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Biography and Autobiography - Recently published biographies. (To keep this list from getting too long, we remove older titles from it every so often - but you'll still find them in other booklists according to their subject)

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 78 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
    A Heart That Works - by Rob Delaney

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399710886 | ISBN 10: 1399710885

    In this memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and comedian Rob Delaney grapples with the fragile miracle of life, the mysteries of death, and the question of purpose for those left behind.  When you’re a parent and your child gets hurt or sick, you ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not Quite White by Laila Woozeer
    Not Quite White - by Laila Woozeer

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781471184208 | ISBN 10: 147118420x

    This is a story of belonging and not belonging, of not knowing if you exist and making sure that you do. This story is for ancestors and descendants, for the people without roles or representation who find themselves placed in a random mixed-up race. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
    Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography - by Rob Wilkins

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529176902 | ISBN 10: 1529176905

    WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION   'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman   'Sometimes joyful ... more

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  • Cover image of book Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
    Woody Guthrie: A Life - by Joe Klein

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571384297 | ISBN 10: 0571384293

    ‘A really great book.’ Bruce Springsteen  With a foreword by Billy Bragg.   Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie. Singer, songwriter and political activist, Guthrie ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon by Helen Rappaport
    In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon - by Helen Rappaport

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398504455 | ISBN 10: 1398504459

    'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of Seacole's extraordinary life' Daily Mail  In Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing bio ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran by Ali Mirsepassi
    The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran - by Ali Mirsepassi

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399511421 | ISBN 10: 1399511424

    A memoir of life in Iran in the tumultuous years leading up to the 1979 revolution. "Offers an intimate window onto the Iranian revolution just when we need to be thinking about it the most"(Marjane Satrapi, writer and film director) * Recount ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby
    Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation - by Hannah Gadsby

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781911630258 | ISBN 10: 1911630253

    There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.’ Hannah Gadsby, Nanette  Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us th ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: A Memoir of a Childhood and the Sea by Ian McMillan
    My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: A Memoir of a Childhood and the Sea - by Ian McMillan

    £10.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472982940 | ISBN 10: 1472982940

    My sand life, my pebble life. My life measured out in tides, coming in and going out. My life measured out in games of trying to spot the sea first. My life measured out in the delicious and indulgent sadness that comes from leaving a holiday cottage ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir by Jonathan Alexander
    Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir - by Jonathan Alexander

    £16.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781946724465 | ISBN 10: 1946724467

    In this unconventional memoir, Alexander, who grew up in the Deep South during the 1970s and ’80s, addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self. Focusing on three years—1989, 1993, and 1996—the book follows the author throu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Will She Do? Act One of a Life on Stage by Eileen Atkins
    Will She Do? Act One of a Life on Stage - by Eileen Atkins

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349014678 | ISBN 10: 0349014671

    ‘She is the cur’s cods, the terrier’s testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finest actor appearing in the world right now’ – A. A. Gill  ‘Yes, she will: this vivid, honest memoir by a great actress ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village by Lexi Stadlen
    Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village - by Lexi Stadlen

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784744106 | ISBN 10: 1784744107

    On an island at the eastern edge of India, rural, remote and dense with jungle, is a Muslim village. In an ever-shifting landscape of mangroves and rivers, the women here dwell among contradictions, constrictions and change in a place where one's nei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? by Seamas O
    Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? - by Seamas O'Reilly

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780708899236 | ISBN 10: 0708899234

    THE IRISH TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER AN POST BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR  ‘Gorgeous’ Pandora Sykes  ‘A rare and beautiful book’ Marian Keyes  ‘Tender, sad and side-splittingly funny’ Annie MacManus  ‘A delight†... more

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  • Cover image of book The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion
    The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - by Judy Batalion

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349011585 | ISBN 10: 0349011583

    One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland’s Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright
    Stories I Might Regret Telling You - by Martha Wainwright

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398503731 | ISBN 10: 1398503738

    This is Martha Wainwright’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more.  Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarr ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
    My Autobiography of Carson McCullers - by Jenn Shapland

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349015682 | ISBN 10: 0349015686

    FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD  ‘Fascinating and intimate’ OBSERVER  ‘Lucid, distilled, honest’ MAGGIE NELSON  ‘Gorgeous, symphonic, tender’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO  How do you tell the real story of someone misremember ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl from Lamaha Street by Sharon Maas
    The Girl from Lamaha Street - by Sharon Maas

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781909770690 | ISBN 10: 1909770698

    "An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read."(Katharine Birbalsingh) "Fascinating and poignant… an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir."(Angela Petch) Perhaps it’s true that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rememberings by Sinead O
    Rememberings - by Sinead O'Connor

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781844885428 | ISBN 10: 1844885429

    THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICON.  Sinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk by Randy Shilts
    The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk - by Randy Shilts

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838956585 | ISBN 10: 1838956581

    ‘If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door’   This is the definitive biography of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and cold-blooded assassination mirrored the dramatic emergence of the gay ... more

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  • Cover image of book Real Estate by Deborah Levy
    Real Estate - by Deborah Levy

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241977583 | ISBN 10: 0241977584

    From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'.  'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry
    Who Am I, Again? - by Lenny Henry

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571342617 | ISBN 10: 0571342612

    ***BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week***   Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time.  You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies by Sathnam Sanghera
    The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies - by Sathnam Sanghera

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141028590 | ISBN 10: 0141028599

    "It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand, floral-patterned settee, and lean forward, like I'm presenting myself for exec ... more

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  • Cover image of book Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes
    Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan - by Howard Sounes

    £16.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780857527820 | ISBN 10: 0857527827

    An updated edition of Howard Sounes' classic, definitive biography to mark the legendary Bob Dylan's 80th birthday.   Bob Dylan was the first figure in the history of popular music to challenge the domination of the three-minute pop song and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Handstands In The Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival by Janey Godley
    Handstands In The Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival - by Janey Godley

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529106862 | ISBN 10: 1529106869

    Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city's most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley's young life was far from ordinary.  From the grim and far-from-swinging 60s, to the discos of the 70s, to the tidal wave of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save It by Stuart Maconie
    The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save It - by Stuart Maconie

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529102437 | ISBN 10: 152910243x

    It was the spirit of our finest hour, the backbone of our post-war greatness, and it promoted some of the boldest and most brilliant schemes this isle has ever produced: it was the Welfare State, and it made you and I. But now it's under threat, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging by Tessa McWatt
    Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging - by Tessa McWatt

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913348229 | ISBN 10: 1913348229

    "This remarkable meditation on beautiful, human bodies formed by the violence of slavery and by colonial shame resists categorisation, even as it shows up the ways in which categories of race and identity are no more than empty methods of social cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
    Bessie Smith - by Jackie Kay

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571362929 | ISBN 10: 0571362923

    Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer.  Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.   Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
    The Ungrateful Refugee - by Dina Nayeri

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786893499 | ISBN 10: 1786893495

    A timely, provocative and personal examination of the refugee experience.  What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought, and yet there are more than 25 million refugees in the world. To be a refugee is to ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Do You Want Me? by Ruby Wax
    How Do You Want Me? - by Ruby Wax

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529105001 | ISBN 10: 1529105005

    The autumn 2002 publication of Ruby Wax's memoirs was greeted with shock - and delighted acclaim. In the tradition of the best memoirs, such as The Moon's a Balloon and Billy, Ruby Wax revealed, surprised and captured the public more than was ever pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings
    A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago - by Lennie Goodings

    £16.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780198828754 | ISBN 10: 0198828756

    'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then - only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain - that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Past Is a Foreign Country: A Muslim Feminist Finds Herself by Zeba Talkhani
    My Past Is a Foreign Country: A Muslim Feminist Finds Herself - by Zeba Talkhani

    £14.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781473684058 | ISBN 10: 1473684056

    28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid patriarchal customs reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale, and her journey to find freedom in India, Germany and the UK.  Talkhani offers a fresh perspective on liv ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
    We Have Always Been Here - by Samra Habib

