Personal Memoirs

Meet Boris, the chimp who took a bite out of the Big Apple-and wished it had been a banana: "No one concerned with either apes or people should miss it." -Peter S. Beagle, award-winning author of The Last Unicorn This book answers the question that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899262649Author Ann DavisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Golden Duck (UK) LtdPublisher Golden Duck (UK) Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373688Author Charlie BirdFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

'Warm, anxious and true - a Little Book of Un-Calm' Caitlin MoranShortlisted for Non-fiction Book of the Year at the National Book AwardsRead on BBC Radio 4Sometimes things are more ordinary than you think. And sometimes they're a whole lot odder than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398455290Author Finian O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

"A soulful and searching book. Vibrant and elegant...McCarthy's prose shines with intelligence and intimacy. One feels pulled along...the book gaining momentum and meaning page by page" (Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review).With absorbing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398456822Author Barbara BorwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

From the brilliantly original novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman comes Mothercare, an honest and beautifully written account of a sudden, drastically changed relationship to one's mother, and of the time and labor spent navigating the American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179499Author Eleanor PerenyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint 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 9781849145589Author Amanda EpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint CompletelyNovel.comPublisher CompletelyNovel.comWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America Ellen O'Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528934053Author Brian SimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528934053Author Brian SimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060872632Author Barbara Brown TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 208g

Bernadette was just ten years old when her father packed her off to a convent school in Dublin. Seven gruelling years later, she returned home to Liverpool at the start of the swinging sixties. Bernadette had dreamed of being a teacher ever since she was...

Bernadette was just ten years old when her father packed her off to a convent school in Dublin. Seven gruelling years later, she returned home to Liverpool at the start of the swinging sixties. Bernadette had dreamed of being a teacher ever since she was...

'Steve beautifully communicates his vulnerabilities in his music -- he does the same in this powerful story' Niall Breslin As lead singer and songwriter of hugely successful Irish rock band Kodaline, Steve Garrigan plays to thousands of fans worldwide -...

Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson's remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby. Long after his presidency of South Africa,...

My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression. Fleeing Hungary in 1938 as the German army approaches, acclaimed poet Faludy journeys to Paris, where he finds a lover but...

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of writings that chronicle the author's state of mind and personal perspective on events, fellow writers and public...

'I Know This Much' - by Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet's prime mover - is simply the freshest, most exciting and best-written memoir to arrive for years. Gary's story begins in North London, where the Kemp family rented a home with no bathrooms and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807041307Author Aubrey GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

From wartime to peacetime, Parts of Speech is a frank memoir telling the story of three generations of stammerers - all from one family. Based primarily around the impact of the author's lifelong stammer on his career and private life, with unsuccessful...

A captivating glimpse of Britain then and now, seen from behind the steering wheel. In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'. Their aim was to encourage readers to venture out...

'A fascinating and timely account of the current crisis in the relationship between Russia and the United States' Daniel Beer, The New York Times'Could not be more timely ... crucial reading for anyone interested in what's happening inside Putin's head'...

Jackie Kohnstamm's mother rarely talked about what had happened during the war and had kept little evidence of her early life. It was only after her uncle and aunt had died that Jackie inherited an archive of material relating to the family back in...

San'ya, Tokyo's largest day-laborer quarter and the only one with lodgings, had been Oyama Shiro's home for twelve years when he took up his pen and began writing about his life as a resident of Tokyo's most notorious neighborhood. After completing a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916205307Author Michael HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Griffin Publishing UKPublisher Griffin Publishing UKWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524799632Author David FajgenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800161764Author Geoff GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914424809Author Barbara TrumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800169081Author Judith DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

An enthralling journey through time, fashion and theatreland: from hairdressing student in the early 1960s to theatrical wig creator for the biggest shows of our time over five decades - from the West End to Broadway - Box Brownie to Cinemascope. My Name...

"Chris Westoby's THE FEAR TALKING is truly important, beautifully written, and urgently needed. This book will save lives-especially the lives of young people, one of our most vulnerable and underserved populations when it comes to mental and behavioral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242384Author Christian CooperFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

"Darling the hour has almost arrived. We leave tonight ... I am feeling it very much but I must not weaken. I must be brave. I think that will be the best attitude to take for us all" Harold Bishop is called up to the army in 1941, aged 39. He leaves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937715656Author Susan LackeFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint VeloPressPublisher VeloPressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 25mm

'Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don't make enough of' MAX PORTER'Hugely affecting and timely' LUKE TURNER'A boldly struck chord, one that contains many of the dissonances, but also the harmonies, found in England today' CHRIS POWERIn...

"Wonderful!" (Grace Paley)."Heartwarming and smart and wonderfully written" (Detroit Free Press)."Provides edifying advice, intimately given, like the best-selling Tuesdays with Morrie" (the Dallas Morning News)."Altogether original" (Dr. Laura...

'Perec is serious fun' The Guardian Both an affectionate portrait of mid-century Paris and a daring memoir, Georges Perec's I Remember is now available for the first time in English, with an introduction by David Bellos. In 480 numbered...