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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Magical Thinking

Augusten Burroughs

RRP: £15.00

A collection of autobiographical short stories, small vignettes of his life experiences, universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate and very funny.From the #1 bestselling author of Running wit …

The Impossible Life of Mary Benson

Rodney Bolt

RRP: £8.99

Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie – as …

The Limit

Michael Cannell

RRP: £12.99

10 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix. It is the biggest race anyone can remember. Phil Hill – the firstAmerican to …

To Sea and Back

Richard Shelton

RRP: £17.99

Combining natural history with beguiling autobiographical and historical narrative, To Sea and Backis a dazzling portrait of a fish whose story is closely intertwined with our own.’Indispensable and p …

Back from the Brink

Alistair Darling

RRP: £14.99

Back from the Brink is a gripping and immediate account of the British government’s handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling’s knowledge and understanding make this …

The Patagonian Hare

Claude Lanzmann

RRP: £20.00

The international bestseller: a cry of witness to the 20th century – the unforgettable memoir of 70 years of contemporary and personal history from the great French filmmaker, journalist and intellect …

The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson

Louis Barfe

RRP: £8.99

Les Dawson: a comedian who, more than any other, spoke for the phlegmatic, resigned, sarcastic, glorious British way of life. This is his story.A Northern lad who climbed out of the slums thanks to an …

Rin Tin Tin

Susan Orlean

RRP: £14.99

From the moment in 1918 when Corporal Lee Duncan discovers Rin Tin Tin on a World War I battlefield, he recognizes something in the pup that he needs to share with the world. Rin Tin Tin’s improbable …

Public Enemies

Bernard Henri-Levy

RRP: £20.00

‘Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we’re both utterly despicable individuals.’ (Houellebecq to BHL)In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French in …

Madam Lash

Sam Everingham

RRP: £10.99

Gretel Pinniger, dominatrix, fetishist, artist, and courtesan to the rich and famous has been shocking and outraging Australia for decades. Never shy of publicity, this introverted daughter of a hands …

Pearl Jam Twenty

One of the key bands of the Seattle-based grunge movement of the 1990s, Pearl Jam broke on to the world stage with their album, Ten, which went on to become an alternative rock classic. For over two d …

Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue

Lynn Knight

RRP: £9.99

BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 SPEAR’S BEST FAMILY HISTORY AWARD150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill – a short stride across the Chesterfield Canal in the heart of Derbyshire – was ho …

You Better Not Cry

Augusten Burroughs

RRP: £7.99

From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes a A wonderfully twisted collection of true Christmas stories.Of course you’ve eaten too much chocolate at Christmas, but have you …

As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil

Rodney Bolt

Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie – as …

Blood Knots

Luke Jennings

RRP: £12.99

As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it seemed to him, waited alien and mysterious worlds. With library books a …

Dry

Augusten Burroughs

RRP: £9.99

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs’s most provocative memoir. Outrageously fuinny and scorchingly honest.You may not know it, but you’ve me …

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