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_____________________________'If you've ever felt like you were out of your element, in over your head or working without a net, you will love this book. Funny, fast-paced, and so emotionally true it hurts.' Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253830Author William S BurroughsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Jeanine McMullen was a BBC producer in London when, some ten years ago, she went to Wales on assignment. There she fell in love--with Wales, its people, and most of all with the farm that, on an impulse, she decided to buy. In this delightful volume she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345527271Author Matthew GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of forty, T.S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. Forsaking the Unitarianism of his American forebears, he was received into the Church of...

The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of Books as one of the most brilliant critics writing in America today, Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has...

Conde Nast's life and career was as high profile and glamourous as his magazines. Moving to New York in the early twentieth century with just the shirt on his back, he soon became the highest paid executive in the United States, acquiring Vogue in 1909...

'The book amounts to a comprehensive literary history of the time.' David Sexton, Evening StandardVolume 5 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot finds the poet, between the ages of forty-two and forty-four, reckoning with the strict implications of his Christian...

'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus GBP300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens. Then again it might not. But hope...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish Non-Fiction at the Shalom Australian Jewish Book Awards. 2024 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781957363707Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062206237Author Peter HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper Perennial

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573833769Author Malcolm MuggeridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Regent College Publishing,USPublisher Regent College Publishing,USWeight(grams)...

Candace Bushnell gets personal in her new memoir - an investigation into what happens when a woman of a certain age (ok, let's call it 'middle') finds herself not-so-young, free and single in the city.MILFs, cougars, love, sex, divorce - Candace's...

CNN Anchor Alisyn Camerota’s memoir Combat Love is her story of growing up longing for stability and attachment as the foundation of her family crumbled. Set on the Jersey Shore in the free-range 1980s, Camerota finds the belonging she craves courtesy of...

Take a peak behind the curtain of some of the biggest publishing moments in the past several decades with forty-year industry veteran John Sargent.Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher is the well-told story of forty years in the...

Glamorous "Vogue" magazine editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is the most powerful style-maker in the world. She influences designers, wholesalers, and retailers globally from Seventh Avenue to the elegant enclaves of L:Avenue Montaigne. And every month...

`Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children' Sunday Express Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality. Cometh the...

In early 2014, after many years living abroad, Sam Miller returned to his childhood home in London. His father was dying.In the months after his death, Sam began to write about his father. He had been told, long ago, a family secret involving his parents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140270013Author Jancis RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476762951Author Joan Juliet BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

'Equal tells a personal story that changed the public debate' Guardian'[An] absorbing account . . . she laces her tale with mordant humour' Financial Times'A gripping personal story told with warmth and wit, combined with a 'how to' guide for anyone who...

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photographer, and Frances...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 1998 and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and YALSA Best Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780679457527Author Jon...

For over thirty years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories in the world for ITN and Sky News. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman he has witnessed first-hand some of the most significant events of our times, including the Iraq War, during...

How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II "A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today's right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are unavoidable."-Matthew Pressman, Washington Post "A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036616Author Ruth ReichlFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *...

'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary' Helen Davies, The TimesThis journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999439507Author Bernard CrickFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

During the upheavals of 2007-9, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot...

Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels-including Still Life With Woodpecker,...

'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of the Year'Magical . . ...

'Jolts like jump-leads to the complacent heart ... an eye-opener. MIRIAM LORDFOR FOUR DECADES, JUSTINE MCCARTHY'S FEARLESS JOURNALISM AND COMMENTARY HAS HELD POWER TO ACCOUNT AS SHE, IN HER OWN WORDS, 'GREW UP ALONGSIDE MY COUNTRY'.The book opens with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648914228Author Jessica MuddittFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Jessica MuddittPublisher Jessica MuddittDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 17mm

A crusade to find a killer becomes a gripping, intensely personal investigation into a shocking cold case and the radicalization of a terrorist. In September 2011, Erik Weissman and two friends were murdered in a brutal triple homicide in Waltham,...

The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary.The talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and numerous others. But Maxwell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501191718Author Ben BradleeFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

On 13 November 2001, John Simpson and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul and the liberation of the Afghan capital was broadcast to a waiting world. It was the end of a sustained campaign against the Taliban, a campaign that Simpson had covered from the...

Betsy Prioleau's biography of Gilded Age female tycoon Miriam Leslie is "an appropriately twisty tale of someone trying to outrun her origins. . . . Her story sparkles, as intoxicating as a champagne fountain that somebody else is paying for" (New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2006. Short-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Young Adult) 2010 and Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book...

From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world.A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey...