Memoirs

As a teenager in Nottingham, Tom Cox was possessed.

'You're Joseph Heller's daughter?

In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana's revelations about life in Saudi Arabia's royal family.

'This is the most glorious of books.

For many the daily grind can feel like a trap - work, gym, drinks, shops, home, bed, work.

The Insider dominated the media on publication in March 2005 and instantly became a No.

'We were quickly learning to live with war.

Dyslexia is a common diagnosable condition that is estimated to affect at least one child in ten.

Jimmy Connors took the tennis world by storm like no player in the history of the game.

If you are accompanied by a dog you can talk to anyone, and anyone can talk to you about anything And they do.

Foreigners who spend time in Russia soon discover two distinct worlds: the public Russia, often perceived as cold and shadowed, cautious and traditional; and the private Russia, where warmth and hospitality flourish over tea at a friend's kitchen table or saut ed mushrooms in a village dacha.

Conway opens with her assessment of her life, passions, possibilities and the making of her decision to leave Canada and return to the United States to become Smith's first woman president.

The facts of life and death remain the same.

The great C L R James once asked: 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga.

What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life?

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA poignant and moving account of the author s search for the man his father was and the life he led as a well-known footballer, blending the personal and the historical into an unforgettable story Stewart Imlach was an ordinary neighbourhood soccer star of his time.

In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Ireland.

In this remarkable book, Jane Miller writes about the experience of being a daughter and a sister, about the intensities of family life and the illuminations that come from the last days of parents.

Local rather than international, the dramas and privations described in this memoir are not the stuff of headlines.

In a memoir as vivid and unpredictable as any novel we follow Roger Garfitt on his journey from stable boy to jazz dancer, from Oxford dandy to Sixties drop-out.

'Magnificent Anthony BourdainA sharply crafted and unflinchingly honest memoir.

In this sequel to The Flame of Thika, Elspeth Huxley takes up her story after the family returns to Kenya after the First World War.

The emotional and gripping memoir from multi-million copy Sunday Times bestselling author of Never Look Back and A Sicilian Affair, perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Lesley Pearse.

It seemed like any other season on Mount Everest.

-------------------------------On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police.

How often have you thought you might like to chuck it all in, leave the steaming metropolis and its noise and dirt behind and make for pastures new, to begin your life again?

Brought together for the first time in one edition, both of Christabel Bielenberg's bestselling memoirs give an incredibly moving, emotionally charged and compelling insight into life in Nazi Germany during The Third Reich and during the aftermath of World War Two.

Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, Anya von Bremzen grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West.

In 1929, Christopher Isherwood leaves England on a one-way ticket to Berlin.

Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy.

'It must be stressed from the start that I was not a born nurse.

_______The shocking, gripping autobiography from one of the UK's most infamous criminals and gang leaders, and one half of the legendary Kray Twins, Reggie Kray.

Leslie Thomas's odyssey is a vivid, personal account of the most fascinating islands at the furthest reaches of the globe: to islands as distant and diverse as Saint-Pierre et Miquelon off Newfoundland and Great Barrier Island off New Zealand, and to places more familiar by name, including Nantucket, Fair Isle, Tahiti, and Capri, this journey voyages to the world's smaller places.

A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born.

When father-of-two Sam loses his job, he reluctantly agrees to stay at home while his wife returns to work.

In this personal memoir about life at 10 Downing Street, Sarah Brown shares the secrets of living behind the most famous front door in the world.

George Best needs little introduction.

From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French cooking.

___________________________THE BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCEWelcome to the world of football thuggery.

'Memories, aphorisms and stern good advice from America's favourite naughty aunt' Independent on Sunday'This book is as grown-up as a dirty martini' Sunday Times'Sharp as a knife' Daily Express___In her final book, Nora Ephron reflects on life, growing older, and everything she will and won't miss.

Science is just one way of looking at life.

The thrilling and moving classic memoir of a spitfire pilot in World War Two.

Catherine Fox is not your typical martial artist.

*Now features never-before-published extra chapter*Glasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place.

In 1994 Emily Prager adopted a 7-month-old baby in China.

Hoxton today is one of the most fashionable parts of inner London, yet before the Blitz, it was the capital's most notorious slum area.

For the last year Hephzibah Anderson has flirted, dated, swooned, and sighed.

Donkey's Years and Dog Days were the first two volumes of these remarkable memoirs, of which The Whole Hog now completes the Higgins Bestiary.

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