Best Memoirs

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

by Hadley Freeman

2020

The Sunday Times bestseller ‘An utterly engrossing book’ Nigella Lawson ‘Remarkable and gripping’ Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century ... I don’t hesitate to call it a masterpiece’ Telegraph…

€6.99 list price

War and Decision

by Douglas J. Feith

2009

In the years since the attacks of September 11, 2001, journalists, commentators, and others have published accounts of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism. But no senior Pentagon official has offered an inside view of those years…

The Twelve Little Cakes

by Dominika Dery

2004

The ... memoir of a girl growing up in 1970s Czechoslovakia ...…

The Price of Passion

by van Raay. Carla

2010

Carla van Raay's second unflinching memoir. She moves beyond her rocky past as GOD'S CALLGIRL and attains full womanhood via an authentic and challenging relationship with her sexual equal. An exploration of ongoing emotional and sp…

Iain Macleod

by Robert Shepherd

1994

Iain Macleod once said that the Tory Party exists to maintain or win office; which is only one reason why, over 20 years since his death, Tory politicians as varied as Iain Gilmour, John Major and Margaret Thatcher still look to his example…

Telling Lives, Telling History

by Susan Rodgers

1995

These two memoirs provide windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early 20th-century history of south-east Asia, in general. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers tell the story of their country'…

Ellen and Edith

by Kristie Miller

2010

An authoritative dual biography of the two wives of Woodrow Wilson. Presents a rich and complex portrait of Wilson's marriages, first to the demure Ellen Axon Wilson and then to the controversial Edith Bolling Wilson, as well as his rel…

I Held the Sun in My Hands

by Erika Jacoby

2004

"I Held the Sun in My Hands" is the story of a young girl raised in a traditional Jewish family in Hungary prior to and during WWII. When Germany occupied Hungary on March 19th, 1944, Erika Jacoby was deported to Auschwitz, togeth…

Street Smart

by John Positano, Rock Positano

2022

The essence of being street smart is the ability to take advantage of lucky breaks. And everyone—at least once in their lifetime—gets a lucky break. What they do with that lucky break varies tremendously from individual to individual. Stree…

€12.31 list price

James Dillon

by Maurice Manning

1999

"He adopted a singular stance on Irish neutrality during the war years, calling on the country to support the Allies against the Nazis' threat to democracy. Thoroughly and often vindictively criticised for his views, he continued t…

Women in Rock Memoirs

by Cristina Garrigós, Marika Ahonen

2023

Women in Rock Memoirs vindicates the role of women in rock music. The chapters examine memoirs written by women in rock from 2010 onwards to explore how the artists narrate their life experiences and difficulties they had to overcome, not o…

My Grandfather's Hat

2012

Leaving his home in Lebanon as a very young boy, the sometimes amazing, sometimes scary and dangerous, but always exciting adventures of Habib Fakih: His efforts to support his family and make his own way in the world were told to me, a fam…