Biography & Autobiography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514007341Author James Bryan SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 348gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593129753Author Manjit ThappFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Cassoulet Confessions is an enthralling memoir by award-winning food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar that reveals how a simple journalistic assignment sparked a culinary obsession and transcended into a quest for identity. Set in the stunning southern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578631384Author Susan Johnston GrafFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 340g

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*A captivating and inspiring guide to building an untouchable empire from mud to marble, no matter what obstacles stand in the wayRick Ross is a hip-hop icon and a towering figure in the business world, but his path to success...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531355Author Georgina HowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Sarah Crichton BooksPublisher Sarah Crichton BooksWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm)...

First published by Gollancz, then by Balnain, Maxwell's Ghost is a classic account of the life and achievements of Gavin Maxwell, whose work and beliefs have attained an almost mythical status. Maxwell's Ghost caused a stir when it was published in...

'Jim Fraser has been at the forefront of forensic science in the UK for decades... A superb story of real-life CSI.' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes'Powerful... Fascinating' Independent Most murders are not difficult to solve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576581452Author Janet BengeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint YWAM Publishing,U.S.Publisher YWAM Publishing,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802422842Author Ray Rhodes Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Moody PublishersPublisher Moody Publishers

Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned fifty. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about myth or narrative: rather, it is...

Birmingham's Front Line offers a fascinating and unique insight into police culture and the problems faced by those on the thin blue line during a tumultuous time in Britain's second city. Containing accounts from the author and his former colleagues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800747951Author Griff GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based The Greengage Summer on her recollections of her family's 1923 battlefield-tour manque in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385471992Author Michael AzerradFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399562266Author Mark HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The Prophet Muhammad taught the word of God to the Arabs. Within a generation of his death, his followers - as vivid a cast of heroic individuals as history has known - had exploded out of Arabia to confront the two great superpowers of the...

The highly anticipated first book from award-winning comedian, writer, producer and actress, Amy Schumer. In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy shares stories about her family, her relationships, her career, good - and bad - sex,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781952177941Author Grace M. ChoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Feminist Press at The City...

#1 New Release in Inclusive Education and LGBT Studies A celebration of the LGBT communityReaders of The ABCs of LGBT by Ashley Mardell and Queer: A Graphic History by Dr. Meg-John Barker will love We Make It Better, a quintessential LGBT book. LGBT...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667839974Author Jordan TomaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyWeight(grams) 163g

Llewelyn Wyn Griffiths Up to Mametz, published in 1931, is now firmly established as one of the finest accounts of soldiering on the Western Front. It tells the story of the creation of a famous Welsh wartime battalion (The Royal Welsh Fusiliers), its...

'Poignant and fiercely intelligent, this is the best work of creative non-fiction I have read in years' FIONA MOZLEY'Profound, moving and courageous' NICHOLAS ALLEN, IRISH TIMESIn April 1931, modernist poet Hart Crane arrived in Mexico City. Between mood...

Whether it was a swashbuckling footballer whose style earned him the nickname Crazy Horse, or as a television quiz show captain who rubbed shoulders with royalty, Emlyn Hughes never did things by half. This book looks at the life of the legend who carved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984863003Author Ai WeiweiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Our image of the civil servant has been implanted indelibly in our minds by Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister. But as this fascinating and important memoir tells us, the real life of the mandarin is very different. With disarming candour, delightful humour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Award 2022 and Pulitzer Prize 2023 and The National Book Critics Circle Award - Autobiography 2022. Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for...

Once the darling of the Left, British journalist Melanie Phillips was "mugged by reality" to become a controversial champion of national and cultural identity. Guardian Angel is that rare memoir that grabs you by the shoulders with an urgency that...

How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the two finest fishermen in the world - he takes a peaceful pleasure from the rivers and ponds of his country...

Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528993241Author Robin JennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034209Author Peter PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

'Full of charm and fascination' The Bookseller'Would dazzle any storyteller in love with words and their deepest meanings' Amy Tan, author of Joy Luck Club'A generous book and a beguiling read' Rebecca Gowers* * * * * *From the bestselling author of Born...

9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, water boarding and Guantanamo are examples of its profound and far-reaching effects. But despite its numental impact--and a deluge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496453273Author Jodi BensonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

An extraordinary memento of a life-changing moment in history, artist Vic Lee's visually stunning, graphic novel-style personal diary chronicles his experience of the coronavirus pandemic as it unfolded. With beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and...

A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media. When Les Hinton first fulfils his schoolboy dream of working on Fleet Street, it is still a place awash in warm beer, black...

The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white...

The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love and warmth. From modest beginnings as a local reporter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486284996Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...