Memoirs and Life Stories @Fred's

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Per Fred's Bookshop

Memoirs and Life Stories @Fred's

Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first ever...

Melvyn Bragg

Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains

ANNA FLEMING

Rooted: How regenerative farming can change the world

Sarah Langford

Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old...

QC Joseph Her Honour Wendy

Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest

GEOFFROY DELORME

The Jay, The Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild Things...

Richard Smyth

The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in...

Ian Buruma

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation

HANNAH GADSBY

Grounding: Finding Home in a Garden

Lulah Ellender

Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a...

Siri Helle

Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age

Katherine May

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of...

Katherine Rundell

Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

Alice Vincent

Taking Sides: a memoir about love, war, and changing the world

Sherine Tadros

The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days

Helen Rebanks

Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it,...

Michael Rosen

All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, loss and an apothecary garden

Victoria Bennett

Spare

Duke of Sussex Harry Prince

SOLO: A true story of spirit, adventure & the life-changing...

Jenny Tough

Climb Your Mountain: Everyday lessons from an extraordinary life

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Twelve Moons: A Year Under a Shared Sky

Caro Giles

The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Story of PayPal

Jimmy Soni

Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

Alan Rickman

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of...

Katherine Rundell

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan

The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama

Elizabeth: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the writer...

Gyles Brandreth

A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories

Leonard Cohen

Agatha Christie: Radio 4 Book of the Week

Lucy Worsley

Landlines: The remarkable story of a thousand-mile journey...

Raynor Winn

Faith, Hope and Carnage

Nick Cave i Sean O'Hagan

Surrender: Bono Autobiography: 40 Songs, One Story

Bono

Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

Keiron Pim

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way

Anthony Seldon

Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her: The No 1 Sunday Times...

Daisy May Cooper

Ten Hag: The Biography

Maarten Meijer

The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading

Joan Armatrading

Moonage Daydream: The Life & Times of Ziggy Stardust

David Bowie

Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday...

Dolly Alderton

You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From...

Yeva Skalietska

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: 'A candid, darkly...

Matthew Perry

Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us The Best We Can Be: The...

Professor Noel Fitzpatrick

Permanent Record

EDWARD SNOWDEN

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also)...

Kate Mosse

The Trainspotter's Notebook: The unmissable book from...

FRANCIS BOURGEOIS

Jordan Henderson: The Autobiography: The must-read...

Jordan Henderson

Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain

Robin Ince

Jan Morris: life from both sides

Paul Clements

Verse, Chorus, Monster!

GRAHAM COXON

The Reckoning: America's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal

Mary L Trump

Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

Christina Riggs

Spying and the Crown: The Secret Relationship Between British...

Rory Cormac i Richard J. Aldrich

The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton,...

Lloyd (Author) Clark

The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

ADRIAN CHILES

A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carre 1945-2020

John le Carre

A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

Dorthe Nors

Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

Adam Kay

Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found

Warren Ellis

Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from...

Bernardine Evaristo

Into Iraq

Michael Palin

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one...

Ai Weiwei

The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

Jeremy Bowen

Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

Patrick Mackie

The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval...

Sarah Gristwood

Rising to the Surface: 'Moving and honest' OBSERVER

Lenny Henry

And Finally: Matters of Life and Death, the Sunday Times...

Henry Marsh

Taste: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Stanley Tucci

Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving...

Kit de Waal

The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness

Amy-Jane Beer

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the...

Rebecca Donner

Borges and Me: An Encounter

Jay Parini

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British...

Beryl Gilroy

Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home

Amanda Thomson

The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the...

Meg Lowman

Allegorizings

Jan Morris

The Hong Kong Diaries

Chris Patten

Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of...

Philip Short

Spider Woman: A Life - by the former President of the Supreme...

Lady Hale

Sad Little Men: Inside the secretive world that shaped Boris...

Richard Beard

A Year on Our Farm: How the Countryside Made Me

Matt Baker

Orwell's Roses

Rebecca Solnit

Birdgirl: 'Lyrical, poignant and insightful.' Margaret Atwood

Mya-Rose Craig

Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald

Carole Angier

Scoops: The BBC's Most Shocking Interviews from Prince Andrew...

Sam McAlister

Illuminated By Water: Nature, Memory and the Delights of a...

Malachy Tallack

Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

Tim Moore

Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism, Feminism and Motherhood

Joanne Limburg

Beryl - Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year...

Jeremy (Football Writer) Wilson

The Raven's Nest

Sarah Thomas

The Wim Hof Method: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Wim Hof

Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice

Parm (author) Sandhu

Odd Boy Out: The 'hilarious, eye-popping, unforgettable'...

Gyles Brandreth

A Drag Queen's Guide to Life

Bimini Bon Boulash i Jules Scheele

The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border

Frances Stonor Saunders

Never Give Up: A Life of Adventure, The Autobiography

Bear Grylls

Hope: Read the inspirational life behind Tom Parker

Tom Parker

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

Lea Ypi

Old Rage: 'One of our best-loved actor's powerful riposte to...

Sheila Hancock

Why Patti Smith Matters

Caryn Rose

Sisters of the Resistance: The Nuns Who Defied the Nazis

Dennis J. Turner

A Book of Secrets: Finding comfort in a complex world THE...

Derren Brown

A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse...

The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie

Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors

Alison Weir

Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first ever...

Melvyn Bragg

What is the Grass

Mark Doty

Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer

The Secret Barrister

Shackleton: How the Captain of the newly discovered Endurance...

Ranulph Fiennes

How to Be a Rock Star

Shaun Ryder

Tour de Force: My history-making Tour de France

Mark Cavendish

The Seven Ages of Death: 'Every chapter is like a detective...

Dr Richard Shepherd

Lyrics: The definitive collection of the Roxy Music...

Bryan Ferry

Good Pop, Bad Pop: The Sunday Times bestselling hit from...

Jarvis Cocker

Typhoon

Mike Sutton

Diddly Squat: The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Jeremy Clarkson

The Ponies At The Edge Of The World: A story of hope and...

Catherine Munro

The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an Ancient Forest

Neil Ansell

Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering,...

Bill Browder

Windswept: why women walk

Annabel Abbs

The Draw of the Sea

Wyl Menmuir

Life, Death and Biscuits

Anthea Allen

Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967-75

Richard Thompson

Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing

Horatio Clare

A Runner's High: Older, Wiser, Slower, Stronger

Dean (Author) Karnazes

Beyond Possible: '14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible' Now On...

Nimsdai Purja

This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew

Julia Copus

Self-Portrait

Celia Paul

Ten Steps to Nanette

HANNAH GADSBY

The Instant: Sunday Times Bestseller

Amy Liptrot

War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and...

Martin Bell

Stephen Hawking

Leonard Mlodinow

Our Wild Farming Life: Adventures on a Scottish Highland Croft

Lynn Cassells i Sandra Baer

My Own Worst Enemy: Scenes of a Childhood

Robert Edric

Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a...

Siri Helle

Call Me Red: A shepherd's journey

Hannah Jackson

Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg

PETER SCOTT-MORGAN

12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness

Charlie Corbett

Swimming with Seals

Victoria Whitworth

Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland

Tete-Michel Kpomassie

Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains

ANNA FLEMING

The Lion House: Discover the life of Suleyman the...

Christopher de Bellaigue

An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts...

Kate Mosse

Earthed: A Memoir

Rebecca Schiller

Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story

Marc Hamer i Jonathan Ashworth

Thin Places

Kerri ni Dochartaigh

Orwell's Roses

Rebecca Solnit

My Body

Emily Ratajkowski

His Name Is George Floyd: One man's life and the struggle for...

Robert Samuels i Toluse Olorunnipa

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

Lea Ypi

The Beatles: Get Back

The Beatles

Renegades: Born in the USA

Barack Obama i Bruce Springsteen

And Away...

Bob Mortimer

Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius

Harry Freedman

Amy Winehouse: Beyond Black

NAOMI PARRY

Diddly Squat: The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Jeremy Clarkson

Joss Naylor's Lakes, Meres and Waters of the Lake District:...

Vivienne Crow

The Queen

Matthew Dennison

A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to...

Vanessa Nakate

A Year on Our Farm: How the Countryside Made Me

Matt Baker

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Dave Grohl

Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

Billy Connolly

Wild Once: Awaken the magic within. Unleash true power

Doctor Vivianne Crowley

Allegorizings

Jan Morris

Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural...

