Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959555Author Peter JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984881397Author Nicholson BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1083g

Michael Viney and his wife Ethna lived in the city, had successful jobs in the media and had just turned forty when they made a life-changing decision: to give up everything for a self-reliant existence on a remote cottage farm in County Mayo, on the...

July 1986. Leeds United are the most hated club in English football. Drowning in a tide of apathy and self-pity, relegation to the abyss of the Third division has only been narrowly avoided, much to the dismay of a hostile national media. Meanwhile,...

In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of...

'Beth Lynch's subtle and moving book is about the heart-work of finding and making a place for oneself in the world; the effort of putting down roots, the pain of tearing them up again, and how one grows to know another person or another landscape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594203473Author William FinneganFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 244mm...

A tale of survival, love, hardship, family, heartbreak and triumph.This is the incredible story of 89-year-old Chelsea Pensioner Sergeant Major Colin Thackery who, in 2019, made history by becoming the oldest person to win Britain's Got Talent. The show...

A tale of survival, love, hardship, family, heartbreak and triumph.This is the incredible story of 89-year-old Chelsea Pensioner Sergeant Major Colin Thackery who, in 2019, made history by becoming the oldest person to win Britain's Got Talent. The show...

A powerful personal testimony and an urgent call for Israel to change direction, from an unexpected source: the former director of the internal security service, Shin Bet. Raised on a kibbutz by parents who had fled the Holocaust, Ami Ayalon's life...

Nominated for the Chortle Comedy Book Award 2023'Blisteringly well written, deeply humane and very funny' Daily Telegraph'Enough to make you die laughing' Daily Mail'Funny and moving' Daily ExpressWhether he's initiating a coup d'etat against new...

Love affairs, grief, unhappiness, the mess at the bottom of your handbag. This is a book about the things we hide from other people, and how we might find new ways to think about love and intimacy in the twenty-first century. ...

The book that Entertainment Weekly called "hilarious," Publishers Weekly declared "a true pleasure," Booklist called "heartwarming," and the Dallas Morning News praised as "rich and funny" is now available in paperback. When Bob Tarte bought a house in...

The most famous memoir of its kind and a key text in the anti-slavery movement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass tells the striking and emotionally charged story of one man's journey from slavery to freedom. Complete & Unabridged. Part of the...

'Entertaining...revealing, shocking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Sublime' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMSActor and director Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of today's worldZawe Ashton has been acting since she was six. She has...

A lost and now found memoir of J.B. Priestleywritten by someone who knew him better than most others: his own personal secretary. Written in the 1980s, though never published, the manuscript has only recently resurfaced. It provides a unique, warm and...

A lost and now found memoir of J.B. Priestleywritten by someone who knew him better than most others: his own personal secretary. Written in the 1980s, though never published, the manuscript has only recently resurfaced. It provides a unique, warm and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439176221Format PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

This is a very different book from the traditional speed-merchant genre. Richard Noble has had the ambition all his adult life to see Britain excel in engineering on the world stage and throw off the country's dismal culture of safety first and risk...

One farm. Two worlds. Three generations. Fuelled by dreams of a rural idyll, Lorna Sixsmith and her husband swap the 9 to 5 for a return to her family's ancestral farm at Garrendenny. They love the fields and lanes of their corner of Ireland...

'This is the kind of book I wish I had access to as a young mum' Nadiya Hussain___________What does it mean to be a parent in a space where you are the minority?Meandering through a supermarket highway of camembert and baguettes, Priya Joi heard a...

Memoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the 20th-century art world, available in English for the first time. Berthe Weill, a formidable Parisian dealer, was born into a Jewish family of very modest means. One of the first female...

'Harding writes like an angel' Sunday TimesTalking to Strangers, from the No.1 bestselling author of Staring at Lakes, Hanging with the Elephant and On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist is a book about love, about the stories we share with others, and the stories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906308193Author David CopperfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Monday BooksPublisher Monday BooksWeight(grams) 194g

WINNER OF THE 2020 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD-ISRAEL FISHMAN NONFICTION AWARD"Jones's voice and sensibility are so distinct that he turns one of the oldest of literary genres inside out and upside down." NPR'S Fresh Air Jones tells the story of a young, black,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868174Author Nikola TeslaFormat HardbackPage Count 52Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Big Snake Little Snake is a cascade of true stories by DBC Pierre, recorded while on his way to make a short film with a parrot in Trinidad, which not only examines the nature of gambling, the love affair between gambler and game and the mindset of...

* Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize *Honest, intelligent and unsentimental, Patient 1 is a startling self-portrait written with wit and vulnerability, and a unique testament to the power of hope in the face of illness.Charlotte Raven had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767914758Author Joan AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller It is the early 1960s, and eighteen-year-old Charlotte Bingham, fresh from convent school, has been catapulted into the horrors of The Season. Though desperately...

Lotta Dann was in trouble - her fun drinking habit had slowly morphed into an obsessive hunger for wine. One bottle a night was never quite enough. When she tried to cut down, she found it nearly impossible to have an alcohol-free day.Everyone around...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553286526Author Louis L'AmourFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175866Author Friedrich ReckFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511793Author Chelsea HandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dial Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'Lying in the prison of my bed, his dark silhouette closes in, a pillow in his hands. My throat tightens in fear...'At the tender age of five, Madeleine was living a daily nightmare. In a dark, grey building on Jersey, she was just another orphan,...

'Lying in the prison of my bed, his dark silhouette closes in, a pillow in his hands. My throat tightens in fear...'At the tender age of five, Madeleine was living a daily nightmare. In a dark, grey building on Jersey, she was just another orphan,...

"As I stand at my kitchen sink and look across at what we optimistically call our herb garden, to one side I see an old wooden sign on which are carved the words 'Arthur's Garden'. Arthur doesn't live here. My wonderful great-uncle died nearly thirty...

"As I stand at my kitchen sink and look across at what we optimistically call our herb garden, to one side I see an old wooden sign on which are carved the words 'Arthur's Garden'. Arthur doesn't live here. My wonderful great-uncle died nearly thirty...

'A revelation' KATY HESSEL'Brilliant' OBSERVEROver one night, alone in the Punta della Dogana Museum in Venice, Leila Slimani grapples with the self as it is revealed in solitude. In a place of old and new, she confronts her past and her present, through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170281Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm)...