Biography & Autobiography

In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton watched horrified as the grinding ice floes of the Weddell Sea squeezed the life from his ship, Endurance. Caught in the chaos of splintered wood, buckled metalwork and tangled rigging lay Shackleton's dream of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451416391Author Rita MorenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CelebraPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250013774Author Emmanuel CarrereFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm *...

Popular culture mirrors the human soul and it can't lie about the state it is in-which is what makes it an essential guide on the quest for self-knowledge. Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist is a series of autobiographical explorations...

One Way Out is the definitive biography of The Allman Brothers Band, written with the band's full participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. Updated with material on their...

'On the last day of 1959 my father, the Beau Brummel of morticians, piled us into his green and white Desoto in which we looked like a moving pack of Salem cigarettes. He drove away from Lanesboro, the city in which we all were born, and into a small...

Julian Rushton jumps right into the debate with this fascinating and readable history, dispensing with the myth, conjecture ,and popular iconography that frequently distorts our notions of what Mozart and his times were really like. What emerges is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418870Author Simon MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 172mm *...

The title of 'duchess' has long been part of Britain's heritage. In 2011, it was brought up to date with the marriage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, when the Queen conferred a number of titles on her grandson, among them Duke of Cambridge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676354Author Isabelle SeddonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney and a...

Effortless humour and bucketloads of charm. It's impossible not to be bowled over by the ending. Most definitely my favourite celebrity memoir in a long time. Brilliant. - The SunThe **Sunday Times bestselling** memoir from the star of I'm a Celebrity...

When British journalist Matt Roper and Canadian country singer Dean Brody turn onto a remote Brazilian highway, they have no idea that their lives are about to change forever. A chance encounter with a young girl, selling her body beside the road in the...

From Elizabeth Bishop's introduction: 'When I first came to Brazil, in 1952, I asked my Brazilian friends which Brazilian books I should begin reading ... They frequently recommended this little book, "Minha Vida de Menina" ... In English the...

At the time of Elizabeth II's accession, Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harry S. Truman was President of the United States and Joseph Stalin still governed the Soviet Union. It has often been said that she never put a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528993258Author Robin JennerFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746308Author David WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

From his early days in establishing United Scientific Holdings PLC as a multi-million pound listed company to his sudden transformation into a senior civil servant as Chief of Defence Procurement at the invitation of Michael Heseltine the then Minister...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910461532Author Denis MacShaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Claret PressPublisher Claret PressDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 73mm

A beautifully illustrated exploration of the music, inspiration and cultural influence of BTS - K-pop's global superstars!"The Beatles for the 21st Century" - BBC BTS have exploded onto the global music scene with their distinctive brand of music,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451655599Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307590619Author George W. BushFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 799gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147509772Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 135g

A Hungarian Jew who lived and worked in half a dozen European countries before arriving in Britain in 1935, Pressburger's reputation rests on the series of strikingly original films he made in collaboration with Michael Powell under the banner of The...

BARONESS COX OF QUEENSBURY was appointed a Life Peer in 1982. A former deputy speaker of the House of Lords, she is a tireless advocate for international human rights. She visits the most forgotten people in the world - often in highly dangerous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941026915Author Philip ConnorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Cinco Puntos Press,U.S.Publisher Cinco Puntos Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Justyn Rees Larcombe had it all. Around his beautiful home were the mementoes of success - the Sword of Honour awarded by the Queen when he left Sandhurst; the silver photo frames with the pictures of his much loved wife and family; the rooms full of the...

A comprehensive blended print and digital English programme for Years 1 to 6, Oxford International Primary English offers a clear and coherent literacy and language course with inspiring and culturally diverse content that puts each child at the heart of...

for SABar and piano This sensitive, authentic arrangement of a well-known Yiddish folksong introduces singers to the harmonic characteristics of Yiddish music. Clapping and body percussion is employed to great effect, and a pronunciation guide and...

Criminal Fraud and Election Disinformation is about the state's approach to fraud and distortion of the truth in politics, especially during election campaigns. Deliberate mischaracterisation of political opponents and their policies has always been a...

Th e troubled reign of a fourteenth-century sultan of Delhi helps dramatize the crisis of secular nationhood in post-Independence India. A twelft hcentury folktale about 'transposed heads' offers a path-breaking model for a quintessentially 'Indian'...

If there is one room in your house that deserves a little luxury, it is the bathroom. Whether we like to talk about it or not, the time we spend in the bathroom is precious. It's where some of our most intimate moments take place. So not only should it...

Brutal and beautiful, Stray is the true story of a girl who runs away and finds herself.After growing up in a dysfunctional and emotionally abusive home, Tanya Marquardt runs away on her sixteenth birthday. Her departure is an act of rebellion and...

In this exhaustive and insightful reference text rock writer and cultural critic George Case details the key names dates figures and features of one of the biggest and most mythologized rock-and-roll groups of all time: Led Zeppelin. Here finally ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574781649Author Florence TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Black Classic PressPublisher Black Classic PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982195151Author Nadia Caterina MunnoFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 237mm *...

From Anthony Bourdain to Cat Cora, Julia Child to Wolfgang Puck, Chef Legends Alphabet is an A to Z of kitchen kings and queens. Delectably illustrated and written with zest, this book is sure to satisfy the appetite of budding cooks of all ages. Bon...

The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the...

"Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life."The Times A lavishly illustrated...

The first full-length study dedicated to Schoenberg's life and music in the United States, Schoenberg's New World dispels many myths and fills significant gaps in the existing literature on Schoenberg. Drawing on much new information, the book traces...