Autobiographies

'Well told, personable, fast-paced, and undoubtedly a fascinating read' Daily TelegraphGripping, moving and wildly exhilarating, Mud, Sweat and Tears is a must-read for adrenalin junkies and armchair adventurers alike. Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure.

If there is any solace in growing older, it is that you will find yourself guffawing in hysterical recognition at the situations the author describes, from the impossibility of trying to remember people's names at parties, to struggling with the new technology. This title focuses on what we all struggle with as we journey into our later years.

A chronological account takes the reader through the key events in the lives of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and their deaths.

During World War I, Georgina Howell worked her way up from spy to army major to become one of the most powerful woman in the British Empire. After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, she was instrumental in drawing the borders that define the region today, including creating an independent Iraq. This book deals with her life and work.

The eagerly awaited sequel to the astonishing international bestseller Eat, Pray, Love

Chronicles one man's journey through the fearful expanse of midlife in a quest for peace, parts, and a happy second fatherhood. With limited mechanical skills, and a cast of local experts, the author takes us down the rocky road of restoration to the headlong, heart-thrilling rush of open highway on his on his midnight-blue Millennium Flyer.

The heroine of MARY POPPINS and THE SOUND OF MUSIC tells her life story from the music halls of London to Broadway stardom.

Frederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author. It is here reprinted with contexualizing source material and other writings by Douglass, as well as an introduction discussing its literary and historical significance.

In her first ever memoir, Carrie Fisher takes us on an intimate, hilarious and sobering journey through her life.

A candid, no-holds-barred romp through forty years of drugs, sex and rock 'n roll

When a film is not a document, it is a dream. This visual autobiography traces the author's lifelong love affair with film. It looks at his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood's golden age, and a romantic history that includes five wives and more than a few mistresses.

The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived. 'Magnificent' DAILY TELEGRAPH

The 1995 Open Champion and legendary wild man of golf recalls the best and worst of his life: his inspirational play on both US and European tours; the demons that afflicted him on the course and his addiction to gambling and drink; and the trashed hotel rooms and spectacular marital problems.

Peter Falk came to prominence as an actor in 1956 in the successful off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards. But in 1958, Twentieth Century Fox came to New York to make a movie and Falk landed a juicy role for which he received reviews and was nominated for an Academy Award. This book deals with his life and work.

Giving an account of the life of a surgeon, this book looks at what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. It includes chronicles of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; and what it feels like to insert your knife into someone.

The Number One Sunday Times BestsellerForty years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the world's most beloved and iconic figures. Including deeply personal documents and previously unseen family photographs, this sensational book also features new interviews with family and friends.

A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong.

Jaycee Dugard's raw and powerful memoir: her own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years.

The incredible true story of the FBI's most successful undercover agent now reissued as a Great Read

Tarkovsky's diaries were widely reviewed and considered to be a valuable addition to his work. The diaries cover his film-making in the Soviet Union and the increasing difficulties he encountered there followed by his exile in Europe. The diaries are both professional and personal.

This is no ordinary life history. This autobiography takes us from Barbro Karlen's early fame in her native Sweden as a bestselling child literary sensation to her years as a policewoman and a successful horse trainer. As a victim of discrimination, personal vendettas, media assassination, libel, and attempted murder, Karlen was forced to fight for her very being. In the dramatic conclusion to her living nightmare, she is shown the karmic background to these events. This knowledge finally frees her to be herself. This is the story of a superhuman struggle for truth in the face of discrimination and lies.

We learn how, through his relationship with various horses, he gradually developed the methods which enabled him to communicate with horses in their own language, a silent language of gestures similar to sign language: the unique art of the horse whisperer.

This book draws on Lee's own notes, letters, diaries and training logs to present the full extent of his training methods. They include nutrition, aerobics, isometrics, stretching, and weight training.

Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip.

In the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for perfume, his brilliant, quixotic theory of how we smell, and his struggle to set before the world the secret of the most enigmatic of our senses.