Personal Memoirs

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...

______________ First published in 1977, A Postillion Struck by Lightning is volume one of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs. Following Bogarde from childhood through adolescence, to the beginnings of his budding career, A Postillion Struck by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496421708Author Patrick GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

'For almost all my life, I've been the person you crossed the street to avoid...'Peter Woolf's life of drinking, drug-taking and thieving had begun before most people leave school. Spending most of his adult life in prison made no difference to him: life...

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

In the year 2000, Roz Savage seemed to have it all. But she felt there was a mismatch between the person she was pretending to be on the outside, and the person she wanted to be on the inside. Leaving behind her life as a London professional, she set out...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034766Author Ken ShuldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647646240Author Harry TrotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Atmosphere PressPublisher Atmosphere PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425232507Author Jim BeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398492394Author Mladen JakovljevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578536163Author Amy RigbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Southern DomesticPublisher Southern DomesticWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Book Award 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679752929Author Abraham VergheseFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

America's favorite hashtagger has gone through hell, but now she's back, hilariously sharing what she's learned-why a man would wear his hat during sex, why you should close your legs when you get out of a car, and why yes is the new no.About the...

One summer, writer and musician, Jasper Winn set himself an extraordinary task. He would kayak the whole way round Ireland - a thousand miles - camping on remote headlands and islands, carousing in bars and paddling clockwise until he got back where he...

'Nobody writes like Sally Bayley' Lemn Sissay From the brilliantly original and critically acclaimed Sally Bayley, a literary story of working class childhood, absent or broken men and the power of literature to save and rebuild...

Memoirs of an Iraqi who settled in the UK and became a captain on a major airline. Also includes his struggles to gain a happy future for his autistic sonBook InformationISBN 9781838046460Author Lawrence NasrallahFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint i2i...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993366901Author Jon ThumFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint What Kind of BooksPublisher What Kind of Books

SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. 'Hitler's favourite commando' acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison. Skorzeny's influence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999122006Author Gigi LangerFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Possum Hill PressPublisher Possum Hill PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

After a decade-long relationship with a dominatrix he called Daddy, Emerson Whitney began to crave something besides submission. It came as a full surprise: submission had been so central to his early adulthood. Now what? Dizzied by new questions of...

Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a...

Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a...

Cherry Denman has spent her life trailing husband Charlie round some of the world's most remote outposts and can ask for the lavatory in eleven languages. While some aspects of living abroad will always puzzle her - saunas, tofu and circumcision, to name...

Written in candid prose, Gibson takes the reader through his life and career that spans over 50 years. Gibson's story is a fascinating one, from his earliest memories growing up in California to his time in the navy and his continuous love affair with...

This extraordinary memoir tells the story of one man's experience of the wars of Viet Nam from the time he was old enough to be aware of war in the 1940s until his departure for America 15 years after the collapse of South Viet Nam in 1975. Nguyen Cong...

For years, Jenny and sister Kim suffered horrendous physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their father. They survived in part because of their closeness and their determination to be there for each other. Both sisters left home at the earliest...

For years, Jenny and sister Kim suffered horrendous physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their father. They survived in part because of their closeness and their determination to be there for each other. Both sisters left home at the earliest...

On Dragonfly Wings - a Skeptic's Journey to Mediumship, is a candid and personal search for the meaning of life, of death and of grief. It aims to give hope to those who have lost a loved one and to those who are about to pass beyond - hope that this is...

Pre-order the first ever autobiography from the legendary Liverpool FC captain__________Captain, father, leader, a fearless ambassador for the causes he believes in and a world-class midfielder, Jordan Henderson is all of these things - and it is why he...

* `The Loneliest Boy in the World - he has only seagulls as playmates.' 1949 newspaper article * Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain had a unique childhood - he was the last child brought up on the Blasket Islands of Ireland's southwest coast. The nearest in age...

On the heels of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and "The greatest MC of all time," Rakim.The musician and Hip Hop legend-hailed as "the greatest MC of...

An unforgettable true story . . . A heartwarming tale about the true meaning of Christmas, set in a remarkable orphanage in the middle of the last century. When Suzanne was left, two weeks old, at the door of an orphanage, it was Nancy the nanny who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916499829Author Geoff ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Geoff Thompson LtdPublisher Geoff Thompson Ltd

Berlin 1966, a city divided by an impenetrable wall erected by the communist German Democratic Republic. Together with his friends, the West German student Volker G. Heinz is looking for ways to help would-be fugitives escape from East to West. Their...

From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers. In the style of her memoir Girl with Dove, this book explores a child’s search for artistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946764669Author Zenju Earthlyn ManuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax Press

Stanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper: he was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, the same childhood influences, and had the same literary instinct, but in...

Discover the legendary life of the man behind the make-up and glasses, Barry Humphries'A literary masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMES___________Because Barry Humphries deliberately furnished would-be biographers with whimsical fictions and blatant mystifications,...

'Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong'o arrives at the prestigious...