Biographies / Memoirs
-130x174.jpg "1666: Plague, War and Hellfire")
1666 was a watershed year for England. An outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the secon..
€ 8.90
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-130x174.jpg "55 Years in Five Acts: My Life in Opera")
For Astrid Varnay, opera was the family business. The daughter of coloratura soprano Maria Javor ..
€ 6.40
-130x174.jpg "A Ballad by Johannes Brahms")
Susanne Friedlander was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of a Jewish father and a Catholic m..
€ 4.40
-130x174.jpg "Alexander of Macedon")
Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with..
€ 5.40
-130x174.jpg "Ali: A Life")
The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with uniq..
€ 11.90
-130x174.jpg "An Education")
When Lynn Barber was sixteen, a stranger in a maroon sports car pulled up beside her as she was o..
€ 4.40
-130x174.jpg "Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson")
Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers a unique insight ..
€ 9.40
-130x174.jpg "And Why Not? Memoirs of a Film Lover")
Barry Norman fronted the seminal BBC film programme since FILM 72 and many mourned the moment he ..
€ 4.40
-130x174.jpg "Angela\'s Ashes")
A Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela's Ashes is Frank McCourt's..
€ 4.40
-130x174.jpg "Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations")
Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars during the 1940s and '50s,..
€ 7.40
-130x174.jpg "Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon")
The sensational sequel to 'Papillon'. 'Banco' continues the adventures of Henri C..
€ 4.40
-130x174.jpg "Beyond the World of Pooh")
A collection of personal memoirs chronicles the life of the original "Christopher Robin,&quo..
€ 3.90
-130x174.jpg "Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood")
The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime New York Times bestseller about one man’s ..
€ 8.40
-130x174.jpg "Brothers in Arms: The Inside Story of Two Bike Gangs")
Father's Day 1984: seven people die in a blaze of gunfire on a sunny afternoon in a hotel car..
€ 4.90
-130x174.jpg "David Bowie: A Life")
Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever..
€ 10.90
-130x174.jpg "Dead Man in the Bunker: Discovering My Father")
Gerhard Bast was found shot in an abandoned bunker in northern Italy in April 1947. A middle-rank..
€ 8.40