Biographies & Autobiographies books

A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the...  Read More >>

For die-hard fans and curious newcomers alike, this is the definitive account of how Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy...  Read More >>

A riveting account of a journey into the wilds of Argentina and Paraguay, from Gerald Durrell, one of Britain's...  Read More >>

A collection of short stories from Gerald Durrell, one of Britain's best loved authors and pioneering naturalists,...  Read More >>

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A sparkling memoir and portrait of trailblazing artist Liliane Lijn as a young woman In 1958, talented and fearless...  Read More >>

Grounded in her experience as a blackbelt, self-defense instructor, and globally recognized organizer, Rana Abdelhamid...  Read More >>

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A remarkably open-hearted, clear-eyed memoir of the '90s alternative era by the bassist of Hole and The Smashing...  Read More >>

""Anyone that's a Robert Mitchum fan: Man! You've got to find this book by Mitchum's brother, John...a hilarious...  Read More >>

Michael Calvey is a pioneering US-born financier, who made his fortune in post-Communist Russia. This is the story...  Read More >>

Explores how generations of biographers shaped, reinvented, and fabricated the life of Geoffrey Chaucer Very little...  Read More >>

Dans cette biographie finement ciselée du premier ministre acadien Louis J. Robichaud, du Nouveau-Brunswick, Donald...  Read More >>

From the rodeo arena to the silver screen--Ben Johnson's true Western tale  Read More >>

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The Coast is Our Compass recalls a pilgrimage around England's coastline. More than a walking memoir, it explores...  Read More >>

For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States,...  Read More >>

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""An observant, lyrical memoir exploring what owls can teach us about nature, chronic illness, and ourselves""--...  Read More >>

Drawing on the letters, photographs, drawings, maps and craftwork they exchanged with humanitiarian activists, this...  Read More >>

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A gorgeously readable, insightful dual biography of British brother and sister artists Gwen and Augustus John, perfect...  Read More >>

Worshipped as a saint, detested as a torturer, admired as revolutionary, condemned as dogmatic- the definitive biography...  Read More >>

When Marian Rutt gave birth to her medically fragile son, Philip, her world shifted in a single hour. What followed...  Read More >>

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