Biographies & Memoirs
The Beautiful No
JOD 20.00
Includes a new workbook “Thursday morning. One hundred pounds overweight, no man in sight, and rounding the bend to 57 years old—a full-blown catastrophe.” What happens when you realize you’ve had the career of your dreams, but you don’t have the life of your dreams? This was the stark reality faci..
The Beautiful Ones
JOD 15.00
JOD 25.00
From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time—featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death. Prince was a musical genius, one ..
The Bells of Old tokyo
JOD 5.40
JOD 13.40
For over 300 years, Japan closed itself to outsiders, developing a remarkable and unique culture. During its period of isolation, the inhabitants of the city of Edo, later known as Tokyo, relied on its public bells to tell the time. In her remarkable book, Anna Sherman tells of her search for the be..
The Best of Enemies
JOD 34.00
A onetime Palestinian terrorist and a former Israeli intelligence officer tell how, together, they renounced the use of arms and violence and helped bring about the 1993 peace accord between the PLO and Israel...
The Bigamist
JOD 10.50
From whirlwind romance to gaslighting campaign: this is truth far stranger than fiction. When Mary met Will Jordan online, she was a single mother who'd given up trying to find Mr Right. And yet here he suddenly was: articulate and attractive, with a fascinating background. Soon they were in love, a..
The Bookshop Woman
JOD 12.50
Beautiful, very honest, and very good. I can't recommend it highly enough. Please give this book a read. If you like books you will love this one.' James, WATERSTONES CANTERBURY 'An irresistible treat for all bibliophiles' WATERSTONES Nanako Hanada's life has hit rock bottom. Separated from her hu..
The Boy Who Reached For The Stars: A Memoir
JOD 27.50
Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest e..
The Bright Hour
JOD 9.30
JOD 15.50
We are breathless but we love the days. They are promises. They are the only way to walk from one night to the other. Poet and essayist Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer—one small spot. Within a year, she received the devastating news that her ca..
The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, The Wo...
JOD 21.00
In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that she a..
The Cleopatras
JOD 27.50
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with an asp clasped to her breast - or so the..
The Club King
JOD 8.70
JOD 14.50
A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise and stunning takedown of a nightclub empire, by the man who held the reins. Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA, and Palladium—the cutting-edge, insanely successful, and notoriously decadent clubs that dominated New York City’s entertainment scene, their influe..
The Collected Schizophrenias
JOD 11.00
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esme Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow memb..