Memoirs Books
Austin Macauley Publishers Good Grief
£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers From Wellie Boots to Jungle Boots
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Austin Macauley Publishers Stand Up
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers Koalas and Kangaroos
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers Stay Fearless
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers Random Musings of a Disorderly Mind
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers Stories of Nuclear Safety
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£18.69
Austin Macauley Publishers Fractured yet Blessed
£6.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Destroyers Greyhounds of the Fleet
Book SynopsisA remarkable read, detailed, hour-to-hour and ''immediate'' account of action, a personal but modest story, and the author and shipmates of all ranks come to life. There are excellent accounts of training, action-stations, gunnery, tactics ad strategy, officer- and ratings- relationships, and leadership, and all told in objective and authentic, and readable language. This is no ''gung-ho'' account but sober and serious history with full grasp of tactics and strategy. It shows how capital ships - battleships, battle-cruisers, heavy cruisers - are vulnerable to U-Boat and E-Boat attack while ''little ships'', destroyers, light cruisers and frigates, are at sea constantly and protecting convoys. The account is from personal experience of service on the strategic position of England''s East Coast and North Sea, with fear of German naval power, E-Boats and U-Boats, and the value early radar. There are graphic accounts of sea conditions, moving picture of a merchant captain and loss of ship,
£18.70
Austin Macauley Publishers Living The Dream Continued
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers Shadow of a Survivor
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers A Lithuanian Kiwi the Life of Jurgis George Cibulskis
£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers When the Quiet Gets Too Loud
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£6.99
Austin Macauley Publishers Clinical Signs
£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers Storytelling
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers Funny Stuff Happens
£6.99
Austin Macauley Publishers A Sixty Year Butterfly Odyssey
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£15.29
Austin Macauley Publishers Put the Phone Away
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£7.59
Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd The Place That Knows Me
Book SynopsisRichard Hines seemed destined for a life without academic achievement until he read TH White's The Goshawk. His schoolboy love of hawks inspired older brother Barry to write A Kestrel for a Knave. But time moves on. Richard and Jackie are about to pull up their Yorkshire roots to live near their family in Hove. Will their heritage let them go?
£13.99
Hansib Publications Building A Better Future
£17.00
St Martin's Press The Risk It Takes to Bloom
Book SynopsisA passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation.In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women's March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut short, the appearance only deepened her commitment to speaking up for communities on the margins.Born in Augusta, Georgia, to Black Catholic parents, Raquel spent years feeling isolated, even within a loving, close-knit family. There was little access to understanding what it meant to be queer and transgender. It wasn't until she went to the University of Georgia that she found the LGBTQ+ community, fell in love, and explored her gender for the first time. But the unexpected death of her father forced her to examine her relationship with herself and those she loved. These years of
£20.39
Picador USA Linguaphile
£16.12
WW Norton & Co Smalltime
Book SynopsisFamily secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town AmericaTrade Review"[A] master of historical narrative…[O]nce Shorto’s on the highway, steering us along with his usual humor and eye for quirky detail, settling an hour from his hometown for easy access, we are with him. All the way." -- The New York Times Book Review"Shorto has produced something that feels altogether fresh, a street-level portrait of how his late grandfather helped build what amounted to a Mafia small business…Shorto is a terrific storyteller…few of his words are wasted, a delight these days." -- The Wall Street Journal"With Smalltime, Shorto traces his decision to learn the truth about his family’s past, discover its long-buried secrets, and explore unforgotten slights and how decisions made decades and decades ago continue to leave their mark." -- Washington Post
£13.29
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Wonder and Loss
Book SynopsisSam Meekings is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northwestern University in Qatar. He is the author of Under Fishbone Clouds (2011, called a poetic evocation of the country and its people' by the New York Times), The Book of Crows (2012), and The Afterlives of Dr Gachet (2018). He has a PhD in creative writing from Lancaster University, UK, and has taught writing at NYU (Global Campus) and the University of Chichester, UK. He is co-editor of the volumes Place and the Writer (Bloomsbury, 2021), The Scholarship of Creative Writing (2024) and The Creative Writing Workshop in the 21st Century (2026), all with Bloomsbury Academic. He researches issues of identity in grief narratives, and the practices and processes of digital storytelling.
£14.24
Amberley Publishing Bloody Sunday
Book SynopsisFifty years on, a compelling new perspective on one of the most violent and controversial events of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
£17.00
Amberley Publishing To Meet in Hell
Book SynopsisNew in paperback - The story of the British officer who was first to arrive at Bergen-Belsen, and the life of one of the many he saved from near-death.Trade Review‘Focusing on the traumatization of the liberator as well as the survivor, Lerner tells two fascinating stories that are original in both form and content. Her writing is clear, straightforward, and compelling. A powerful and engaging book.’ -- Michael A. Grodin, MD, Boston University School of Public Health, coauthor of The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation‘By describing the fate of one Jewish girl destined to die under the most gruesome manner and the horror experienced by a British doctor and officer upon stepping into a Nazi concentration camp, Lerner humanizes an event that is often described only from one perspective: either that of the liberators, for whom the survivors were often dehumanized “living skeletons” because of their deplorable living conditions, or that of the survivors, for whom the liberators were angels of mercy descended from heaven after months and years of utter dehumanization by their tormentors. A valuable and highly readable book.’ -- Omer Bartov, Brown University, author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz‘A towering achievement, Lerner’s narrative at once brings us into hell along with its central characters and then lifts us out on the strength of their respective forms of courage and generosity. This meticulously researched story is nourishment for the soul.’ -- Robert G. Kegan, Harvard University, author of In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life
£10.44
Amberley Publishing Bloody Sunday
Book SynopsisNew paperback edition - Fifty years on, a compelling new perspective on one of the most violent and controversial events of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers Shelter from the Storm
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£11.69
Austin Macauley Publishers It Will Happen
Book SynopsisHow many times have you heard the words, It will happen? For Laura and her husband, Scoop, the phrase that once brought comfort, hope and reassurance began to lose all positive meaning. When they first started trying for a baby, they had no idea what they would be in for. After the heartbreak of each loss, when the world around her frustratingly seemed to carry on like normal, Laura struggled to cope with her inability to do something others seemed to find so easy. In this candid memoir, she shares her isolating experiences and talks openly and honestly about how she and her husband navigated the harsh realities of their rollercoaster journey to parenthood. It Will Happen covers: - trying to conceive and the strain on relationships- miscarriage, ectopic and molar pregnancies- jealousy and resentment- treatments and testing- the anxiety of pregnancy and motherhood after loss- communicating with people in these situations Written from the heart of someone with first-h
£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers Flutter Until You Fly
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£14.39
Austin Macauley Publishers Confidentially Its Insurance
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£16.99
Austin Macauley Publishers In the Steps of Alan Turing Working in the
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£16.19
Austin Macauley Publishers If You Wake at Midnight
Book SynopsisThis is the story of the greatest scandal inflicted on British servicemen and women in modern times: drug-induced violence and suicide - and an officer determined to find the truth. It was supposed to be a wonder drug that would save the world from malaria. But soon after Lariam was brought to international markets in the late 1980s, users of this handy, once-a-week pill began to experience shocking side-effects. Yet over the coming decades, as the drug became implicated in ever-increasing acts of unexplained violence, homicide and suicide, the Ministry of Defence continued to force Lariam on tens, or perhaps hundreds, of thousands of unsuspecting people deployed to some of the world''s most dangerous places. Enduring years of Lariam-induced nightmares, former soldier Andrew Marriott realised something was horribly wrong; not just with the drug itself but with the institutions responsible for its use and safety. So began a journey towards the truth, a truth that vested interest
£999.99
Austin Macauley Publishers Take a Seat
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers Pandemic Stories
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£16.19
Simon & Schuster Ltd Climbing the Walls
Book SynopsisWhen mountains are your salvation, what keep your mental weather calm and free of storms, how do you cope if they’re out of reach? After spending a decade restlessly globetrotting in search of a way of life that worked for him, journalist Kieran Cunningham alighted on Sondrio, a small town in Lombardy, Italy. A stone’s throw from the Alps, there he found the perfect combination of fresh mountain air, a strong network of local friends and lots of climbing. Finally he was able to accept and manage his diagnosis of Bipolar 1. And then Lombardy found itself the European epicentre of Covid-19 and subject to the strictest of lockdowns. What does a climber do when his beloved peaks are off limits? When he’s only permitted to leave the house for his weekly sanctioned grocery shop? When all the things that help him maintain his delicate equilibrium are taken away? As Kieran feels his me
£9.49
Simon & Schuster Ltd Lucid
Book Synopsis'A proper, heart-breaking, global sex-pirate adventure' - Caitlin Moran‘An utterly gripping read […] just don’t miss your Tube stop’ Sunday Times'Searingly honest, knuckle-bleedingly raw and very funny' - Jay Rayner'I LOVED this book [...] stunning' - Liz Jones'A s*** version of Fleabag' - Ex-boyfriend'In Bath I lay in a field with headphones on, drunk, and staring at an empty blue sky that reflected nothing of the chaos in the world. Below the fields flashed the seaweed-green of a London train and I imagined my former life at the end of it but felt more like it had been tied to the tracks and careered over at 100 mph.' After a wild decade of hedonistic city life that veered violently into trauma, Lucy Holden was thrown back down the ladder to her parents’ house in a pandemic which paused
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Simon & Schuster Ltd America Made Me a Black Man
Book SynopsisA searing memoir of American racism from a Somali-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Black people in his adopted land, the United States.“No one told me about America.” Born in Somalia and raised in a valley among nomads, Boyah Farah grew up with a code of male bravado that helped him survive deprivation, disease, and civil war. Arriving in America, he believed that the code that had saved him would help him succeed in this new country. But instead of safety and freedom, Boyah found systemic racism, police brutality, and intense prejudice in all areas of life, including the workplace. He learned firsthand not only what it meant to be an African in America, but what it means to be African American. The code of masculinity that shaped generations of men in his family could not prepare Farah for the painful realities of life in the United States.
£9.49
Simon & Schuster Ltd Madam
Book SynopsisA poignant and hilarious memoir from a mother who opened an ethical escort agency in small town New Zealand – the only country in the world where sex work is fully legalised – and dared to make a difference. I’m Antonia, a real-life madam. I’ve got a blended family of six kids; I spend my mornings packing lunchboxes and my evenings reading bedtime stories. And two days a week, I work as a pimp. Procurer, madam – whatever you want to call it. Personally, I think of myself as a union organiser. For vaginas. An ex-pat from San Francisco, Antonia Murphy is living on a farm in rural New Zealand with her husband and two kids, bored and isolated, when her husband leaves her. Suddenly, she has to figure out how to survive. Upon discovering the decriminalisation of sex work in New Zealand, Antonia’s mind starts to wander, and she reaches out to the international sex worker community online to learn more about the business. This group of smart, anonymous, sassy women open Antonia’s eyes to the viability of sex work that safeguards women’s health and dignity, while providing a clean, shame-free establishment for male clients. Inspired, Antonia decides to open her own agency: The Bach. Over the next three years, she encounters more than she could have imagined: domestic abuse, assault, theft, drugs and a stream of silly, horrific and sometimes touching requests from her clients. She witnesses the ways so many women are trapped – by early pregnancy, lack of education and the constraints of their circumstances. More than anything, she sees fire in the women who choose sex work: they refuse to give up and be poor, even when the odds are stacked against them. In Madam, we follow Antonia through the turbulent years of her agency, as she toils to keep both her business and family afloat, and to keep the women of The Bach safe and thriving as they practice the world's oldest profession.
£10.44
Orion Publishing Co How to Heal a Broken Heart
Book Synopsis''The poster girl for divorce.'' The Times''If you''ve ever had your heart broken (and who hasn''t) Rosie Green''s How to Heal a Broken Heart is your best friend. Honest, comforting and hopeful.'' MARIAN KEYES''I love Rosie Green''s writing.'' ELIZABETH DAY''Brilliant. One of the few books that I''ve found that really describes what a broken heart feels like. It touched so many nerves.'' VANESSA FELTZ''It reduced me to tears.'' EMMA BARNETT, Woman''s Hour, BBC Radio 4''It wasn''t a conscious uncoupling. I had my heart ripped out and stamped on.''When Rosie Green''s husband walked out after 26 years together, he declined to leave a forwarding address. Instead, he left a devastated woman who turned into someone she barely recognised: unable to eat or sleep, and so desperate to keep her family together she''d sacrifice her sense of self - and her dignity.She thought s
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Arise to Conquer
Book SynopsisThis new edition of a classic wartime pilot's memoir is introduced by the renowned aviation historian Dilip Sarkar MBE, FRHistS.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Devils Workshop
Book SynopsisThe remarkable true story of Operation Bernhard - the Nazi plan to forge pound and dollar bank notes, thereby ruining the Allied economies.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Flying and Preserving Historic Aircraft
Book SynopsisThis is the memoirs of one of the most important individuals in the aircraft preservation scene.
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd I Worked on Spitfires
Book SynopsisIt was the night of 7 September 1940 which changed Ron Chapman's life. It was the start of Hitler's Blitz on London. The death and destruction the German bombers wreaked across Islington and the East End so shocked and appalled Ron, that three days later he presented himself to the RAF recruiting office near Euston station. After basic training, and a few days before his twentieth birthday, he received a posting to 485 (New Zealand) Squadron Ron was at last with an operational Spitfire squadron. After just three weeks with 485 (NZ) Squadron, he was posted to 341 (Free French) Squadron. Operating as part of the RAF's 145 Wing in 84 Group, the squadron was led by the renowned Commandant René Mouchotte DFC, while 145 Wing itself was commanded by the Battle of Britain fighter ace Group Captain Sailor' Malan. There was also 340 Squadron, known as Churchill's Own', and Nos. 329 and 345 squadrons. As a member of 341 Squadron's groundcrew, Ron Chapman's memoirs provide a unique insight in
£21.25
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Life of a General in Napoleons Light Cavalry
Book SynopsisFirst English translation of the memoirs of Jean-Nicolas Cur ly. Although of lowly birth, Cur ly rose though the ranks; he became hussar at 19 years, second lieutenant at 32, squadron commander at 35, colonel at 38 and general at 40.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Nigerias UnCivil War
Book SynopsisIn Nigeria's un-Civil War: Memories of a Biafran Child, Philip Effiong reveals the many characters of war: the horror and the chaos, the surrealism and the absurdity and the desperate need to conjure a semblance of normalcy against a backdrop of air raids, starvation and massacre.
£17.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Memoirs of a French Napoleonic Officer
Book SynopsisLively memoirs of an officer in Napoleons Garde Impriale.
£13.49
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Sunderland Over FarEastern Seas Mono PB edition
Book SynopsisThe only first-hand account of this period and operational theatre flown by the RAF's Sunderland Flying Boats. Outstanding historical photographsWell written with a wealth of technical and operational techniques from the period.
£13.49
