Biography & Autobiography

In 1994, twenty-year-old Gunjan Saxena boards a train to Mysore to appear for the selection process of the fourth Short Service Commission (for women) pilot course. Seventy-four weeks of back-breaking training later, she passes out of the Air Force...

"[Daniel Pauly] is an iconoclastic fisheries scientist ... who is so decidedly global in his life and outlook that he is nearly a man without a country."-NEW YORK TIMES "Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years."-TED DANSON ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354227394Author Shankar AcharyaFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 415gDimensions(mm)...

This gripping insider's account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria's national liberation movement to combat her country's French occupiers. When the movement's leaders turned to Drif and her female...

This is the powerful memoirs which an ailing Dmitri Shostakovich dictated to a young Russian musicologist Solomon Volkov. When it was first published in 1979 it became an international bestseller. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new foreword...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451621389Author Susannah CahalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

"Since Spencer's Mountain I have followed Earl Hamner's career with much interest and much satisfaction, having picked a winner." -Harper Lee, author of To Kill a MockingbirdEarl Hamner, one of America's best-loved storytellers, has never been the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957618169Author Geoffrey McMullanFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Pathway-UKPublisher Pathway-UKWeight(grams) 127g

One man's voyage through life It's the late 1960s - a decade of Mods and Rockers; Beats and Hippies and full of peace and love. Aged seventeen, John Cooke ventures out on the roads, hitch-hiking around the UK. On the South Coast, he gets caught up...

Following Cardinal Basil Hume's death on 17 June 1999, The Times concluded his obituary with a remarkable accolade: 'Few churchman in this century, inside or outside the Catholic Church, have died more deeply loved.'Basil Hume served as Cardinal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035807987Author Guy NewmountainFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Few entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we live, but Ray Kroc is one of them. Hisrevolutions in food service automation, franchising, shared national training and advertising have earned him aplace beside the men who founded not...

'A gloriously enjoyable read from start to finish' - Daily Express'Here's a book to savour' - Mail on SundayMiles Jupp (News Quiz presenter, star of Rev, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and The Thick Of It) delves into the mind of his comedy creation Damien...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533088Author H. L. MenckenFormat HardbackPage Count 750Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...

'A sense of delight permeates Gyles Brandreth's John Gielgud: An Actor's Life ... Brandreth combines neat reportage, deft evocation and lovely tales about a man he knew and relished.' - The Times'A delightful memoir which tells you all you need to know...

Written in taut, mesmerizing, often hilarious scenes, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals from the aughts, Jessica Hopper chronicles her time as a DJ, living in decrepit punk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990467519Author Anthony ValerioFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Anthony ValerioPublisher Anthony ValerioWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-born artist, poet, writer and polymath who emigrated to America as a...

1501: the turbulence of Henry VIII's reign brings passion and pain to the Morlands as they achieve ever greater wealth and prestige. Paul, great-grandsom of Elanor Morland, has inherited the Morland estates, and his own Amyas is set to be his heir. But...

Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was thirteen and, believing they were directives from God, followed them - to the French court, to battle to wrest France from the English in the Hundred Years War, and to...

National bestseller 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection An intimate and poignant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476748412Author David MaranissFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

One of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt built a coalition of labour, ethnic, urban, low-income and African American voters that underwrote the Democratic Party's national ascendancy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Over his four...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061961410Author Dyan CannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970047080Author David CalcanoFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Fantoons LLCPublisher Fantoons LLC

In this brilliant, groundbreaking biography, twenty years in the making, James H. Jones presents a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Jones shows that the public image Alfred Kinsey...

“A must read for anyone who wants to understand the new American way of war.”  — General Michael V. Hayden, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency A former special operations member takes us inside America’s...

The producer behind such celebrated films as The Four Feathers and The Third Man is one of the most colourful and important figures in the history of the British cinema. This gripping biography tells how with extraordinary ambition, enterprise and...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 3 Scholastic Set: 05 Title: Sail to the Reef With Me Focus: ee igh oa Tricky words: we are the to and of I into Book Band: Red This title is part of a brand new set of...

Towards the end of September 1918 the Allied armies were poised to seize the Hindenburg Line - the end of the war on the Western Front was at last in sight. These final days became a series of battles to capture a number of river lines: as each one was...

Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, tells the shocking, "shot through with sharp humor" (The Washington Post), spiritually profound story of his journey through hell and back when infidelity threatens his marriage.One...

An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world's greatest and most successful magician, capturing its audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art form's most famous artifacts housed at David Copperfield's...

In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from...

For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing memoir of a woman - a writer - in the midst of motherhood,...

'I want to be in the company of her frank intelligence forever' Nigella LawsonIn our mothers' day there were good mothers, indifferent mothers, and occasionally, great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers: If you work, you're neglectful; if you stay...

A greatly romanticised era of history, the Tudor period kick-started one of the most significant shifts in British culture ever to occur. When the notorious Henry VIII began his hunt for a male heir it led to momentous changes: the British Crown breaking...

At nineteen Bieke Vandekerckhove fell ill. The diagnosis was devastating: the fatal motor neuron disease ALS. Life expectancy: two to five years. So what did she do with the paltry bit of life that was left? By force of circumstance she was led to Saint...

Eirene White's The Ladies of Gregynog tells the story of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, inheritors of great wealth at the end of the nineteenth century, and unique among their wealthy contemporaries in the early twentieth century. The two sisters...

The story of one young African boy's journey to UK Premiership soccer stardom.From the Zambian plains to Wembley, this is the story of the boy who was born to be a Bluebird. Earnie follows Robert Earnshaw's journey from the Zambian village where he was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398484603Author John Walker PattisonFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers