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1	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life more books like this by Barbara Kingsolver (Read by), Steven L Hopp, Camille Kingsolver In her first full-length nonfiction narrative, bestselling author Kingsolver opens readers' eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: you are what you eat. The bestselling author returns with a wise and compelling celebration of family, food, nature, and community. see all copies from £3.15! new only from £3.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou Bloom's Reviews are a acclaimed advancement to the standard chapter-by-chapter plot summaries provided by most study guides. Each Review saves a student time by presenting the latest research, from noted literary scholars, in a practical and lucid format, enabling students to concentrate on improving their knowledge and understanding of the work ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £4.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft more books like this by Stephen King "Long live the King," hailed "Entertainment Weekly" upon the publication of Stephen King's "On Writing." Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded ... see all copies from £2.27! new only from £6.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Year of Magical Thinking more books like this by Joan Didion In THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, Joan Didion writes an account of her life since the 2003 death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion's grief was profound and debilitating; she and Dunne had been married for nearly 40 years, during which they were hardly ever apart. But in the course of her mourning period, she also gained crucial insights ... see all copies from £3.25! new only from £6.32! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir more books like this by Bill Bryson From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language comes a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Boy Tales of Childhood more books like this by Roald Dahl Every child who loves the books of Roald Dahl (and try to find a child who doesn't) will be intrigued to discover some of the remarkable things that happened to the writer as a boy and as a young man. "I have never been able to get them out of my mind" says Dahl of these incidents. "Some are funny, some are painful, some are unpleasant. I suppose ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
7	Running with Scissors: A Memoir more books like this by Augusten Burroughs "Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Naked more books like this by David Sedaris A collection of humorous stories, where the author takes to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorts out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, and confronts his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Three Weeks with My Brother more books like this by Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks When the Sparks brothers--bestselling writer Nicholas and his older brother Micah--set off on a trip around the world, they saw it as an opportunity not only to see temples and ruins but to talk about their childhood and the fate of their family, in a fraternal bonding experience that would enlarge both their lives. As they traveled, they also ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £6.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life more books like this by Anne Lamott From the writer of the best-selling OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS comes this timely tract on the art of writing--an anecdotal, frank step-by-step guide on how to write and how to manage a writer's life. Offers advice on getting started, character, plot, dialogue, writer's block, writing groups, publication, and more. see all copies from £6.72! new only from £9.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Roughing It more books like this by Mark Twain This book includes all 304 first-edition illustrations by True Williams, Edward F Mullen, and others. It provides the first and only text that adheres to the author's wishes in details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, restored from original sources. It features expert annotation, specially prepared maps, facsimile manuscript pages, and other ... see all copies from £1.78! new only from £5.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Teacher Man: A Memoir more books like this by Frank McCourt Frank McCourt, the author of ANGELA'S ASHES and 'TIS, wraps up his trilogy of memoirs with this account of the 30 years he spent teaching in New York public high schools, from his rocky beginning as a young man teaching English in a vocational school to his eventual destination--the rarefied halls of the elite Stuyvesant School. Throughout, ... see all copies from £5.43! new only from £6.27! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Dry more books like this by Augusten Burroughs Augusten Burroughs, the writer who memorialized his traumatic childhood in RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, returns to do the same with his alcoholism, which he tries to deal with by checking himself into a gay rehab clinic in Minnesota. Burroughs's memoir is a humorous account of that experience, and of his lifelong struggles with (and love for) the bottle. see all copies from £1.62! new only from £4.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Travels more books like this by Michael Crichton This recounts the travels of Michael Crichton to some of the remotest places on Earth, and towards his own inner self. During his exploration he swam through a cloud of sharks off Tahiti, came eye to eye with an elephant in Africa, and met with painted tribesman in the highlands of New Guinea. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness more books like this by Karen Armstrong Karen Armstrong spent seven years in a convent (which she described in a previous memoir) and, when she left, was at a loss as to what to do with her life. In THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, she writes about her difficulties, as she first picked up a couple of advanced degrees, then taught in a private school, a job she eventually lost--after which she ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £8.12! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana more books like this by Haven Kimmel Nicknamed Zippy for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed with big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent post-war period - people helped their neighbours, went to church on Sunday and ... see all copies from £3.17! new only from £8.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Tis: A Memoir more books like this by Frank McCourt Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, "Angela's Ashes," has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany more books like this by Bill Buford Expanding on his August 2002 "New Yorker" article, Bill Buford now offers a richly evocative chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mario Batali in the small, chaotic, highest-standards kitchen of Batali's three-star New York restaurant, Babbo, and of his apprenticeships with Batali's former teachers. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.85! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away more books like this by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson lived in Britain for 20 years, then returned with his family to the U.S. Here he writes about the process of re-entry--the shocks, the adjustments, the excesses, and (especially) the funny bits. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.05! \| first editions
20 view cover	Homage to Catalonia more books like this by George Orwell 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in "Homage to Catalonia". Here he brings to bear all the force of his ... see all copies from £4.16! new only from £5.20! \| first editions
21 view cover	Shakespeare: The World as Stage more books like this by Bill Bryson William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| first editions
22 view cover	A Moveable Feast more books like this by Ernest Hemingway 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.' Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the 1920s are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger ... see all copies from £1.56! new only from £4.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Periodic Table more books like this by Primo Levi A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from young love to political savagery; from the inert gas argon - and 'inert' relatives like the uncle who stayed in bed for twenty-two years - to life-giving ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £7.33! \| first editions
24 view cover	Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxfo more books like this by Simon Winchester "The Professor and the Madman," masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the "Oxford English Dictionary"--and literary history. The compilation of the "OED," begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever ... see all copies from £5.16! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life more books like this by Kathleen Norris As in her bestselling "Amazing Grace," Norris demystifies a spiritual concept, exploring acedia--or soul-weariness--through the geography of her life as a writer; her marriage and the challenges of commitment in the midst of grave illness; and her keen interest in the monastic tradition. see all copies from £13.20! new only from £13.20! \| signed copies \| first editions

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