Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476796628Author Nora KrugFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is?As a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell's sense of self was dominated by his father's absence. Now, years later, he is a father, and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993598906Author Philippa ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Philippa ThomsonPublisher Philippa Thomson

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451234698Author Jeff DunhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 319gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398432819Author Indarjit SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'Fascinating and intimate' OBSERVER'Lucid, distilled, honest' MAGGIE NELSON'Gorgeous, symphonic, tender' CARMEN MARIA MACHADOHow do you tell the real story of someone misremembered - an icon and idol - alongside your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904871729Author Robertson JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Good Life PressPublisher The Good Life PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm)...

Inspired by Sarah DiGregorio's harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, An Intimate History of Premature Birth is a compelling and empathetic blend of memoir and rigorous reporting that tells the story of neonatology -...

It Started in a Cupboard begins with a discussion of happiness and what it means to the author. This is followed by sections on Calman's career in Clinical Medicine and Public health, then his life after medicine. There then follows a section on wider...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947821425Author Roger KnightFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint J.W.McKenziePublisher J.W.McKenzieWeight(grams) 700gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 159mm * 21mm

Cry Salty Tears is the tale of a mother's survival and eventual triumph over almost unbelievable domestic hardship. Not only did Dinah O'Dowd face the harsh and unforgiving elements of her background - an upbringing in poverty-stricken 50s Dublin,...

Cry Salty Tears is the tale of a mother's survival and eventual triumph over almost unbelievable domestic hardship. Not only did Dinah O'Dowd face the harsh and unforgiving elements of her background - an upbringing in poverty-stricken 50s Dublin,...

Foreword by Janet Yellen Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in...

Where were you in 1966? Most of Bridget's friends, in their early twenties, were settling down with jobs and/or husbands... She, on the other hand, was wandering the highways and byways of Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia: behind the Iron Curtain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399594939Author Anna AkanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668005347Author Laura Cathcart RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

"For those who love boats, architecture and original enquiring minds, this book is a dream. " -Jeremy Irons World-famous architect Renzo Piano and his son Carlo set sail from Genoa one late Summer day, guided by the ancestral desire felt by many...

"When you're in the middle of the adventure, you just have to live it. When you're on an expedition, you put your head down and battle through. Storytelling happens after the finish line. . . . now that time has come [and] Julia can tell her story. The...

The second in a series of true short stories from foster carer Mia Marconi. India was a child who was destined to end up in care. She came to foster carer Mia Marconi's house when she was three; she'd already been in care for five months by then. But her...

In 2015, suffering from a dreadful case of writer's block, novelist and short story writer Jan Carson set herself the challenge of spending an entire year writing short pieces of microfiction on postcards and mailing these to friends around the world...

During the 1970s and 1980s, Peter Matthiessen took part in a number of expeditions to Africa, witnessing first-hand the continent's many and diverse peoples and wildlife. The fruits of these journeys are three of the most impressive essays on the natural...

'This beautiful compilation of Beth's words and artwork will be a useful companion for anyone who is muddling through the early bits of adulthood with varying degrees of 'ARGH!'' Ruby Elliott (@rubyetc)Welcome To Adulthood!Hey, wait - where are you going...

'This beautiful compilation of Beth's words and artwork will be a useful companion for anyone who is muddling through the early bits of adulthood with varying degrees of 'ARGH!'' Ruby Elliott (@rubyetc)Welcome To Adulthood!Hey, wait - where are you going...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760898915Author Tim BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Here's a story. On the U.S.-occupied island of Okinawa, an American soldier falls in love with a beautiful Japanese woman. He saves her from a life of grinding poverty. They settle in the States, to live out the suburban American Dream with their child. ...

Here's a story. On the U.S.-occupied island of Okinawa, an American soldier falls in love with a beautiful Japanese woman. He saves her from a life of grinding poverty. They settle in the States, to live out the suburban American Dream with their child. ...

THE CHART-TOPPING MEMOIR______________________________________________________________________________________'This memoir is one of the smartest, funniest books I've read about love in a long, long time' - RED'illuminating' METROHaley McGee is in debt...

Foreword by Admiral Lord West of Spithead Few people, even in the Navy, are even aware of this dreadful incident [the loss of submarine HMS Truculent in the Thames] and certainly not the details of human error that led to this huge loss of life. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060936228Author Patti SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363g

'Remarkably brought together, heartwarming and uplifting . . . showing that despite differences in age and background, geography and lifestyle, there is so much that binds up, so much we share' Kit de Waal'A stimulating collection of women's voices to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911221647Author Evelyn GlennieFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Balestier PressPublisher Balestier Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451696110Author Lyssa ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Howard BooksPublisher Howard BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 20mm

An extraordinary story told by an ordinary woman. Eileen Caddy (1917-2006) is known worldwide as one of the three founders of the Findhorn Foundation in the north of Scotland. The books that have flowed from her inspiration have drawn multitudes to the...

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...

Berlin 1966, a city divided by an impenetrable wall erected by the communist German Democratic Republic. Together with his friends, the West German student Volker G. Heinz is looking for ways to help would-be fugitives escape from East to West. Their...

In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's box. Haunted by nostalgia for a bygone era, he recalled a protected and idyllic childhood in the fabled...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993592362Author Brigid GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Orla Kelly PublishingPublisher Orla Kelly PublishingWeight(grams) 425g

Illuminating her inner journey growing up mixed-race in Britain, Esua Jane Goldsmith's unique memoir exposes the isolation and ambiguities that often come with being 'an only'.Raised in 1950s South London and Norfolk with a white, working-class family,...

What happens when a professional dominatrix falls in love with a real-life Christian Grey? When recently heartbroken, unpaid intern Nichi Hodgson decides to become a professional dominatrix, she's only looking to fund her way into working in the media...