Biography & Memoir Books

This complete box set of James Herriot's memoirs is the inspiration for the hit Channel 5 series All Creatures Great And Small. They were also a...

Mary Berry is one of Britain's most respected and well-loved gurus of the kitchen. The undisputed Queen of the Aga has been the focus of many telev...

Inside this book you'll read all about the day I was born and what it was like growing up with my family in Brighton. Read stories from my childhoo...

Titles in this set : 1. The Psychopath Test2. So You've Been Publicly Shamed3. Them Adventures with Extremists4. The Men Who Stare At Goats Descrip...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhen a fancy car pulls up outside six-year-old Marie's home in Oldham, in 1959, she is told she is going on holiday... ...

They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . . Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for mi...

'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiograph...

*The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller**A BBC Between the Covers book club pick**Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize*'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY...

One women's journey of menopause and vaginal atrophy. Written in collaboration with her daughter in a `tongue in cheek' way to help break taboos of...

'If ever a dog's story is guaranteed to touch hearts, then Maggie's is.' Your Dog Magazine'This story will leave you smiling.' Best MagazineBeaten,...

'Ravishingly beautiful' Observer'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' Irish Times'Provocative and rich' Economist'Daring, chilling, an...

The phenomenal international bestseller - with over 8 million copies sold. What legacy would you choose to leave behind for your children?When Ra...

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton is a tour de force, a candid memoir that delves into the profundities and complexities of love, frie...

'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom wh...

Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilr...

Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his acc...

Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. ...

The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside ...

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Profound, witty and uplifting' Observer'Full of eloquent, cogent and positive reminders of the beaut...

THE SENSATIONAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A heart-warming and hilarious look at life in the classroom from the teachers who host the most popular UK ...

A funny and intimate travelogue of one woman's unexpected adventures in Japan. French illustrator Julie Blanchin-Fujita arrived in Tokyo for what...

; Pagination: 212 pages Colour; Date of Publication: 18/05/2021

The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Herge, worked. Har...

Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friend's daughter, Esther. She tells him about her life, about school, her frien...

The French bestselling graphic novel, from the author of The Arab of the Future'Riad Sattouf is one of the great creators of our time' Alain de Bot...

Buffett has generously endowed us all with a sensible and intelligent roadmap for investing. -- Robert G Hagstrom "Warren Buffett -- The Oracle of...

In Long Drawn Out Trip: My Life, Gerald Scarfe tells his life story for the first time. With captivating, often thrilling stories, he takes us from...

Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ay...

A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and autofiction to explore inner life and the deep conne...

Maggie Greville lived in obscurity, until her father William McEwan changed everything. He was a self-made man, controller, and philanthropist, who...

In the 60 years that Yorkshire farmer Roger Nicholson has lived at Cannon Hall Farm near Barnsley, he has turned what was once a humble small famil...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Two sisters, one war and an extraordinary family secret1939. In the nation's hour of need, brave sisters Patricia and J...

'[It] manages to be funny, moving, activist, and challenging.' Harriet Minter, TalkRadio'I loved this book - I thought it was really interesting' J...

President Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice preside...

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just o...

'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of ...

'I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl...

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to t...

Find Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles from publishers The Emma Press at Books2Door! ; 96 pages; Published: 27/02/2020

A former drug addict turned behavioural neuroscientist reveals how drugs work in the brain - and what we can do to fight addiction. Judith Grise...

A heartwarming love letter to the places, people and creatures of Yorkshire by the county's beloved vet, Channel 5's Peter Wright. The Yorkshire ...

A New York Times bestseller and a Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and The Times. Is getting a little less comfortable the key to living...

Find Lost Cat: A Memoir by Mary Gaitskill from publishers Daunt Books at Books2Door! ; 96 pages; Published: 05/11/2020

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men in the fictional town of Mugsborough, and socialist journeyman-proph...

Stu Hennigan delivered emergency medicine and food parcels during the the first 6 months of Covid 19 in inner city Leeds. GHOST SIGNS highlights th...

In May 1990 the unthinkable happened and Sheffield Wednesday were relegated to the second division of English football for the first time in six se...

Walter Murray was a young man tired of living in the city. Early in the 1920s, he persuaded a Sussex farmer to rent him a derelict cottage, which s...

'The time provides the pictures, I merely speak the words to go with them, and it will not be so much my own story I tell as that of an entire gene...