Biography & Autobiography

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983616Author Dakota MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)...

Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority...

What makes a good education? 'A crucial book of the moment: the best-informed education insider laying out how schools should work' David Bodanis In a brilliant blend of memoir and manifesto,...

Richard III is England's most controversial king. Forever associated with the murder of his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, he divides the nation. As spectacular as his death at Bosworth in August 1485 - the last king of England to die in battle - the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275424Author Brad MatsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She...

The moving story of an Irish immigrant's life, from a poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland to becoming a captain of industry, After the Roof Caved In is a powerful, poignant look at how hard work and education enabled one young man to change his life...

Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography. The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914366222Author George Edward BramleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Maple PublishersPublisher Maple PublishersWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443163Author Katalin KarikoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

'Beautifully told, this book brings a fascinating and compelling story to a wider public. A "must read" for those interested in women's lives in the past.' - June Purvis, Professor (Emerita) of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth,...

"Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?" Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. "Money and power," she would say. It was a lesson neither would ever forget. They followed in their mother's...

The first biography to examine Mailer's life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of America from the end of World War II to the election of Barack Obama. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of...

The Bear Is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muscogee Creek Caretaker of Sacred Ways is considered a love story between Bear Heart and a community that stretches across the globe. This book celebrates the life, teachings and legacy of Marcellus Bear...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398420830Author James 'Jock' WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524759216Author David ChangFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 561gDimensions(mm)...

Palmer, a long-time friend of Bruce Lee and one of his youngest martial arts students, recounts Lee's early years, when he would train a multicultural group of local toughs in empty parking lots and backyards around Seattle. Palmer spends a summer with...

"A profound and uplifting account of Robert F. Kennedy's brave crusade for racial equality. This is narrative history at its absolute finest, with RFK squarely at the center of the 1960s civil rights movement along with Martin Luther King Jr., James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851514512Author Arnold DallimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint The Banner of Truth TrustPublisher The Banner of Truth Trust

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615190324Author Bill TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440223733Author George JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic BooksWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 106mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593358412Author Evanna LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

"This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world. It begins in 1917, in Lebanon, when I was seven years old." So opens this haunting memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, who eloquently describes her personal experience of the...

'This is a wonderful, rather special book: funny, warm and loving but also thought-provoking and deeply moving. Absolutely unforgettable - ironically.'ADAM KAY, Sunday Times bestselling author of This Is Going To HurtInadvertent cross-dressing...

In his important evaluation of the theological leader of the English Reformation, G.W. Bromiley charts Cranmer's doctrinal views, scriptural interpretation and liturgical composition. His nuanced position on various controversial issues of the day, not...

Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. In a turbulent world marred by civil war, Edward, 4th Duke of York-with good title to the throne-overthrew...

Nominated for the Chortle Comedy Book Award 2023'Blisteringly well written, deeply humane and very funny' Daily Telegraph'Enough to make you die laughing' Daily Mail'Funny and moving' Daily ExpressWhether he's initiating a coup d'etat against new...

'Masterful research, impeccable detail, with a beautifully flowing narrative of which Churchill himself would have been proud.' - Professor Peter Caddick-Adams From his earliest days Winston Churchill was an extreme risk taker and he carried this into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528911498Author Tom WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZEIn the year before her death, as she struggled with an untreatable illness, Cory Taylor began to write about her experiences, the patterns of her life, and of those she had lost. Dying is about vulnerability and...

A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true...

For the last 25 years Jonathan Veira has been a star of the world of opera, handling a wide range of character parts as a comic baritone. A virtuoso musician and delightful raconteur, with skills on keyboard and guitar, he also tours with an extremely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914671534Author Scholastique MukasongaFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

In AD 453 Attila, with a huge force composed of Huns, allies and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire, was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France), then still nominally part of the Western Roman Empire. Laying siege to Orleans,...

Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a significant part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last. She was the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II (and two other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554738Author Les BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 540g

Clint Edwards, beloved author of Father-ish, Silence is a Scary Sound, and I'm Sorry... Love, Your Husband, returns with a new book unpacking the challenges and struggles of living with mental illness. Where Clint's previous books centered on his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528977302Author Dr Patrick TreacyFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398401020Author Tony BeddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035805556Author Beth HindleFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...