Personal Memoirs

'Rigorously researched, The Lost Cafe Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that also chronicles the wider story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire... It distinguishes itself...

"I just feel better now Sox is here. Before, I felt like I wanted to die. I couldn't even go to parties. Then Sox came along. It feels like our hearts are connected - I love him so much." TobyWhen Toby Turner was excluded from school for the third time...

"I just feel better now Sox is here. Before, I felt like I wanted to die. I couldn't even go to parties. Then Sox came along. It feels like our hearts are connected - I love him so much." TobyWhen Toby Turner was excluded from school for the third time...

My Life in His Paws is the story of the amazing dog who gave back someone's freedom and confidence. Wendy Hilling has a rare skin condition which means her skin is very delicate. Every moment is difficult and causes pain. It affects the body inside and...

'Funny and honest dispatches from the world of modern dating' Vogue'Bushnell's voice is as knowing and sharp as ever' Washington Post'Bittersweet, amusing and well observed' Viv Groskop, Guardian'Fuelled by chilled rose, Sex and the City scribe Candace...

Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell's Angels, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'A phalanx of motorcycles came...

'Woodward's story is one of the most important of recent years...heartbreakingly powerful' THE TIMES'Harrowing, brave, hugely important book' HENRY WINTER'Haunting' SUNDAY TIMESSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL AWARD AND THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372747Author Salka ViertelFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

From the author of The Savage God, a unique memoir of growing old, and a lesson in not going gently into that good night The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best...

The beautiful full-colour New York Times bestselling book, filled with stunning photography, written by the yoga instructor who inspires more than two million followers on Instagram every single day.Part self-help and part memoir, Yoga Girl is an...

'I was married at twenty and a mother of three by twenty-three ...When I look back at the first three years of my marriage, I wonder how I lived through it.' When it was published in 1915 No One But a Mother Knows provoked a sensation - for the first...

From the author of Sunday Times bestsellers One Child and Ghost Girl comes a heartbreaking story of a boy trapped in silence and the teacher who rescued him. When special education teacher Torey Hayden first met fifteen-year-old Kevin, he was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406163Author Cosmo LandesmanFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 534gDimensions(mm) 230mm...

Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up, defying and eventually being cast out of his community, he could not find his way to a life in which he wasn't locked in a daily struggle with Him. Foreskin's Lament is a...

'Poignant ... A meditation on life, love and the importance of nature' IRISH TIMES When they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave New York City and move to Christine's ancestral home in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354224218Author Farah BashirFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 332gDimensions(mm) 220mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377780Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

A remarkable Holocaust memoir, a powerful testament to human courage and fortitude, for readers of Edith Eger's The Choice.'This memoir is heartbreaking.' Elie Wiesel, author of Night'Profoundly observed... remarkably lived... ferocious bravery.' New...

A remarkable Holocaust memoir, a powerful testament to human courage and fortitude, for readers of Edith Eger's The Choice.'This memoir is heartbreaking.' Elie Wiesel, author of Night'Profoundly observed... remarkably lived... ferocious bravery.' New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997024876Author Steve ForbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint PfpPublisher Pfp

*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award**Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize**Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018**A Sunday Times Book of the Year*Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first...

An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves   In Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta,...

The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. It begins on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the history books, and it ends on the day...

The third title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flower farm on the coast of Cornwall. This book takes a closer look at some of the animals who shared the...

The third title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flower farm on the coast of Cornwall. This book takes a closer look at some of the animals who shared the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bark was named a winner of the 2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize 2018 and Longlisted for the 2018 PEN Translation Prize 2018.Book InformationISBN...

The warm, funny memoir of Gregor Fisher, the much loved Scottish actor best known for Rab C. Nesbitt, told as he uncovers his dramatic family history. Growing up in the Glasgow suburbs, Gregor was 14 when he asked where he was christened and...

The Line Becomes a River meets Tell Me How It Ends in this book about translation, storytelling, and borders as understood through the United States' "immigration crisis." Alejandra Oliva is Mexican American, her family lineage defined by a long and...

The poor boy who made his fortune . . . not just once but twice.Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his mother was forced to steal bread to feed her starving children. Life...

It is the middle of the Swinging Sixties, and Clive James doesn't have much to show for it. May Week Was In June is the third hilarious, tender instalment of memoir from the iconic author, poet and broadcaster.'Nobody writes like Clive James' -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620860178Author Stefan BrozinFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Screenworld Pty LtdPublisher Screenworld Pty LtdWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414371221Author Josh McDowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Following Atticus is Tom Ryan's moving true story, of a man and his remarkable dog.Tom Ryan is a middle-aged, overweight, no-nonsense newspaper editor. But when Atticus M. Finch, a Miniature Schnauzer, arrives, he is forced to question everything about...

Following Atticus is Tom Ryan's moving true story, of a man and his remarkable dog.Tom Ryan is a middle-aged, overweight, no-nonsense newspaper editor. But when Atticus M. Finch, a Miniature Schnauzer, arrives, he is forced to question everything about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952106330Author Richard PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Redwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Redwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Get to know a national icon in Eddie Izzard's hilarious and dazzling autobiography'Comic genius . . . Entertainment incarnate' Telegraph______Star of stage and screen. Tireless supporter of charity. Marathon runner. Political campaigner.Fashion icon...

Get to know a national icon in Eddie Izzard's hilarious and dazzling autobiography'Comic genius . . . Entertainment incarnate' Telegraph______Star of stage and screen. Tireless supporter of charity. Marathon runner. Political campaigner.Fashion icon...

For years, Daniel Smith suffered from bouts of acute anxiety, extended episodes without any apparent cause that seized control of his body and mind, leaving him an emotional wreck. Sleep was impossible and headaches and nausea haunted his days. Anxiety...

'A must-read for anyone moved by the power of song' - Lesley Garrett, CBESinging has always been there for us, at the root of what it is to be a human being. Through personal anecdote and scientific fact-finding, this book celebrates the way song...

The full, true story of the dog featured on the cover of Clare Balding's HEROIC ANIMALS____________________ The incredible true story of Sherlock, the brave dog with a nose for saving lives. Firefighter Paul Osborne works with the Fire Investigation Dog...