Personal Memoirs

'A really important book' RAYNOR WINNFrom relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish,...

At twelve years old, Lev Parikian was an avid birdwatcher. He was also a fraud, a liar and a cheat. Those lists of birds seen and ticked off? Lies. One hundred and thirty species? More like sixty.Then, when he turned fifty, he decided to right his...

Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy-Lee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy...

'Searingly self-aware and sharply funny, Emma John takes the cliches about being a single woman and blows them apart with unforgettable originality.' - Hadley Freeman'Fabulous. Made me well up twice. Honest, vulnerable and all those great things.' - Eva...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620403228Author Roz ChastFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449005866Author Jimmy BuffettFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)...

A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one woman's life. A unique memoir, 'Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers' is the story of how a young female film critic's love-life is affected and nearly...

A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one woman's life. A unique memoir, 'Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers' is the story of how a young female film critic's love-life is affected and nearly...

A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up. Claudia's mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from jumping off a bridge. Her father...

'Not all Essex girls are party girls. They can be sages, martyrs, leaders. In her neat and provocative little book, Sarah Perry celebrates their courage and vivacity.' Hilary Mantel A defence and celebration of the Essex Girl by the best-selling...

This is the captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful house in Sicily." For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne Phelps has extended her English charm and warm hospitality...

In the award-winning "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit", Lucette Lagnado offered a heartbreaking portrait of her father, Leon, a successful Cairo boulevardier forced to take flight with his family during the rise of the Nasser dictatorship,...

Far too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Black women's eloquent rage is...

This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational, intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of her life, her friends, her triumphs and mistakes. ...

The remarkable autobiography of the last great wartime icon. Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn's career was set from an early age - along with her father, who also did a 'turn', she sang in Working...

A chance to move to the US Wild West allows TV presenter Philippa Forrester to fulfil a lifelong dream of living among and learning all she can about wolves When Philippa Forrester and her nature-loving family moved to the wilds of Grand Teton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN/Heim Award 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781739822507Author Jingzhi ZouFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Honford StarPublisher Honford Star

A parent's deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' - Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatWhen Carolyn Hays's child made...

As he works his way through his medical training, Ike Anya's grandmother reassures him, 'Everything worthwhile is achieved small by small.' Small by Small charts the triumphs and failures of Ike's student days through to his first demanding year as a...

Haunted by memories of a Tanzanian childhood abruptly ended when her parents were deported, Jane Bryce returns in search of the past only to be ambushed by the present. As she retraces her own and her parents' footsteps she is surprised by unexpected...

A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush. Eric Newby's life of travel began in 1919, on pram-ride adventures with his mother into the...

Adrian Bleese spent twelve years flying on police helicopters, and attended almost 3,000 incidents, as one of only a handful of civilian air observers working anywhere in the world. In Above The Law he recounts the most intriguing, challenging, amusing...

Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, Anya von Bremzen grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns...

'Nobody goes to restaurants for nutritional reasons. They go for experience, and what price a really top experience?'What price indeed? Fearlessly, and with huge wit and knowledge and verve, award-winning food writer Jay Rayner has searched the world for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993561344Author Karen RowlandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint ARC PublishingPublisher ARC PublishingWeight(grams) 268g

Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s - why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever. For Hadley Freeman, American moves of the 1980s have simply got...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593497357Author Emma LovewellFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE**By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose...

'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair, use a scalpel to nick the skin then apply an electro-cautery device to burn down to bone level. It's a slow, precise method and it leaves almost no...

Ever wondered what it's like living with a brain that's trying to kill you? If you've struggled with an eating disorder, you'll know exactly how that feels. This book follows an ordinary girl on one of the most extraordinary and difficult journeys of her...

'A most magnificent, beautifully written memoir' - Nina Stibbe'Deft, witty and profound . . . had me turning the pages all night' - Jessie BurtonJean Hannah Edelstein was looking for love on OKCupid the night she lost her father. She had recently moved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993204494Author Glyn BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Ignite BooksPublisher Ignite Books

Red Odyssey: Liverpool FC 1892-2017, is a uniquely affectionate and often deeply moving history of one of the greatest sporting institutions on the planet. Born in the fire of boardroom conflict and launched into the humble surroundings of the Lancashire...

A Whore's Profession brings together, for the first time, David Mamet's acclaimed volumes of notes and essays, including, The Cabin, Writing in Restaurants, Some Freaks and On Directing Film. Poignant, intimate, insightful and witty by turns, these...

You might have heard the saying 'you're in a pickle' meaning you're in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the road influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs, and spoken by vagrants and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534719Author Henry JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 722g

My Chemical Romance is the most significant band in alternative rock in the last decade. Inspirational, original, and stunningly creative, they forged an extraordinary connection with their fans. Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Whiting Award for Non-Fiction Selected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick 'I loved it' Kate Tempest 'Astounding' Roxane Gay 'A sledgehammer' New York Times Heart Berries is a powerful,...

Including Homage to Catalonia'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, GuardianGeorge Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495035111Author Norman HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...