Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: The powerful memoir from the beloved star of Friends by Matthew Perry
Category: Memoir
'There's never been a more honest or raw memoir ... and it may just save lives' Daily Mail'Funny, fascinating, compelling ... also a wonderful read for fans of Friends' The TimesThe beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funn ...Show more
Breath: A triumphant story of hope and survival by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
Category: Memoir
A triumphant story of hope and survival. I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and fac ...Show more
Entrances and Exits by Michael Richards
Category: Memoir
The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved television characters ever invented, Kramer, shares the extraordinary life of a comedy genius—the way he came into himself as an artist, the ups and downs as a human being, the road he has traveled in sea ...Show more
Never Finished - Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within by David Goggins
Category: Memoir
Can't Hurt Me, David Goggins' smash hit memoir, demonstrated how much untapped ability we all have but was merely an introduction to the power of the mind. In Never Finished, Goggins takes you inside his Mental Lab, where he developed the philosophy, psychology, and strategies that enabled him to learn ...Show more
I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll by Alan Edwards
Category: Memoir
I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll is a memoir by Alan Edwards, the godfather of modern music PR, whose stellar list of clients has ranged over the years from the Rolling Stones to the Spice Girls via the Stranglers, Blondie, Prince, Britney Spears, Robbie Williams, Amy Winehouse and, ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
Category: Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
After the Worst has Happened
Category: Memoir
Tales from a funeral director on the lighter side of death. When Richard Gosling's young daughter faced emergency surgery, a colleague carelessly asked what would happen if she died. In that moment, Richard was forced to picture his own daughter's funeral, and the people who are there to help families ...Show more
The Secret Life of Flying by Jeremy Burfoot
Category: Memoir
The Secret Life of Flying : What really happens when you travel by air? How does a plane stay up in the air? Does the Mile High Club actually exist? When you flush the toilet, where does it all go? Buckle up for some turbulence because nothing flies under the radar for Captain Jeremy Burfoot. With more ...Show more
Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller
Category: Memoir
From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career-defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. ...Show more
Loving My Lying, Dying, Cheating Husband: A memoir of a whirlwind romance gone wrong by Kerstin Pilz
Category: Memoir
A wise and witty memoir about having to care for the very person who has hurt you the most. Perfect for fans of Kathy Lette and Elizabeth Gilbert. Kerstin is childless by choice and married to her job when Gianni, a charming Italian, turns her life into a champagne-coloured fairy tale. Soon after their ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
Category: Memoir
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
How to Knit a Human by Anna Jacobson
Category: Memoir
How do you write a memoir when you have lost your memories? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues. I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did ...Show more