Genre search:Biography

Still Alive (Surprisingly)

by John Wick
Paperback, 2023
Status
Available

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Goose Green: The decisive battle of the Falklands War – by the British troops who fought it

by Nigel Ely
Paperback, 2022
Collection
Falklands
Status
Available
Call number
997.1102442

Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

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

All the Living and the Dead

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

Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War

by Jean Owtram
Paperback, 2021
Tags
WW2, codebreaking, SOE
Status
Available
Call number
940.5486410922

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

by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Hardcover, 2021
Status
Available
Call number
941.084092

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

Woodston: The Biography of an English Farm: The Biography of An English Farm – The Sunday Times Bestseller

by John Lewis-Stempel
Hardcover, 2021
Status
Available
Call number
630.94244

The glamour boys : the secret story of the rebels who fought for Britain to defeat Hitler

by Christopher Bryant
Paper Book, 2021
Tags
appeasement, anti nazi, 1930s, gay history, pre WW2
Status
Available
Call number
940.53086640941

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

The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present

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

Richard III: The Self-Made King (Yale English Monarchs)

by Michael Hicks
Paperback, 2021
Tags
Richard iii, Wars of the roses, biography
Status
Available
Call number
942.046092

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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

The Great Philosophers: Turing

by Andrew Hodges
Paperback, 2021
Tags
philosophy, Alan Turing, WW2
Status
Available
Call number
510.92

The Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein

by Peter Hacker
Paperback, 2021
Series
The Great Philosophers - Routledge
Status
Available
Call number
192

Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery

by Alex Renton
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
slavery, caribbean, family history, Black Lives Matter
Status
Available
Call number
306.362

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

The Life Scientific: Detectives

by Anna Buckley
Hardcover, 2021
Status
Available
Call number
616.910922

The Radical Potter

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

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

Fighting for Queen and Country: One man's true story of blood and violence in the paras and the SAS

by Nigel Ely
Paperback, 2020
Status
Available
Call number
355

The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary

by Sophie Therese Ambler
Paperback, 2020
Tags
simon de montfort, Evesham, mediaeval, history, Henry ll
Status
Available
Call number
942.034092

Harrier 809: Britain’s Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War

by Rowland White
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Falklands War, harrier jump jet
Collection
Falklands
Status
Available
Call number
997.1102448

Victoria Wood: The Authorised Biography

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

Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, Edited by Adam Kay

by Various
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
NHS, pandemic, coronavirus
Status
Available
Call number
362.10941

When the Dogs Don't Bark: A Forensic Scientist's Search for the Truth

by Professor Angela Gallop
Paperback, 2020
Tags
forensic science, murder
Status
Available
Call number
363.25092

Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me

by Matthew Lewis
Hardcover, 2019
Status
Available
Call number
942.046092

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

by Afua Hirsch
Paperback, 2019
Tags
racism, modernity
Status
Available
Call number
305.800941

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A journey into the heartland of psychiatry

by Nathan Filer
Paperback, 2019
Tags
mental health, schizophrenia
Status
Available
Call number
616.89

Sir Christopher Wren (Shire Library)

by Paul Rabbitts
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Sir Christopher Wren, architecture, St Paul's Cathedral
Status
Available
Call number
720.92

Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace

by Leo McKinstry
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
Churchill, Attlee, WW2
Collection
Churchilliana
Status
Available
Call number
941.0840922

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

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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

North Korea Journal

by Michael Palin
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
travel, North Korea
Status
Available
Call number
951.93

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

The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers

by Bobby Seagull
Paperback, 2019
Tags
maths
Status
Available
Call number
510

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

Richard III: Brother, Protector, King

by Chris Skidmore
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Richard iii, biography
Status
Available
Call number
942.046092

The Guinea Pig Club: Archibald McIndoe, the Royal Air Force and the Reconstruction of Warriors

by Emily Mayhew
Paperback, 2018
Status
Available
Call number
940.547541

The Survival of the Princes in the Tower: Murder, Mystery and Myth

by Matthew Lewis
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
Richard iii
Status
Available
Call number
942.045092

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

Voices of the Codebreakers: Personal accounts of the secret heroes of World War II

by Michael Paterson
Paperback, 2018
Tags
WW2, Bletchley Park, ultra, codebreaking
Collection
Intelligence
Status
Available
Call number
940.548641

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

by Secret Barrister
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
uk legal system, barristers, law, criminal justice
Status
Available
Call number
364.941
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