Biography & Memoir

Amy Sutherland / Kicked, bitten, and snatched (Hardback)

An introduction to exotic animal training as conducted by students at a prestigious California teaching school describes the range of their experiences, from learning to communicate with animals and fighting zoonotic diseases to preparing performance...

Simon Critchley / The book of dead philosophers (Hardback)

Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, Simon Critchley pulls readers in with quirky stories of how philosophers died and then confronts the big themes - in this case, what 'a good...

Laura Munson / This is not the story you think it is (Hardback)

Laura Munson's essay in the New York Times , about the time she was tested in a way she never anticipated, created a firestorm-now here's the whole story. When Laura Munson's essay was published, The New York Times was so flooded with...

Amber Frey / Witness (Hardback)

The press has been filled with information and misinformation about the true nature of Islam. Hasan represents what is left out of the daily newspapers and explains why being a Muslim is not merely a matter of birth, but it is a matter of choice. In the...

Jeff Benedict / Dynasty (Hardback)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tiger Woods comes the definitive inside story of the New England Patriots—the greatest sports dynasty of the 21st century. It’s easy to forget that the New England Patriots were once the laughingstock of...

Parker / The queen (Hardback)

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Wendy Moffat / E.M. Forster (Hardback)

One of the great mysteries in the life of E. M. Forster (1879-1970) is why, after the publication of "A Passage to India" in 1924, he never published another novel although he lived to be 90. In Wendy Moffat's biography, based on a...

Joan Wyndham / Dawn Chorus (Hardback)

Sharing her family history of unique characters Joan Wyndham explores her ancestors' experiences of bygone eras, at home and at war. Starting with her aristocrat grandfather who built a vast Victorian country house in Wiltshire, entirely of green...

Christopher Isherwood / Lost years (Hardback)

Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years working in Hollywood studios and teaching English to European refugees. When the war ended he careered into a life of frantic socialising, increasing dissipation, anxiety and...

Iris Murdoch / A writer at war (Hardback)

Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War is a fascinating private memoir of one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century and a remarkable historical document of life behind the scenes during the Second World War     This book is second...

Philip Larkin / Life, Art and Love (Hardback)

Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets: a household name in his own lifetime. Lines such as 'Never such innocence again' and 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three' made him one of the most popular poets of the...

Andre Gide / If it Die

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Joy Swift / The joy of murder

THE JOY OF MURDER is the biography of Joy Swift M.B.E. who invented the concept of Murder Mystery weekends and holidays. Joy has captured the imagination of thousands of murder mystery sleuths who travel all over Britain and as far afield as the...

Alastair Humphreys / Moods of Future Joys

"Mood of Future Joys" recounts an epic journey that succeeded through Alastair Humphrey's trust in the kindness of strangers, at a time where the interactions of our global community are more confused and troubled than ever. "Mood of...

Alastair Humphreys / Thunder & Sunshine : Around the World By Bike - Part 2

Alastair Humphreys' round the world journey of 46,000 miles was an old-fashioned adventure: long, lonely, low-budget and spontaneous. Cycling across five continents and sailing over the oceans, his ride took four years to complete, on a tiny budget of...

Jessica J. Lee / Turning

'The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my ears. The sound of it is a muffled roar, the vibration...

Anne Edwards / Callas

Without doubt the twentieth century's most celebrated operatic diva, Maria Callas blazed new paths, set new standards and changed the face of opera for ever. With her incandescent fame,extraordinary voice and dramatic talent, she should have led a...

Eva Schloss / Eva's Story

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Gary Morecambe / Cary Grant

In an era when glamour was prevalent, Cary Grant became one of Hollywood's iconic leading men, starring in over 70 films, including the Hitchcock films, "North by Northwest", "Suspicion", "Notorious" and "To Catch...

Ted Conover / Newjack

After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or 'newjack', Conover spent a year in the unpredictable,...

Simon Weston / Walking Tall

The story of Welsh Guardsman Simon Weston, who while serving in the Falklands War suffered horrific injuries as a result of the attack on the ship "Sir Galahad". Simon gives his own account of his war experiences, and his subsequent struggle to...