Genre search:Biography

Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

by Lucy Worsley
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
Biography, history
Status
Available
Call number
823.912

Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown

by Shaun Bythell
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
bookselling, Wigtown
Series
Bookseller (4)
Status
Available
Call number
381.45002092

Leonardo Da Vinci: The Biography

by Walter Isaacson
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Biography. Leonardo da Vinci
Status
Available
Call number
709.2

The Anthropocene Reviewed

by John Green
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
anthropocene
Status
Available
Call number
306

The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present

by Paul McCartney
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Beatles, Paul McCartney, song lyrics, autobiography
Status
Available
Call number
782.42166

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

by Andrew Roberts
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Churchill, WW2, biography
Collection
Churchilliana
Status
Available
Call number
941.084092

Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

by Ben MacIntyre
Paperback, 2021
Tags
biography, WW2, spying
Status
Available
Call number
327.1247041

Confessions of a Bookseller: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

by Shaun Bythell
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
bookselling, Wigtown
Series
Bookseller (2)
Status
Available
Call number
381.45002092

The Diary of a Bookseller

by Shaun Bythell
Paperback, 2018
Tags
bookselling, diaries, scotland, humour
Series
Bookseller (1)
Status
Available
Call number
381.45002092

The Radical Potter

by Tristram Hunt
Hardcover, 2 Sept 2021
Tags
Wedgewood, ceramics, Industrial Revolution, 19thC
Status
Available
Call number
738.092

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa Winner 2015

by Andrea Wulf
Other, 2016
Tags
von Humboldt, botany, travel, south america
Status
Available
Call number
509.2

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

by Kate Mosse
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
women, history
Status
Available
Call number
305.409

The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

by Harry Sidebottom
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
Roman empire, roman emperors, biography, Heliogablus
Status
Available
Call number
937.07092

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops: Shaun Bythell

by Shaun Bythell
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
bookselling, secondhand bookshops, Wigtown, customer focus
Series
Bookseller (3)
Status
Available
Call number
381.45002

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2007
Tags
autobiographical, USA, humour
Status
Available
Call number
910.4092

Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill

by Candice Millard
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
Churchill, British Empire
Collection
Churchilliana
Status
Available
Call number
968.04831092

All the Living and the Dead

by Hayley Campbell
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
death, funerary practice
Status
Available
Call number
363.75

The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

by Helen Carr
Paperback, 2022
Tags
John of Gaunt, 14thC, House of Lancaster
Status
Available
Call number
942.038092

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives)

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2008
Tags
Box 6, shakespeare
Status
Available
Call number
822.33

Interregnum: The People’s Republic of Britain

by Anna Keay
Hardcover, March 2022
Tags
Civil War, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, The Protectorate, 1649-1660
Status
Available
Call number
942.063

Victoria Wood: The Authorised Biography

by Jasper Rees
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
biography, Victoria Wood
Status
Available
Call number
792.76028092

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

by Craig Brown
Paperback, 2021
Status
Available
Call number
782.421660922

Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy

by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Hardcover, 2021
Status
Available
Call number
941.084092

Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch

Paperback
Status
Available
Call number
942.04092

Open: An Autobiography

by Andre Agassi
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
tennis, autobiography
Status
Available
Call number
796.342092

The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2016
Series
Bill Bryson's Complete Notes (3)
Status
Available
Call number
914.104

The road to Little Dribbling : more notes from a small island

by Bill Bryson
Paper Book, 2016
Tags
Great Britain, travel, humour
Series
Bill Bryson's Complete Notes (3)
Status
Available
Call number
914.1048612

Dreams from My Father

by Barack Obama
Paperback, 2008
Status
Available
Call number
973.04960730092

Penal Company on the Falklands: A Memoir of the Parachute Regiment at War 1982

by Philip Neame
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
Falklands War, parachute regiment, 1982
Collection
Falklands
Status
Available
Call number
997.110244

The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club

by Christopher De Hamel
Hardcover, 2022
Status
Available
Call number
091

Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters

by Jesse Norman
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
economics, history, Adam Smith, biography
Status
Available
Call number
330.15

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

by Alexandra Fuller
Paperback, 2003
Tags
rhodesia, biography, africa
Series
Alexandra Fuller Memoirs (1)
Status
Available
Call number
968.9104092

War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

by David Nott
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
surgery, warfare, humanitarian aid
Collection
Laura
Status
Available
Call number
617.092

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson

by Mitch Albom
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
is16, life events, death
Status
Available
Call number
378.12092

Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love

by Dava Sobel
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
bd4, biography
Status
Available
Call number
520.92

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 1999
Tags
biography, english language, etymology, is16, lexicography, encyclopedia, dictionary, Penguin
Status
Available
Call number
423.092

Cork Dork: A Wine-Fuelled Journey into the Art of Sommeliers and the Science of Taste

by Bianca Bosker
Paperback, 2017
Tags
oenology, wine tasting, sommeliers
Status
Available
Call number
641.2

Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A young man’s voice from the silence of autism

by Naoki Higashida
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
autism, "@-topfloor"
Status
Available
Call number
616.85

The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History

by Boris Johnson
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Churchill, hagiography
Collection
Churchilliana
Status
Available
Call number
941.084

The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy

by Andrew Lambert
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
WW1, naval strategy. biography
Status
Available
Call number
359.4

A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Appalachian Trail, walking, is16
Status
Available
Call number
917.40443

Wild swans : Three daughters of China

by Jung Chang
Paper Book, 2012
Tags
biography, China
Status
Available
Call number
951.050922

Les Cygnes sauvages

by Jung Chang
Paperback, 1993
Tags
gb14, french, fiction
Status
Available
Call number
920.051

Personal History

by Katharine Graham
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
autobiography, Washington, Jean
Status
Available
Call number
070.5092

Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink Film Tie-In

by Anthony McCarten
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Churchill, 1940
Collection
Churchilliana
Status
Available
Call number
941.084092

The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter

by Paul Steinhardt
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
science, crystallograpy, geology, meteorites
Status
Available
Call number
530.4

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Paperback
Tags
Stalin, biography, history, Russia
Series
Stalin (1)
Status
Available
Call number
947

Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1992
Tags
isd, physics, humour
Series
Feynman Memoirs
Status
Available
Call number
530.0924

Wilding: The return of nature to a British farm

by Isabella Tree
Hardcover, 2018
Status
Available
Call number
333.95

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

by Claire Tomalin
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
bd, biography, pepys, 17thC, history
Status
Available
Call number
941.066092
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