Biography & Autobiography

The book behind the BAFTA award-winning film. Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction and the Boardman Tasker award. Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner,...

I can move only with the aid of barrels of anti-inflammatory gel, sticking plasters and real ale anaesthetic. Martin and I descend from hours of walking to the small town of Middleton-in-Teesdale. I walk, stiff legged, into the campsite office and a...

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643138558Author Monte BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 138mm * 20mm

'Sick of all your clothes? How to detox your wardrobe and feel yourself again' - Metro 'Farmer's upbeat, no-nonsense guidance is particularly useful if you're feeling stuck in a sartorial rut.' - RTE Lifestyle'Kat Farmer believes clothing can be a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394728995Author Simone De BeauvoirFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644280638Author Christian Flake LorenzFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Rare Bird BooksPublisher Rare Bird Books

An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story.A Sunday Times...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400051434Author Shaun AssaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

'I saw that ship sink, I never closed my eyes. I saw it, I heard it, and nobody could possibly forget it. I can remember the colours, the sounds, everything. The worst thing I can remember were the screams.' EVA HART This is the amazing story of how...

'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood ... A masterpiece.' Rachel Cusk Giving Up the Ghost is the shocking and beautiful memoir, from the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light ...

You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story. I thought it 'out-Dickens' Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man's rise from his humble beginnings in...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous...

Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever been told from the perspectives of the women who were...

'Of course I'm a f**king hooligan, you pr**k. I am a hooligan...there I've said it...I'm a hooligan. And, do you know why? Because that's my f**king job.'In 1995, a film called I.D., about an ambitious young copper who was sent undercover to track down...

A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's early space programme.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY'What is it,' asks Tom Wolfe, 'that makes a man willing to sit...

THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing...

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Blue Remembered Hills is Rosemary Sutcliff's memoir of her childhood, youth and her first love affairs. It's a classic of perfect writing about her close and not always easy relationship with her bipolar mother, life in the naval dockyards where her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990619925Author Tom RubythonFormat HardbackPage Count 602Imprint Myrtle PressPublisher Myrtle PressWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm * 51mm

'Full of uplifting advice, practical wisdom and kind intelligence: I certainly felt more fabulous after reading it.' Elizabeth Day'An encouraging and exhilarating celebration of ageing. Full of life-wisdom for mind, body and spirit.' Victoria...

From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George IIGeorge II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was thirty-one. He had a terrible relationship with his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977927910Author Doug WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Faith, family, hard work, and second chances are at the core of every great American story. Jenny Doan has one of those great American stories.Over the last decade, the Doan family business has grown from Jenny's corner shop to become the largest...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORKER Raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to...

Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models. Fantasy took over his life, in a world of battles ruled by his teddy bear, Alan Measles. He grew up. And in 2003, an acclaimed ceramic...

Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell...

Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912777832Author Elsa LanchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912631315Author Nigel OwensFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622826087Author Fr Gabriele AmorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Sophia Institute PressPublisher Sophia Institute PressWeight(grams)...

Almost as soon as Gazza burst on to the scene at Newcastle United, the young Geordie was the centre of attention: Vinnie Jones's notorious ball-handling showed the lengths people would go to try to stop him. Then, with England on the verge of possibly...

'Explosive' Esquire 'Epic' Financial Times 'Riveting' Vanity FairSumner Redstone was the CEO of Hollywood's most influential company: the powerhouse behind Indiana Jones and Star Wars, film studios and TV production companies, a fleet of private jets and...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEChosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, HeraldWhen Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting...

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family you've never heard of . . . The perfect gift for every history lover this Christmas'A tour-de-force of Tudor history...

'Just wonderful, so funny and charming. Sam Neill's lively, lovely book made me laugh out loud' MERYL STREEPDead Calm The Hunt for Red October The Piano Jurassic ParkFor over forty years, Sam Neill's name has been a hallmark of quality. From enduring...

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - SPORT 'Incredibly moving and inspiring' Gabby Logan 'It's brilliant - I loved it' Lorraine Kelly 'Brilliant ... impressive and vividly told' The Times 'Louise is such a positive and uplifting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548119645Author Jack RosewoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham -- aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s. Markham was taken to...