Personal Memoirs

Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid - about immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at night. A creative-critical memoir of the author's obsession with the horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds...

The incredible true story revealed by a family notebook, telling of four daughters across two centuries of turbulent history, of a passionate and ill-fated royal love affair, ending in a tragic and cruel death. 'The beautiful owner of this...

We live in uncertain times, and in our search for solutions to the problems of the world The Seer offers a new way of thinking and living.Praised for its visionary and transformative power, this incredible true story has attracted tens of thousands of...

'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...

A heartbreaking account of a poor and illiterate young West African's odyssey to Europe, translated by one of Britain's most celebrated playwrights. Ibrahima, whose family live in a village in the West African country of Guinea, helps his father sell...

Foreword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541396Author Todd HarraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995526808Author Elizabeth N. AnionwuFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint ELIZAN PublishingPublisher ELIZAN Publishing

Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684017577Author Cameron PowellFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Mascot Books, IncPublisher Mascot Books, IncWeight(grams) 480g

The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir which is wise, complex, smart and funny.This Is Just My Face is the whirlwind tour of Gabourey Sidibe's life so far. In it, we meet her polygamous father, her gifted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889514Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

'Searingly honest, funny, self-deprecating, Harding's narrative seems to rest on the pulse of Ireland' Irish TimesOne day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden, he found himself falling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743269162Author Maureen O'HaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

In the last year we've called our doctors heroes, but what is daily life really like? Discover the truth, hurt, heartbreak, life and death and everything in between through 34 Patients 'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate' Dr Richard Shepherd,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982602Author Salman RushdieFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

New York Times bestselling author! Here is the story of how Jim Ross, an Oklahoman farm kid with a vivid imagination and seemingly unattainable dreams, became "The Voice of Wrestling" to record TV audiences and millions of fans around the world.There are...

'HONEST, POWERFUL AND RIVETING'Levison Wood, author of The Art of Exploration'JUST BRILLIANT...THE BOOK OF THE DECADE'Tim Flannery, former Australian of the Year'WOW. A HUGELY IMPORTANT AND ENJOYABLE BOOK THAT WILL RESTORE YOUR FAITH IN HUMANITY AND WHAT...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119395Author Rosanne CashFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Delve into the minds of Ireland's extraordinary personalities as writer and podcaster Roisin Ingle uncovers the stories behind their most treasured spaces.Including a huge array of talent such as Dara O Briain, Marian Keyes, Marty Morrissey, Daniel...

From Diana Darke, the acclaimed author of My House in Damascus and The Merchant of Syria, comes the extraordinary true story of a heroic ambulance driver who created a cat sanctuary in the midst of war-torn Aleppo."I'll stay with them no matter what...

Rod Ismay has a passion (some would say obsession) for the Tour de France. If you think you know someone who is obsessed, think again, but fortunately Rod's issues found their natural home when his native Yorkshire became the host for the 2014 Grand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307587749Author Roger HousdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959302Author Keith FlemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645690217Author Val HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Change Empire BooksPublisher Change Empire BooksWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198668Author Alicia ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

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"I came from a family of barely solvent aristocrats..." So begins one of the most refreshingly honest memoirs to have appeared in recent years. Richard Needham looks back on a life that straddles the worlds of commerce and politics, and that deeply...

For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Ed believed that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak accident at the...

'Like The Queen's Gambit, this isn't really about chess, but power ... Shahade is up for the fight' Sunday Times What does it take to make it to the top of your game? As a chess champion, Jennifer Shahade has travelled the world playing major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780702239069Author Kari GislasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Queensland PressPublisher University of Queensland PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541698994Author Irvin D YalomFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 142mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135869Author Maeve HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In the closing pages of her 1988 autobiography Debbie: My Life, Debbie Reynolds wrote about finding her brave, loyal, and loving new husband. After two broken marriages, this third, she believed, was her lucky charm. But within a few years, Debbie...

'The message is consistent: it's not what you do in life, but how you do it. Notice everything. Always be open to new ideas, new experiences. Alda is chatty, easygoing and humble ... His words of inspiration would be a perfect gift.' Publishers Weekly...

A TIMES BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2021 'Phil Wang makes me laugh out loud with every single thing he does and this book is no exception' JAMES ACASTER'An hilarious breath of fresh air' AMY SCHUMER'Phil Wang is as original a writer as he is a comedian...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062978806Author Ree DrummondFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty'Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and...