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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307394873Author Kitty KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357g

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Dyson has become a byword for high performing products, technology, design and invention. Now, James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life. Famously, over a...

Drawn from diaries, correspondence and from memory, Maggie, Eileen and Me is a highly personal account of one man's journey as he assumes responsibility to care for his mother and aunt, who both succumbed to dementia within a relatively similar time...

"My parents had to try for eighteen months to conceive me, but my father was adamant he wanted one last child. After eighteen months of trying, my mother eventually conceived and nine months later I was born. My birth was a difficult one. It was...

Inspired by Sarah DiGregorio's harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, Early is a compelling and empathetic blend of memoir and rigorous reporting that tells the story of neonatology - and explores the questions raised by premature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906972083Author Denley OwenFormat PaperbackImprint Carmarthenshire Antiquarian SocietyPublisher Carmarthenshire Antiquarian SocietyWeight(grams) 700g

For the first year of his solitary confinement in Beirut, Terry Waite was given nothing to read. During those days, not only did he write his autobiography in his head, but he also attempted to remember all the books, poems and prayers he had read during...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905379262Author Chavoret JaruboonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Maverick HousePublisher Maverick HouseWeight(grams) 232g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999993504Format PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Estuary PublishingPublisher Estuary PublishingWeight(grams) 130g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909477186Author Gabriella GillespieFormat PaperbackPage Count 369Imprint Clink Street PublishingPublisher Clink Street Publishing

Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Rhode Island Teen Book Award 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780060856267Author Loung UngFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher...

When Tim Henman strides out to play on the hallowed grass at Wimbledon, dedicated hordes of fans go mad. Henmania regularly sweeps the nation - right up to Buckingham Palace, where the legendary player received an OBE in July 2004. He is among the Top...

Johnny Herbert was one of the most brilliant natural talents to emerge in motor racing, but for all his bravery and prowess, he's lucky to be alive. After becoming British Junior Karting Champion (losing part of a finger in the process), then the Formula...

Louis Greig, a war hero and rugby international, entered the privileged world of the British royal family as mentor, physician and friend to a young and hesitant Prince Albert. Greig's influence helped to guide the prince from a stammering, shy schoolboy...

The definitive, intimate, no-holds-barred biography of Johnny Cash. People don't just listen to Johnny Cash: they believe in him. But no one has told the Man in Black's full story, until now. In Johnny Cash: The Life, Robert Hilburn conveys the...

Team of Rivals is a brilliant, multi-million selling biography, now the inspiration for a major Stephen Spielberg film starring Daniel Day-Lewis 'A wonderful book . . . a remarkable study in leadership' Barack Obama 'The most uplifting book that I have...

Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay, and some reticence creeps in.The statistics,...

'An exemplary biography of its kind - detailed, meticulous and sympathetic.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'Larkin lived a quietly noble and exemplary version of the writer's life; Motion - affectionate but undeceived about the man's frailties, a diligent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733801914Author Terry UnderwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint BantamPublisher Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House...

The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored by her millionaire father and unwanted by her Eurasian step mother. A story of greed, hatred and jealousy; a domestic dramais...

Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013. At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood at an English monastery. By the age...

Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's...

With Duran Duran, John Taylor has created some of the greatest songs of our time. From the disco dazzle of debut single 'Planet Earth' right up to their latest number one album All You Need is Now, Duran Duran has always had the power to sweep the world...

***If you loved Alan's first memoir - Look Who It Is! - then his follow-up, Alanatomy, will take you further into the hilarious and bizarre world of the country's favourite chatty man.*** 'As laugh out loud as his TV shows' Daily Mirror It must seem...

In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. Drawing not only on interviews...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER Like A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers worldwide... In 2016, Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, unexpectedly stumbled across a little stray dog while...

'Did Clara taste salty when I kissed her? She did. She tasted of mermaids, of the sea.' Love Like Salt is a deeply affecting memoir, beautifully and intelligently written. It is about mothers and daughters, music and illness, genes and inheritance,...

The fascinating royal and social history that inspired Seasons 2 and 3 of The Crown, written by the show's historical consultant.In this incredible companion to the second and third seasons of Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595365982Author Ted OkudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

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Michael Showalter's brainy, hysterical first book combines funny anecdotes, stories, jokes, humor pieces, observations, lists, graphic elements and personal memoir into a remarkably cohesive narrative. This book will be an adventurous journey into the...

Tony Abbott came to the prime ministership lauded as the most effective leader of the opposition since Whitlam. Why then did he fail to succeed in the job to which he had aspired for decades?Frontbenchers leaked about cabinet processes to the media while...

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Scottish aristocrat, rebellious youth, expert horseman, club-man, MP and poet beneath the image of rake and hell-raiser, Adam Lindsay Gordon remained a conservative, frustrated with his failure to achieve the success he had expected from life. He...

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