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Autobiographies, Biographies & Memoirs

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  • Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell. Book cover has an illustration of people reading books, a black cat and a baby.
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    Shaun Bythell

    Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
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    In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop...
    In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulen...
  • I Brought the War with Me : Stories and Poems from the Front Line
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    Lindsey Hilsum

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    I was standing outside an apartment block that ...
    I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own. In nearly four decades as a journalist covering ...
  • The Diary of a Bookseller
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    Shaun Bythell

    The Diary of a Bookseller
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    Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set...
  • Devorgilla Days
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    Kathleen Hart

    Devorgilla Days
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    This is a story about uncovering the things tha...
    This is a story about uncovering the things that really matter, and discovering what makes us feel alive. It is a story about finding that inner strength and resilience, and never giving up hope. E...
  • Confessions of a Bookseller
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    Shaun Bythell

    Confessions of a Bookseller
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    Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in W...
    Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms....
  • Walking Back Home by Ricky Ross. Book cover has a black and white photograph of the author standing against a brick wall.
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    Ricky Ross

    Walking Back Home
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    'For all these years I've told stories. Sometim...
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    Signed copy of The Making of the Modern Middle East : A Personal History
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    Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the B...
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    Catherine Coldstream

    Cloistered : My Years as a Nun
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    Discover Catherine Coldstream’s evocative accou...
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    David Baddiel

    My Family : The Memoir
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    Ariane Bankes

    The Quality of Love : Twin Sisters at the Heart of the Century
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    When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes...
    When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives...
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