Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901170160Author Richard IngramsFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Oldie Publications LtdPublisher Oldie Publications Ltd

Light is changing, dramatically. Our world is getting brighter - you can see it from space. But is brighter always better? Artificial light is voracious and spreading. Vanquishing precious darkness across the planet, when we are supposed to be using less...

'Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time' - Margaret Atwood (on Twitter) 'Riveting . . . intricate and surprising' - The New York Times 'Reading it will change you, perhaps forever' - San Francisco Chronicle An electrifying memoir set in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109396Author William FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

DON'T SAY A WORD is the empowering memoir of Kate Marshall, a mother-of-four from Manchester. Ripped from her many brothers and sisters at the age of eight, Kate's mother uproots her to a new life in which love and safety are not priorities. With little...

'A genuine presence on the field, Owen refereed with the perfect balance of respect and authority' Keith Wood'Highly respected with vast experience and knowledge, Owen Doyle contributed hugely to the world of rugby refereeing, both on and off the field'...

Summer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dreamy days. The treasures of the season are gone much too soon - but they're captured here, in loving sensuous prose that's both personal and universal, for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440222668Author Dennis RodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

A Life's Tales is a powerful memoir of a life lived in a past age, through poverty, strife, family life, war, conscription, sexual deviation, and climbing a career ladder to ultimate fulfilment with a life-long partner. It's a life lived with...

Chocolate and Zucchini. 101 Cookbooks. The Julie/Julia Project. In the early days of food blogs, these were the pioneers whose warmth and recipes turned their creators' kitchens into beloved web destinations. Luisa Weiss was working in New York when she...

Four-year-old Lisa's world turned upside down when her step-father moved in. Most of the time he was just violent but then he started making her do things she knew were wrong. Soon he was visiting her at night. Lisa begged her mother for help but she...

Four-year-old Lisa's world turned upside down when her step-father moved in. Most of the time he was just violent but then he started making her do things she knew were wrong. Soon he was visiting her at night. Lisa begged her mother for help but she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306903496Author Jimmy O YangFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Da Capo PressPublisher Da Capo PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316185387Author Marcus LuttrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Amy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making history as a Paralympic snowboarder. In this poignant and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406149Author Trevor GroveFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375711954Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 156gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

"The blue and white print has the night-time glow of a Joseph Cornell ice-cube box or a Stan Brakhage film, the poppy glows candescent but is gone. Anna Atkins' dirty fingernails are pressing the damp skin of the poppy into cotton wadding and blotting...

"[Smith]...reminds you that you can...survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make yourself new." -Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe bestselling poet and author of the "powerful" (People) and...

The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature 2023 2023 Banff Mountain Book Award finalist in Mountain Literature "As a teen phenomenon, Katie Brown raised the bar to a whole new level. Unraveled is an honest and bold recounting of how Katie was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101985120Author Mark AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

What are the right questions to ask when seeking out the true spirit of a nation? In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. Their goal, to restore the legacy of Chimurenga, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784387488Author Flight Lieutenant David CrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Greenhill BooksPublisher Greenhill BooksWeight(grams) 130g

The philosopher's writings on, and engagement with, twentieth century feminism By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for...

Rivers and lakes are the arteries and beating heart of Ireland. To our ancestors these wetlands were their highways, providing valuable sources of food including fish and wildfowl as well as vital materials such as reeds for thatching and willows for...

'Gripping' Vogue'Empowering' Cosmopolitan'Joyful' Financial Times'Eye-popping' Daily Mail When her 22-year-marriage suddenly ended, 47-year-old mother of three Laura expected life as she knew it to be over. What she hadn't...

In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again, The First Cell explores cancer from every angle:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935950202Author Nancy BarileFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bazillion PointsPublisher Bazillion Points

Foreword by Janet Yellen Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806532257Author Tucker MaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306922008Author Steve GormanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Da Capo PressPublisher Da Capo PressWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm * 33mm

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." —Kirkus ReviewsWhen veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within...

On 27 August 1979, Paul Burns's life changed for ever. Travelling through Warren Point in Northern Ireland when the IRA detonated two massive bombs, he was involved in a devastating explosion - eighteen soldiers were killed that day; Paul was one of only...

This is one boy's tale of growing up in Oxford in the forties and fifties. It is a foreign land of being caned on hand and bottom, of teachers washing out a child's mouth with soap as punishment for swearing. It was a time of conkers, fag cards and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736971000Author Christina VitaglianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Bob John Chicken FederationPublisher Bob John Chicken FederationWeight(grams)...

Under a Yellow Sky paints a canvas of life aboard a Merchant Navy ship in the early 1970s. Simon, a dreamer who steps into this different world, uncovers much of the magic of the sea, although also encounters brutality, dizzying hard work and frightening...

The wooden holiday cabin, or hytte, is a staple of Norwegian life. Robert Ferguson, author of Scandinavians, explores the significance of a national icon in this charming, affectionate history. Turf-roofed and wooden-built, offering fresh air,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Award 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780767916035Author David RakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519504Author John FurnissFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

'Sabrina Mahfouz is a tidal wave of truth swallowing the banks of empire with a torrent of information which will not be damned' Lemn Sissay'A bold, brave look at the ways imperialism affects us all, from the universally political to the insightfully...