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The book contains eleven dramatic and often horrifying stories, each describing the life of a different prisoner in the camps and prisons of communist Albania. The prisoners adapt, endure, and generally survive, all in different ways. They may conform,...

Following "Drawn From Memory", this is the second volume of memoirs by the artist of "Winnie the Pooh" and "The Wind in the Willows". It describes Shepard's experiences through school, his student days and his marriage to a fellow art student shortly...

A Times Biography of the Year Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that still influence our lives today. And all men and women who experienced,...

In But Enough About Me, legendary film actor and Hollywood superstar Burt Reynolds recalls the people who shaped his life and career, for better or for worse. From Robert Altman, Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood and Robert Mitchum to Bette Davis, Marlon...

A Times Biography of the Year Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that still influence our lives today. And all men and women who experienced,...

Charlie's earliest memory at two and a half was listening to his dad batter his latest girlfriend in their Scottish tenement flat. Beaten and tortured by a violent alcoholic father in 70s' poverty-stricken Dundee, Charlie's early life was one of poverty...

Charlie's earliest memory at two and a half was listening to his dad batter his latest girlfriend in their Scottish tenement flat. Beaten and tortured by a violent alcoholic father in 70s' poverty-stricken Dundee, Charlie's early life was one of poverty...

May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But still, ordinary life goes on: May goes shopping, plays tennis, takes holidays and even falls in love - while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922454683Author Peter JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint ArcadiaPublisher Australian Scholarly Publishing

James O. Fraser was only twenty-two when he abandoned a promising career and went to China. Living among the people of the Lisu tribe, he felt an immediate affection for them, and for the rest of his life he laboured to bring them to Christ and to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385920Author Anthony BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 197mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845278694Author Alwyn Harding JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg GwalchDimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm *...

A The Times & Sunday Times Literary Nonfiction Book of the Year'Fascinating... Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing' Sunday Times'Gripping... A story well told.' New York Times Book ReviewFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020In 1971...

'An enjoyable anthem to friendship' Hephzibah Anderson, Observer'Hugely enjoyable . . . Modern-day readers can thank the ambitious, complicated, funny, brave women of the Mutual Admiration Society' Anna Carey, Sunday Business Post'A tribute to that...

Packie shows how fraught with danger quitting a terrorist group can be, especially where they're a category apart in prison (consider the H-blocks or Guantanamo). Yet, even in that dark place, God was waiting for David, whose story details his journey...

"It'd be easy for me to go back to my old life, but I know where that old life leads you. You're either behind prison bars or six feet underground." Terroll Lewis has lived a crazy life. Growing up on Brixton's Myatt's Field estate, he was surrounded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707254Author Steven WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035836468Author Trevor MansellFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote The Natural History of Selborne (1789), he created one of the greatest and most influential natural history works of all time, his detailed observations about birds and animals providing the...

A Brimingham Backstreet Boyhood is a fascinating, funny and poignant recollection of the experience of growing up in the slums of Nechells and Aston. All the harshness of daily life is remembered here by local author Graham Twist. Despite hard living...

Previously published as Nujeen The story that is inspiring the world. Read about Nujeen who escaped the hell of war in Aleppo and travelled to Europe in a wheelchair. ...

When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and discovered that "every vice was permissible and every trade possible" in a Caribbean fleshpot of mafia-run casinos...

ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FARCHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF 2023A NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS EDITOR' S CHOICE'Essential reading as a human.' - Alex Marzano-Lesnevich'Chilling and vital. . . sensitive and...

The inspiring true story of one man's treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona-and the path that led him home. Ousman Umar is a shaman's son born in a small village in Ghana. Though his mother died giving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642556858Author Aleister CrowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Scott WildePublisher Scott WildeWeight(grams) 948gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786885916Author Linda GreenlawFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

John Richardson draws on the same combination of lively writing, critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and personal experience which made a bestseller out of the first volume and vividly recreates the artist's life and work during the crucial decade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615542393Author H E DaveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Michi PublishingPublisher Michi PublishingWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *...

The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Herge, worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Herge, of Tintin and his origins, and beyond to when President de Gaulle...

'In the last couple of years I realised that, as one of the last witnesses, I must speak out.' Tomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust, gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp. He was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991934Author Gwenllian EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 19mm

The amazing autobiographical account of the youngest ever solo circumnavigation of the Earth. First time in English! If you want to see the other side of the world, you can do two things: turn the world upside down, or travel there yourself. In 2012,...

WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE 2006 Anthony Burgess has always attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is admired for his literary novels, but known to a wider audience as the author of the ultra-violent shocker, A Clockwork Orange...

For many, T. Rex founder Marc Bolan remains forever frozen in time as the poster boy of glam, the pop-rock genre he effectively launched with his March 1971 Top of the Pops appearance to promote 'Hot Love', the band's first number one single. To see...

'My husband died, my life collapsed.' On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398440371Author Derek HoughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Brought up as a Christian, Marina Nemat's peaceful childhood in Tehran was shattered when the Iranian Revolution of 1979 ushered in a new era of Islamic rule. After complaining to her teachers about her Maths lessons being replaced by Koran study, Marina...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800744547Author Graeme Forbes-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of Fragrant Harbour and Capital, John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his mother's time as...

Edward Burra (1905-76) was an English painter who is best known for his paintings of the seedy underworld of urban life. Yet, as this fascinating new monograph on his work reveals, his interests were much broader, incorporating landscape and still-life...