Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578192857Author Bobbie MerrillFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Bobbie MerrillPublisher Bobbie MerrillWeight(grams) 431g

'A labour of undiluted love and enthusiasm' Daily TelegraphAs Daniel Hardcastle careers towards thirty, he looks back on what has really made him happy in life: the friends, the romances... the video games. Told through encounters with the most...

Virginia Howes was a mother of four doing the ironing when she had a revelation. Still broody, but not really wanting to add to her family, she realised that becoming a midwife was her true vocation. It was a long journey to get the education and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914140Author Kim MooreFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop Books

An inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit that shows readers how to deepen their connection to the natural world.Science. Nature. Spirit. They do not, need not, and should not overlap completely. But at that center where...

While travelling in Laos on a winding mountain road, the bus that award-winning journalist Alison Wright was riding is collided with a logging truck. As she waited fourteen hours for proper medical care - in excruciating pain, certain she was moments...

'Whom to marry and when will it happen - these two questions define every woman's existence.' So begins Spinster, a revelatory look at the pleasures, problems and possibilities of living independently in the 21st century, reconsidering what it means -...

In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra's barge. It asked for a GBP30,000 loan to buy a black-and-cream narrowboat...

In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra's barge. It asked for a GBP30,000 loan to buy a black-and-cream narrowboat...

A new anthology of Dostoevsky's remarkable work 'A Writer's Diary'. A voluminous and variegated miscellany in which the celebrated author spoke to his readers about issues concerning Russia, it is a work as eerily prescient of global preoccupations in...

Christine Holohan saw angels around her bedside when she was a child. It was only when she grew up that she realised not everyone saw them. One night, when she was aged just 22, she began to have disturbing dreams of a young woman called Jacqui Poole...

Christine Holohan saw angels around her bedside when she was a child. It was only when she grew up that she realised not everyone saw them. One night, when she was aged just 22, she began to have disturbing dreams of a young woman called Jacqui Poole...

We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer soon picks up the steadying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452283954Author Dennis SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 23mm

______________ 'A delight' - Spectator 'An entrancing memoir' - Jane Shilling, New Statesman 'A wonderful journey beautifully told, and like all great memoirs, remains with the reader like the echo of friendship' - Independent on Sunday ...

'There is a voice that whispers to me on the pillow. I have no idea if it is part of the dream, a hallucination, or reality. It talks of children, bringing news of a girl called Grace who loves me very much and a new baby boy called Freddie, who...

Full Metal Cardigan is David Emery's first book and chronicles his adventures in social care, from enthusiastic volunteer to feral frontline worker, taking in abusive popstars, chanting cults, drug runs, sectioning a corpse and teaching masturbation to...

Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist's favourite: Betty May - aka the Tiger Woman - was a woman like no other. Born into abject poverty in Limehouse, Betty May used her striking looks and fierce street nous to become an unlikely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859839898Author Simon GoodyearFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307460745Author Patti LuPoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335455093Author Nikki VargasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 213g

A moving, thought-provoking and uplifting story of a wonderful mother, daughter relationship.Gloria Hunniford's daughter, TV presenter Caron Keating, was 34 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The next seven years of Caron's life, and her...

Rod's drug addiction began at college and quickly moved from cannabis to Ecstasy and eventually heroin and crack cocaine. He soon became heavily involved in dealing drugs and gambling in order to finance his drugs habit. Following an attempt to import...

A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spanking When it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her-until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035818433Author Anthony M LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993021534Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood

______________________ A moving, funny and beautifully written memoir by musician, DJ and writer Ben Watt which carefully chronicles his parents' lives, their marriage and their decline into old age Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for...

If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825651Author Kathrine SwitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

In early 2018, Erin Darcy created an online art project, In Her Shoes - Women of the Eighth, to safely and anonymously share private stories of the real and devastating impact of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. In the five months...

Hans Goebeler is known to history as the man who "pulled the plug" on U-505 on June 4, 1944, due to his efforts to keep his beloved U-boat out of the hands of the Allied Task Group 22.3. Steel Boat, Iron Hearts is his no-holds-barred account of his life...

With rich detail, compelling honesty, and a storyteller's gift, RFK Jr. describes his life growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that we confront today. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569026809Author Mohammed NurhusseinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

A frank, funny and inspiring new memoir from the bestselling author of The Language of Kindness about the search for meaning in midlife'Brilliant... Like having an honest conversation with a smart and funny friend' Cathy RentzenbrinkAm I a terrible...

"A woman I won't forget ... a book that people will love." Diana Athill, Jean Rhys' publisher and award-winning biographer."My aunt's love of Dominica and its people is as freshly painted as if it happened yesterday." Katie Fforde, novelist.Elma Napier's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455534678Author Jesse ItzlerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Center StreetPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Written by the late, beloved Dr. George Sheehan, Running & Being tells of the author's midlife return to the world of exercise, play, and competition, in which he found "a world beyond sweat" that proved to be a source of great revelation and personal...

The author of more than thirty books. Birmingham's work focused on the upper class in America. He's written about the African American elite in Certain People and prominent Jewish society in Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York, The Grandees:...

The fifth volume of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small.In Every Living Thing James Herriot brings back familiar and much-loved friends, including his partner Siegfried and his most lucrative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537203Author John KaagFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 250g