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529404869 | ISBN 10: 152940486x

    Triumphant and uplifting – a queer Muslim memoir about forgiveness and freedom.   A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib’s story starts with growing up as part of a threatened minority sect in Pakistan, and follows her arrival in Cana ... more

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  • Cover image of book Time For Lights Out by Raymond Briggs
    Time For Lights Out - by Raymond Briggs

    £18.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787331952 | ISBN 10: 1787331954

    In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs contemplates old age and death... and doesn’t like them much. Illustrated with Briggs’s inimitable pencil drawings, Time for Lights Out is a collection of short pieces, some ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
    Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim - by Leah Vernon

    £19.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780807012628 | ISBN 10: 0807012629

    A searingly honest memoir of one young woman’s journey toward self-acceptance as she comes to see her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope and chooses to live her life unapologetically.   Ever since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism by Peter Molloy
    Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism - by Peter Molloy

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846076176 | ISBN 10: 184607617x

    There was life before the fall.   1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. B ... more

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  • Cover image of book Born Lippy: How to Do Female by Jo Brand
    Born Lippy: How to Do Female - by Jo Brand

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781473687738 | ISBN 10: 147368773x

    HOLD MY CHIPS, THE WOMEN ARE REVOLTING! A darkly funny guide to life as a woman from Britain's favourite comedian.  Sometimes 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 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle
    Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China - by Guy Delisle

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787331709 | ISBN 10: 1787331709

    Guy Delisle's work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in 'cold and soulless' hotel rooms where he suffers the us ... more

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  • Cover image of book Made In Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country by Billy Connolly
    Made In Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country - by Billy Connolly

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785943744 | ISBN 10: 178594374x

    All roads lead home.   ‘After my knighthood was announced, a woman from the BBC came to Glasgow to interview me. We sat down in a lovely hotel in a nice part of town, and she hit me with her first question: “This must mean a lot to you, with y ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister by Anne Choma
    Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister - by Anne Choma

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785944048 | ISBN 10: 1785944045

    'There are more ways than one of being happy… I am living proof of this.'   Anne Lister was remarkable. Fearless, charismatic and determined to explore her lesbian sexuality, she forged her own path in a society that had no language to defin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee by Gulwali Passarlay
    Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee - by Gulwali Passarlay

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786497154 | ISBN 10: 1786497158

    The boy who fled Afghanistan and endured a terrifying journey in the hands of people smugglers is now a young man intent on changing the world. His story is a deeply harrowing and incredibly inspiring tale of our times.   ‘To risk my life ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
    The Girl Who Smiled Beads - by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786090508 | ISBN 10: 1786090503

    When Clemantine Wamariya was six years old, her world was torn apart. She didn't know why her parents began talking in whispers, or why her neighbours started disappearing, or why she could hear distant thunder even when the skies were clear.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Voices from Captivity: Incarceration from Siberia to Guantanamo Bay by J E Thomas
    Voices from Captivity: Incarceration from Siberia to Guantanamo Bay - by J E Thomas

    £17.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785924989 | ISBN 10: 1785924982

    Bringing together a range of first-hand testimonies of captives, this personal and arresting collection provides an overview of what life inside is actually like. Drawing on memoirs of captives - including those imprisoned for stealing money, murder, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon by Rachel Reeves
    Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon - by Rachel Reeves

    £11.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788313070 | ISBN 10: 1788313070

    Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians.  Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her h ... more

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  • Cover image of book So They Call You Pisher! A Memoir by Michael Rosen
    So They Call You Pisher! A Memoir - by Michael Rosen

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786633996 | ISBN 10: 178663399x

    The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaigner.  In this hilarious, moving memoir, much-loved children’s poet and political campaigner Michael Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life. He was born in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love by Fergal Keane
    Wounds: A Memoir of War and Love - by Fergal Keane

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008189273 | ISBN 10: 0008189277

    A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past.   2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  After nearly three de ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir by Ngugi wa Thiong
    Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir - by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702243 | ISBN 10: 1784702242

    Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya’s Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There, Ngugi lives in a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family by Garrard Conley
    Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family - by Garrard Conley

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008276980 | ISBN 10: 0008276986

    The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality.   When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words: The Authorised Biography by Boel Westin
    Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words: The Authorised Biography - by Boel Westin

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908745569 | ISBN 10: 1908745568

    Translated from Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella.   The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti
    Art Sex Music - by Cosey Fanni Tutti

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571328529 | ISBN 10: 0571328520

    Art Sex Music is the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged the boundaries of music over the past four decades.   It is th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Meatless Days by Sara Suleri
    Meatless Days - by Sara Suleri

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241342466 | ISBN 10: 0241342465

    "Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I've ever read"(Kamila Shamsie, from the introduction) Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When sudden and shocking tragedies hit the a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Sicknesses by Stephen McGann
    Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Sicknesses - by Stephen McGann

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471160813 | ISBN 10: 1471160815

    His family survived famine-ravaged Ireland in the 1850s.  His ancestors settled in poverty-rife Victorian Liverpool, working to survive and thrive.  Some of them became soldiers serving on the Western Front.  One would be the last man to step off ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography by Brendan King
    Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography - by Brendan King

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472947338 | ISBN 10: 1472947339

    Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), ... more

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  • Cover image of book Toxteth Tales: Growin
    Toxteth Tales: Growin' up in Liverpool 8 - by Ken Hayter

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910837139 | ISBN 10: 191083713x

    Liverpool in the 40s and 50s: a city of safe, cosy little streets - except when Hitler's Luftwaffe couldn't find the docks. A city of two-up, two-downs, where two or three generations lived within a few doors of each other, and often behind one door. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Last Girl Standing by Trina Robbins
    Last Girl Standing - by Trina Robbins

    £17.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781683960140 | ISBN 10: 1683960149

    Born on the cusp of WWII in 1938, at a time when other little girls dreamed of being nurses and secretaries, Trina Robbins’s ambition was to be a bohemian; and indeed she did. She chronicles a life of sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll — and comics †... more

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  • Cover image of book You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris, translated by Sam Taylor
    You Will Not Have My Hate - by Antoine Leiris, translated by Sam Taylor

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784705282 | ISBN 10: 1784705284

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER   What matters most in life? How do you build a happy life when terrible things happen? What is left behind when you lose the person you love the most?  One night last winter, Antoine Leiris was at home looking aft ... more

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  • Cover image of book Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists by David Aaronovitch
    Party Animals: My Family and Other Communists - by David Aaronovitch

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099478973 | ISBN 10: 0099478978

    In July 1961, just before David Aaronovitch's seventh birthday, Yuri Gagarin came to London. The Russian cosmonaut was everything the Aaronovitch family wished for - a popular and handsome embodiment of modern communism.  But who were they, these ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something Dark by Lemn Sissay
    Something Dark - by Lemn Sissay

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786822291 | ISBN 10: 1786822296

    Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s. He was renamed Norman Greenwood and nicknamed Chalky White throughout his turbulent childhood in care, only to find out his real name ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life by Malachi O
    Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life - by Malachi O'Doherty

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571315956 | ISBN 10: 057131595x

    How did Gerry Adams grow from a revolutionary street activist – in perpetual danger of arrest and assassination – into the leader of Sinn Féin, with intimate access to the British and Irish Prime Ministers and the US President? And how has he ou ... more

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  • Cover image of book Patti Smith: American Artist by Frank Stefanko
    Patti Smith: American Artist - by Frank Stefanko

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781683830153 | ISBN 10: 1683830156

    "There I was sitting in a booth at the co-op of Glassboro State College, a bucolic school in the farmlands of South Jersey... Suddenly, the double doors of the co-op swung open and standing there in the vacuum created was an incredible apparition, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hinterland by Chris Mullin
    Hinterland - by Chris Mullin

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781256060 | ISBN 10: 1781256063

