Personal Memoirs

'A book so good you'll resent finishing it' Sunday Times'The finest travelling companion we could ever have' Evening Standard 'Rightly considered to be among the most beautiful travel books in the language' IndependentINTRODUCED BY JAN MORRISThe...

Southampton is now part of a huge metropolitan area running along the south coast in Hampshire. The city has seen massive changes over the years and although its history goes back many centuries, it saw particularly rapid growth in Victorian times with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063079656Author Jenifer LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Milligan's War is the one-volume selected edition of Spike Milligan's war memoirs, published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Britain's funniest old soldier on 16 April 1988. Adolf Hitler, Monty, Mussolini, Rommel (who?) - all played their modest...

Milligan's War is the one-volume selected edition of Spike Milligan's war memoirs, published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Britain's funniest old soldier on 16 April 1988. Adolf Hitler, Monty, Mussolini, Rommel (who?) - all played their modest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995546233Author Emily RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614293163Author Brad WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

From early childhood singing in church to the rock 'n' roll limelight of Derek and the Dominos, Bobby Whitlock launched a musical journey still going to this day. Whitlock's life story does more than share rock gossip about stars like Keith Moon, George...

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...

Through the linked pieces of The Coral Sea, Patti Smith honors her comrade-in-arms Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). She tells the story of a man on an ocean journey to see the Southern Cross, who is reflecting on his life and fighting the illness that is...

Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life...

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Though her short life was vividly presented in Mister God, This is Anna, its huge success led to Fynn being inundated to write more about his experiences with her. Anna and the Black Knight introduces us to Mister John, a veteran of World War I and local...

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

From the New York Times bestselling author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES and THE INVENTION OF WINGS and her daughter comes a touching and perceptive memoir about mothers and daughters that will resonate with women of all ages.Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807073315Author Terry GallowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm *...

'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What made you do that? I couldn't find a short answer. Sometimes I said, "I had a revelation on a beach." It was partly true'The...

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of his parents - an intimate portrait of American mid-twentieth century life, and a celebration of family love ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198045Author Grace LaveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books

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Less than a year after being diagnosed with inoperable cancer, Fiona Mason's husband died at home. She was his carer. Unflinching in its detail, this book is a delicate chronicle of his last day and an account of thirty-six hours that changed her life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957096004Author Safiya HussainFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint New Age Publishers UKPublisher New Age Publishers UKWeight(grams) 284gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957096004Author Safiya HussainFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint New Age Publishers UKPublisher New Age Publishers UKWeight(grams) 284gDimensions(mm)...

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'Brimming with knowledge and experience . . . delightful' Daily Telegraph'An extraordinary book by a modern-day Melville whose deep knowledge, boundless curiosity and endearingly wry humour make him the perfect guide to the world beyond our shores' Mark...

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The Fleet Street Girls is the inspiring and evocative story of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s and 1980s as women moved up the ranks in Fleet Street for the first time. When Julie Welch called in her first ever football...

Born a stone's throw from the church and educated at the village school, Ernest Ambrose was brought up to respect God, his parents, Long Melford's two local squires and the rector. That didn't mean rural Suffolk life in the nineteenth century was...

"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...

Elvis is waiting outside in a big pink Caddy. Or rather, he would be if the dreams and fantasies of millions of teenage girls could only come true...And like so many other thirteen-year-olds, East End schoolgirl Jacky Hyams has fallen under the spell of...

Elvis is waiting outside in a big pink Caddy. Or rather, he would be if the dreams and fantasies of millions of teenage girls could only come true...And like so many other thirteen-year-olds, East End schoolgirl Jacky Hyams has fallen under the spell of...

'Absorbing . . . testaments such as Janina Bauman's are important and should never be allowed to fade away. The drama of Anne Frank is rightly always before us but the equally vital stories of those who suffered but survived need to be listened to with...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277428Author Dag HammarskjoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...

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'Always engaging, charming, funny and often moving . . . It made me want to pull on my stoutest boots and follow in his footsteps' Stephen Fry'Beautiful, funny, fascinating, impossible-to-categorise . . . Like going on a great ramble with a...

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Kat has no responsibilities and nothing to tie her down. She'd graduated university with no plans. She was an artist, but hadn't drawn in five years. She was lost. And she'd been avoiding admitting to herself something that all of those around her knew:...

THIRTEEN HOURS presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya. This is the story, told in incredible, spine-tingling detail, of what happened on the ground--in the U.S. State Department Special...

The World According to Questlove Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the...