Personal Memoirs

In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of Fragrant Harbour and Capital, John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his mother's time as...

Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723975Author Patricia NolanFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 366g

'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review'Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a...

Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956386465Author Dr Liam FarrellFormat PaperbackImprint Dalzell PressPublisher The Feldstein AgencyWeight(grams) 152g

If we're talking agoraphobia, we're talking books. I slip between their covers, lose myself in the turn of one page, re-discover myself on the next. Reading is a game of hide-and-seek. Narrative and neurosis, uneasy bedfellows sleeping top to toe.When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903854839Author Chuck LiddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 279g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903854839Author Chuck LiddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 279g

IN THE BEGINNING goes back to the poet's life before her arrest, interweaving her experiences of growing up in Odessa with those of her childhood friend and future husband Igor Geraschenko. With wit and simplicity Irina describes a biased and turbulent...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!"Secrets of the Sprakkar is a fascinating window into what a more gender-equal world could look like, and why it's worth striving for. Iceland is doing a lot to level the playing field: paid parental leave, affordable...

When Leonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, he left behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend Eric Lerner. Lerner, a screenwriter and novelist, first met Cohen at a zen retreat where the two quickly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646931418Author Ron FellowesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint High Horse BooksPublisher High Horse Books

Traversing decades and continents - from Iran to India, Sri Lanka to the Czech Republic, Adelaide to the Torres Strait - The God of No Good is a beautifully lyrical and funny intergenerational memoir about six women and how their lives intertwine. Filled...

A lethal cocktail of memoir and criticism.A documentary through the speaker's post-adolescent relationships.An arrangement of time in Chemnitz, Bergen, Dublin, Paris, Gwangju, Munich and Madrid.An intimate portrayal of unstable masculinity and sexual...

'A visceral, scathing, erudite read that digs deep into how modern medicine continues to fail women and what can be done about it' Booklist The darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey's years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all...

A startling and important memoir about family and forgiveness, love and redemption For the first time, Stan Walker speaks with startling honesty about abuse and addiction, hardship and excess, cancer and discrimination, and growing up in a family where...

Tessa and Scott share their incredible and inspiring story - now updated and expanded with a new introduction, over 100 dazzling new photographs, and three all-new chapters covering the pair's stunning performances at the Sochi and PyeongChang Olympic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592409129Author David E FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 245g

Growing up as a child in Singapore and Malaya in the 1960s was an idyllic experience. Thousands of children of naval personnel will have the same fond memories of the time spent there, as Derek has. Who could forget the constant hot weather or the...

Will Lucy make it down the aisle? It's going to be an uphill struggle . . . The bride: A late starter in life, Lucy always swore she'd never get married. But now she has to find a caterer who doesn't charge a fortune for a cupcake, a dressmaker who...

'Insightful, wise and life-affirming' Observer'Turns death into life, despair into hope, sorrow into joy' Stephen FryIn Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse and counsellor, offers a sensitive and wise insight into our final moments by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784529048Author Dr David John MaddamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Settled in a dilapidated house in the Loire they are plagued by calamities (mainly of Tommy's making), excitable neighbors, a destructive puppy and an unexpected pregnancy. When it looks like the money has run out. Tommy has an epiphany. Beer will save...

A mother's fight to bring her daughter's killer, Christopher Halliwell, to justice'I have lived every parent's worst nightmare. On what would have been my daughter's 29th birthday, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knocked on the door and told me...

The Tin Ring is moving memoir of love, loss and hope. Zdenka Fantlova's peaceful life was changed forever when she was sent to Terezin concentration camp. Here, she was given a humble engraved tin ring by her first love Arno. When he gave her the ring he...

The library saved her. Now she wants to save the library. I'm a librarian. Every day I encounter people. I serve the regulars, the crime enthusiastics, the bookworms, the homeless, the eccentrics, the jobless, the teenagers, the toddlers, the aged. I...

The library saved her. Now she wants to save the library. I'm a librarian. Every day I encounter people. I serve the regulars, the crime enthusiastics, the bookworms, the homeless, the eccentrics, the jobless, the teenagers, the toddlers, the aged. I...

'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his...

Frieda Hughes's fable-like poems draw on her early years in Devon and Yorkshire, a lifelong engagement with nature and itinerant wildlife, and later experiences when living in Australia, London, and most recently, Wales. They cast light on two worlds,...

'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'An immensely enjoyable and...

The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not orphans: they are trafficked. Despite the danger, Conor...

Leaving their Welsh hill farm behind, Nick, Ros and their children arrive on the little-known island of Ikaria in 1978, having impulsively boarded the first ferry leaving Athens. Escape to Ikaria tells the story of how they become involved with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155967Author Eugenia GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd

Let Alice Taylor encourage you to live in the now, to really live your experiences and to treasure the special moments in your life. With Alice as a guide, explore the steps and ways to live a conscious life and focus on the goodness of the world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451472366Author Jon CryerFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 322g

'Inside Left' is a political memoir with a difference; not the self-justifications of an ex-Prime Minister, but the perspective of a grassroots activist well known in the political circles of Kent in South East England. Roger Truelove also reveals his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118019337Author Anthony FieldFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060934101Author Jeffrey GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525510840Author Judd ApatowFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc