Autobiography: general

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WINNER OF THE 2010 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE.

A day-by-day account of Aron Ralstons unforgettable survival story.

The tragic but ultimately uplifting story of a young woman who was sent to a baby laundry for unmarried mothers in 1960s London In 1963, London was on the brink of becoming one of the worlds most vibrant cities.

Born into a fog-ridden south London slum in 1931, Eileen Killick quickly learned to look after herself.

When super-tough cop Sergeant Harry Keeble announced he was joining Hackney's ailing Child Protection Team in 2000, his colleagues were astounded.

Sarah-Jane Le Blanc grew up with no particular interest in animals.

In April 2008, the world watched in horror as the news of Josef Fritzl made worldwide headlines.

In Baby Xwe learned how super-tough cop Harry Keeble and his colleagues in Hackney's Child Protection Unit rescued dozens of kids, faced lynch mobs and undertook the impossible job of interviewing paedophiles.

Born in 1979, Roxy Freeman grew up travelling around Ireland and England in a traditional horse-drawn wagon with her mother and father and six siblings.

On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York.

Veronica Cecil was twenty-five years old when her husband was offered a job at a large multi-national company in the Congo.

Clare Peake, daughter of the celebrated writer and artist Mervyn Peake, tells the story of her parents' romance and her own happy and bohemian childhood.

The most complete guide ever to taking up poker and winningComprehensive and easy to follow, The Mammoth Book of Poker enables even those new to the game to begin and win at home, in casinos, in tournaments and online.

Many of the places, people, legends and seasons that formed Brown's vision and work are presented here, with poems appearing among the prose.

LET NOT THE WAVES OF THE SEA is Simon Stephenson's account of his journey following the loss of his brother in the Indian Ocean tsunami.

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary.

INTRODUCED BY JAN MORRIS'[This] gloriously ornate account of that epic journey is a classic' ROBERT MACFARLANE'The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead is a prospect of inconjecturable magic.

Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head.

When my father died, I stayed off school to look after my mother.

Cat has got it on with all sorts of guys and if it has taught her one thing it is this: forget conventional rules and follow your heart's desires.

'I relish every second of my sexual encounters: the good, the bad, the bizarre.

Will Lucy make it down the aisle?

When Oenone Crossley-Holland started teaching at an inner city school in London, she had no idea what to expect.

Colonel Stuart Tootal is the first senior commander to provide an account of the fighting in Afghanistan.

While in rehab, James Frey finds a father figure in a shady mafia boss called Leonard.

When Jenny and Robert fall in love in the late 1960s they decide to build a new future together, away from the city.

For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music.

The day Monica learns that her loveable, brilliant three-year-old son, Wills, has Autism, she takes him to buy an aquarium.

';This powerful memoir by the former EastEnders star will touch even the hardest heart' The Sun At 2.

When Neil Cross was five years old, his mother left him.

Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of legendary Motley Crue offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction.

In l998, Mark and his family welcomed into their lives a half-Border Collie/half-Cocker Spaniel they named Pepsi.

Remarkable .

When Johnny Cash died in September 2003, the world mourned the loss of the greatest country music star of all time.

Allison DuBois first realised her abilities at six years old when she saw her great-grandfather - after his funeral.

Steve Martin has been an international star for over thirty years.

It is almost unprecedented for a head of state to publish a memoir while still in office.

Even as a young girl, growing up in the Bronx, Mary Higgins Clark knew she wanted to be a writer.

Liz Smith, once called the nation's favourite fictional grandmother, is a familiar face to all TV and cinema viewers.

Before his resignation in April 2007, Duncan Fletcher had been the most successful England cricket coach of the modern era.

A memoir in three parts, Concertina spans five years of the author's life as she makes the extraordinary transition from culinary expert to professional dominatrix.

Even people who don't know football know Pel.

At nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home.

A harrowing yet inspiring portrait of a tormented consciousness struggling for reconciliation and peace, JARHEAD is authentic, revelatory and brilliantly crafted.

Shirley MacLaine has established herself as a fearless, iconoclastic thinker and seeker of truth.

Lord Michael Levy hit the headlines with his involvement in the alleged 'cash for peerages' scandal that rocked Tony Blair's government.

Comedian Mark Steel has spent most of his life a committed, signed-up member of the Socialist Workers Party.

On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir, known as the Taliban gateway to Helmand Province.

Following a seven-year battle with cancer, Jane Tomlinson died at the age of 43 in September 2007.