The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
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Category: biography & memoir
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilari ...Show more
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman
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Category: biography & memoir | Series: The\Journals of Derek Jarman Ser.
A divine, meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness. 'An essential - urgent - book for the 21st Century' Hans Ulrich Obrist WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY OLIVIA LAING In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren ...Show more
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death by Maggie O'Farrell
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Category: biography & memoir | Series: Seventeen Brushes with Death
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extr ...Show more
The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream by Katharine Norbury
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Category: biography & memoir
LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Katharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by loving adoptive parents, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the beauty of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longed-for child, Katharine and her ...Show more
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
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Category: biography & memoir
The international Number One bestseller.Over a million copies sold in the English language.Published in 23 foreign languages.'A heartfelt memoir . . . there is a fearlessness to his prose, a willingness to engage with his past, that chimes with his songwriter's desire to give voice to the people around ...Show more
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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Category: biography & memoir
Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume o ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition by Anthony Bourdain
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Category: biography & memoir
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bou ...Show more
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
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Category: biography & memoir
Longlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, Do No Harm ranks alongside the work of Atul Gawande, Jerome Groopman, and Oliver Sacks.With compassion and candor, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving t ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
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Category: biography & memoir
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
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Category: biography & memoir
'Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable' New York Times. At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the ne ...Show more
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
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Category: biography & memoir
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Gloria Steinem--writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader--tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change.ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE'S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST ...Show more
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
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Category: biography & memoir
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is wide-ranging and deeply personal, overflowing with close observation and emotional wisdom. Stretching from her tumultuous childhood, to the gradual loss of her beloved grandmother, from a disastrous marriage to a happy one, from the joy of selling her first book ...Show more