Biography & Memoir

Helena Morrissey / A Good Time to be a Girl (Hardback)

 From the founder of the worldwide 30% Club campaign comes a career book for women in a transforming world who don't just want to lean in, but instead, shatter the paradigm as we know it.'I absolutely love her, I think she's such a force for good'...

Seamus Mallon / Seamus Mallon : A Shared Home Place (Large Paperback)

  This timely memoir by one of the most prominent Catholic nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland is a primary source for the social and political history of the province, from the onset of the Troubles in the 1960s to the 1990s peace...

Johnson Beharry / Barefoot Soldier - A Story of Extreme Valour (Large Paperback)

  Born in 1979 in Grenada as one of eight children, living in a two-bedroom hut, surviving on meagre meals of beans and rice and walking barefoot, three miles to school. At 13 Johnson Beharry quit school and worked as a decorator and labourer. In...

Jon Katz - A Dog Year : Rescuing Devon, The Most Troublesome Dog in the World - PB

Change loves me, defines and stalks me like a laser-guided smart bomb. It comes at me in all forms, suddenly and with enormous impact, from making shifts in work to having and raising a kid to buying a cabin on a distant mountaintop. Sometimes, change...

Jon Katz - A Home For Rose: How My Life Turned Upside Down for the Love of a Dog - PB

'I believed Rose had a secret plan for the farm, a detailed map in her head that showed exactly where all her ewes and lambs and humans ought to be. Though I was nominally the herder, I wasn't privy to the map. My job was mostly to latch and unlatch the...

Donncha Ó Dulaing - Voices of Ireland - Interviews - PB - 1984

This book contains conversations - in full transcript form - with the following; Eamon De Valera, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Seamus Murphy - sculptor, Julia Grenan, Nora Connolly O' Brien and Leslie Bean de Barra, Fr. Patrick Peyton - rosary priest, Siobhan...

Mick Middles / Slash : Surviving Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver and Rock's Snake Pit (Large Paperback)

  A human cartoon of hair, super-strength cigarettes and the rock world's most famous top hat, Slash is one of the most iconic guitarists in recent memory. Although born in Stoke-on-Trent, this one-off guitarist came to prominence through the...

David Nott / War Doctor : Surgery on the Front Line

 'Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' - Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to HurtA powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances...

Paul Spicer / The Temptress

 In Kenya's 'Happy Valley' no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his...

Craig Whyte / Into the Bear Pit

 From being the most dominant club in Scottish football history, Rangers F.C., one of the most famous and powerful names in British sport, was sold to venture capitalist Craig Whyte in 2011 . . . for GBP1.When Whyte walked through the gates at...

Kate Clanchy / Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me

 Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020.'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever read. No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying' - Philip PullmanKate Clanchy wants to change the world and...

Michael Freedland / Sean Connery : A Biography

  Sean Connery has been more bankable at the box office over the last few years than he ever was as the thirty-year-old James Bond. But the man himself remains something of a mystery: extremely attractive and intensely private and, according to...

Jill Ker Conway / The Road from Coorain

 In a memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood--a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart.She...

Claire Tomalin / Jane Austen : A Life (Hardback)

  The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited. Claire Tomalin's biography paints a surprisingly different picture of the...

Ursula Doyle / Love Letters of Great Men (Hardback)

 From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history.For some of these great men, love is a 'delicious poison' (William...

David Suchet / Poirot and Me (Hardback)

  Hercule Poirot, with his distinctive moustache and fastidious ways, is one of Agatha Christie's finest creations and one of the world's best-loved detectives. Through his television performance in ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot, David Suchet...

Doreen Lawrence / And Still I Rise (Hardback)

 'This book for me is a warning as well as a reminder. May you never experience what I have experienced.' In April 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a group of young white men on a street in south-east London. From the first police...

Heather Mills / Out On A Limb (Hardback)

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Michael Parkinson / Like Father, Like Son : A family story (Hardback)

 'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity autobiographies shy away from: it seeks the truth and, more often than not, finds it.' - THE MAILA look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to.It started in the...

Roberto Escobar / Escobar : The Inside Story of Pablo Escobar, the World's Most Powerful Criminal

 Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar, but one is irrefutable - legend. For the poor of Colombia, he was their Robin Hood, a man whose greatness lay not in his crimes,...

Erik Larson / In The Garden of Beasts

  'A compelling tale... a narrative that makes such a brave effort to see history as it evolves and not as it becomes.' SPECTATOR Suffused with the tense atmosphere of the times, and with brilliant portraits of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering and...

Bob Hammel / The Bill Cook Story II : The Re-Visionary (Hardback)

  Working from the spare bedroom of his Bloomington, Indiana, apartment in 1963 with a $1,500 investment, Bill Cook began to construct the wire guides, needles, and catheters that would become the foundation of the global multi-billion-dollar...

Jo Brand / Born Lippy : How to Do Female (Hardback)

 'Feisty and funny' Sunday ExpressSometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman . . . This is a book for all those times.Once upon a (very very) long time ago Jo Brand was what you might describe as 'a nice little...

Raynor Winn / The Salt Path (Hardback)

 Give the gift of nature with the bestselling inspiring story of hope and the healing powers of the natural world, in one of the most talked about books of the decadeFROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'This is what you need right now to muster...

Tom Sykes / What Did I Do Last Night? (Large Paperback)

  From an early age Tom Sykes liked to drink. In fact, he loved it. Booze offered an escape from the drudge of school and the hurt of his rapidly disintegrating family. Though his troubled adolescence was littered with direction less toxic...

Hugh Hunt- Sean O'Casey ( Gill's Irish Lives Series ) - PB -1980 - BIOGRAPHY

Sean O'Casey 1880-1964, a self educated Dubliner, first became fanous when the Abbey staged Shadow of a Gunman in 1923, followed by Juno & the Paycock and Plough and the Stars, but then after a dispute with Yeats, left Ireland in 1926 and continued...

Pamela Young / Hope Street (Large Paperback)

 'When you read Hope Street, you are uplifted, exhilarated, excited at the profound truths that shine through. This radiant book will bring great comfort, healing and hope to all who are blessed by reading it.'Patricia ScanlanThis is the true story...

Michael Smith / Ice Man (Large Paperback)

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Henry Marsh / Admissions : A Life in Brain Surgery (Large Paperback)

 Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered. Prompted by his retirement from his full-time job in the...

James Bowen / A Street Cat Named Bob and How He Saved My Life (Large Paperback)

 The Instant New York Times Bestseller!James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet.Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to sleep.When James and Bob meet, they forge a never-to-be-forgotten friendship that has been charming...

Sean Smith / Kim Kardashian (Large Paperback)

 Bestselling biographer Sean Smith takes on the world's number one reality star, Kim Kardashian West. This is the ultimate insight into the reality behind the woman who has defined fame in our modern culture - her childhood, her family, her...

Randy Pausch / The Last Lecture

 The phenomenal international bestseller - with over 8 million copies sold.What legacy would you choose to leave behind for your children?When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give 'a last lecture' lecture,...

Max Pemberton / Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor

 Very funny and frank' Independent'Reads like Scrubs: The Blog ... funny and awful in equal measure' Observer* * * * * * *The bestselling real life story of a hapless junior doctor, based on his columns written anonymously for the Telegraph.IF...

Roderick Bailey / Forgotten Voices of D-Day

 6 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. Initiated by airborne units and covered by air and naval bombardment, the Normandy landings were the most ambitious combined...

Sloane Crosley / I Was Told There'd Be Cake

  From getting locked out of her flat twice on the same day and being fired for baking a giant cookie in the shape of her boss's head, to playing bridesmaid for a friend she'd long forgotten, Sloane Crosley can do no right, despite the best of...

Dynamo / Nothing Is Impossible : My Story

 'I immersed myself in magic. I read every book I could get my hands on and practised and practised, day after day and night after night. Magic became my world...some might say an obsession.'When you're a kid life can seem tough; tougher for some...

Aung San Suu Kyi / Freedom from Fear : And Other Writings

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Gloria Hunniford / Gloria Hunniford: My Life

 As one of Britain's best known TV and radio personalities, Gloria Hunniford requires little introduction. From chat show and current affairs host to presenter of consumer and lifestyle programmes, Gloria is one of the few broadcasters who can...

Tommy Rhattigan / 1963: A Slice of Bread and Jam

 ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'Tommy's book is a stark but funny and heartwarming snapshot of one year growing up in crippling poverty in an Irish traveller family ruled by an abusive, alcoholic father and a drunken, neglectful mother.' Daily...

Gordon Smith - Mervyn Peake : A Personal Memoir - HB 1984 - Illustrated Biography

Hardcover, published by GOLLANCZ UK, 1984.  Mervyn Peake ( 1911-1968) perhaps best known as the author of the Gormenghast series, ,was also a highly accomplished artist and illustrator, as well as a poet.  This book is neither a literary...

Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators (Hardback)

 A Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' Antony Beevor'Gripping... Will appeal to anyone who relishes Ben Macintyre's tales of wartime espionage and cryptic codes.' Sunday Telegraph'A detailed and...

Leslie Phillips / Hello : The Autobiography (Hardback)

  Leslie Phillips's story begins with a poverty-stricken childhood in north London, made all the worse when his father died when Leslie was just ten years old. Soon after, he began his acting career, and since then he has worked with Steven...

Ann Henning Jocelyn / Keylines (Hardback)

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Charlotte Green / The News is Read (Hardback)

  For twenty-seven years Charlotte Green was one of the most iconic newsreaders on Radio 4. Her rich, velvety voice was a staple on the radio and a treat for millions of listeners. Charlotte joined the BBC in 1978 and became one of the regular...

Declan Murphy / Centaur (Hardback)

 *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017*Coping with your own death, when you are not yet dead, is a strange thing...A natural on a horse since he was able to walk, and imbued with a pure love of riding, Declan Murphy became...

Georgia Toffolo / Always Smiling : The World According to Toff (Large Paperback)

 Everyone loves Toff and she has come a long way since bursting onto our screens on E4's Made in Chelsea in 2014. As the runaway winner of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here 2017, Toff surprised us all, not least herself, with her positive,...

Frank Corr / Sonny: For the Good Times (Large Paperback)

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Jackie Burke / No Deals (Large Paperback)

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Jeanne Marie Laskas / To Obama (Large Paperback)

 One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy.A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAREvery day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary American citizens. Every...

Wendy Mitchell / Somebody I Used to Know (Large Paperback)

 THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKCHOSEN AS A 2018 SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES AND THE MAIL ON SUNDAY'Revelatory' Guardian'A miracle'...

Charles Manson / Manson in His Own Words (Large Paperback)

 "The myth of Charles Manson is not likely to survive the impact of his own words," Nuel Emmons writes in the introduction to Manson In His Own Words, the shocking true confessions that lay bare the life and mind of the cult leader and notorious...

Howard E. Wasdin / Seal Team Six (Hardback)

 When the US Navy send their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six.SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue and counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence...