Personal Memoirs

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Isinglass Teen Read Award 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780316286633Author Malala YousafzaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Little, Brown &...

'Generous, moving and alive. A gift' - Tim Dee, author of Greenery'Intelligent, thought-provoking and always, always interesting' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment'Smyth writes with warmth and engaging perception about our relationship and...

"Dishy, warm, and entertaining."-Kirkus Reviews?The beloved Black pop culture icon, entrepreneur, Hollywood actress and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star bares her life in this frank, funny, and fearless memoir about life, love and the pursuit of...

Despite outward appearances three years after getting sober Lotta is struggling to deal with life in the raw. It's becoming abundantly clear what people mean when they say putting down the drink is just the beginning. Truth is Lotta's lifelong...

In Pirin Planina: Tragic and Comic Episodes from Captivity, Romanian poet and writer George Topirceanu (1886-1937) described his experiences as a soldier during World War I. Despite his bleak surroundings and vivid descriptions of death and tragedy that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743274289Author Horatio ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913568061Author George LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Clink Street PublishingPublisher Clink Street PublishingWeight(grams)...

'Entertaining and refreshingly introspective' Times Literary Supplement "They were like balloons that had escaped a child's grasp - pointlessly floating. "Focus!" I would plead with my mother. And my father was forever being diverted." Allow us to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401323868Author Michael J FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

The four volumes of spokesman and strategist Alastair Campbell's diaries were a publishing sensation.As British Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man, former journalist and political analyst Campbell played a critical role in every aspect of New...

Doug Stanhope has been drunkenly stumbling down the back roads and dark alleys of stand-up comedy for over a quarter of a century, roads laden with dank bars, prostitutes, cheap drugs, farm animals, evil dwarfs, public nudity, menacing third-world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735212619Author Whitney CummingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 209mm...

In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for how we all can nurture the wild around and inside ourselves.In 1991, twenty-four-year-old Lynx Vilden...

Formally ambidextrous, teethed with wit and uncompromising dignity." - Ocean VuongBread and Circus is a hybrid and palimpsestic memoir-in-verse: it combines poetry, photography and spectral imaging to explore the realities of economic necessity and...

'Bold, inspired and hopeful' Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global'Lucid and captivating' Max Tegmark, professor of physics at MIT and author of Life 3.0A captivating memoir that chronicles one woman's mission to humanise technology and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407576Author Rachel DratchFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263935Author Caroline KettlewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

'I can't recommend it highly enough' STEPHEN FRY | 'Everyone needs to hear his voice' MARK HADDONI'm a man on a mission to show that life with Down syndrome can be exciting and is worth living, so that other people understand and give us the chance to...

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF DEAR MICHAEL, LOVE DAD & OUT OF THE MADHOUSE 'I am Ian Wilkerson. 54 years old. Married forever. Three children. I have been made redundant. I believe I have cancer. And... I am losing my mind.' The announcement of a baby -...

1986, Mobile, Alabama. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened by the unmistakable sound of gunfire. On the front lawn, her father has shot and killed her mother before turning the gun on himself. Allison Moorer would grow up to be an award-winning...

Writer and artist Ailie Banks is a self-proclaimed bitch. The word has been thrown at her, and the women around her, Ailie's entire life. A bitch is stereotypically thought to be unkind, uncaring and ultimately untrustworthy. But in Ailie's eyes, a bitch...

Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigration. Although his writings on philosophical aesthetics have shown him to be a leading authority...

From the Munich Olympic Games when the athletes were murdered by terrorists, to the initialling of the Treaty of Rome when Britain entered the Common Market, Barbara Hosking was there. This is the story of a simple Cornish girl with no contacts or...

From the Munich Olympic Games when the athletes were murdered by terrorists, to the initialling of the Treaty of Rome when Britain entered the Common Market, Barbara Hosking was there. This is the story of a simple Cornish girl with no contacts or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999675202Author Gwyn SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Lawson Publishing LimitedPublisher Lawson Publishing Limited

Over his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world's most popular video games, including Sid Meier's Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulated more than one billion hours of play. Sid Meier's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767931786Author Brent W. JeffsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451681680Author Tom SizemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 20mm

'One of the best things published about cinema.' Sight & SoundHerzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most important director alive. Famous for his frequent collaborations with mercurial actor Klaus Kinski - including the epics Aguirre, the...

Why is it that the more advanced our society becomes, the unhappier we are?Seeking an answer from the only honest perspective, Tobias Jones and his wife opened up their family home and ten acre woodland to those going through crises in their lives, or...

Why is it that the more advanced our society becomes, the unhappier we are? Seeking an answer from the only honest perspective, Tobias Jones and his wife opened up their family home and ten acre woodland to those going through crises in their lives, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615554884Author Renee GibbonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Renee GibbonsPublisher Renee GibbonsWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635574388Author V (formerly Eve Ensler)Format HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 250g

'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than anything I recorded of it.' Sylvia Townsend Warner There are many ways of telling the story of a life and how we've got to where we are. The questions of why and how we think the way we do...

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...

Having Irvine Welsh as one of your best mates was not without its problems. Sandy Macnair and Irvine Welsh were friends long before fame and fortune arrived by train, and their adventures and Welsh's novels have obvious parallels. Their adventures were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982185763Author Mike RinderFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm * 32mm

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father's failed utopian commune, the benefits of an unmarried life, and...

A classic memoir by one of the greatest American screenwriters, Ben HechtNamed to Time's list of All-Time 100 Nonfiction Books, which deems it "the un-put-downable testament of the era's great multimedia entertainer."A Child of the Century, Ben Hecht's...