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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728305318Author SadiyyahFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 186g

In 1971, the author and her family moved into a historic home known as the Fontaine Manse. Two days after moving in, she and her husband had an extraordinary experience that left them with no doubt that unseen residents occupied the house too. This is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715626399Author D. H. LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co LtdPublisher Duckworth OverlookWeight(grams) 76g

With an Introduction by Dr Angus Calder. The 22-year old James Boswell first met Johnson, who was then aged 54, in 1763. Nine years later he wrote in his journal of his `constant plan to write the life of Mr Johnson'. Boswell was tireless in his search...

Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling. It was time for a change of career. So he wrote two best-selling books, became a sports...

'I am the first disciple of Charles Fort. Henceforth I am a Fortean' Since Ben Hecht wrote this line in reviewing The Book of The Damned in 1919, Charles Fort - whose very name spawned an adjective, Fortean, defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465005123Author Bernard LovellFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Basic BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams) 1590g

BL One of the most popular and highly-praised books on Mozart's life and personality Basing his biography on the verifiable facts and on Mozart's many letters, Wolfgang Hildesheimer penetrates the legend that began to envelop the composer soon after his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780434599226Author Anthony PowellFormat HardbackImprint William Heinemann LtdPublisher CornerstoneWeight(grams) 162g

Da Chen was born in 1962, in a town over 50 hours' train journey from Beijing. Here, he draws a vivid picture of his childhood, boyhood friendships, the beauty of the Chinese countryside and the madness of the cultural revolution.Book InformationISBN...

This true story tells of the hardship endured by a Moroccan family incarcerated for 20 years by King Hassan II of Morocco; punished for a crime perpetrated by their father.Book InformationISBN 9780385601245Author Malika OufkirFormat HardbackPage Count...

In this sequel to her acclaimed biography of T.S.Eliot, Lyndall Gordon continues her exploration of the ties between Eliot's work and the events and relationships which influenced it. T.S.Eliot's search for a new life after the traumatic break-up of his...

Peter Medawar was an extremely succesful scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1960. Nine years later, at the age of 54, he was crippled by a cerebral haemorrhage. This is his widow's story of her life with Sir Peter. It provides an insight into the life...

Peter Medawar was an extremely succesful scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1960. Nine years later, at the age of 54, he was crippled by a cerebral haemorrhage. This is his widow's story of her life with Sir Peter. It provides an insight into the life...

Written to her sister Cassandra and other near relatives and intimate friends, this selection of almost one-third of Jane Austen's surviving letters makes a delightful introduction to her life and work. Although they rarely mention her novels, the...

In this powerful and honest memoir, Laurie Matthew takes the reader with her as she revisits her childhood in 1950s and 1960s Dundee. Raised in a home which consisted of an emotionally neglectful and physically violent mother, a distant father, a...

During the last six years of her life, the philosopher, feminist, novelist and author of the landmark work, "The Second Sex", gave Deirdre Bair her unqualified co-operation and time. In interviews, she provided new insights and material that...

When your husband (or wife, in Denis Thatcher's case) becomes Prime Minister, and the doors of No.10 close behind you, every aspect of life is suddenly changed. This was what Cherie Booth discovered. Intrigued, Cherie and social historian Cate Haste set...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780007776917Author Toni MaguireFormat Hardback

A compilation of some of the most well-known speeches of modern times. These speeches span the years 1940 - 1987. Among others listen to Winston Churchill's First Radio Address As Prime Minister, John F Kennedy's Inaugural Address and Richard Nixon's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909757998Author John WaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint Melrose BooksPublisher Melrose BooksWeight(grams) 246g

Roman Halter is an optimistic and boisterous schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family gather behind net curtains to watch the Volksdeutsch neighbours of their small town in western Poland greeting the arrival of Hitler's armies with kisses and swastika...

Katie Price, former glamour model Jordan, is back with the most sensational installment of her life story. The last three years of Katie Price's life have been as dramatic as ever. From the highly publicised divorce from Alex Reid to the romance and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901927351Author Ian ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Route PublishingPublisher Route Publishing

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He had been strongly advised against doing so. At 12,000 square feet, the ceiling represented one of the largest such projects ever attempted; and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580626590Author Antonia FelixFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Adams Media CorporationPublisher Adams Media CorporationWeight(grams) 476g

In September 2012, a Yougov poll conducted in Britain found that the person British workers would most like as their manager was Sir Richard Branson. With over 40 years in business, Richard Branson is an inspiring pioneer of humanitarian projects and an...

Hospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS. Amy Hoffman, a writer, lesbian activist, and former editor of Gay Community News, chronicles with fury and unflinching honesty her experience serving as primary...

The author of the Somerset Maugham award-winning The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing, and the brilliant biography Life In A Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford, Laura Thompson turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to arguably the greatest...

This is the combined life story of Mick Foster and Tony Allen, revealing how these most unlikely of stars toured the world and entered the record books. A charming narrative told with heaps of Celtic charm, it is filled with nostalgic reminiscences about...

Books by Western specialists have compiled many observations and facts about the headhunters of Borneo, but the culture has never before been described from the inside, by an indigenous person born and reared in the rain forest listening to the stories...

'He crashed on to the pillow next to me, heavy as a felled oak. I slapped His face and told Him to wake up. Our daughter, B, appeared in the doorway, woken up by the screaming - I must have been screaming but I don't remember - and she was crying and...

Ronnie is snooker's most written and talked about player, and its greatest showman. His supreme talent and style have made him the People's Champion and, as one commentator put it, 'the question is not how much does Ronnie O'Sullivan need snooker, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753197165Author Elizabeth BowtellFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint ISIS PublishingPublisher ISIS Publishing

Louise Luiggi's Come to the Table is a highly original memoir of the author's journey towards a passion for food - which ultimately led to her running her own restaurant. Focusing on the French influence that changed her eating patterns - a...

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered...

An illustrated volume of letters from around the globe (plus one from beyond the grave), written to George Bernard Shaw together with his witty and unpredictable replies. George Bernard Shaw calculated that he could have written about twenty more plays...

When Peter DeLeo set out one Sunday morning on a sightseeing and photography trip over the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California, he had no idea that he would soon be fighting for his life with the odds stacked very much against him. DeLeo's...

We could ride our bikes and not worry about cars or lorries. Our food was fresh and locally-grown, and bodily we were allowed, nay even encouraged, to catch every available ailment to ensure we built up our immunities. Nothing was wasted. Even the...

This is the story of the Venerable Palden Gyatso who, in 1992, was released after 33 years of incarceration in Chinese prisons in Tibet, and fled to India, bringing with him tales of his torture. The book begins with his early childhood, his ordination...