 30 hours prior, Jeff was surrounded by revelry at the...

Julie Summer / The Colonel of Tamarkan : Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai

  Alec Guinness won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the dogmatic but brittle commanding officer in David Lean's film "The Bridge on the River Kwai". While a brilliant performance, it owed...

Adrian Gill / Pour Me : A Life

   SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE'An intense, succulent read that's intermittently dazzling' THE TIMES'Chilling, exquisitely moving' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A superb memoir - and one of the...

Anon - The Secret Footballer: Access All Areas

   Forgive your enemies, they say.Keep their addresses and keep notes, I say.In Access All Areas, you'll learn how to buy three Premier League points for just GBP25,000, what it's really like to...

Mary Manning / Nobody Will Believe You

   `Over and over again he warned me he would kill me if I told anyone. I was completely isolated. He made sure of that.'Mary was ten years old when she first met her stepfather, Sean McDarby. From...

Tara Westover / Educated

   `An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy. IT'S EVEN BETTER THAN YOU'VE HEARD.' - Bill GatesSelected as a book of the year by AMAZON, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES,...

John Nicoletti / Tis Herself

   Maureen O'Hara was born for Technicolour. Her fiery red hair and piercing green eyes made the screen crackle with electricity. Her bold Irish bearing cast her as the prototypical strong,...

Michael Caine / The Elephant to Hollywood

 Uproarious and unflinching' Mail on Sunday'A truly incredible life story' The Sun'Most memorable . . . told in a voice as distinctive as his spoken one' Independent'Brims with his gift for genial...

Michael Palin / Halfway To Hollywood : Diaries 1980-1988

 After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and...

Lauren St John / Seve : The Biography

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so...

Andrew Morton / Diana : Her New Life

 Diana: Her True Story" revealed how the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales had begun as a fairy tale romance and ended in bitterness and betrayal. This book continues the story. Two years...

Sue Perkins / Spectacles

 Discover the woman behind the spectacles in the hilarious, incredibly moving memoir from much loved comedian, writer and presenter Sue Perkins.'Very funny. It seems there are two Sue Perkins: the TV...

Katie Piper / Things Get Better

   Britain's most inspiring young woman helps give others the courage to cope with life's challenges, through personal anecdotes and expert advice.To look and listen to the extraordinary Katie...

The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain

 Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens...

The Countess of Carnarvon / Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey : The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

 'Bright, breezy and unpretentious' Guardian'A loving and faithful portrait of Almina and her world' Countryfile magazine* * * * * *The story of the real Downton Abbey, told by Lady Fiona Carnarvon,...

Nick Hornby / 31 Songs

 'I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved ... Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else.' In his first non-fiction work since Fever...

Amy Schumer / The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

 The highly anticipated first book from award-winning comedian, writer, producer and actress, Amy Schumer.In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy shares stories about her family, her...

John Le Carre / The Pigeon Tunnel : Stories from My Life

   THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality...

Steve Lopez / The Soloist

When Steve Lopez sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles's skid row, he finds it impossible to walk away. More than thirty years ago, Ayers was a promising...

Carlos Castaneda - The Teachings of Don Juan : A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

"The Teachings of Don Juan" initiated a generation of seekers dissatisfied with the limitations of the Western worldview. Castaneda's now classic book remains controversial for the alternative way of...

Donald Sturrock / Storyteller : The Life of Roald Dahl

 The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. In this award-winning...

Jeremy Paxman / A Life in Questions

 The witty, incisive and frank memoirs from the legend of Newsnight and long-standing quiz master of University Challenge. Filled with views, opinions and stories from 4 decades in front of the...

Ruth Fitzmaurice / I Found My Tribe

 I Found My Tribe is inspiring, humbling and a picture of what love really looks like' Marian KeyesAn invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, and live even harder, I Found My Tribe is an...

George Best / Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths : The inside story of football's golden era

 We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others' George Best Written in the months before he died, Hard Tackles and Dirty Baths...

Chris Bonington / Ascent

 BRITAIN'S GREATEST CLIMBER.'He is the David Attenborough of mountaineering . . . Bonington's most personal memoir yet.' The Times.'This is a compelling tale of fortitude and endurance.' - The Sunday...

Edith Eger / The Choice

   THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERby Edith EgerEven in hell, hope can flower'I'll be forever changed by her story' - Oprah Winfrey 'One of those rare and eternal stories you don't want to...

Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan

Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had...

Simon Winchester / The Surgeon of Crowthorne

 The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come...

Geoff Dyer / Out of Sheer Rage

 Sitting down to write a book on his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds a way instead to write about almost anything else. In Sicily he is more absorbed by his hatred of seafood than by the...