Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062573025Author Sue Monk KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war - every scary, exciting moment - and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.'If you could choose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414312965Author Nancy GuthrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Sophie Ellis-Bextor shares her experiences, insights and reflections on men, music and motherhood.Sophie Ellis-Bextor's kitchen discos became a source of much needed escapism, catharsis and sequined joy for a swathe of the population during lockdown...

This is a book about how it feels to exist. About the moments we come off autopilot and engage fully with the world around us. The fleeting moments in which our minds and bodies connect totally to one another and to our environment. Intimate,...

"I sank to my knees in despair. Incredibly, despite being in a tropical jungle I was cold, really cold. I was shivering from head to foot. The adrenaline that had brought me this far had finally run out and I collapsed to the ground. And that's when I...

Role Models is a wild and witty self-portrait of John Waters, America's 'Pope of Trash', told through intimate profiles of his favourite personalities - some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some surprisingly middle of the road. From Esther Martin,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901702Author Mathieu LindonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

**NOW WITH AN AFTERWORD AND ADVICE FOR A NEW MOTHER**'A powerful, moving and inspiring story - it opens up a whole new world of understanding.' Esther Freud'This is wonderful. I urge you to read it. It is life enhancing and I defy you not to fall in love...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644281307Author Kristin CaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Rare Bird BooksPublisher Rare Bird Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671755140Author FISHERFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Two years ago Bernie Nolan was given the initial all-clear after a courageous battle with breast cancer. Over the moon, Bernie set about rebuilding her life and making plans for the future. Then in the summer of 2012, she was in her bedroom getting...

In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present. Candid yet...

What makes an ordinary but highly educated Englishman, with no previous military training, decide to travel and fight in one of the most brutal conflicts on the planet?Desert Sniper is an extraordinary, true account of one man's journey from well-meaning...

Behind every successful athlete is a dreamer. Mike's dream was to achieve the ultimate physical and mental state. He turned his dream into records and some remained unsurpassed for over thirty years. This book tells his story from schoolboy to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414419Author Neil PeartFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859505Author Abel PazFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 1099g

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD'This is a book to get lost in . . . A disturbing trauma narrative, it's also a work of delightfully low, pants-dropping comedy, and a learned meditation'...

When she fell pregnant in London in 1938, Jean knew that she couldn't keep her baby. The unmarried daughter of an elder in the Church of Scotland, she would shame her family if she returned to the north in such a condition. Scared and alone in a city on...

In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present. Candid yet...

THE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR AND BAFTA AWARD-WINNING FILM One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel...

******* A TIMES 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' **********Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for non-fiction***'A magnificent, meticulous and startling re-examination of a crime that haunts the world's imagination' Geoffrey Wansell, author of An Evil Love: The Life of...

'Everything you would expect of a James Naughtie book - droll, absorbing and wonderfully perceptive.' Bill Bryson'A revealing and at times spellbinding tapestry of a nation...It is thought-provoking, constantly surprising and hugely entertaining. Sublime...

'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera 'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of SpoilsWhat does it mean to be on the wrong side of history?Svenja O'Donnell's beautiful, aloof...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398486089Author Gordon NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis's exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada-a coming-of-age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a...

In her own charming, spirited, and readable style, Beatrice Wood tells us the story of her unorthodox life and her influence on 20th-century art. Rebellious, radical, and romantic, Wood (1893-1998) defied propriety to become a true national, and...

In this latest instalment of Martha Long's real-life account of abuse, deprivation and cruelty at the hands of her mother's partner and the establishment, Martha is now 16 and her time at the convent school is up. In Ma, It's a Cold Aul Night an I'm...

Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981628097Author Perry Deane YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Press 53 Carolina Classics EditionsPublisher Press 53 Carolina Classics...

Be inspired in 2020 by Ghandi's ten lessons for life.Gandhi was an icon, but what would he teach us if he were alive today? ___________In this Sunday Times bestseller, his grandson Arun reveals the ten vital and extraordinary lessons his grandfather...

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JESS PHILLIPSSoldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: these labels Emmeline Pankhurst took up and wore proudly in her long struggle for women's suffrage. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786051370Author Jacinta O'ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Red Stripe PressPublisher Orpen Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528920018Author Ellie RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'It is a clever, well-written book, and I often found myself underlining whole paragraphs as I read. ... wonderfully insightful. ... I've never read accounts of any of these texts that manage to be at once so searching and so wondrously concise, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807033302Author Danielle OfriFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952119835Author Ahmed NajiFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing

Son of Mine is a beautiful, multi-layered account of what it means to be a family. Peter Papathanasiou successfully intertwines two life journeys - his own and his mother's - over the course of nearly a hundred years, to tell the story of an astonishing...

Suzi: "Ambulance service, what's the problem?" Caller: "Help! My baby's not breathing!" When you dial 999 for an ambulance, Suzi's could be the voice you hear on the other end of the phone. Working in one of the country's busiest control rooms, it is...