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By: Richard Grossinger [Signed Copy]
Price: $20.00
Publisher: USA, Black Sparrow: 1973
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 226925
ISBN: 0876851618
Condition: Good Condition
195 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Signed Editions. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0876851618. ISBN/EAN: 9780876851616. Inventory No: 226925. Paperback View more info
By: Richard Hammond with Mindy Hammond
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Australia, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2007
Seller ID: 243571
ISBN: 0297853554
Condition: Very Good Condition
He describes his childhood and adolescence and the emergence of the adrenalin junkie, the first ridiculous stunts on his tricycle, and an increasing and near obsessive attraction to speed and the smell of petrol. He finds an attractive girl, Mindy, who shares his interests and helps him organise his high-speed life. For such a lively and intelligent communicator TV beckons and he becomes one of the daredevil trio, with Jeremy Clarkson and James May, who make such an enormous world-wide success of the revamped BBC TV programme Top Gear. He describes the personalities, the camaraderie and the st... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1956
Seller ID: 225517
Condition: Good Condition
224 pages. Dust jacket has protective non adhesive covering. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 225517. Hardcover View more info
By: Richard Holloway
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Canongate: 2012
Seller ID: 238540
ISBN: 0857860739
Condition: Very Good Condition
At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood at an English monastery. By the age of twenty-five he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow. Through the forty years that followed, Richard touched the lives of many people as he rose to one of the highest positions in the Anglican Church. But behind his confident public faith lay a restless heart and an inquisitive mind. Poignant, wise and fiercely honest, 'Leaving Alexandria' is a remarkable memoi... View more info
By: Richard Holloway
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Text Publishing: 2012
Seller ID: 242331
ISBN: 1921922028
Condition: Very Good Condition
At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his working-class home north of Glasgow and travelled hundreds of miles to an English monastery to be trained for the priesthood. By twenty-five, he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow. In 2000 he controversially resigned as Bishop of Edinburgh, having lost heart with the the Church over its condemnation of homosexuality. In his years as a priest Richard touched many lives, but behind his confident public face lay a mind troubled by questions. Why is the Church, which claims to be the instrument of God's love, so prone to cruelty and con... View more info
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Findhorn: 1979
Seller ID: 241431
ISBN: 0905249402
Condition: Good Condition
The life story of the 'Man of the Trees', whose work created an awareness of our physical and spiritual dependence on forests and the urgent need for reclamation and reforestation of our wastelands. 167 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0905249402. ISBN/EAN: 9780905249407. Inventory No: 241431. Paperback View more info
By: Richard Wilkins
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Australia, New Holland: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 238459
ISBN: 1742571042
Condition: Very Good Condition
As the Nine Network's Entertainment Editor and more than 17 years on the Today show, Richard Wilkins has interviewed the cream of the international entertainment industry - from Madonna to the Rolling Stones, and from Andrea Bocelli to Nigel Kennedy. Black Ties, Red Carpets, Green Rooms is a collection of his favourite, most interesting, strangest and most embarrassing star encounters. Richard weaves his own life story into the tales of celebrities, fame and interviews. From struggling to support his wife and Down syndrome son at the age of 18 in rural New Zealand to hobnobbing with the world'... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Australia, Bantam Books: 2001
Seller ID: 248203
ISBN: 1863253238
Condition: Good Condition
When Rita and her husband decide on a temporary separation, she takes the opportunity to fulfil a long-held dream: to travel the world. Fifteen years later, she is still travelling, and she shares her adventures in her incredible journey of discovery. 312 pages. Tanning to page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel; Travel & Places; Autobiography::Memoir. ISBN: 1863253238. ISBN/EAN: 9781863253239. Inventory No: 248203. Paperback View more info
By: Roberta Taylor
Price: $12.50
Publisher: London, Atlantic Books: 2005
Seller ID: 243755
ISBN: 184354301X
Condition: Near Fine Condition
