Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316517881Author Mohamedou Ould SlahiFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

The diaries of a remarkable young woman who was determined to live a meaningful and happy life despite her struggle with cystic fibrosis and a rare superbug - from age 15 to her death at the age of 25. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of three,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156899826Author Ivan DoigFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

'Impossible to put down while you're reading, and impossible to forget about when you've finished' GlamourAfter a gruelling job interview where she was interrogated about everything from her political leanings to her family background, Sabrina Mahfouz...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307956743Author Chip CoffeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The voices of those who actually lived through the hell of blood and pain during the Great War have fallen silent. But every now and then a treasure is unearthed - a secret memoir. Walter's War is one such book. Written without his family's knowledge and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593137048Author Daniel JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Molly's touching account of life in Guernsey during the German Occupation brings events of the Second World War to life through the eyes of a young child. The Channel Islands were the only British territory to be occupied during the Second World War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399588587Author Suleika JaouadFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm)...

The Sick Bag Song chronicles Cave's 22-city journey around North America in 2014. Racked by romantic longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out the significant moments - the people, the books and the music - that have influenced and inspired him, and drops...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250116543Author Zach AnnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

In the hugely popular 'Q & A' style, this devotional journal enables you to reflect on your spiritual journey over a period of five years. Approachable and encouraging, it offers a brief Scripture reading and a question for each day. There are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648222286Author Murray Ernest HallFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint The Book Reality ExperiencePublisher Leschenault PressWeight(grams) 535g

"Erica Garza has written a riveting, can't-look-away memoir of a life lived hardcore...In an era when predatory male sexual behavior has finally become a topic of urgent national discourse...Getting Off makes for a wild, timely read" (Elle).A fixation on...

Dena was a busy midwife trapped on the hamster wheel of working motherhood. Adam was an eccentric Buddhist yogi passing as a hard-working dad. Bella was fourteen and wanted to be normal. Sophia was up for anything that involved skipping school. Together,...

A beautifully evocative account of one man's odyssey to discover authentic and unbroken magical traditions in the East and reawaken them in the West * Shares the similarities he discovered between the teachings of the Indian tradition and the Western...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723425Author Liam MulvinFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 384g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (J. Sando Western History) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780425247853Author Chester NezFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley...

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

If in 2017, a group of young men had decided to emulate this odyssey, they would probably only have managed a part of the journey. Conflict and bureaucracy would have barred their entry to many of the countries they tried to cross. However, in 1960,...

In 2002 Lucy Newlyn found herself incarcerated in a mental hospital in Leeds. She had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act as a danger to herself and others during a psychotic episode after several nights without sleep. The psychosis was triggered...

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Bravely revealing' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Funny, moving, helpful and true, Friendaholic deserves a massive audience' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'This book is brilliant' JO...

Our local councillors come from people close to their electorate: family, friends, neighbours, work mates, people down your street. They might be down your street - but you don't feel that they are up it! They spend multi billions of our money annually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399590900Author Julia PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

In this journey of discovery, John Micklewright travels the slow way, on foot, on paths, tracks and byways from the Channel to the Alps - from the coast of Normandy to the flanks of Mont Blanc. The Opening Country is a beautifully written account of...

How was it that this well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil Tigers? Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of seventeen, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a...

David Coltart is one of the most prominent political and human rights figures in Zimbabwe. In 2000, he was elected to Parliament and, following the creation of a 'coalition' government in September 2008, he was appointed Minister of Education, Sport,...

To tell the story of Morris Day is to tell the story of Prince. Not because they were inseparable or because their paths never diverged, but because, even when their paths did diverge, they always intersected again. Each artist lifted the other up,...

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'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus GBP300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens. Then again it might not. But hope...

'There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.' Hannah Gadsby, NanetteMulti-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035814305Author Mike StovellFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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...

Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity,...

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He was my religious teacher. I should have been able to trust him. But he made me do unspeakable things... At seven years old, Nabila Sharma began her lessons at the mosque as every good Muslim girl does. But from the minute she looked up at her Imam,...

When James Cook's daughter was nearly one, he began to suspect that she wasn't simply a 'late bloomer', as he and his wife were telling friends and family. Emily was strongly taken by images and patterns around the house, had a marked response to music,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993125942Author MW BewickFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Dunlin PressPublisher Dunlin Press

In 1921, Francoise Frenkel - a Jewish woman from Poland - opens her first bookshop in Berlin. It is a dream come true. The dream lasts nearly two decades. Then suddenly, it ends. It ends after police confiscations and the Night of Broken Glass, as...

This is a book about how it feels to exist. About the moments we come off autopilot and engage fully with the world around us. The fleeting moments in which our minds and bodies connect totally to one another and to our environment. Intimate,...