Category Archives: BIOGRAPHY: GENERAL

What sort of person was Ngaio Marsh, whose detective novels made her name known throughout the world? With all the insight and sense of style her readers have come to expect of her, her autobiography reveals the influences and environment … Continue reading →

With no siblings to provide role-models; a workaholic father; a mother who looks the part of the perfect 50s housewife but refuses to play it; and a gambling-obsessed best friend, Roy, who is 30 years older, perhaps it’s hardly surprising … Continue reading →

Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. Days later, the night before New Year’s Eve, John suffered a massive and fatal coronary. This is a portrait of marriage, and … Continue reading →

Terrified for the children who became drawn into the circle of violence and sexual humiliation, cheated on, and repeatedly belittled, Rosalind Penfold remained unable to leave her abuser for years. This book offers a portrait of domestic abuse, and a … Continue reading →

The title is derived from the young Malachy”s mishearing of the words “amongst women” in the “Hail Mary”. Here, he tells the story of his hell-raising days when he left Ireland and went in search of fame, fortune and fun … Continue reading →

This text is the story of rootlessness, of a London-Irish boy who has two identities and feels at home with neither. By his mother’s bedside in a Galway hospital, he starts to unpick the past, looking for clues to his … Continue reading →

Sally Magnusson lives with her husband and five children in Scotland. This book begins, soon after the birth of the fifth child, with a scene to which we can all relate with feeling, that night when you slept through for … Continue reading →

This is the first volume of Doris Lessing’s autobiography, beginning with her childhood in Africa, taking us through her marriages, the birth of her children, involvement in communist politics, and ending on her arrival in London in 1949wAuthor : Under … Continue reading →

A reissued classic, a mixture of biography and memoir, from the author of ”Footsteps”.Author : SIDETRACKS by RICHARD HOLMESPublished by : HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERSISBN Number : 6548431Price : £5.35Fiction & Poetry > Letters, Diaries, Biographies & Autobiographies

At the age of four Marya Hornbacher looked in a mirror and decided she was fat. At nine, she was bulimic. At 12, she was anorexic. By the time she was 18, she’d been hospitalized five times, once in a … Continue reading →