Personal Memoirs

In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death, but about what it means to be human. Mankell writes about love and jealousy, courage and fear, about what it is like to live with a fatal...

In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death, but about what it means to be human. Mankell writes about love and jealousy, courage and fear, about what it is like to live with a fatal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Liberty Victoria: The Voltaire Award, Magda Szubanski 2018 (Australia) and Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award 2016 (Australia) and Book of the Year,...

'[A] clever, cosmic, moving and funny parenting physics and poetry adventure . . . It's wonderful' Max Porter via Twitter'Clear, nimble and dexterous' Ocean Vuong'It's a magical book. An incantation to be fully present, fully concerned, fully alive' Luke...

A Scottish MP celebrates making period products freely available. A father admits embarrassment at buying pads for his daughter. A Jewish grandmother describes getting her first period in front of Nazi soldiers. A trans woman, a trans man and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739934088Author Lisa EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Redwood Tree PublishingPublisher Redwood Tree Publishing

The absolutely inspiring true tale of a young couple who gave up the "good life" in England to start a new life in the wilderness of the Yukon Dorian Amos--a painter from Cornwall--and his wife decided that they were in need of adventure, so they gave up...

A touching and warm-hearted memoir of a young health visitor in postwar England, for fans of Call the Midwife and The Language of Kindness.After serving as a nurse in WW2, Molly Corbally joined the brand new NHS and became one of the first official...

A touching and warm-hearted memoir of a young health visitor in postwar England, for fans of Call the Midwife and The Language of Kindness.After serving as a nurse in WW2, Molly Corbally joined the brand new NHS and became one of the first official...

A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. 'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle 'Pauline Baer de Perignon is a natural storyteller - refreshingly honest,...

A cancer diagnosis is a seismic event. It divides life into before and after, and propels the diagnosed into places of suffering, pain and isolation; life is turned upside down in the present while the future horizon clouds with uncertainty and fear...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528981255Author S L SlavenFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A 2021 'BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR' - THE INDEPENDENT 'A mouthpiece for our anxieties and a tonic for our hearts.' Charly Cox 'Funny and honest.' Pandora...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553273700Author Shirley MaclaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035802005Author David Le GrysFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Shape of a Boy is a hilarious and eye-opening travel memoir by the mother of three boys as she documents her travels with her family around the world.'Have kids, will travel' is veteran travel journalist Kate's mantra. Her intrepid spirit is infectious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948954778Author John Julius ReelFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Tortoise BooksPublisher Tortoise Books

Birmingham's Front Line offers a fascinating and unique insight into police culture and the problems faced by those on the thin blue line during a tumultuous time in Britain's second city. Containing accounts from the author and his former colleagues...

'Terrific, sharp, punchy, drenched in experience and action. It feels like a war story - and that is absolutely right.' Tony ParsonsRelentlessly frank and honest, this is the true story of a London firefighter's gruelling 25-year career.Clifford Thompson...

During the war, Geraldine Schwarz's grandparents were neither heroes nor villains - they just followed the current. Afterwards they wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage of the Third Reich. But decades later, delving through the basement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593312834Author John HendricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

The Sunday Times bestseller From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true tale of romance and resilience. The...

This is the true story of how a ten-year-old's charity challenge led through young philanthropy to a calling in medicine. Recalled by the girl as a young woman, it is a light-hearted but poignant memoir of parent-child journey, set amid the cultural and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781881717379Author Dada VedaprajinanandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Innerworld PublicationsPublisher Innerworld PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985805609Author Jonnita Brewer BarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Brewbar PublishingPublisher Brewbar PublishingWeight(grams) 521g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322899Author StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)...

Deborah Armin, a spiritually-aware child was brought up with no guidance except a children's bible. Confusion about men's behaviour towards her as a child led to abusive relationships. She moved to America to work as a nanny where the downward spiral...

'a delightful and funny memoir of her family's crazy life in the English countryside. Perfect escapist reading for these locked-down times.' - SALMAN RUSHDIE'a heartwarming tale of country living' - SUNDAY EXPRESS'a charming memoir and a perfect choice...

Black Box details the harrowing experience of sexual assault Shiori Ito faced as a young journalist in Japan, as well as the national reckoning that followed.In 2015, Ito charged Noriyuki Yamaguchi, one of Japan's best-known TV journalists, with rape...

An eye-opening account from inside an ultra-secret Customs unitMark Perlstrom is no stranger to money laundering, drug smuggling and crooked firms.In the late 1980s he started working for HM Customs and was quickly thrown in the deep end, joining...

In the heart of Ashington - a bustling Geordie mining town - a handsome red-brick vicarage, surrounded by rambling gardens, stands proudly among the rows of terraced houses. It is the perfect place for playing games, keeping secrets and chasing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642860009Author Sisonke MsimangFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint World Editions LtdPublisher World Editions Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415133Author Alison WearingFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Following on from Brian's escapades in South-East England, this ramble of 150 miles circumnavigates the West Midlands conurbation. Being closer to his home in Birmingham and partly undertaken over two Covid ravaged years, this walk is a testament to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250043580Author Alexander StilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 219mm * 144mm *...

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...

In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It's a story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period as an undergraduate in Aberystwyth, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732177000Author Shala NicelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Nicely Done, LLCPublisher Nicely Done, LLC

'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' Mail on Sunday'Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book . . . taps into a widespread feeling that we have become cut off from the natural world' TLS'A book to share or even fight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692414088Author Bonnie WardFormat PaperbackImprint Samuel Tree Publishing, LLCPublisher Samuel Tree Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 513g