Five Non-Fiction Books YOu Have to Gift This Holiday Season
This holiday season, give the gift of learning something new with these five memoir and biographical titles from the Mobius list that anyone will love to find under the tree or in their stocking! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be inspired, and you’ll definitely learn something new:
Tall Tales and Wee Stories:
Celebrate the illustrious career of one of Scotland’s finest comedians, Billy Connolly, with Tall Tales and Wee Stories! This riotously funny read brings together the best of Billy’s storytelling for the first time and features some of his most famous routines. You’ll feel like you’re sitting in one of the folk clubs in Glasgow, listening to Billy tell you his wee stories.
2. Adventures of a Young Naturalist:
Travel the world with a young Sir David Attenborough in Adventures of a Young Naturalist. Trek in search of giant anteaters in Guyana, Komodo dragons in Indonesia, and armadillos in Paraguay. Attenborough’s trademark wit and charm will hook you from page one. And if you’re feeling inspired, pre-order Attenborough’s next book: Journey’s to the Other Side of the World.
3. Death in Ten Minutes:
You likely don’t know of Kitty Marion, but you should. Historian Dr. Fern Riddell presents her story in Death in Ten Minutes: The Forgotten Life of Radical Suffragette Kitty Marion, where you’ll hear in Kitty’s own voice the dangerous and revolutionary actions that she took to secure women’s right to vote and ability to have access to birth control. Told thought never-before-seen personal diaries, this story sheds a whole new light on the women’s movement and will leave you thinking: Why has the life of this incredible women been forgotten? And why, one hundred years later, are women suddenly finding themselves under threat again?
4. He:
He, while more historical fiction than purebred biography, has everything you’re looking for from the genre: a tender story of love and partnership nestled in the height of the Golden Age of Hollywood. John Connolly brings comedian Stan Laurel to life in this biography about his successful and oftentimes complicated partnership with Oliver Hardy. The spare prose and poetic flourishes make this story fly by, and the inside look at Laurel and Hardy will keep you captivated from the first chapter to the very last page.
5. The Tour According to G:
The winner of the 2018 Tour de France (and the first Welshman to ever win the tour), Geraint Thomas, gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the captivating, heartwarming, and inspiring story behind his win in The Tour According to G. With insight from the key characters around Geraint to stories from the man himself, this is the inside-story of one of the most thrilling and heart-warming tales in sports.