
Genre: Biography & Memoir


A Dominant Character
Samanth SubramanianRRP: £9.99
Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2020.’A wonderful book about one of the most important, brillia …

A Runner's High
Dean KarnazesDean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits, from running in the shoe-melting heat of Death Valley to the lung-freezing cold of the South Pole. He’s raced and competed across th …

Ten Steps To Nanette
Hannah GadsbyThe memoir from Australia’s much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, NANETTE, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 before transferring to New York, where …

The Storm Within
Cameron Smith***CAPTAIN OF THE 2020 TELSTRA NRL PREMIERSHIP WINNERS THE MELBOURNE STORM***Cameron Smith AM is the most decorated rugby league player of all time. The recipient of numerous Dally M and Golden Boot a …

Black and Blue
Parm SandhuIn an enthralling narrative, Parm Sandhu chronicles her journey from life in 1960s Birmingham as the fourth child of immigrants from the Punjab to the senior ranks of the Met. Forced into an abusive a …

Late Cuts
Vic MarksFrom Somerset stalwart to acclaimed writer and broadcaster, Vic Marks has lived a life steeped in cricket. In Late Cuts he takes us beyond the boundary rope, sharing the parts of the game fans don’t g …

The Mystery of Charles Dickens
A. N. WilsonRRP: £9.99
A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS. ‘Superb’ Daily Mail, ‘Book of the Week”Brilliant’ The Times, ‘Book of the Week”[A] vivid, detailed account …

The Voice of Anfield
George Sephton‘George Sephton is part of the brickwork of Liverpool Football Club and was witness to so many iconic moments. He has lived through a huge chunk of our history, from when Liverpool were in the Second …

Last Chance Texaco
Rickie Lee JonesLast Chance Texaco is the first ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones in her own words. It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, a …

My Inner Sky
Mari Andrew‘This book is a reminder that healing is humbling, that resilience is beautiful, that there is joy in choosing yourself’ – Aminatou Sow’A timely and modern prompt to allow, even celebrate, the full sp …

The Beauty of Living Twice
Sharon StoneSharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living Tw …

The Florentines
Paul StrathernBetween the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which transformed the entire culture of western civilisation. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visi …

Boy on Fire
Mark MordueAn intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock ‘n’ roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave’s creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, th …

Endpapers
Alexander WolffIn 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family’s history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the a …

The Favour
Laura Vaughan‘Absorbing, intelligent and atmospheric… Genius’ Elizabeth Haynes_________________________Fortune favours the fraud…When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the li …
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