Buy biography books and memoirs online in Kenya, from Michelle Obama's Becoming and Wangari Maathai's Unbowed to Phil Knight's Shoe Dog. Browse autobiographies, political lives, medical memoirs and Kenya stories at EYS, then add your picks to the basket and order online.
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Brown Baby : A Memoir Of Race, Family And Home
Kshs 1,750.00 -
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Can I Let You Go?
Kshs 750.00 -
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Chris Hoy: The Autobiography
Kshs 840.00 -
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Colour Bar : The Triumph Of Seretse Khama And His Nation
Kshs 1,200.00 -
Colour Bar : The Triumph Of Seretse Khama And His Nation
Kshs 2,300.00 -
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Conversations On Love
Kshs 1,900.00 -
Conversations With Myself
Kshs 4,000.00 -
Coolie Woman
Kshs 2,200.00 -
Cruel To Be Kind
Kshs 1,100.00 -
Crying In H Mart
Kshs 1,800.00
Biography books and memoirs we stock
Our shelves hold real lives told by the people who lived them and by their biographers. Pick the kind of life you want to read about.
Political and public lives
Becoming is Michelle Obama’s memoir, and Dreams From My Father traces Barack Obama’s Kenyan roots. Conversations With Myself gathers Nelson Mandela’s private notes and letters.
Kenya and Africa stories
Unbowed is Wangari Maathai’s autobiography. I Dreamed of Africa and The Flame Trees of Thika are set in Kenya, as is the wartime escape No Picnic on Mount Kenya.
Business and career stories
Shoe Dog tells how Phil Knight built Nike. Hit Refresh is Satya Nadella’s Microsoft memoir.
Medical and personal memoirs
When Breath Becomes Air is a young neurosurgeon’s memoir of terminal illness. Admissions looks back on a brain surgeon’s final years of operating.
Music, sport and screen lives
Will is Will Smith’s memoir, Rod: The Autobiography follows Rod Stewart, and Unstoppable is Maria Sharapova’s tennis story.
Survival and refugee stories
Nujeen follows a Syrian teenager’s wheelchair journey to Germany, and The Last Girl is Nadia Murad’s memoir of captivity and escape.
How to choose
A biography is written by someone else from research and interviews, while an autobiography or memoir is told by the person themselves. Choose a memoir for a personal voice and a biography for the wider picture.
For more reading, see our history books, self-help books and business books.
