Personal Memoirs

A nostalgic tome dedicated solely to subjective recollections of the thrilling drama of a cinema manager arranging cinema usherette rotas and checking choc-ice deliveries might not be expected to attract many readers. Yet weird stuff kept happening to...

Aled Jones, a choirboy with a remarkable voice, achieved more as a teenager than many adult singers do in a lifetime. His prodigious talent propelled him to international stardom; before he was 16, he had already sold more than 6 million records and had...

Max and Vicky Hardcastle, newcomers to the beautiful Yorkshire village of Ramsthwaite, are finallly settled into their tumble-down old farm. But their new rural life doesn't always go to plan, for whether Max is plotting to get the better of rival...

#SaffronBarkerVSRealLifeIn world of airbrushing and perfectly constructed social media lives, one girl is battling to make it through completely unfiltered (well, almost). Immerse yourself in Saffron Barker's wonderful, comical, and often challenging...

Dot May Dunn grew up in Derbyshire, the daughter of a miner, during the wartime years. In 1951 she joined the NHS as an early recruit and went on to train as a nurse. Dot's books are full of wonderful anecdotal insight into the life that she has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982111984Author Karamo BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 135mm *...

SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2022Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six and living in Germany when she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. She began holding secret meetings in...

In April 2021, Colette set off from Lizard Point in Cornwall with the aim of running to Scotland's most north-westerly corner, Cape Wrath Lighthouse. A distance of one-thousand miles. This book tracks her progress gives personal insights into the...

How one man's struggles with self-Identity and detransition lays challenge to the very foundations of the "gender ideology" movement. While documenting his own personal identity struggles with gender and self-identity, British K-Pop singer Oli London...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593444047Author Gracie GoldFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451628395Author Ronald ReaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 848gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

'In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times' Gary Younge, GuardianA powerful, radiant memoir from writer Charlotte...

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRE'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial TimesFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carre has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911374015Author Elizabeth KinderFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Flood Gallery PublishingPublisher Flood Gallery Publishing

Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, Amazon Woman shows what incredible feats we are capable of and will encourage people, especially women, across all backgrounds and ages to find the courage and strength to live the life they've imagined. This 148-day...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of US National Book Award for Non-Fiction 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780812993547Author Ta-Nehisi CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House...

'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. LeeNina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993021596Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood

'A 21st-century Nora Ephron' Stephen May'Witty, hilarious at times, poignant' Alyson Feltes, writer, OzarkPRINCE CHARMING? HAPPILY EVER AFTER? CHILDHOOD FAIRY TALES ARE FULL OF PROMISES, BUT THE REALITY - LIFE - IS A VERY DIFFERENT STORY. AND THAT STORY...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556436451Author Emilie ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Determined to take on the Nazis, Texan Bill Ash joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1939 and in so doing sacrificed his citizenship. Before long, he was sent to England wherehe flew Spitfires. Shot down over France in March 1942, he survived the...

With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD'Warm, witty, imaginative . . . A rich and winning book' NEW YORKER 'Devilishly funny and academically solid: delicious mixture' MAYA ANGELOU'One of the greatest writers of our time' TONI MORRISONFirst published in...

Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, Be My Baby is the true story of how Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ronnie Spector carved out a space for herself against tremendous odds amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene...

Afterword by Alzheimer's Research UK. 'Shobna Gulati is the Northern heroine of a nation' - Lemn Sissay'Lucid and probing' - Guardian'Wonderful and emotional, a masterpiece of resilience.' - Emma Kennedy Remember Me? is a memoir about caring for a...

Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known...

Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known...

The Prison Psychiatrist's Wife is a gripping true story of a Herculean project. Sue Johnson's psychiatrist husband Bob, recruited to work with notorious offenders at Parkhurst Prison, sets out to discover whether he can change dangerous and violent men...

'Vanessa Nakate continues to teach a most critical lesson. She reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm, we are not all in the same boat.' - Greta ThunbergNo matter your age, location or skin colour, you can be an effective activist...

'Hugely entertaining and inspiring' The Sunday TimesOne of The Sunday Times' 100 biographies to loveThe inspirational and colourful memoir of Michael Volpe, the general manager of Opera Holland Park. The son of Italian immigrants, he and his brothers...

On the coldest morning of the year, Vicki Myron found a tiny, bedraggled kitten almost frozen to death in the night drop box of the library where she worked, and her life -- and the town of Spencer, Iowa -- would never be the same.Vicki was a single...

Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange as China'. In this extraordinarily moving exploration of his parents' lives, his mother's inexplicable suicide in her late...

Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange as China'. In this extraordinarily moving exploration of his parents' lives, his mother's inexplicable suicide in her late...

Sally Urwin and her husband Steve own High House Farm in Northumberland, which they share with two kids, Mavis the Sheepdog, one very Fat Pony, and many, many sheep. Set in a beautiful, wild landscape, and in use for generations, it's perfect for...

The raw, relatable call-to-arms memoir, breaking the silence on postnatal depression - from the bestselling author of Animals and Adults 'I am so grateful for this beautiful, honest book. It has helped me immeasurably' Pandora Sykes 'I loved this...

In the early 1970s, Rex and his brother Kevin were believed to be the last orphans to be transported to Australia under the Child Migrants Programme, which began in the 1930s and was thought to have ended by 1967.With a promise of a better life and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408573Author Nicholas RoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

** Saga Magazine 'Life Story' competition winner**From the streets of London to the Welsh countryside, evacuee Iris Simantel tells of her desperate search for somewhere to belong in Far From the East End.Born in 1938 under threat of looming war, Iris...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394555287Author Donald J. TrumpFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm)...

'Full of heart.' Michael Harris, author of SolitudeBeing alone isn't something to endure - it's something to relish.________The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone. Yet research suggests we aren't very good at using, never...

The fourth in a series of true short stories from foster carer Mia Marconi. Kira first came to foster carer Mia Marconi's home on respite care when she was three. She had suffered an unimaginable amount of abuse in her short life. Although she...