Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii (Neal Tw)(Paperback)

Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii (Neal Tw)(Paperback)

For fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal's personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.We never call it homeless. We're just 'camping' in the jungle on Kauai...We live in a place everyone calls paradise. Sure, Kauai's beautiful, with empty beaches,

Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father (Abbott Alysia)(Paperback)

In this vibrant memoir, Alysia Abbott recounts growing up in 1970s San Francisco with Steve Abbott, a gay, single father during an era when that was rare. Reconstructing their time together from a remarkable cache of Steve's writings, Alysia gives us an unforgettable portrait of a tumultuous,

Gone to the Woods: A True Story of Growing Up in the Wild (Paulsen Gary)(Paperback / softback)

Life of Rylan (Clark-Neal Rylan)(Paperback / softback)

Documents the author's story, year by year, from his humble beginnings growing up in the East End of London, becoming one of the nation's most talked-about people overnight to finally moving up the spectrum from guilty pleasure, and getting nearer to national

The Big Hurt: A Memoir (Schickel Erika)(Pevná vazba)

A memoir of growing up in a fractured, literary family, of being seduced by a teacher and kicked out of boarding school, and then doing it all over again in middle age. In 1982, Erika Schickel was expelled from her East Coast prep school for sleeping with a teacher. She was that girl--rebellious,

Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood (Douglas Robert)(Paperback)

A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his father, it was equally blessed by the

An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir (Leve Ariel)(Paperback)

A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent father, and explores the consequences of a

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Beauvoir Simone de)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the

My History - A Memoir of Growing Up (Fraser Lady Antonia)(Paperback / softback)

The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative

Mukiwa - A White Boy in Africa (Godwin Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The award-winning memoir of a white boy growing up in Rhodesia as it went through a bloody transition to majority

White Boy Running (Hope Christopher)(Paperback)

The classic memoir of growing up in South Africa during the apartheid regime from literary tour de force, Christopher

My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir (Cetin Fethiye)(Paperback)

Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher. Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmother's name was not Seher but Heranus. She was born a Christian Armenian. Most of the men in her

Mama's Boy - A Memoir (Black Dustin Lance)(Paperback / softback)

A candid, vivid, powerfully resonant memoir about growing up Mormon in Texas from an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and leading spokesperson for LGBTQ

Gloucester Crescent - Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups (Miller William)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir of growing up amidst a group of the most brilliant intellectuals of a generation - now in

House for Two Pounds (Iggulden K.)(Pevná vazba)

A richly recounted memoir of growing up in an Irish farming community in the 1940sA love of Ireland and the Irish is what shines through this little memoir. Growing up amongst the fields, woods and characters of a farming community near Cork, Kathleen Iggulden depicts a world that is both immediate

Motherwell - The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland (Orr Deborah)(Paperback / softback)

The No.3 Sunday Times bestselling 'masterpiece' (Andrew

Warship (Asher Neal)(Paperback / softback)

Neal Asher ramps up the action in this second book in his Rise of the Jain trilogy. Expect epic conflicts in space, extraordinary aliens and impossible choices

Self-Sufficient Herbalism: A Guide to Growing and Wild Harvesting Your Herbal Dispensary (Jones Lucy)(Paperback)

A masterclass in the wild crafting, growing, harvesting, drying, storage, and processing of medicinal herbs. Self-Sufficient Herbalism is the first ever practical guide to the growing, gathering, and preserving of medicinal herbs for a working dispensary. Written by a practising herbalist with a

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope (Anthony Carmelo)(Pevná vazba)

From iconic NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony comes a raw and inspirational memoir about growing up in the housing projects of Red Hook and Baltimore--a brutal world Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised. For a long time, Carmelo Anthony's world wasn't any larger than the view of the hoopers and hustlers he

I Am A Girl From Africa (Nyamayaro Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

A moving and inspiring memoir of growing up in rural, Zimbabwe written by the Global Head of the UN's HeForShe gender equality

Hoxton Childhood & The Years After (Jasper A.S.)(Pevná vazba)

AS Jasper's memoir of growing up in the East End of London before the First World War was acclaimed as a classic when it was described by the Observer as 'Zola without the trimmings.' In this definitive new edition, it is accompanied by the first publication of the sequel detailing the author's

Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey (Samanci Ozge)(Paperback)

Growing up on the Aegean Coast, Ozge loved the sea and imagined a life of adventure while her parents and society demanded predictability. Her dad expected Ozge, like her sister, to become an engineer. She tried to hear her own voice over his and the religious and militaristic tensions of Turkey

My Mother, the Psychopath - Growing up in the shadow of a monster (Rayne Olivia)(Paperback / softback)

How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual (Burgess Rebecca)(Paperback)

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