Personal Memoirs

New York Times Bestseller "McKeon's delightful memories have been tucked away for fifty years, and thankfully, she has brought them out to share the enchanting magic of Camelot with us all." -Kirkus Reviews "Celebrity watchers who covet an insider's...

'One of Ireland's most powerful campaigners' The Kavanagh SistersI look back now and see that I never stood a chance. It's hard when you realise your whole childhood was taken away. I never got the chance to be a child.'Shaneda Daly was only four when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524747282Author Victoria RiskinFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Treasures and mementos from the estate of Sarah Jane Adams Auction catalogues can reveal a lot about a person - their lives, loves and style. Sarah Jane Adams, a jewellery & antiques dealer who became an international model and Instagram...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528938044Author Chris DunphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735225190Author Ani DiFrancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour - so why couldn't he? Surely, it would only be a matter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541698994Author Irvin D YalomFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 142mm * 25mm

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life-and his family's-as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived...

"Intrepid and empathetic, gifted with the dispassionate gaze of a born observer...a harmonious collage of worldview and character, a wunderkammer of experiences in a life fully lived." -Melissa Febos, The New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524873738Author Wendi AaronsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams)...

When Alice Jolly's second child was stillborn and all subsequent attempts to have another baby failed, she began to consider every possible option, no matter how unorthodox.Shot through with humour and full of hope, Dead Babies and Seaside Towns is an...

This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 STELLA PRIZEIn the year before her death, as she struggled with an untreatable illness, Cory Taylor began to write about her experiences, the patterns of her life, and of those she had lost. Dying is about vulnerability and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767903868Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Sir Nick Young's memoir is a fascinating and candid account of his thirteen years as chief executive of the British Red Cross (2001-2014). During this critical period he led the organisation's response to the financial crisis, the Iraq War, the Asian...

'History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.' One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinker's door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in...

'History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes.' One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinker's door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in...

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 9780995589728Author Robert MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Extremis Publishing LimitedPublisher Extremis Publishing Limited

It is almost impossible to summarise the extraordinary life of Mariella Novotny in a few paragraphs. In 1961 she was an underage hooker engaging in sexual relations with President John F. Kennedy, the most powerful man in the world. She was believed to...

The Best of Both Worlds is the true story of how childhood misery and trauma helped Gordon Smith discover a gift that has helped many people throughout the world. He has helped those who are in mourning come to terms with death and bereavement by working...

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 9781594633348Author Sigrid NunezFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)Publisher Penguin Putnam...

Tom Mangold is known to millions as the face of BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme Panorama and as its longest-serving reporter. Splashed! is the 'antidote to the conventional journalist's autobiography' - a compelling, hilarious and raucous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780007156634Author Hugo HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint HarperCollins Publishers LtdPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams)...

We live in uncertain times, and in our search for solutions to the problems of the world The Seer offers a new way of thinking and living.Praised for its visionary and transformative power, this incredible true story has attracted tens of thousands of...

When did making babies get to be so hard? Infertility is on the rise globally, affecting as many as one in six couples. But instead of considering diet and lifestyle factors, doctors pump their patients full of expensive and invasive fertility treatments...

The story of how Abdel Sellou (a charismatic ex-con) came to be the caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (a paralyzed French aristocrat) inspired the award-winning French movie Les Intouchables (2012), which became an international phenomenon and broke...

Radical Love is the debut memoir from actor Zachary Levi (Shazam!,?American Underdog,?The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,?Chuck), which shares his emotional journey through a lifetime of crippling anxiety and depression to find joy, gratitude, and ultimate...

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is one of the greatest shows on earth. Around 220,000 people attend each year. It is seen on TV by a further 100 million. Alasdair Hutton is the Voice of the Tattoo. This book is the story of the Tattoo, told by the...

A powerful chronicle of loyalty, love, and heroism under fire, this is the unforgettable memoir of a member of the Greatest Generation who fought in America's greatest battles - and of the war one man waged both in and out of the skies. High-spirited...

Raised among the Cambridge intellectual elite with a distant father and authoritarian mother, Eliza grows up feeling inadequate and alone. But her parents' friends offer support - notably the Rothschild family and Lord Bob Boothby. In a bid to find...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800310667Author Olukemi OgunyemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800995741Author Mavis Williams-RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558612884Author Jessica ZuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

As the eldest daughter of a prolific letter writer, Jane Torday received hundreds of letters from her father over the years. From irreverent advice and hilarious family anecdotes to moments of great poignancy, Roger Mortimer's missives are a touching and...

'Absorbing . . . testaments such as Janina Bauman's are important and should never be allowed to fade away. The drama of Anne Frank is rightly always before us but the equally vital stories of those who suffered but survived need to be listened to with...