Always Unreliable: Memoirs Vol 1-3 by Clive James
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Category: Biography | Series: Unreliable Memoirs Ser.
All three volume of Clive James's sharp and funny autiobiography where first we meet the young Clive James - dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With "Falling Towards England", we find Clive living in a Swiss Cottage B&B, where he practises the Twist, anticipates poetical masterpiec ...Show more
Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy by Martha Long
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Category: Biography
Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, a judge rules that she is to be sent to a convent school with the instruction that she is to get an education. Her initial relief at e ...Show more
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
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Category: Biography
Considered a classic in its field since it was first published in 1946, this perennial bestseller has introduced countless readers to the science and philosophy of yoga meditation. Throughout the decades, one title that continues to appear on best-seller lists is Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of ...Show more
Ma, it's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed by Martha Long
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Category: Biography
In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her mother's partner and the establishment, Martha is now 16 and her time at the convent school is up. In "Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm Lookin for a Bed", she leads us through her first mon ...Show more
And Be Home Before Dark by ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
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Category: Biography
Roland Rocchiccioli spent his childhood watching the unfolding dramas in Gwalia, a town on the north-eastern goldfields of Western Australia - the pit ponies that lived in the mines and went blind when they resurfaced; the men who lay in the bushes outside his house, waiting to jump his stepfather; and ...Show more
Go Ask Alice by anonymous
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Category: Biography
"Alice could be anyone - she could be someone you know, or someone you love - and Alice is in trouble ... Being fifteen is hard, but Alice seems fine. She babysits the neighbour's kids. She is doing well at school. Someday she'd even like to get married and raise a family of her own. Then she is invited ...Show more
Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Category: Biography
Nomadis a philosophical memoir, telling how Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to America in search of a new life, and the difficulties she faced in reconciling her two worlds. With vivid anecdotes and observations of people, cultures, and political debacles, this narrative weaves together Hirsi Ali's personal story ...Show more
Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle by Ingrid Betancourt
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Category: Biography
Ingrid Betancourt's story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the world's imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in Colombia, in 2002 she was taken hostage by FARC, a terrorist g ...Show more
The Fry Chronicles (#2) by Stephen Fry
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Category: Biography
Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge University as a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that any moment he would be sent away. Instead, he befriended bright young things like Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie, and he emerged as one of the most promising comi ...Show more
Mud, Sweat and Tears by Bear Grylls
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Category: Biography
Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on the Isle of Wight, he was taught by his father to sail and climb at an early age. Inevitably, it wasn't long before Bear was leading out-of-bounds night-climbing missions at school. As a teenager, he found identity and p ...Show more
Gather Together In My Name by Maya Angelou
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Category: Biography
Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the sequel to her best- ...Show more
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
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Category: Biography
A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was em ...Show more