Personal Memoirs

Acting wasn't a long-held childhood dream for Larry Lamb, instead his childhood memories are filled with recollections of his parents continuously fighting. His mother and father were totally mismatched, the only thing they shared in common was their...

Shaunie Henderson—wife, mother, entrepreneur, producer, and creator of the hit TV show Basketball Wives—opens up about finding love, offers advice for raising strong, smart, grounded Black children in today’s world, and reveals how to define your career...

The Sunday Times Bestseller'Honest and soul-searching' - Sunday ExpressFrom much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux comes a funny, heartfelt and entertaining account of his life and weird times in TV.______________In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Britain and the world were shocked in October 1966 by live television pictures coming from a small mining village in Wales. They showed a human tragedy unfolding after thousands of tons of coal waste fell from a mountainside onto its primary school and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035806713Author Brindley HoskenFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767915304Author J. Maarten TroostFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

'Perched on the back of a sunlit chair was something about 9 inches tall and shaped rather like a plump toy penguin with a nose-job. It appeared to be wearing a one-piece knitted jumpsuit of pale grey fluff with brown stitching, complete with an attached...

Following the four books describing his successful career as a military and civilian pilot, in Flying Past Mike Brooke gives the reader a fascinating insight into his experiences flying historic aircraft at airshows in the UK and Europe. From the highs...

Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skveres, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US the US, he knows little of the outside world. After turning on the radio, his curiosity leads him to a feverish...

'Impeccably researched and beautifully written' David Wengrow'Utterly original' Paul StrathernWhen it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and...

In late August of 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore, Pakistan when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a Taliban-affiliated terrorist group.Just seven months...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954861053Author Argita ZalliFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Sandra Jonas Publishing HousePublisher Sandra Jonas Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789198771008Author Kevin DohmannFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Kevin DohmannPublisher Kevin DohmannWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE**'You've never read a travel memoir like this before' The Sunday Times, 'Pride Culture Guide''Sweet and fun, with real emotional depth and a rousing, feisty spirit'Matt Cain***In the spring of 2012, Calum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992941802Author Will PyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint The Love and Truth ProjectPublisher The Love and Truth Project

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398404113Author Sean SheridanFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476777818Author Sadie RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Howard BooksPublisher Howard BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *...

'Urgent and vivid A serious, writerly, self-critical account of what it means to feel that, despite love and hope and good intentions, you have failed as a parent, and that the child you bore (while still eerily, painfully familiar) is lost to you. Which...

In 1981 Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune in a small village in Suffolk. It was modelled on the teachings of the famous Indian "guru", Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy and sexual...

He was our abusive father.We were just children.No one could know.Heidi was 18 when she read her little sister Chloe's diary, and discovered that they shared a terrible secret: they had both been abused by their father. After years of fear and isolation,...

From Peter Wohlleben, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, and his wife, Miriam, comes an inspired, practical memoir of creating a sustainable homestead amongst the trees.Called "a veritable tree whisperer" by the Wall...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995180710Author Cheryl B EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Cheryl B. EvansPublisher Cheryl B. EvansWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Granny worked so hard at my rearing. She was a frustrated ladysmith and I was her last chance...This is the story of my years on her anvil. Whether she succeeded in making a lady out of me is for you to decide, but I will say one thing in my own favour...

'The bombshell book everyone is talking about' DAILY MAIL 'A radio genius ... the maestro of the show' EVENING STANDARD As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular...

Peace Work is volume seven of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'The seventh and last volume of Spike...

In our deepest darkest hours, we are not alone. The spirits of our loved ones continue to exist after the body dies and many thousands of people around the world have experienced extraordinary signs from heaven to prove this. Afterlife expert and...

***Shortlisted for the 2023 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness******Winner of an RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction***'Part memoir, part howl of fury' GUARDIAN'Enrich[es] our impoverished sociological imagination' TIMES LITERARY...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944027308Author Colin EgglesfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Networlding PublishingPublisher Networlding PublishingWeight(grams)...

Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Harley is a troubled 13-year-old girl who wants to end her own life and there's only one woman who can find out why. When...

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedyWhile Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her mother, Eddress, is struggling for courage. Though bound by an indestructible love, their journey through a world that is...

'I was born in a sprawling house by the Yamuna River in Delhi. When I was a few minutes old, Grandmother welcomed me into the world by writing "Om", which means "I am" in Sanskrit, on my tongue with a little finger dipped in honey. When the family priest...

If it ever falls to you, my reader (though God forbid!) to see your name written on a prison wall and followed by the letters 'LYMTL', that will simply mean 'Love You More Than Life'. These letters are no harder to remember than 'KGB'. GREY IS THE COLOUR...

Wracked by guilt for breaking a childhood bond with her naturalist father and fearful for the future of the planet in light of the catastrophic impact of climate change, Annabel sets out on a personal journey of redemption. She seeks to reconnect with...

Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving reading but Colonel Owtrams account of his years of captivity has a special significance. After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway he...

WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2021 - SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR The hilarious trials and tribulations of stand-up comedian Paul Tonkinson as he attempts to beat the much lauded 3-hour mark at the London Marathon. Along...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310335092Author Peter HitchensFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 249g

GEORGE & TAMMY IS SOON TO BE A LIMITED SERIES-STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN AND MICHAEL SHANNON!Georgette Jones-the only child of country music's "First Couple," George Jones and Tammy Wynette-pens a memoir about life with her parents and the journey back to...