MORE Late Life Adventures in London & Beyond by Annemarie Rawson
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Join Annemarie and her husband Steve in their inspiring travelogue as they explore London’s hidden gems, the UK, and a host of enticing European destinations. Experience the beauty of the fascinating places they visit, immerse yourself in local history and culture, meeting local characters while savouri ...Show more
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
Category: Biography/Memoir
Prizewinner - Nero Prize for Non Fiction 2023 THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER 'An absolute riot. I'm literally going to read it again once I've finished, and I'm a miserable bastard...it's a belter' - FRANKIE BOYLE'A set text for all of us in 2023' - DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITEA summary of my book:1. I'm dia ...Show more
The Long and Winding Road: TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE STORY OF LESLEY PEARSE: AS CAPTIVATING AS HER FICTION by Lesley Pearse
Category: New Arrivals
Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she was 48. Now she has sold over ten million books around the world and is a constant presence on the bestseller chart.A writer of heart-stopping stories, Lesley's books are filled with heroines struggling to make it in a difficult world.Yet this descr ...Show more
Naomi Osaka by Ben Rothenberg
Category: Biography/Memoir
This deeply revealing biography of tennis phenomenon Naomi Osaka tells the story behind her grand slam-winning career and her advocacy for racial justice and mental health. Most tennis fans met the Haitian-American-Japanese player Naomi Osaka for the first time as they watched her win the 2018 US Open ...Show more
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke by Lorin Clarke
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
A family memoir about the beloved comedian John Clarke by his daughter, writer Lorin Clarke. A warm, witty and uplifting book about how our families make us who we are. When satirist John Clarke died in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost a friend or a member of the family. ...Show more
Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes
Category: Biography/Memoir
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, the critic Will Hermes offers the definiti ...Show more
The Silver River: A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin by Jim Moginie
Category: Biography/Memoir
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind the startling rise and global success of one of Australia's most powerful, influential a ...Show more
Beyond Hope by Bariz Shah
Category: New Arrivals
What does it take to find hope in dark places and change the course of your life? When Bariz Shah's family immigrated to New Zealand, they couldn't have predicted that everything would change after 9/11. Still only a child, Bariz became the target of racist abuse and bullying, and responded the only wa ...Show more
On Call - The Anatomy of My Life As a Surgeon, a Daughter, a Mother by Ineke Meredith
Category: New Arrivals
Frank, sharp-witted and heart-rending, On Call is a stunning memoir by a female Samoan-New Zealand general surgeon about life, death, and the human limits of care As soon as she could, Ineke Meredith left her family home in Samoa for New Zealand, filled with determination not to be like her mother: lov ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
Category: Biography/Memoir
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, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-a ...Show more
My Mother and I by Ingrid Seward
Category: New Arrivals
A vivid and revealing portrait of the real relationship between King Charles III and his mother, by the esteemed royal biographer, Ingrid Seward - perfect for fans of the popular Netflix TV series The Crown.The relationship between the late monarch and her son, the King, has long been a subject of fasci ...Show more
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
Category: Biography/Memoir
The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval England.'Weir's history books are as gripping as novels' The TimesMedieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies - yet, as Alison Weir shows in this group biography, many of the Plantagenet queens of the High Middle Age ...Show more