Biography & Memoir

Brian D'Arcy / Through the Year with Brian D'Arcy (Large Paperback)

  Brian Di 1/2Arcy has been writing a column in The Sunday World for many years, is a regular radio and television broadcaster and he is a well-known chaplain to the worlds of music, the arts and broadcasting. This book contains a short...

Tom Reddy / Murder will out (Large Paperback)

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Demi Lovato / Staying Strong (Hardback)

 Demi Lovato wakes up each morning and affirms her commitment to herself-to her health, her happiness, her being. Those commitments are the bedrock of her recovery and her work helping other young people dealing with the issues she lives with every...

dodie / Secrets for the Mad : Obsessions, Confessions and Life Lessons (Hardback)

 Be inspired this New Year by a young woman's journey through life, love and lyricsWhen I feel like I'm going mad, I write.A lot of my worst fears have come true; fears that felt so big I could barely hold them in my head. I was convinced that when...

Caitlyn Jenner / The Secrets of My Life (Large Paperback)

 In this remarkable memoir - written with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger during her pivotal first years of rebirth - Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future.With poignancy and humour, Caitlyn writes about her...

Hong Ying / Daughter of the River (Hardback)

  A portrait of a young girl growing up in Mao's China. Born into a slum in 1962 during the Great Famine, Hong Ying describes her life, including the mystery which surrounded her early life, her parents, the death of her lover and child and her...

Anthony McPartlin / Once Upon A Tyne (Hardback)

 THE HILARIOUS AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAnt and Dec hold a special place in the hearts of TV viewers everywhere. This is their epic story, with never-before-seen photography and the very best tales from their 30 years in TV.Ant: As...

Fergal Keane / All of These People - A Memoir (Hardback)

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Christopher Sandford / McQueen (Hardback)

  Steve McQueen, one of the first "cool" film stars, remains a cultural icon the world over. His image is used to sell everything from cars, to beer, to a range of dolls. From the Cicinnati Kid to Frank Bullitt, Tom Crown to Papillon, his roles...

Bruce Arnold - He That is Down Need Fear No Fall - PB - 2008 - BRAND NEW

Barbara Young died on 15 May 2003. She was 93. She had never married and had no children. In clearing up her effects her family came across a bundle of letters dating back to 1951 and written to her by George, the author's father, who died in 1975. ....

Carmen Bugan / Burying the Typewriter

  At 2 a.m. on 10 March 1983, Carmen Bugan's father left the family home, alone. That afternoon, Carmen returned from school to find secret police in her living room. Her father's protest against the regime had changed her life for ever. This is...

Marianne Power / Help Me!

 The International Bestseller'I love it! Hilarious and thought-provoking!' - Fearne Cotton'The Bridget Jones of self-improvement' - Sunday TimesMarianne Power was stuck in a rut. Then one day she wondered: could self-help books help her find the...

Michael Smith / Station X - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

 In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies'...

Jack Welch / Jack

  Jack Welch was perhaps the greatest corporate leader of the 20th century. When he first became CEO of General Electric in 1981 the company was worth $12 billion. Twenty years later it is worth a total of $280 billion. But Welch was more than...

Justine Mccarthy / Deep Deception

 In November 2009 former national and Olympic swimming coach Ger Doyle was convicted of thirty-five sexual offences against children. This is just the most recent of an appalling series of child sexual abuse scandals in Irish swimming. Long before...

Andrew Robinson / Tears at Night, Joy at Dawn

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Michael Parkinson / George Best: A Memoir

 One of the most famous footballers of all time, George Best is an icon to football fans all over the world. He lived a tumultuous life, and died in 2005 after battling with alcoholism. He is someone who has crossed over into legend status, with his...

The Secret Barrister : Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

 The Sunday Times number one bestseller.Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year.You may not wish to think about it, but one day you or...

Michael J. Fox / No Time Like the Future (Large Paperback)

 'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc...

Mick Temple - Tony Blair ( 20th Century British Prime Ministers Series) - PB - Bioography

Labour politician, MP for Sedgefield since 1983 and leader of the party from 1994. Tony Blair was elected Prime Minister for the first time in 1997 and was therefore the last UK Prime Minister of the 20th century and one of the most controversial,...

The Secret Barrister : Stories of the Law and How It's Broken (Large Paperback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction AwardShortlisted for Waterstones Book of the YearShortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year'Eye-opening, damning and hilarious' Tim Shipman, author of All Out War...

Roger Moore / My Word is My Bond (Large Paperback)

  The quintessential suave hero, Roger Moore has had an extraordinary career that has spanned seven decades, from early television to the golden age of Hollywood and on to international superstardom, dashing, handsome and every inch the...

Marnie Simpson / Stripped Bare (Large Paperback)

 From a young North-East girl to star of the small screen, Geordie Shore personality Marnie Simpson is here to lift the lid and reveal all.Marnie Simpson is one of the UK's best-loved TV personalities, first bursting on to our screens in the TV...

