Life Is Not An Accident - A Memoir Of Reinvention
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Life Is Not An Accident - A Memoir Of Reinvention
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner....Life! Book by Missy Robbins
Chronicling a personal journey in the vein of Eat Pray Love and Wild, with some of the behind-the-scenes of a chef’s real life that drew readers to Blood, Bones, and Butter, this cookbook-memoir tells the story of celebrated chef Missy Robbins’s ‘year off’ after an acclaimed twenty-year nonstop career in professional kitchens. The story of how, at forty, she finally learned to ...
Pour Me - A Life
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE’An intense, succulent read that’s intermittently dazzling’ THE TIMES ’Chilling, exquisitely moving’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ’A superb memoir – and one of the best books on addiction I have ever read’ EVENING STANDARDA. A. Gill’s memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon. He tells the...
Failure Is An Option - An Attempted Memoir
Most people would consider H. Jon Benjamin a comedy show business success. But heÂ’d like to remind everyone that as great as success can be, failure is also an option. And maybe the best option. In this book, he tells stories from his own life, from his early days (‘wherein IÂ’m unable to deliver a sizzling fajitaÂ’) to family (‘wherein a trip to P.F. ChangÂ’s fractures a familyÂ’) to career (Â...
Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times
In the late 1970s; Barbara Taylor; then an acclaimed young historian; began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed; Taylor’s world contracted around her illness. Eventually; her struggles were severe enough to lead to her admission to what had once been England’s largest psychiatric institution; the infamous Friern Mental Hospital in North London.The Last Asylum is Tay...
Dry - A Memoir
The Tenth Anniversary Edition of the New York Times bestselling book that has sold over half a million copies in paperback.“I was addicted to “Bewitched” as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he’d come home from work and Samantha would say, Darren, would you like me to fix you a drink?’ He’d always rest his briefcase on the table below the mirror in the foyer, wipe his forehe...
Little Me - My life from A-Z
‘Matt is not only hilarious and kind, he’s probably the most generous person I know. All of which is wonderfully evident in this book.’ – Rebel Wilson ’To be truly unique in this world is almost impossible to achieve; this book is about someone who achieved it. Raw, honest, funny and moving.’ – James Corden Little Me is the first memoir from comedian, screenwriter and actor Matt Lucas. H...
Switched On - A Memoir Of Brain Change, Emotional Awakening,And The Emerging Science Of Neurostimulation
For the first time in my life, I learned what it was like to truly ‘know’ other people’s feelings. It was as if . . . suddenly I could see everything – and particularly other people – in brilliant beautiful colour.’ People with autism have trouble reading the unspoken signals of others. The conventional wisdom says they don’t have the wiring in their brains to do it. But now, thanks to ad...
A Certain Light - A Memoir of Family, Loss and Hope
‘Life is not defined by the bad things that happen to us. It certainly isn’t for me.’ Written for her young son so that he would know what had happened to his mother, Cynthia Banham’s inspiring family memoir uncovers a true picture of what survival means: ’This book tells a story that I tried to write many times before, but couldn’t. For a long time, it was too painful to tell. It is also ...
Is This My Beautiful Life? - A Memoir
‘Her honesty shatters the mask of stoicism…the impact of her revealing memoir should not be underestimated.’ Sydney Morning Herald ’…open and touching.’ Book’d Out Journalist, celebrity, television presenter, author, ambassador for beyondblue and patron of its work on post-natal depression, Member of the Order of Australia, risk-taker, social commentator, charity worker, public speaker, p...
Running Like China - A memoir of a life interrupted by madness
‘When I was eleven years old Mum told me, “One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.” Even before I heard these words I was always a child who crammed intense joy into tiny pockets of time.’ One day Sophie Hardcastle realised the joy she’d always known had disappeared. She was constantly tired, with no energy, no motivation and no sense of enjoyment for surfing, frien...
Hard Choices - A Memoir
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON’S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA’S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. ’All of us face hard choices in our lives,’ Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the centre of world events. ‘Life is a...
Writing My Wrongs - Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
New York Times bestseller from member of Oprah’s Super Soul 100 – one of World Economic Forum’s Most Recommended Books of 2016 Now in paperback, the harrowing, * inspiring**, and unforgettable+ memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic. Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on Detroit’s east side during the height of the 1980s crack...
If Not for You - A New Beginnings Novel
Sometimes, just one person can change your whole world… If not for her loving but controlling parents, Beth might never have taken charge of her life. If not for her friend Nichole, Beth would never have met Sam Carney – a tattooed mechanic who is her conservative parents’ worst nightmare. And if not for Sam – who witnessed a terrible accident and rushed to her aid – Beth might have never ...
The Auctioneer - A Memoir of Great Art, Legendary Collectors and Record-Breaking Auctions
Simon de Pury is the art world’s ultimate insider. His roles have included curator of the world-famous Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, and founder and owner of Sotheby’s rival Phillips de Pury. His exuberant style, showmanship and iconoclasm in a highly conservative profession saw him described as ‘the Mick Jagger of auctions’. His memoir of a life lived within th...
Spider from Mars - My Life with Bowie
For many fans, Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era remains the most extraordinarily creative period in his career. As a member of Bowie’s legendary band at the time – The Spiders From Mars – Woody played drums on four seminal albums: The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and Aladdin Sane. Woody’s memoir, which he started work on in 2014...
A Memoir of Jane Austen - and Other Family Recollections
‘I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.’ James Edward Austen-Leigh’s Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward’s two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continu...
Hope - A Memoir of Survival
‘We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to know- we survived, we are free, we love life.’ On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland home and called 911, saying- oHelp me, I’m Amanda Berry . . . I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for ten years.o A horrifying story rap...
A Sunburnt Childhood - The bestselling memoir about growing up in the Northern Territory
Toni Tapp grew up on the massive Killarney Station, where her stepfather, Bill Tapp, was a cattle king. But there was no ‘big house’ here – Toni did not grow up in a large homestead. She lived in a shack that had no electricity and no running water. The oppressive climate of the Territory – either wet or dry – tested everyone. Fish were known to rain from the sky and sometimes good men drank ...
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Travels Through my Childhood
Bill BrysonÂ’s first travel book opened with the immortal line, I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.Â’ In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America. It was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about one boyÂ’s...
Everything That Remains - A Memoir by the Minimalists
“Like Henry David Thoreau, but with Wi-Fi.” -Boston Globe What if everything you ever wanted isn’t what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the lif...
Madam Secretary - A Memoir
A national bestseller on its original publication in 2003, Madam Secretary is a riveting account of the life of AmericaÂ’s first woman Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill ClintonÂ’s two presidential terms, Albright was a high-level participant in some of the most dramatic events of our time-from the pursuit of peace in the Middle East to NATOÂ’s intervention in the...