    All serious politicians are supposed to possess a hinterland, but not all do. Chris Mullin was one who did. By the time he entered parliament he had reported from the wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and tracked down the survivors of the CIA operat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Football
    Football's Coming Out: Life As a Gay Fan and Player - by Neil Beasley

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780992658564 | ISBN 10: 099265856x

    Being gay in football - as fan or player - is to risk the homophobia that has run through the game for years. But things are changing. Gradually a few brave professional players have come out. And someone like Neil Beasley now feels able to tell his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Transitioning Together: One Couple
    Transitioning Together: One Couple's Journey of Gender and Identity Discovery - by Wenn B. Lawson and Beatrice M. Lawson

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785921032 | ISBN 10: 1785921037

    This is the story of a long-lasting relationship, surviving against the odds. It is the story of Wenn and Beatrice Lawson, born almost twelve years apart in different countries with different cultures, who were both assigned female at birth. After ni ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely
    Frederick Douglass - by William S. McFeely

    £15.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780393354423 | ISBN 10: 0393354423

    Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass — orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America — was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Do ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jo Cox: More in Common by Brendan Cox
    Jo Cox: More in Common - by Brendan Cox

    £16.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473659186 | ISBN 10: 1473659183

    A touching and very human portrait of Jo Cox: daughter, mother, wife, sister, MP and aidworker. "Jo Cox's selfless service to others made the world a better place"(Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States) THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES B ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti
    Sex Object: A Memoir - by Jessica Valenti

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780062435095 | ISBN 10: 0062435094

    Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the exi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir by Chris Packham
    Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir - by Chris Packham

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785033506 | ISBN 10: 1785033506

    Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a Kestrel, a real live Kestrel, my own real live Kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I'd climbed through a ho ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Mum Runs by Jo Pavey
    This Mum Runs - by Jo Pavey

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780224100434 | ISBN 10: 0224100432

    The inspirational story of athlete Jo Pavey, the runner and mum who ran at a record-breaking fifth Olympic Games at Rio 2016.   'Come-back races? I've had more than a few, the night of 10 May 2014 was the ultimate long shot. I was a forty-year ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius by Dermot Turing
    Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius - by Dermot Turing

    £6.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781841657561 | ISBN 10: 1841657565

    Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. His codebreaking work at Bletchley Park was so significant it helped to shorten the Second Worl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel
    Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition - by Claire Brock

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785781667 | ISBN 10: 1785781669

    Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal.   Soon making scientific discoveries i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley
    The Age of Bowie - by Paul Morley

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781471148118 | ISBN 10: 1471148114

    "A handsome six footer with a warm and engaging personality, Davie Jones has all it takes to get to the show business heights including... talent."(David Bowie at 17 in May, 1964 writing his own press biography.) Respected arts commentator Pau ... more

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  • Cover image of book Theodor Geisel: A Portrait of the Man Who Became Dr. Seuss by Donald E. Pease
    Theodor Geisel: A Portrait of the Man Who Became Dr. Seuss - by Donald E. Pease

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780190614522 | ISBN 10: 0190614528

    Dr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat and the Hat, these and other classics ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story by Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson and Kyle Baker
    The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story - by Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson and Kyle Baker

    £12.50   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781616558352 | ISBN 10: 1616558350

    Eisner and Harvey Award winner! "If anyone was ‘The Fifth Beatle’ it was Brian."(Paul McCartney) The Fifth Beatle graphic novel recounts the untold true story of Brian Epstein - the visionary manager who created Beatlemania and guided the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long and Winding Road by Alan Johnson
    The Long and Winding Road - by Alan Johnson

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780593076033 | ISBN 10: 0593076036

    From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in today’s Britain.  This third volume ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare
    The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir - by David Hare

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571294343 | ISBN 10: 0571294340

    When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as compl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father by Adam Mars-Jones
    Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father - by Adam Mars-Jones

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846148774 | ISBN 10: 1846148774

    Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2016   When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately tr ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
    My Life on the Road - by Gloria Steinem

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780749204 | ISBN 10: 1780749201

    Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were planted: Steinem would spend much of her life on the road, ... more

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