Biography & Autobiography

Remember when we hit it off so well that we decided We're Going to Need More Wine? Well, this time you and I are going to turn to our friend the bartender and ask, You Got Anything Stronger? I promise to continue to make you laugh, but with this round,...

Through the eyes of publishing icon Michael Denneny, this cultural autobiography traces the evolution of the US's queer community in the three decades post-Stonewall. The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s have been captured in...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most...

The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) burst onto the art scene in the summer of 1980 as one of approximately one hundred artists exhibiting at the 1980 Times Square...

Agatha Christie's widower's recollections of his archaeological triumphs and life with Agatha. In these informal, often witty and always interesting memoirs, Sir Max Mallowan tells the story of his life, from his boyhood at Lancing where he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981254Author Ronald C. White, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

'No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593237182Author Barry LevineFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

By the time Eunice Gayson played James Bond's girlfriend Sylvia Trench in "Dr No" and "From Russia With Love" she had already become one of the first reality TV stars. Her leading men included Sean Connery and Roger Moore, and at the height of her fame...

Learn from Kellie Gerardi What It's Like to Be a Female Astronaut"Kellie is probably one of the best ambassadors for spaceflight in the 21st century that the industry could have." Lucy Hawking, author of George's Secret Key to the Universe and host of...

'Full of smugglers tales, childhood memories and the real-life struggles of living on a remote island.' - Touring Tales ***'In the January dark, a young man walks slowly into the sea. He can't see where he is going, but he knows the island is calling.....

'A natural storyteller with a Sedaris-like eye for black humour. There are sharp splinters of comic relief ... compelling and nuanced." Edel Coffey, Irish Times Quick-witted, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in pubs all over Cork City,...

In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family story alongside the history of her favourite childhood pastime - the jigsaw. The result is an original and moving personal history about...

As the longest serving royal consort in British history (1921-2021), this fully-illustrated guide celebrates Prince Philip's remarkable contribution to the monarchy. A strong character full of vigour and verve, he found himself married to the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644450314Author Wayetu MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 163mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101903841Author Melissa RiversFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown ArchetypePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke, the subject of his...

You could argue that Dennis Amiss' seven-decade cricket career started the day he was born, when his parents named him after not one but two celebrated cricketers.Or maybe it started when he was 7, sneaking into the Birmingham Cooperative Society to play...

Ken Scotland was born on 29 August 1936 within sight of Heriot's Goldenacre ground, which he would go onto grace with great panache and skill several years later. A prodigious talent at fly-half while at school, he was converted into a full-back...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869691Author Ernest TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance Books

Billy Graham Was the World's Best-Known Evangelist-Loved and Admired by Millions. But Very Few Knew Him Personally. Pastor and bestselling author Greg Laurie was one of those fortunate few, blessed with an insider's view of Billy Graham's...

The authoritative Beethoven biography, endorsed by and produced in close collaboration with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, is timed for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn,...

Roy Orbison emerged as an artist alongside his Sun Records contemporaries in the early days of rock 'n' roll. He did not possess the good looks of Elvis Presley or the everyman toughness of Johnny Cash nor did he conduct wild-child stage antics like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239865Author The Freedom WritersFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Joe Cocker is a rock legend. A gas fitter who went from playing Sheffield pubs to the stadiums of the world, he was the man who no one - not even himself - expected to survive the age of 30. Now, approaching his 60s and having recovered his life and...

Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and the British Society for the History of Science Hughes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525564393Author Art GarfunkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with Jimi Hendrix. He brought a Bohemian and jazz outlook to the 60s rock scene, having honed his drumming...

The essential account of R. Kelly's actions and their consequences, a reckoning two decades in the making. In November 2000, after receiving an anonymous fax that alleged R. Kelly had a problem with "young girls," journalist Jim DeRogatis broke a...

'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .'Gerald Durrell's accounts of the animals he...

Mark Urban tells the story of ten exceptional generals who left their mark on Britain, the British Empire, and the world. Some - including the Duke of Wellington, Lord Kitchener and Bernard Montgomery - are names etched in the national mythology. Others...

Is the COVID-19 pandemic now a distant memory, and did you wonder what all the fuss was about? It was life-changing for Allen Yates and his family, a story that they will never forget.. During the height of the pandemic, Allen Yates contracted a...

In nineties small-town Surrey, watching Top of the Pops was Malcolm's only escape from boredom and the bullies at school... until a phone call from a pop star changed his life forever. Before long, he was getting compliments from Beyonce, hanging out at...

This volume is a critical companion to the works of Herta Muller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. Muller (1953-) is a Romanian-German novelist, essayist and producer of collages whose work has been compared with that of W.G. Sebald and...

A major biography-intimate, gripping, revelatory-of an artist who revolutionized American comedy. Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his family's brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege. He took to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632060242Author Grace TalusanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books

Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961), as well as being one of the pioneers of psychology, is one of the most controversial of thinkers: in spite of being largely responsible for the introduction of now-familiar psychological terms such as 'extrovert' and...

Wild Dances: My Queer and Curious Journey to Eurovision For fans of Crying in H Mart and Priest-daddy; How a misunderstood queer biracial kid in small-town Georgia became a Eurovision Song Contest commentator; A memoir combining race, glitz, glamour,...

A fascinating look into the business and lifestyle philosophy of Jason Kingsley OBE, CEO of Rebellion. Rebellion is one of the world's most successful independent games developers and also a film and TV production company and publisher. Combining his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195374766Author Tariq RamadanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams)...