My Father's Suitcase by MARY GARDEN
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Category: Biography and Memoir
A gripping tale of resilience and survival that offers hope to others who have experienced family violence and suffered at the hands of a sibling. A deeply personal and heartbreaking memoir that explores the troubled relationship between Mary Garden and her younger sister, Anna, who died in 2023 after a ...Show more
The Last Secret Agent: The untold story of my life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines by Pippa Latour
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Category: Biography and Memoir
The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations ...Show more
Bad Land by Jonathan Raban
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Category: Travel Memoir
Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana - the least populated, most uncharted region of the United States - to uncover the heart and soul of the country.Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the prairie and the homesteaders whose dreams foundered th ...Show more
Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban
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Category: Travel Memoir
'His erudition is enorous, his prose as beautiful and clear as the blue ocean on a crisp morning . . . Passage to Juneau is a wonderfully fluid read' - Sunday TimesPassage to Juneau is an account of Raban's voyage from Seattle to the Alaskan capital by boat, and the devastating news that awaits him when ...Show more
Father, Son and Other Animals by Zoë Sadokierski (Illustrator); James Bradley (Introduction by)
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Everest, Guns and Money by CHRIS DEWHIRST
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Category: Biography and Memoir
In the autumn of 1973, Chris Dewhirst was living and working in Yosemite National Park, and part of a counterculture group of rock climbers tackling some of the most difficult climbs on the planet. One night, while four friends were perched high on the side of El Capitan, a plane crashed into a back-cou ...Show more
Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei
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Category: Biography and Memoir
In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei explores the connection between artistic expression and intellectual freedom through the lens of the Chinese zodiac. Within this deluxe edition is an exclusive, limited-edition art print, signed by Ai We ...Show more
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Biography and Memoir
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumat ...Show more
Every Living Thing by James Herriot
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Category: Biography and Memoir
<b>The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series <i>All Creatures Great and Small.</i></b> In <i>Every Living Thing </i>James Herriot brings back familiar and much-loved friends, including his partner Siegfried and his most lucr ...Show more
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World by Pico Iyer
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Category: Biography and Memoir
'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul ... A masterpiece' Elizabeth Gilbert 'A work of spiritual evolution [and] inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors' Washington Post One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we ...Show more
Mom and Me and Mom (#7) by Maya Angelou
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Category: Biography and Memoir
'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.'So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, and mother to Maya Angelou, b ...Show more