Personal Memoirs

'A brave, heartfelt and extraordinary book' Corinne Sweet, author of Overcoming Addiction, psychologist and broadcaster What if the drugs that were meant to cure you slowly started to kill you?After falling dangerously ill with acute-on-chronic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035812752Author Laura MansellFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A revealing memoir about living with Asperger's syndrome that is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and achingly sad. It is only when he is diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler's life starts to make sense - his accidental...

When Judith Summers's husband and father both died within the space of two weeks, she found herself floundering. Life for her and her eight-year-old son Joshua seemed relentlessly bleak. Then George bounced into their lives. A loving Cavalier King...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984881922Author Luvvie Ajayi JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin LifePublisher Penguin LifeWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

The Trinity College VIII is a light-hearted account of how the 1977 Dublin University Boat Club beat the best university crews in the world to win the cherished Ladies Plate at the Royal Henley Regatta - almost exactly 100 years after their last win at...

Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris.It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, one...

After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them. This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of...

Big Snake Little Snake is a cascade of true stories by DBC Pierre, recorded while on his way to make a short film with a parrot in Trinidad, which not only examines the nature of gambling, the love affair between gambler and game and the mindset of...

'Must-read... A funny yet tragic tale of a husband and wife's car journey across the US with Albert the alligator in tow. Yes, really.' Marie Claire A journey of a thousand miles. With an alligator on the back seat. And John Steinbeck as a...

Born at a clifftop lighthouse in 1910, Archie's life was spent in the world of Scottish lighthouses - he was one of the third generation of his family in the service of the Northern Lighthouse Board. Archie's stories have gripped listeners of all ages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906308179Author Charlie CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Monday BooksPublisher Monday BooksWeight(grams) 192g

An intimate look at the mystical world of the Navajo people * Details the author's time living with the Navajo people as a teacher, sheepherder, and doctor and her profound experiences with the people, animals, and spirits * Shows how she learned the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178096Author Bela Zombory-MoldovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

"The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran's Paid For fuses the memoirist's lived poignancy with the philosopher's conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides...

David Lovelace, along his brother and both his parents, is bipolar. This is his extraordinary and vivid memoir of life within his memorable, maddening, loving and unique family. Full Blown is Lovelace's poignant, humorous, and vivid account of...

A most appealing book . . . Its genuineness and its simplicity will build up a large audience of enthusiastic readers.-San Francisco ChronicleRalph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through...

First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal, insightful and humorous memoir packed with...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, British blues fan Alan Harper became a transatlantic pilgrim to Chicago. "I've come here to listen to the blues," he told an American customs agent at the airport, and listen he did, to the music in its many styles, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735244634Author Rowan Jette KnoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

The son of one of the greatest writers of our time-Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel Garcia Marquez-remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss. "I find myself...

The icon and legend at last tells his story his way -- without the boring bits Paul Hogan first appeared on Australia's screens in 1971 as a 'tap-dancing knife thrower' on TV talent show New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931373Author Leon FleisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)...

The second volume of Georgy Zhukov's memoirs begins with the desperate defense of Moscow in the late fall and winter of 1941 and continues through more than three years of war. Covers Stalingrad, Leningrad, Kursk, the final offensive into Germany and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398439146Author Wendy NordickFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

The quintessential Englishwoman Clarissa Dickson Wright, one of the Two Fat Ladies and author of Spilling the Beans, takes us on a personal journey through the country of her birth.From Cornwall to Cumbria, Norfolk to Northumbria she brings her...

Head Above Water is a professor's moving account of being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at just eighteen in a conservative Kuwaiti society, drawing from her diary entries and fading memories as the disease advances. "Shahd Alshammari's sensuous...

Alaska Thunderfuck spills the tea on her meteoric rise from timid Pennsylvania kid to drag superstar in this intimate photographic memoir that will appeal to diehard Alaska admirers and broader drag fans alike. Before RuPaul's Drag Race became a...

How does it feel when, in the middle of your life, you come to the shattering realisation that you and your younger sister were sexually abused as young girls? How, having endured years of tragedy as a consequence, do you come to terms with uncovering...

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This is the black and white paperback edition of Pattern, published in hardback in 2016 by Saltyard Books.If you would like the original colour illustrated version of Pattern it is available in hardback ISBN 9781444734942. Creativity, collaboration,...

As a British teenager, I meet a beautiful Burmese girl on the school bus. Her family self-exiled in 1964, soon after the military coup, to start a new life in England. My fascination is fired for this far-off land.How did Burma, with such a regal past,...

VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR 2023A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023When Shane McCrae was eighteen months old, he was removed from his parents and taken to suburban Texas. His mother was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982186722Author Nora McInernyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Atria/One Signal PublishersPublisher Atria/One Signal PublishersWeight(grams)...

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year.In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398486546Author Viram JasaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair. For readers who were swept up in Laura Cumming's On Chapel...

Brian Gault is one of the 450 survivors of the 'miracle-drug' Thalidomide's exposure to the British market in the mid-twentieth century. To the shock of his parents, he was born with no arms.Otherwise physically and mentally fit and able, Brian has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398407053Author Sue HodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'From my earliest tennis memories, Rod Laver stood above all others as the greatest champion our sport has known.' Roger FedererRod Laver's autobiography tells the inspiring story of how a diminutive, left-handed, red-headed country boy became one of the...