Personal Memoirs

In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to a pulp and left for dead. Thirteen-year-old Njambi, fearing her assailant...

Life and death in a modern hospital, from Seamus O'Mahony, the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now and Can Medicine Be Cured? Seamus O'Mahony charts the realities of work in the 'ministry of bodies', that huge complex where people come to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439189740Author David FinchFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

An exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey   “Searching and intimate, this impresses.”—Publishers Weekly   In a shotgun house in...

'The must-read memoir' - RedWhat does it mean to become a widow at 35?In her mid-thirties Kat Lister lost her husband to brain cancer. After five years of being awife and one of being a carer, in love and in and out of hospitals, she became a widow.In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061791543Author Theresa BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 178gDimensions(mm) 134mm...

'A deeply moving and riveting memoir.' Arianna Huffington 'An incredible personal story.' Don Cheadle This spellbinding memoir opens with a woman receiving shattering news that her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578621883Author Pamela Saharah DysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Eyes Wide PublishingPublisher Eyes Wide PublishingWeight(grams)...

Claire Guest was walking her dogs when Daisy, a fox red Labrador, nudged her breast insistently and stared up into her face with her big brown eyes. Sensing something was wrong, Claire visited her GP and soon found out she had a very deep - and difficult...

Claire Guest was walking her dogs when Daisy, a fox red Labrador, nudged her breast insistently and stared up into her face with her big brown eyes. Sensing something was wrong, Claire visited her GP and soon found out she had a very deep - and difficult...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181614Author Eric SpitznagelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215g

Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This comprehensive selection...

Final Approach charts the turbulent flightpath between a jetsetting father and a planespotting son. The 1970s were the final gasp of the Golden Age of Flying. Mark Blackburn grew up amidst this fuel-guzzling splendour, with airports his playground of...

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...

In 2011, loveable ladies magnet Gary Beadle was jobless and down to his last GBP20 when he was randomly asked to be in a reality TV show called Geordie Shore. He'd never heard of its American predecessor, Jersey Shore, but with his only prospects being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316415293Author Jann S WennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 138mm *...

A captivating glimpse of Britain then and now, seen from behind the steering wheel. In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'. Their aim was to encourage readers to venture out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414371214Author Maryam RostampourFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

After 20 years working as a professional biologist, the author decided to 'retire' to the Highlands, moving with his wife to a croft at the edge of a small and somewhat inaccessible village on the west coast. This was no romantic and idealistic...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth . . . an extraordinary double story' Oliver Sacks'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780375711763Author Jack GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

He is 6ft 7in tall but Peter Crouch's height is not the only thing that makes the Liverpool and England striker different: he has a football story like no other player in the modern game. Crouch has risen from humble beginnings at non-league Dulwich...

Lady Diana Cooper had been famous from her earliest youth, the subject of gossip and adoration as the queen of the 'Coterie', an exclusive high society set. Her marriage to Duff Cooper, a rising political star, and her career on the stage and in early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993204463Author Tezz RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ignite BooksPublisher Ignite Books

'A wickedly entertaining new memoir' Daily MailAccording to the Daily Mail Ian Ogilvy was 'the undisputed star of 1970s TV as the dashing Simon Templar in Return Of The Saint'. The show turned him into a household name, causing him to be touted as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761044458Author Matt PrestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Viking AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

The memoirs of senior UK diplomat Sir Peter Westmacott, former ambassador in Turkey, France and the United States during Barack Obama's presidency. 'A highly readable account of a glittering diplomatic career' Tony Blair 'One of the most brilliant...

At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the opportunity to get off the streets for ever.Before...

Barry Cryer is a National Treasure - this is his brilliant collection of true, tall, stories from his fifty years in comedy.Throughout his career, Barry Cryer has collaborated with all the greats, from Max Miller to Tony Hancock, Bob Hope, Peter Cook and...

Barry Cryer is a National Treasure - this is his brilliant collection of true, tall, stories from his fifty years in comedy.Throughout his career, Barry Cryer has collaborated with all the greats, from Max Miller to Tony Hancock, Bob Hope, Peter Cook and...

'A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss'Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild'Extraordinary . . . both heartbreaking and life-affirming . . . you will find your heart magically expanded'Mail on Sunday'Unimaginably...

'A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss'Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild'Extraordinary . . . both heartbreaking and life-affirming . . . you will find your heart magically expanded'Mail on Sunday'Unimaginably...

'The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation- however minute. I want the encounter with a person or a work of art to change everything.'Brazen, brilliant and deeply searing, Sontag's diaries wrestle with the profound - exploring...

"I spent six decades learning how never to reveal my weakness to anyone - now it's time for change." When he was just two and a half, Barrington Sowden's mother left him and his older sister in the care of his grandparents in Jamaica, joining the...

The long-awaited and wildly entertaining memoir of the star of stage and screen, the legendary Chita Rivera-three-time Tony Award-winner, Kennedy Centers honoree, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760794347Author Gary ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint New Holland PublishersPublisher New Holland PublishersWeight(grams) 342gDimensions(mm)...

'Shearwater is sheer delight, a luminous portrait of a magical seabird which spans the watery globe' Daily Mail.'Charming and impassioned ... a rich tribute to an extraordinary bird.' Horatio Clare, author of A Single Swallow and Heavy Light.A very...

Part manual and part manifesto, Letters to a Young Doctor is a timely and passionate book to help future medical students and young doctors navigate and survive medical education and practice, presenting an unvarnished depiction of medicine as it is...

After thirty years abroad, Jonathan Cox, a Cornishman and former journalist, returns to Cornwall to study at Falmouth University, accompanied by his Swiss wife, Marlis. The Cornwall Sabbatical is a humorous chronicle of their experience as they explore...