Personal Memoirs

'An amazing story of love, laughter and the challenges of living from the land ... Simon's self-sufficient rural life is an inspiration to us all' - Ben FogleFollowing a drunken misunderstanding Simon Dawson gave up his job in the city, moved to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408573Author Nicholas RoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

Sara Dykman made history when she became the first person to bicycle alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration-a round-trip adventure that included three countries and more than 10,000 miles. Equally remarkable, she did it solo, on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904871712Author Robertson JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The Good Life PressPublisher The Good Life PressWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm)...

"One day Jack asked me, 'What color do you see for Monday?' 'What?' I said distractedly. 'Do you see days as colors?"Raising five children would be challenge enough for most parents, but when one of them has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder,...

'I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest . . . But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not...

We think we know Edie Sedgwick, Warhol muse, Factory superstar, icon of the 1960s, a comet who flamed out too soon.As It Turns Out is Edie's story told from a different point of view - that of her older sister, Alice. As Edie's fame was in the ascendant,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781264Author Anatole BroyardFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm)...

In Long Drawn Out Trip: My Life, Gerald Scarfe tells his life story for the first time. With captivating, often thrilling stories, he takes us from his childhood and early days at Punch and Private Eye, through his long and occasionally tumultuous career...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250813862Author Christa ParravaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 130mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815724469Author Jeffrey A. BaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Gary Sutherland was a lapsed golfer, until he acquired his late dad's putter. After studying a crumpled golf map of Scotland, Gary decided to embark on a voyage. His target was to play 18 rounds of golf on 18 Scottish islands in honour of his dad, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601090560Author Radhanath SwamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Earth Aware EditionsPublisher Earth Aware EditionsWeight(grams) 733gDimensions(mm)...

An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey was the final book written by Richard Brautigan before his death in 1984 and lay unpublished for sixteen years.Originally written in the 160 pages of a loose-leaf notebook, the narrator of the book is trying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635579048Author V (formerly Eve Ensler)Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g

Society tells that us that being shy is a fault, but Annie Ridout says it's a gift. Shy: How being quiet can lead to success teaches us how to embrace this misjudged attribute, instead of trying to fix it. Most of us...

Wayne K. Blickenstaff, known as "Blick," was a stalwart of the 350th Fighter Squadron of the 353rd Fighter Group based at Goxhill, Metfield and Raydon, England as part of the Eighth Air Force prosecuting the strategic air campaign against Germany. As an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800747494Author Alice O'Neill McLoughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

"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...

Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during the EOKA rebellion against British rule, and recently he discovered the letters he had written home during the...

The three protagonists in this memoir are dead: a mother, a father, and a sister. A bookish and artistic family living in a beautiful old house in a pleasant part of Toronto. Two girls growing up in the 60s and 70s. All seems well until one of them...

Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void. Afterwards, Yates continued mountaineering on the hardest routes. Perhaps the most testing of all was one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591846826Author General Stanley McChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 434gDimensions(mm)...

As seen on Channel 4's Steph's Packed Lunch!No Life Too Small is the joyful and inspiring story of the world's first animal hospice, celebrating the power and beauty of nature, the strength of the human and animal spirit, and the importance of love,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398454507Author Andrew MarriottFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

What is it about boxing that charms and bewitches us? John Wight looks for the answer as he delves into the world of beautiful brutality. Showing that boxing is fundamentally tied to the human condition, he pulls back the curtains of his own masculinity...

A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall - and rise - of one of Australia's most iconic music performers.You think you know Deborah Conway? You think seeing her scowling and striding and smouldering in her music videos over the years means...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947534551Author Shashi TharoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribe USPublisher Scribe USWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 152mm * 25mm

'I was so captivated by this book, so utterly drawn in and overwhelmed by the emotional force of it, that it stayed in my bloodstream, it felt, long after I'd finished it.' Nigella Lawson 'Sharp and engrossing' Roxane Gay As the bookish daughter of...

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...

Award-winning writer Heather Lanier's memoir about raising a child with a rare syndrome, defying the tyranny of normal, and embracing parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways.Like many women of her generation, writer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996013703Author Carla HarveyFormat PaperbackImprint Pretty Girls Do Ugly Things PublishingPublisher Pretty Girls Do Ugly Things PublishingWeight(grams)...

MUM. FEMINIST. SIZE 26. SUPERMODEL. LOUD. PROUD. BODY ACTIVIST. BEAUTIFUL. BUSINESS WOMAN. HOMEMAKER. CAT OWNER. FUNNY. OUTSPOKEN. WIFE. DAUGHTER. LOVER. FIGHTER. SURVIVOR.Tess Holliday is many things and perfect is not one of them. But she loves her...

MUM. FEMINIST. SIZE 26. SUPERMODEL. LOUD. PROUD. BODY ACTIVIST. BEAUTIFUL. BUSINESS WOMAN. HOMEMAKER. CAT OWNER. FUNNY. OUTSPOKEN. WIFE. DAUGHTER. LOVER. FIGHTER. SURVIVOR.Tess Holliday is many things and perfect is not one of them. But she loves her...

As an active surgeon and former department chairman, Dr. Paul A. Ruggieri has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of his profession. In "Confessions of a Surgeon", he pushes open the doors of the O.R. and reveals the inscrutable place where lives are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956240170Author Jack MapanjeFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 429g

Scotlund Haisley, the founder and president of Animal Rescue Corps, has spent more than twenty-five years saving the lives of thousands of animals. Wearing a respirator mask for protection from the piercing ammonia that hangs in the air and with law...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060596996Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592405206Author Countess LuAnn de LessepsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In 1970, John Lennon introduced to the world Alejandro Jodorowsky and the film El Topo that he wrote, starred in and directed. The film and its author instantly became a counterculture icon. The New York Times said it "demands to be seen," and...