Biography & Autobiography

Limited to 1000 copies, this Hardback book with slipcase contains an exclusive compilation CD and a certificate signed by Damo Suzuki himself. When the anarchic vocalist of Can left the celebrated German band in late 1973, the ensuing decade-long...

Authorised by the Marriott family. Steve Marriott, lead singer of the Small Faces and Humble Pie, had a voice coveted by Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey and David Bowie, amongst many others. All or Nothing, Simon Spence's oral history...

'What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I'd learned about at school.'OLIVIA COLMAN Channel the feminist power of mythical goddesses in this witty, inspirational gift book. 'Wonderful.' CERYS MATTHEWSWhether it's the Norse warrior...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980520Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolutionEnchanted by Daphne is legendary ecologist Peter Grant's personal account of his remarkable life and career. In this revelatory book, Grant takes...

This tender and personal memoir by the poet Joanna Ramsey of George Mackay Brown gives an account of some aspects of the last eight years of his life in Stromness, Orkney, and of the friendship between them. It also provides a background to his poem 'A...

Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging...

In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah, which opened a Pandora's box. Haunted by nostalgia for a bygone era, he recalled a protected and idyllic childhood in the fabled...

Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal development during wartime Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir's Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to a scandalous text that threatened to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525659297Author Toni MorrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 173mm * 132mm...

Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063268630Author Marie YovanovitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 454g

For nearly 700 years debate has raged over the true nature of William Wallace and his role in Scotland's turbulent history. Was he the Braveheart of Blind Harry's legendary account, the bold, but savage, hero of the Scottish wars? Or, as some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905139149Author Marc ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Helter Skelter PublishingPublisher Helter Skelter PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954312114Author Palmer Gerald MarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Magna PressPublisher Magna PressWeight(grams) 224g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354472855Author Wendy DonigerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private LimitedPublisher Speaking Tiger Publishing Private...

The best way to understand Congressman Ron Paul is to take a look at his voting record. He has never voted to raise taxes. He has never voted for an unbalanced budget. He has never voted to raise congressional pay. He has never taken a...

A bestseller in Germany, Michael Wieck's account of his childhood in Konigsberg recalls a German city obliterated by fire-bombing during the Second World War. As the child of a Jewish mother and Gentile father, Wieck was percecuted first as a ""certified...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062699794Author Martha HodesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights, the sword versus the shield. The struggle for Black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While...

THE "FEARLESS ...VIVID ...FAST-PACED ...AND INSPIRING"* NATIONAL BESTSELLER (*ROLLING STONE) "Heavy metal's leading female rocker (Rolling Stone) bares all, opening up about the Runaways, the glory days of the punk and hard-rock scenes, and the highs...

Many people have written biographies of Charles Darwin, but the story of his family and roots in Shrewsbury is little known. This book, containing original research, fills that gap. The key player is Charles' father, Dr Robert Darwin, a larger-than-life...

The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening...

Toward the end of his administration (2010-2015), then Uruguayan President Jose 'Pepe' Mujica made headlines across the world with a couple of unusual speeches at United Nations assemblies in Rio de Janeiro and New York that were heatedly...

"To venture to the road meant entering a dangerous world in which high-handed and overbearing vans and hard uncompromising lorries thundered past the narrow pavement that we had to walk on. The road, though our neighbour, was not a being we felt kin to...

The extraordinary autobiography of novelist Marina Jarre, tracing her identity and relationships through a turbulent era of European history. 'Beautifully ingenious' Vivian Gornick 'Her masterwork' New York Times 'Rich and lyrical... Jarre's...

Jason Meyer highlights the life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, regarded as one of the most powerful preachers of the twentieth century, teaching us the importance of the union between doctrine and life.About the AuthorJason C. Meyer (PhD, The Southern Baptist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061230974Author John GuntherFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800993310Author Dyfed Elis-GruffyddFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147516220Author Damien EcholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 354g

Now in paperback, this posthumous work by an American classic was a fitting last book, an instant bestseller, and a huge success!One of the undisputed heavyweight champions of American comedy, with nineteen appearances on the Johnny Carson show, thirteen...

Instead of a traditional written diary, Julia Kaye has always turned to art as a means of self-reflection. So when she began her gender transition in 2016, she decided to use her popular webcomic, Up and Out, to process her journey and help others with...

He, Leo investigates the life and work of Beat poet Lew Welch in a chronological fashion, structured around Welch's own notion of how three main aspects of his life-The Man, The Mountain, and The City-were interdependent and how they informed the others...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984536139Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Elite Minds, IncorporatedPublisher Elite Minds, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 741g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (Adult Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780312674151Author Mara ShalhoupFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407378Author Jeff PearlmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 28mm

An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood. Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639659Author Jon MelrodFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358701491Author Neil KingFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 160mm * 36mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760787721Author Belinda DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Macmillan AustraliaPublisher Pan Macmillan AustraliaWeight(grams)...