Biography & Memoir

When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
The Race To Be Myself
A Promised Land
Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Rapthology: Lessons in Life and Lyrics
Just Sayin': My Life In Words
I Am Not Your Baby Mother: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Visible Man: The Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
That Peckham Boy: Growing Up, Getting Out and Giving Back
Becoming
Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far
I'll Never Write My Memoirs
A Pocketful of Happiness
I Heard What You Said
Finding Me: The Grammy-winning memoir
Making a Scene
A Visible Man: The Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
The Barefoot Woman
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)
Dear Senthuran: A Black spirit memoir
Strong Female Character: Nero Book Awards Winner
The Twat Files
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
I Wanna Be Yours
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
And Away...
My Name is Barbra: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography and Music Book of the Year
Just Sayin': My Life In Words
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
Faith, Hope and Carnage
The Quentin Blake Book
Fight For Your Life
Running up that Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
There and Black Again: The Autobiography of Don Letts
Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Long Walk to Freedom
Born to Run
Taste: My Life Through Food
Becoming
And Away...
This Much is True: 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL
Chronicles Volume 1
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
An Autobiography
Everything I Know About Love
Open: An Autobiography
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times
Maggie & Me
Every Light in the House Burnin'
Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Running with Scissors: A Memoir
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Zami: A New Spelling of my Name
This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright
Up in the Old Hotel
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Go Tell it on the Mountain
Never: The Autobiography
I Haven't Been Entirely Honest with You
The Moon's a Balloon: The Guardian’s Number One Hollywood Autobiography
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
And Away...
This Much is True: 'There's never been a memoir so packed with eye-popping, hilarious and candid stories' DAILY MAIL
Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the Greatest Food Writers of All Time
Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
A Funny Life
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller
The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On
And Away...
Quite
I Wanna Be Yours
I Haven't Been Entirely Honest with You
Kersten's Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell
What I Ate in One Year : (And related thoughts)
Sophie From Romania: A Year of Love and Hope with a Rescue Dog
PATRIOT
Spare
Sonny Boy: A Memoir
Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature
Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs
The Hard Road Will Take You Home: Next Level Success - The Military Elite Method
Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story
No Name in the Street
Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a 20th-century soldier, adventurer and leader
La Vie: A year in rural France
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
Priestdaddy: A Memoir
My Name Is Why
Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the Greatest Food Writers of All Time
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
The Salt Path
The Outrun
Bad Blood
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller
Educated: The international bestselling memoir
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Dead Babies and Seaside Towns
Kitchen Confidential: Insider's Edition
Making It So: A Memoir
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
O Brother
Stay True
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
The Grass Arena: An Autobiography
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain: WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
A Month in Siena
Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death and grief in a time of pandemic
Tales from the Colony Room: Soho's Lost Bohemia
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons
Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year
Red Comet: A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2021
Priestdaddy: A Memoir
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 – 1990
After Kathy Acker: A Biography
The Year of Magical Thinking
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
Keith Haring Journals
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir
Widow Basquiat: A Memoir
I Am Not Your Negro
Heimat: A German Family Album
Persepolis I & II
The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise
Fallen: George Mallory: The Man, The Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy
Let's See What Happens: The Last Mayor of Bristol
Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
A Promised Land
Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life
Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny
Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland
Orwell's Island: George, Jura and 1984
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life
Politics On the Edge
Churchill: The Scottish Years: A Scotsman Book of the Year
Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home
Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression
Sea Bean
Is This OK?: One Woman's Search For Connection Online
Go the Way Your Blood Beats
I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture
Whatever Next?: Lessons from an Unexpected Life
Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer
Landlines: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller about a thousand-mile journey across Britain from the author of The Salt Path
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor
Crying in H Mart
Playing Under the Piano: 'Comedy gold' Sunday Times: From Downton to Darkest Peru
Old Rage: 'One of our best-loved actor's powerful riposte to a world driving her mad’ - DAILY MAIL
Pageboy: A Memoir
Character Breakdown
My Name Is Why
My Shitty Twenties: A Memoir
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Naturally Tan: A Memoir
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between
Persepolis I & II
"I Will Not Be Erased": Our stories about growing up as people of colour
Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically
Freshwater
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Covent Garden Ladies: the book that inspired BBC2’s ‘Harlots’
It Takes Blood and Guts
Catherine, the Princess of Wales: The Biography
Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny
Our Daily War: The powerful, deeply personal sequel to Diary of an Invasion
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: The powerful memoir from the beloved star of Friends
Abroad in Japan
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
Politics On the Edge
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: further conversations with my psychiatrist. The Sunday Times and international
Making It So: A Memoir
Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life
Rambling Man: My Life on the Road
Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly
Kammy: My Unbelievable Life
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times
Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a 20th-century soldier, adventurer and leader
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence
Priestdaddy: A Memoir
The Education of an Idealist
Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930–1944
The Salt Path
Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 – 1990
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
More Than a Woman: The instant Sunday Times number one bestseller
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
The Year of Magical Thinking
Walking With Ghosts: A Memoir
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving
Dead Girls
A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire
Against Memoir: Winner of the 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Stolen Lives: Human Trafficking and Slavery in Britain Today
Through the Leopard's Gaze
The Amazingly Astonishing Story
Diary of a Young Naturalist: WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2020
Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed
The Salt Path
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner
If Women Rose Rooted: A life-changing journey to authenticity and belonging
A Life in Nature: Or How to Catch a Mole
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
The Electricity of Every Living Thing: From the bestselling author of Wintering
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
The Outrun
I Am An Island
Bird Therapy
The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel
Surfacing
Close to Where the Heart Gives Out: A Year in the Life of an Orkney Doctor
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Travel Light, Move Fast
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A memoir about women, addiction and love
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Black Like Me
Travel Light, Move Fast
Before Night Falls
Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood
On Bowie
Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt
The Lights of Pointe-Noire
One Hundred Saturdays: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2024: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes
Beryl - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir – with an introduction by Emma Gannon
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma
People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
A Farmer's Diary: A Year at High House Farm
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
The Diary of a Bookseller
The Durrells of Corfu
The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an Ancient Forest
The Instant
The Outrun
The Soul of a Woman
I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was
Landlines: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller about a thousand-mile journey across Britain from the author of The Salt Path
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend
From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
Beryl - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: In Search of Britain's Greatest Athlete, Beryl Burton
Back in the Day: The deeply affecting, first ever memoir by beloved national treasure Melvyn Bragg
I Wanna Be Yours
Boy in a China Shop: Perfect for fans of THE GREAT POTTERY THROW DOWN and OUR WELSH CHAPEL DREAM
Behind the Seams: The perfect gift for fans of The Great British Sewing Bee
And Away...
Taste: My Life Through Food
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
The Oak Papers
Between Stone and Sky: Memoirs of a Waller
The Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Beyond the Secret Garden: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett (with a Foreword by Jacqueline Wilson)
My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller
The Running Book: A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History
Salt On Your Tongue: Women and the Sea
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Where There's A Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent
Walking With Ghosts: A Memoir
Rootbound: Rewilding a Life
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place
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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of...

Hetta Howes

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The Place of Tides

The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

£22.00
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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Katherine May

£12.99
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PATRIOT

PATRIOT

Alexei Navalny

£25.00
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In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law

Sarah Langford

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What I Ate in One Year : (And related thoughts)

What I Ate in One Year : (And related thoughts)

Stanley Tucci

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£19.00
Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef

Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef

Slutty Cheff

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£16.14
Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous

Gillian Anderson

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Raising Hare

Raising Hare

Chloe Dalton

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Sonny Boy: A Memoir

Sonny Boy: A Memoir

Al Pacino

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£23.75
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

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Powsels and Thrums

Powsels and Thrums

Alan Garner

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£14.24
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama

The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage...

Ben Macintyre

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The Outrun

The Outrun

Amy Liptrot

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Shattered

Shattered

Hanif Kureishi

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Winner: My Racing Life

Winner: My Racing Life

A.P. McCoy

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Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew

Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew

Avi Shlaim

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Politics On the Edge

Politics On the Edge

Rory Stewart

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Bob the Robin: A love letter to Britain’s favourite bird

Bob the Robin: A love letter to Britain’s favourite bird

Tony Putman

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The Salt Path

The Salt Path

Raynor Winn

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The Elsie Drake Letters (aged 104)

The Elsie Drake Letters (aged 104)

Robert Popper and Elsie Drake

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