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Island Cross-Talk (Oxford Paperbacks): Pages from a Diary

By O'Crohan, Tomás

When Youth Was Mine: A Memoir of Kerry 1902-1925

By Murphy, Jeremiah

Damned to Fame: Life of Samuel Beckett

By Knowlson, James

The Hendrix Experience

By Platt, John, Mitchell, Mitch

Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution

By Todd, Professor Selina

The Two Popes: Official Tie-in to Major New Film Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins

By McCarten, Anthony

Garment of Destiny: Zanzibar to Oxford: A Surgeon's Global Quest for Identity and the Ties that Bind

By Abdallah Daar

The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

By Remnick, David

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

By Of Carnarvon, Countess

Life of Olaudah Equiano, The 2nd. Edition (Longman African Writers/Classics)

By Edwards, Paul

The Separation (Animorphs)

By Applegate, Katherine

Ordinary Light: A Memoir

By Smith, Tracy K

Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words: Selected Writings

By Brothers, Thomas

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

By Kelley, Robin D G

Nairn in Darkness and Light (Arena Books)

By Thomson, David

Family Romance

By Lanchester, John

Australian Tragic: Gripping tales from the dark side of our history

By Marx, Jack

There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack (Routledge Classics)

By Gilroy, Paul

Martin Luther King (Profiles S.)

By Richardson, Nigel, Wong, Tammy

Lives: Buddha

By Armstrong, Karen

Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing

By Lee, Hermione

Knowing Mandela

By John Carlin

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

By Mathabane, Mark

Francis Of Assisi

By House, Adrian

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

By Chua, Amy

The Maid's Tale: A revealing memoir of life below stairs

By Quinn, Tom, Plummer, Rose

Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance

By Peltier, Leonard

On a Move: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal

By Bisson, Terry, Chuck D

The Narrative of the Life of Henry "Box" Brown

By Newman, Richard

North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

By Andrews, William L.