One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Read the book that inspired upcoming major motion picture starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter.'Remarkable' - the GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story ...Show more
Capote's Women: The book behind TV's FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS by Laurence Leamer
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Category: Biography and Memoir
'DREAM HOLIDAY READING....I ENJOYED LEAMER'S BOOK A LOT.' SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY PERFECT POOLSIDE READING AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE MINI-SERIES.' THE TIMES'BARRELING AND WELL-RESEARCHED.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A JUICY, ENGAGING READ.' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, th ...Show more
Tuesdays with Morrie: The international bestseller by Mitch Albom
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ...Show more
Life in Lashes: The Story of a Drag Superstar by Kita Mean
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Category: Biography and Memoir
There is a man in your future who is going to love you like nobody's business ... and that man is you! Quirky, kitsch and delightfully camp, Kita Mean - Nick Nash by day - inspires fans around the world to live life as their authentic selves, inside and out. From wild nights partying to oblivion to ma ...Show more
My Life As Me: A Memoir by Barry Humphries
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Described by Barry Humphries as a 'cubist self-portrait', My Life as Merevisits his childhood, his adolescence, his complicated relationship with Australia, and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this heady memoir, his various distractions - painting, travel, collecting, marriage and divor ...Show more
Triple Helix: My donor-conceived story by Lauren Burns
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Category: Biography and Memoir
The compelling story of one woman's journey to find out the truth about her paternity-and to come to grips with the rewriting of her own history and sense of identity.'Now you're over twenty-one and back from overseas, I've decided it's time to tell you something.'When Lauren Burns learns she is donor c ...Show more
Journeys to the Other Side of the World: Further Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Sir David Attenborough
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Category: Biography and Memoir
'a wondrous reminder of Attenborough's pioneering role . . . full of delightful tales' Daily Express'An adventure that sparked a lifetime's commitment to the planet' The LadyFollowing the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked on fu ...Show more
I Don't Need Therapy: (and other lies I've told myself) by Toni Lodge
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Category: Biography and Memoir
A hilarious memoir of home truths and whatever the opposite of 'that girl energy' is, from one half of the hit podcast Toni and Ryan. Most of us tell little white lies all the time. Whether it's 'I'm five minutes away' or 'It must have gone to my spam folder', most of these fibs are harmless. But what i ...Show more
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Series: Diaries of a Junior Doctor | Reading Level: very good
'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more tha ...Show more
Landlines by Raynor Winn
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Category: Travel Memoir
Raynor knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once before. But will he - can he? - set out with her on another healing walk?Being one with nature saved them in their darkest hour and their hope is that it can work its magic agai ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn; Angela Harding
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Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: good
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset ...Show more
Romulus, My Father (Expensive edition) by Raimond Gaita
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Category: Biography and Memoir
Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary story to tell about grow ...Show more