Professor Selina Todd

Coming Up for Air: What I Learned from Sport, Fame and...

Tom Daley

Dancing in the Mosque

Homeira Qaderi

Fall: Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2021

John Preston

Shackleton: How the Captain of the newly discovered Endurance...

Ranulph Fiennes

The Last Days of John Lennon

James Patterson

Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from...

Bernardine Evaristo

Patient 1: Forgetting and Finding Myself

Charlotte Raven i Dr. Edward Wild

Everything is True: A junior doctor's story of life, death...

Dr Roopa Farooki

On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging (Shortlisted...

Nicola Chester

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one...

Ai Weiwei

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

Rob Wilkins

Will

Will Smith i Mark Manson

The Breaks

Julietta Singh

Spider Woman: A Life - by the former President of the Supreme...

Lady Hale

Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture (from the acclaimed...

Justine Picardie

Fat Cow, Fat Chance: The science and psychology of size

Jenni Murray

(Drag) Queen of Scots: The hilarious and heartwarming memoir...

Lawrence Chaney

Invention: A Life

James Dyson

How Not To Be a Boy

Robert Webb

Just Us: An American Conversation

Claudia Rankine

A Runner's High: Older, Wiser, Slower, Stronger

Dean Karnazes

All In: The Autobiography of Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King

Wild at Heart: The Dangers and Delights of a Nomadic Life

Miriam Lancewood

More Than a Woman

Caitlin Moran

Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood

Jasper Rees

Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local...

Roger Lytollis

You Are a Champion: How to Be the Best You Can Be

Marcus Rashford

Diary of a Young Naturalist: WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE...

Dara McAnulty

Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the...

Grace Dent

Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

The Secret Barrister

The Secret History of Here: A Year in the Valley

Alistair Moffat

Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and...

Suzanne Simard

The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the...

Raynor Winn

I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain

Anita Sethi

Women and Leadership: Lessons from some of the world's most...

Julia Gillard i Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

David Lammy

Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature

Patrick (Y) Barkham

Girl Decoded: My Quest to Make Technology Emotionally...

Rana el Kaliouby

The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology

Mark Boyle

The Shapeless Unease: 'A small miracle of a book' - Nathan Flier

Samantha Harvey

One of Them: An Eton College Memoir

Musa Okwonga

The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour

Shelley Klein

My Name Is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish...

Selma van de Perre

Why We Swim

Bonnie Tsui

The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the...

Meg Lowman

All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For...

Ruth Coker Burks

Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books

Cathy Rentzenbrink

Small Bodies of Water

Nina Mingya Powles

Tom Stoppard: A Life

Professor Dame Hermione Lee

The Seven Ages of Death: 'Every chapter is like a detective...

Dr Richard Shepherd

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life...

Kate Greene

Intensive Care: A GP, a Community & a Pandemic

Gavin Francis

Odd Boy Out: The 'hilarious, eye-popping, unforgettable'...

Gyles Brandreth

The Audacity: Why Being Too Much Is Exactly Enough: The...

Katherine Ryan

Too Many Reasons to Live

Rob Burrow

How Animals Saved My Life: Being the Supervet: The Number 1...

Professor Noel Fitzpatrick

Three Women: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

Lisa Taddeo

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Craig Brown

Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

Michelle Obama

The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism

John Barnes

The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Les Payne i Tamara Payne

Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia...

Richard Bradford

Terence: The Man Who Invented Design

Stephen Bayley i Roger Mavity

These Precious Days

Ann Patchett

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Heather Clark

The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

Justin Webb

Sequins for a Ragged Hem

Estate of Amryl Johnson

Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s

Barbara Blake Hannah

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

Howard Jacobson

A Walk from the Wild Edge: A journey of self-discovery and...

Jake Tyler

The Platinum Queen: Over 75 Speeches Given by Britain's...

Derek Wyatt

The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes

Mark Wormald

The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

Jen Benson

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for...

David Attenborough

Small Bodies of Water

Nina Mingya Powles

The Break: Life as a Cycling Maverick

Steve Cummings

Why We Kneel How We Rise: WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS...

Michael Holding