'I was born in a sideboard.' So begins Roberta Taylor's bittersweet memoir of her early years, a book that proves beyond doubt that real life is stranger than any soap opera. It's Boxing Day, 1956 in East London, and it's freezing, inside and out. Roberta, aged eight, sits in the kitchen in her overcoat, determined to make herself invisible, watching the shenanigans of the grown-ups. Her granny, Mary, reigns over the house with an iron will and an eye to the main chance. Roberta's cousin is on her hands and knees at the parlour grate, trying to retrieve grandad's dentures from the coals, dragg... View more info
By: Robin Brown
Price: $18.00
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 227525
ISBN: 0297795171
Condition: Near Fine Condition
Introduction by Gerald Durrell. In Sept 1947 an ordinary little family called Brown left the comfort of their chalet-bungalow in Patcham to become white settlers in darkest Africa. Robin brown then aged nine, describes a magical journey through a country filled with wonderful sights and smells exotic insects and wild animals. 212 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Britain/UK; Biography & Autobiography; Countries::Africa. ISBN: 0297795171. ISBN/EAN: 9780297795179. Inventory No: 227525. Hardcover View more info
By: Roger Dixey
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Oxford, University Press: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 229277
Condition: Good Condition
Blue boards with gilt lettering. Bottom edge of boards have some markings. 59 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Britain/UK; Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 229277. Hardcover View more info
Price: $13.00
Publisher: London, B. T. Batsford: 1963
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 229322
Condition: Good Condition
Among the sources from which history is written are the Memoirs, Journals and Letters of those who were themselves witnesses of the events they describe: and among the most entertaining works of the past are these volumes which, however much of gossip and scandal they may sometimes contain, are still of irreplaceable historic value. 304 pages. Dust jacket has rubbing and small tears to edges and corners and associated wear. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; History; Autobiography::Memoir. Inventory No: 229322. Hardcover View more info
By: Ronan Keating
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Ebury Press: 2001
Seller ID: 241056
ISBN: 0091878489
Condition: Very Good Condition
356 pages. Light tanning to pages. Illustrated with colour photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0091878489. ISBN/EAN: 9780091878481. Inventory No: 241056. Paperback View more info
By: Rosemary Bailey
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Great Britain, bantam Books: 2002
Seller ID: 245950
ISBN: 0553813412
Condition: Good Condition
'I wake to the sun striking gold on a stone wall. If I lean out of the window I can see Mount Canigou newly iced with snow. It is wonderful to live in a building with windows all around, to see both sunrise and sunset, to be constantly aware of the passage of the sun and moon.' In 1988, Rosemary Bailey and her husband were travelling in the French Pyrenees when they fell in love with, and subsequently bought, a ruined medieval monastery, surrounded by peach orchards and snow-capped peaks. Traces of the monks were everywhere, in the frescoed 13th century chapel, the buried crypt, the stone arch... View more info
Price: $12.50
Publisher: London, Readers Union: 1964
Seller ID: 230371
Condition: Good Condition
234 pages. Light browning to page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Australian. Inventory No: 230371. Hardcover View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Bodleian Library: 2013
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 238172
ISBN: 1851242821
Condition: Very Good Condition
For nearly half a century, Sir Roy Strong has enjoyed a high public profile in the arts world in Britain. Yet remarkably little is known about his life before the Swinging Sixties when he burst upon the scene as the revolutionary trendy young director of the National Portrait Gallery, aged thirty-one. In this book he recounts for the first time the story of his social origins and the roots of his life-long passion for the culture and history of England. He describes his childhood home in a suburban North London terrace, revealing himself to have been a shy solitary child of melancholy temperam... View more info
By: Roya Hakakian
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Australia, Bantam Books: 2004
Seller ID: 244512
ISBN: 1863254544
Condition: Very Good Condition
245 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781863254540. Inventory No: 244512. Paperback View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Australia, Angus & Robertson: 1992
Seller ID: 240789
ISBN: 0207174210
Condition: Good Condition
Ruby Langford's memories of her early life at Coroki on the north coast of New South Wales provide the background to her later search for her extended family and her life in Sydney. These are tales of aunts, uncles, sons and daughters by the author of "Don't Take Your Love to Town". 111 pages. Cover has a crease. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Australian::Australian Aboriginal; Biography & Autobiography; Autobiography::Memoir. ISBN/EAN: 9780207174216. Inventory No: 240789. Paperback View more info
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