 | The Cap, or the Price of a Life: Or the Price of a Life by Roman Frister
Buy used from: £0.01 Moving and intelligent story of a Jewish child in the Holocaust. Examines the issues of moral contingencies painfully clearly. Masterpiece.
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 | My Traitors Heart by Malan
Buy new: £4.43 / Used from: £4.18 Autobiography of a white Afrikaans journalist during apartheid in South Africa. Insightful and fascinating.
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 | Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Ralph Leighton
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.49 Fascinating collection of essays and anecdotes by a Nobel prize winning physicist.
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 | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
Buy used from: £0.86 Autobiography of a girl brought up in a dirt poor white family in Africa. A new perspective.
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 | The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £1.67 Didion clear-eyed recounting of the year after the sudden death of her husband.
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 | Mrs.P's Journey: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Created the A-Z Map by Sarah Hartley
Buy new: £3.00 / Used from: £0.01 Interesting and light read about the building of the A to Z empire.
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 | Things My Mother Never Told Me by Blake Morrison
Buy new: £4.03 / Used from: £0.01 Morrison's intimate knowledge of the "characters" shine through in his book.
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 | Under the Eye of the Clock: A Memoir by Christopher Nolan
Buy used from: £4.47 Brilliant autobiography of a young man with cerebral palsy. Although he has no speech, language floods out of him.
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 | The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Interesting and well written insight into a family dominated by the patriarch.
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 | Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
Buy new: £3.75 / Used from: £2.00 Engrossing collection of letters.
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 | Before I Say Goodbye by Ruth Picardie
Buy used from: £0.01 Exceptionally moving collection of letters by a journalist and young mother dying of breast cancer.
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 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Buy new: £3.01 / Used from: £0.01 Fascinating story of her early life by one of America's great women of letters.
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