Personal Memoirs

In 2012, Joe Barr almost died from altitude sickness on the infamous 11,000-ft Wolf Creek Pass in a Race Across America attempt. The infamous 3,200-mile race is non-stop, ultra-cycling at its most extreme. In 2014, Joe returned and received the coveted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640091092Author Alton LoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617756665Author Catharine H. MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

"This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world. It begins in 1917, in Lebanon, when I was seven years old." So opens this haunting memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, who eloquently describes her personal experience of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312382049Author Mike HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 137mm...

In Bump, Bike and Baby, Moire O'Sullivan charts her journey from happy, carefree mountain runner to reluctant, stay-at-home mother of two. With her sights set on winning Ireland's National Adventure Racing Series, she manages to maintain her post-natal...

In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767926881Author Suze RotoloFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Tom Connolly joined An Garda Siochana in 1955, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. His early days on the force were spent in various villages and towns around Ireland, tracking petty thieves, raiding pubs and patrolling country...

A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022 A Waterstones Best Book of 2022:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983550563Author Edith VelmansFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Van Horton BooksPublisher Van Horton BooksWeight(grams) 304g

Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realisations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave (ISBN 978 0 393 34543 8),...

'Thrillingly honest, funny, incisive and hopeful, this is the perfect gateway into a discussion on mental health' Marian Keyes'Truly one of the most powerful books about mental health that I've ever read.' Daisy BuchananOne of the Independent's top ten...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126508Author Jowita BydlowskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Brutally honest, beautifully written, THE RABBI'S DAUGHTER is the compulsive story of a woman trying to find love, and struggling to make peace with her faith, her parents, and ultimately herself.Reva Mann was a wild child. Granddaughter of the Chief...

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 9781416541530Author David CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

For more than four decades Jim Maxwell has called the cricket for the ABC. Since 1973 he has covered over 250 Test matches, including six tours to the West Indies, seven to the subcontinent, over fifty Ashes Tests and five World Cups. His distinctive...

A female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them bothShakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided to teach Shakespeare in a place the bard had never...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614293163Author Brad WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

One of the most powerful images in the history of space exploration is of an astronaut in a spacesuit, untethered, and seemingly floating alone in an expanse of blue. Bruce McCandless II was the man in that spacesuit, and Wonders All Around is the...

Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked - even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural crossing-point, it has shaped the world in myriad ways,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738670246Author Sheri Segal GlickFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint RE:BooksPublisher RE:Books

This is a newly revised and updated paperback edition of the former Conservative Party Treasurer's personal account of his battle over unsubstantiated claims concerning his business affairs which culminated in a libel action against "The Times" newspaper...

'This insightful and superb book takes you to World Cups, to conflicts in war-torn countries, to division in Trump's America... A terrific read.' - Gary LinekerFor over thirty years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories in the world for ITN and...

Iby Knill is a simply remarkable woman. An Auschwitz holocaust survivor originally from Bratislava, she married a British army officer and set out to make a new life in England, arriving in Cornwall in 1947 to set up home. Dealing with the problems of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780385478007Author Mikal GilmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam...

This is the captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful house in Sicily." For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne Phelps has extended her English charm and warm hospitality...

This is a paperback edition of Eric Fenby's famous book which has not been available in authorised form for some years. It is a memoir of the last six years of the composer's life when Fenby, then a young organist from Scarborough, volunteered to live in...

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. How far would you go to protect yourself? Your dignity?...

'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening...

'Compelling' Irish TimesAidan O'Mahony was at peak physical fitness and making his mark on the Kerry Senior Football team when he made the devastating choice to walk away from it all.Now, in his powerfully honest memoir, Aidan looks at the events leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982122256Author Olivia Newton-JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772441758Author L M MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Rock's Mills PressPublisher Rock's Mills Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593136713Author A.J. JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

New York Times Bestseller Fame. Sex. Pain. Drugs. Death. Booze. Money. Addiction. Redemption. Dizzying heights. Rock-bottom depths. Desperation and elation-sometimes in the same hour. Not to mention power . . . and the struggle for it. The world knows...

Halima Bashir was born into the remote western deserts of Sudan. She grew up in a wonderfully rich environment and later went on to study medicine. At the age of twenty-four she returned to her tribe and began practising as their first ever qualified...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982176761Author Alice FeiringFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Free PressPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062691552Author Jill HeinerthFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401307950Author Danny GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 192gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 12mm