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    Biography books giving you an insight into the private lives of the rich and famous, as well as amazing stories from individuals you may not have heard of.

    Karen Blixen: Out of Africa [1999] paperback

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    Karen Blixen went to Kenya in 1914 to run a coffee farm; its failure in 1931 caused her to return to Denmark where she wrote this classic account of her...

    John Harrison M.: Wish I Was Here [2024] paperback

    €14.30

    'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of...

    Zwick Ed: Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions [2024] hardback

    €22.99

    This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, About Last Night, and Glory, creator of the show thirtysomething, and...

    Tate Christie: BFF [2024] paperback

    €14.30

    * "A love story about the miracle of friendship." -Maggie Smith * "Fearless and unflinching." -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette * From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese's...

    King Tracy: Learning to Think. [2024] hardback

    €20.99

    'Tracy King's memoir is heartbreaking and hopeful...An incredible true story of survival and forgiveness.' TIM MINCHIN'Raw and unflinching.' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ'A brilliant writer.' ADAM KAY'Impossible not to read in one...

    RuPaul: The House of Hidden Meanings [2024] paperback

    €19.99

    From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black,...

    Malala Yousafzai: I Am Malala [2013] paperback

    €9.99

    I come from a country which was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl spoke...

    Megan Phelps-Roper: Unfollow [2019] paperback

    €6.99

    'For anyone who enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy or Educated, Unfollow is an essential text' - Louis Theroux'Such a moving, redemptive, clear-eyed account of religious indoctrination' - Pandora Sykes'A nuanced portrait of...

    Tucker Max: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell [2006] paperback

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    Tucker Max drinks to excess at inappropriate times, disregards social norms, indulges every whim, takes no responsibility for his actions, rebels against any authority, mocks idiots and posers, sleeps with...

    Hughes Frieda: George [2024] paperback

    €14.30

    An Oprah Magazine Book of the Year 2023'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah'This book pulses with a defiant wonder at the living world, as...

    John McCarthy: Some Other Rainbow [1993] hardback

    €9.99€21.41

    On 17 April 1986 a British television journalist was kidnapped in Beirut. His name was John McCarthy and he was to remain a hostage for the next five years. During...

    Shaparak (Author) Khorsandi: A Beginner's Guide To Acting English [2010] paperback

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    It's 1977 and life in Iran is becoming unpredictable. The Shah will be overthrown and events are about to take place on the world stage. But for five-year-old Shappi Khorsandi...

    Amy Chua: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother [2011] hardback

    €9.99

    A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what Chinese parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's...

    Rupert Isaacson: The Horse Boy [2010] paperback

    €3.99€4.99

    Rupert Isaacson's The Horse Boy is one family's epic journey to rescue their son.Rupert and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken when they learned that their two-year-old son Rowan was autistic. And...

    Spencer Charles: A Very Private School [2024] hardback

    €29.99

    In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed,...

    Day Elizabeth: Friendaholic [2024] paperback

    €14.30

    THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Bravely revealing' BERNADINE EVARISTO 'Funny, moving, helpful and true, Friendaholic deserves a massive audience' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'This book is brilliant' JO ELVIN 'Essential reading... admirably...

    Barry Humphries: Handling Edna [2010] paperback

    €12.99

    In this unauthorised biography of Dame Edna Everage, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, her long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning,...

    Stephen Fry: The Fry Chronicles [2010] hardback

    €9.99

    Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen...

    Julie Gregory: Sickened [2004] paperback

    €4.99

    A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she's tall, skinny, and weak. It's four...

    Aiping Mu: Vermilion Gate [2000] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    Aiping Mu was born to parents prominent in the Communist hierarchy - her father was Political Commissar for the Beijing region and her mother ran one of the city's universities...

    Sylvia Fraser: My Father's House [1989] paperback

    €5.99

    She was a beautiful blond child, a quintessential Canadian teenager: she loved Saturday film matinees, giggled at pyjama parties, ran for student president, led the cheerleading squad, went steady with...

    Ranulph Fiennes: Around the World in 80 Years [2024] paperback

    €19.99

    He's climbed Everest not long after a heart bypass operation, he's run seven marathons on seven continents, he's hauled loaded sledges across both polar ice caps and he's circumnavigated the...

    Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly [1998] paperback

    €3.99

    The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A...

    May Katherine: Enchantment [2024] paperback

    €13.00

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'It will do your soul good to read this.' NIGELLA LAWSONA balm for our times from the internationally bestselling author of Wintering.Our sense of enchantment is not...

    Jean-Dominique Bauby: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly [1997] hardback

    €5.99€12.99

    The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book about his experiences locked inside his body. A...

    Charles Handy: The New Alchemists [1999] hardback

    €9.99

    The world needs new ideas, new products, new kinds of associations and institutions, new initiatives, new art and new designs. But these new things seldom come from established organisations. They...

    Edward Snowden: Permanent Record [2019] paperback

    €7.99€9.99

    THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his...

    The Secret Barrister: The Secret Barrister [2018] hardback

    €9.99

    An anonymous barrister's darkly comic and moving first-hand account of life in the legal system, and how it's failing us all.The Sunday Times number one bestseller.Winner of the Books are...

    Ed Husain: The Islamist [2007] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    Ed Husain's The Islamist is the shocking inside story of British Islamic fundamentalism, told by a former radical. 'When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later,...

    Joey Graceffa: In Real Life [2015] paperback

    €6.99€12.84

    A confessional, uplifting memoir from the beloved YouTube personality. Twenty-three year old Joey Graceffa has captured the hearts of millions of teens and young adults through his playful, sweet, and...

    Lynn Barber: An Education [2009] paperback

    €5.99

    When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life...

    Robyn Davidson: Unfinished Woman [2023] hardback

    €19.99

    SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN'The zigzagging life of an adventurer' GUARDIAN'An astonishing, wonderful memoir of an extraordinary life' HENRY MARSH, author of Do No Harm'Exciting...

    Baldwin Tom: Keir Starmer [2024] hardback

    €30.99

    KEIR STARMER: The Biography is an authoritative study of a man who now stands on the brink of becoming Britain's next Prime Minister. If he succeeds, Starmer will be the...

    Boyce Louise: Mama Still Got It [2024] paperback

    €13.00

    Having a brood has changed the mood... As one of the biggest parenting stars on social media, mother-of-three Louise Boyce knows a thing or two about navigating the craziness of...

    Sun Carrie: Private Equity [2024] paperback

    €22.10

    *A 2024 HIGHLIGHT FOR: THE SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND SYLIST*A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme...

    John O'Donoghue: Sectioned [2009] paperback

    €5.99

    'I'd been in Claybury for four months before I was given ECT. I was sixteen. The day I went down for it I was wearing a striped hospital dressing gown...

    Adeline Yen Mah: Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots [1998] paperback

    €4.99€5.99

    The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother....

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