autobiography
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Heat: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has…
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How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
- £16.00
- BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped…
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I Remember (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Memoirs of a chartered accountant who worked for the British Empire Cancer Campign, but who had been in the British army, and most interestingly, in China around the time of the fall of the Chinese Monarchy. 6 b/w plates.
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If Prison Walls Could Speak (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- In If Prison Walls Could Speak, Richard Wurmbrand reveals what Communist imprisonment and can do to a Christian's mind and faith. In these intensely moving pages, he shows us faith going right to the breaking point and beyond - and remaining unbroken. D.L. Moody stated that the Christian on his…
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £15.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £25.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- **Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie. ÔA masterpieceÉ ExtraordinaryÕ Daily Telegraph ÔA story of hatred defeated by loveÕ Guardian. On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was sitting onstage in upstate…
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Laughter in the Next Room (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 4)
- £25.00
- Vol IV of Sitwell's five-volume autobiography. There can be little doubt that Osbert Sitwell's finest achievement was his five-volume autobiography published by Macmillan between 1945-50. Vol I' Left Hand, Right Hand! ' Vol II 'The Scarlet Tree' Vol III 'Great Morning' Vol IV 'Laughter in the Next Room' Vol V'…
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Laughter In The Next Room: Being The Fourth Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand!
- £12.00
- Final and 4th volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography
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Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The prize-winning memoir: Òan enlightening walk through a life that encompasses West AfricaÉrent strikes, the divided self and the question of graceÓ (Scotland on Sunday, UK). An international bestseller and winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize, Ricard HollowayÕs candid memoir Òis many things. It is a compelling account of a journey…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
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Lip Reading (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The popular comedy actress and raconteuse Maureen Lipman reveals how she found herself trussed up backstage in Birmingham, ponders the more peculiar aspects of cricket terminology and explores the miracle of plastic tablecloths.
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Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat
- £18.00
- The centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990, the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views from the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. He saw unification as the…
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Loitering with Intent (vol 2): The Apprentice (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In this second volume of his autobiography, Peter O'Toole remembers his time as a drama student at RADA in the 1950s. He recollects seeing Richard Burton in "King John" at the Old Vic, recalls Dame Sybil Thorndyke giving him elocution lessons, and describes ballet lessons shared with Albert Finney.
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Heat: Extreme Adventures at the Highest Temperatures on Earth (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has…
- Add to basket
-
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
- £16.00
- BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson explores the power of Shostakovich's music during Stalin's reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich's music helped…
- Add to basket
-
I Remember (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Memoirs of a chartered accountant who worked for the British Empire Cancer Campign, but who had been in the British army, and most interestingly, in China around the time of the fall of the Chinese Monarchy. 6 b/w plates.
- Add to basket
-
If Prison Walls Could Speak (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- In If Prison Walls Could Speak, Richard Wurmbrand reveals what Communist imprisonment and can do to a Christian's mind and faith. In these intensely moving pages, he shows us faith going right to the breaking point and beyond - and remaining unbroken. D.L. Moody stated that the Christian on his…
- Add to basket
-
Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £15.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
- Add to basket
-
Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £25.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
- Add to basket
-
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- **Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie. ÔA masterpieceÉ ExtraordinaryÕ Daily Telegraph ÔA story of hatred defeated by loveÕ Guardian. On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was sitting onstage in upstate…
- Add to basket
-
Laughter in the Next Room (Left-Hand, Right-Hand vol 4)
- £25.00
- Vol IV of Sitwell's five-volume autobiography. There can be little doubt that Osbert Sitwell's finest achievement was his five-volume autobiography published by Macmillan between 1945-50. Vol I' Left Hand, Right Hand! ' Vol II 'The Scarlet Tree' Vol III 'Great Morning' Vol IV 'Laughter in the Next Room' Vol V'…
- Add to basket
-
Laughter In The Next Room: Being The Fourth Volume Of Left Hand, Right Hand!
- £12.00
- Final and 4th volume of Osbert Sitwell's autobiography
- Add to basket
-
Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- The prize-winning memoir: Òan enlightening walk through a life that encompasses West AfricaÉrent strikes, the divided self and the question of graceÓ (Scotland on Sunday, UK). An international bestseller and winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize, Ricard HollowayÕs candid memoir Òis many things. It is a compelling account of a journey…
- Add to basket
-
Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
- Add to basket
-
Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis
- £20.00
- C.S. Lewis - the brilliant writer, the academic, the Christian - is known worldwide for his contribution to thought and to literature. But the man himself has never been more fully revealed than in this memoir by his stepson. Douglas Gresham's mother, Joy Davidman, was to become the wife of…
- Add to basket
-
Lip Reading (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The popular comedy actress and raconteuse Maureen Lipman reveals how she found herself trussed up backstage in Birmingham, ponders the more peculiar aspects of cricket terminology and explores the miracle of plastic tablecloths.
- Add to basket
-
Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat
- £18.00
- The centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and France, is the unification of Germany in 1990, the culmination of years of work by Sir Christopher and his colleagues. He held different views from the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. He saw unification as the…
- Add to basket
-
Loitering with Intent (vol 2): The Apprentice (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- In this second volume of his autobiography, Peter O'Toole remembers his time as a drama student at RADA in the 1950s. He recollects seeing Richard Burton in "King John" at the Old Vic, recalls Dame Sybil Thorndyke giving him elocution lessons, and describes ballet lessons shared with Albert Finney.
- Add to basket