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Biography / Autobiography
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That's Another Story
Julie Walters
One of the nations best loved actresses and comediennes tells her story in her own words.After a convent education Julie went in to nursing to please her mother but luckily for us she knew her heart lay in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/07/2009
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The Tent, The Bucket and Me
Emma Kennedy
If you went holidaying in the 70’s you will remember a time when holidays meant packing all the family in a car, including grandparents, and travelling down motorways and A roads to get to a campsite or self catering holiday...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/03/2009
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As You Do
Richard Hammond
More tales from the ‘Hamster’ following his exploits on Top Gear as well as other various adventures. The perfect book to dip in and out of for amusing anecdotes. Hammond is an articulate, funny and interesting writer giving some great...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/05/2009
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Girls of Tender Age
Mary-ann Tirone Smith
Utterly brilliant memoir of growing up in 50’s America, of a carefree, rough-and-tumble childhood until a paedophile brings fear to the neighbourhood. I cannot recommend this highly enough. The author is a crime writer and the structure of this work,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/01/2008
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The Olive Tree
Carol Drinkwater
If you have followed Carol through her trials and tribulations of running her olive farm then this is a must. Newcomers will find her enthusiasm for her subject irresistible. Now she knows that new approaches to farming are needed and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/06/2009
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A Country Wife
Lucy Pinney
The tale of a farmer’s bride, wife and then deserted wife – divorcee. Funny, sad and for the non-farming community, highly informative. Readers of her Times column will know what to expect and love it, newcomers will be completely captivated....
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2005
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Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin
With over a million copies sold, several literary prizes in the bag and now Barack Obama's comment that this is the book he could not live without in the White...
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Henry: Virtuous Prince
David Starkey
You'd think he'd run out of things to say but David Starkey keeps coming up with more and more fascinating stuff about Henry VIII. Whether you share his fascination for...
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Crazy Love
Leslie Morgan-steiner
What an apt title for this terrifically readable book on domestic violence. What horror when you believe you have found a perfect love only to discover, really someway down the...
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Four Queens
Nancy Goldstone
The story of four daughters in Provence, in the thirteenth century,who each went on to marry a king of Europe. What was it that got these women to such positions...
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The Music Room
William Fiennes
William Fiennes' account of growing up at Broughton Castle is charming and full of detail. It makes all those childhood dreams of growing up in ones own castle come flooding...
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Hellraisers
Robert Sellers
March 2009 Book of the Month.
It’s a total cliché to say it but they don’t make ‘em like these guys anymore! Four...
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How Could He Do It?
Emma Charles
A true story of a mother discovering the husband she was devoted to had been abusing their 15 year old daughter since she was ten. Honest, intelligent and painful this...
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Mary Queen of Scots
Antonia Fraser
This is the definitive biography of Mary Queen of Scots. 2009 is the 40th anniversary of the publication of this marvellous biography which reads more like a novel than a...
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
An incredibly powerful and moving story about the illness of Didion’s daughter and the death of her husband so suddenly taken away after 40 years of marriage, Intensely personal and...
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Toast
Nigel Slater
This is a coming of age with a difference – a culinary pilgrimage through the
extraordinary childhood of award-winning food writer Nigel Salter. Moving and
humorous in turn, it captures...
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Bad Blood
Lorna Sage
In one of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, Lorna Sage brings alive her girlhood in post-war provincial Britain.
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A Tug on the Thread
Diana Quick
The Brideshead Revisited actress looks back on her life and that of her family and their colonial history. This is more of a family memoir than a look back over...
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Fathers and Sons
Richard Madeley
October 2008 Debut of the Month.
In Richard Madeley’s first book he takes a look at the relationships
between fathers and sons by looking...
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My England Years
Sir Bobby Charlton
After the success of the first part of his fascinating autobiography
following his Manchester United years Bobby Charlton is back with the
next phase of his phenomenal career. For 22 years he...
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