Personal Memoirs

On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression...How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives...

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

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...

In 2010, Sarah Marquis embarked on a perilous journey: alone and on foot, she walked ten thousand miles across the Gobi Desert, from Siberia, through Thailand, to the Australian outback.Relying on hunting and her own wits, she traversed fever-haunted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060898779Author Neil StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

'A mesmerising book, full of story, truth, pain, lyricism, humour and astonishment: the stuff of a difficult life, fully lived, and masterfully transformed into art' SALMAN RUSHDIE'Intimate and wise, poignant and compassionate, redemptive and raw. You...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440223733Author George JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic BooksWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 106mm *...

The Sunday Times bestsellerThe moving and inspiring account of heartbreak and courage, and the life-affirming relationship between a father and son. Ben Brooks-Dutton's wife - the great love of his life - was knocked down and killed by a car as he walked...

In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als distills into one cocktail the deep and potent complexities of love and of loss, of Prince and of power, of desire and of race. It's delicious and it's got the kick of a...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546012672Author Yvonne OrjiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Worthy BooksPublisher Worthy BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806534299Author Sacha Z. ScoblicFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806534299Author Sacha Z. ScoblicFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book' Dolly Alderton...

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...

*Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year*'Harrowing, brave, hugely important book' HENRY WINTER'Absolutely amazed by the power of Andy Woodward's testimony' JEREMY VINE SHOW'I'm sure this will be one of the defining football books of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035809318Author Neil J MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147515995Author George WatskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 178g

'A wonderfully candid and insightful account of a writer's life' William BoydLuck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer's career. In 1976 Lodge was pursuing a 'twin-track career' as novelist and academic but the balancing act was...

Joe Exotic, star of the Netflix original documentary that "consumed the pop-cultural imagination" (The Atlantic) and transfixed a nation in the midst of a global crisis, opens up about his outlandish journey from Midwestern farmer to infamous Tiger King,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804638Author Anne CushmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

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 *...

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...

ATTEMPTING 300KPH on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, PAUL CARTER and danger at high speed is his second name. Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering...

From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, lies, family secrets, and the healing power of truth. Pidgeon Pagonis always felt like their life was a constant attempt to fit in with other girls-a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035847549Author Tony JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

______________ '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 ...

In a nation of rugby heroes, Jamie Roberts has become a legend.Jamie Roberts is your quintessential hard man: a 6 foot 4, 17 stone slab of rippling muscle, conditioned to run hard into other huge men in an arena where physical dominance is the prime...

'A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss'Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild'Extraordinary . . . both heartbreaking and life-affirming . . . you will find your heart magically expanded'Mail on Sunday'Unimaginably...

The true and remarkable story of the English double agent who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow. Like many working class children growing up in the war, the young Jim Riordan would fantasise his way out of his devastated surroundings with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143035947Author Renee FlemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A moving and powerful account of the problems faced by a new generation, from crime to poverty to an increasingly divided society, from an extraordinarily accomplished young activist and entrepreneur.My name is Jeremiah Emmanuel. I'm twenty years old...

Shortlisted for the Political Book Awards 2013 International Affairs Book of the Year. GANG OF ONE is the remarkable true story of one man's journey from a Glasgow orphanage to a notorious gang-infested prison in Texas. Driven by his desire to return to...

A stark, lyrical and personal account of the psyche in crisis from the bestselling author of Wild and Kith"I want to describe it for those who have never experienced it but who perhaps know someone with it. If this book can befriend just one person in...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'Jessi Klein is a brilliant comedic mind and this book is a perfect reflection of that. It's like having a glass of wine with the best friend you wish you had' -Amy SchumerAs both a tomboy and a late bloomer,...

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 9781785373602Author Homan PottertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

Carrie Kills A Man* is about growing up in a world that doesn't want you, and about how it feels to throw a hand grenade into a perfect life. It's the story of how a tattooed transgender rock singer killed a depressed suburban dad, and of the lessons you...