Fred Cogley / Voices from My Past (Large Paperback)

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Gerry Mullins / Dublin Nazi No. 1 (Large Paperback)

 Dublin Nazi No.1 is a revealing biography by Gerry Mullins of the extraordinary life of Dr Adolf Mahr, who was head of the National Museum of Ireland and also the head of the Nazi Party in Ireland. In the 1930s, Dr Adolf Mahr was head of the...

Anne Chambers / Margaret Burke Sheridan (Large Paperback)

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Christopher Eccleston / I Love the Bones of You (Large Paperback)

 'A beautiful book.' Zoe BallBe it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, one man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccleston every step of the way - his father Ronnie...

Bernard O'Shea / My Wife is Married to a Feckin' Eejit (Large Paperback)

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Tony Blair / A Journey (Large Paperback)

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Elizabeth Grant / A Highland Lady in France (Large Paperback)

  The early life of Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus, recorded in her "Memoirs of a Highland Lady", has had an avid readership since the book's first publication in 1898. Less well known, but equally interesting, is this journal describing the...

Gemma Hussey / At the Cutting Edge (Large Paperback)

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Sheila Maher / Six at the Table (Large Paperback)

 In Six at the Table, regular contributor to RTE Sunday Miscellany Sheila Maher tells the story of her childhood through meals shared around the kitchen table - and occasionally from the boot of the car on long family trips - and celebrates the...

Kelly Holmes / Black, White and Gold (Hardback)

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Beth Raymer / Lay the Favorite (Hardback)

 An eye-popping and hilarious joyride through the underworld of sports bettingBeth Raymer arrived in Las Vegas in 2001, hoping to land a job as a cocktail waitress at one of the big casinos. In the meantime, she lived in a $17-a-night motel with her...

Mary Kennedy / Home Thoughts from the Heart (Hardback)

 'Mary Kennedy's new book is part memoir, part spiritual guide, part self-help book. It's like the gift of a Christmas visit from a friend' RTE GuideA sense of home, and of love, is what makes life meaningful for me. I invite you to share in a...

Mary McAleese / Here's the Story : A Memoir (Hardback)

 The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality...

Bill McDermott / Winners Dream (Hardback)

  In the pantheon of CEOs, few people have the visibility, charisma and hunger of Bill McDermott. His career is a classic story of ambition and drive: from the hard-knock streets of his youth in Long Island, to his first forays in business behind...

Cissy Houston / Remembering Whitney (Hardback)

  The definitive account of Whitney Houston's astonishing life, ground-breaking career and tragic death - complete with never-before-seen photographs - from the only one who truly knows the story behind the headlines: her mother, Cissy Houston...

Brian Keenan / Four Quarters Of Light (Hardback)

  Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy choosing his first library book in a Belfast school. The book was Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. And it has permeated Keenan's life ever since.A short visit to Fairbanks...

Constance Briscoe / Ugly (Hardback)

  Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the girl was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care...

Alison Bowyer / Graham Norton Laid Bare (Hardback)

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Andrea McLean / Confessions of a Good Girl (Hardback)

 Loose Women's Andrea McLean is much loved for her bubbly, warm personality. But her life has seen its share of heartache, as well as love and happiness, and now she's finally ready to tell the full story.She takes us from a childhood spent...

T. T. Mundakel / Blessed Mother Teresa (Hardback)

  The author of this biography, who spent many hours with Mother Teresa, follows her life from her childhood in Albania, via Dublin, to the streets of Calcutta.       All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Alice Taylor / As Time Goes By (Hardback)

 Alice Taylor brings the reader with her on her 80th birthday year.Alice had a big birthday on the horizon, the village was about to celebrate many milestones, and she had just received the gift of a book focusing her on the art of living well. So...

Robert Mazur / The Infiltrator

 Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they...

Ó Broin, Leon - Emmet - HB - As Gaeilge - Sáirséal & Dill - 1st Edition 1954 -

An Chéad Chló, Foilsithe ag Sáirséal & Dill, 1954. As Gaeilge san iomlán . Cur síos ar shaol Robert Emmet, agus Éiri Amach 1803.  HardcoverPublisher: Baile Attha Cliath, Sairseal Agus Dill.,...

Hugh Leddy / Down A Million On The Dole

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Louise McSharry / Fat Chance

 'A ballsy paean to self-determination and body confidence ... will leave you dizzy but exhilarated ... if you read one heart-breaking yet bouncy true-life memoir this year, make sure it's this one' Sunday TimesLouise McSharry's passion is to talk...

Anon / The Secret Teacher

 I will teach them literature, poetry, culture. I will teach them The Waste Land ! I will be the Best Teacher Who Has Ever Lived!Or so the Secret Teacher thinks. On his first day at an inner-city state school things don't quite go to plan . . .His...

Jack Whitehall / Him and Me

 Him & Me is a hugely entertaining and irreverent account of a unique relationship between a father and son. Written in two distinctive styles, it reflects the larger-than-life personalities of its authors, Jack and Michael Whitehall.'This book...

Billy Connolly / Made In Scotland

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Where do you come from? It's one of the most basic human questions of all. But there is another question, which might sound a wee bit similar but is actually very different: What do you come from? And, let me tell you,...

James Kennedy / Fat God, Thin God

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