Personal Memoirs

After thirty years abroad, Jonathan Cox, a Cornishman and former journalist, returns to Cornwall to study at Falmouth University, accompanied by his Swiss wife, Marlis. The Cornwall Sabbatical is a humorous chronicle of their experience as they explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398479647Author Patricia GoochFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306832536Author Aaron NevilleFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 161mm *...

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"Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New YorkerNow in paperback with a new epilogueIn this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400982Author Gary DexterFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

"One of the Year's Best," Times Literary Supplement When a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new friend is every bit as complex as the fiction he's famous...

Come through the doors of the care homes with the care home manager, the home to our elderly, vulnerable adults, their final home. Experience the day-to-day life as a Registered manager and share some of her tales she tells. Susie tells her tales of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398488380Author Zara DuvallFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553572339Author Shirley MaclaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir' Daily Express'A story that...

An inspiring true story of a life devoted to helping Downs children. Alex Bell is a 53 year old woman who lives in Swinton, on the outskirts of Manchester. She is feisty, funny with a real firecracker of a personality. She has needed that...

An inspiring true story of a life devoted to helping Downs children. Alex Bell is a 53 year old woman who lives in Swinton, on the outskirts of Manchester. She is feisty, funny with a real firecracker of a personality. She has needed that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916164031Author L.A. DavenportFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint P-Wave PressPublisher MNDee LtdWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 111mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553273700Author Shirley MaclaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world's most captivating big-wave surfing destinations. Born and raised in Bundoran, with the waves of the west coast of Ireland...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and technology are changing what it means...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956527813Author John F. SmythFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Maclean DuboisPublisher Maclean DuboisWeight(grams) 433gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 140mm *...

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After he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or 'newjack', Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating...

One man's story of life in The Joy -- compulsive, chilling and frank. A no-holds-barred account of a criminal's time in the notorious Dublin prison, as revealed to journalist Paul Howard. This extraordinary life story tells it all. The desperate...

Finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nonfiction AwardWinner of the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, Multicultural & Indigenous CategoryBorn in Somalia, a spare daughter in a large family, Shugri Said Salh was sent at age six to live with her...

I was almost born within the sound of Bow Bells, nearly born in Wales, but ended up being born in Kent. But never mind all that, I'm a Londoner, through and through. I spent my early childhood in Bethnal Green and even when we moved to live across the...

One day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden, he found himself falling back into the old religious devotions of an earlier time. The meaning he had found through years of engagement with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571745330Author Ronald RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing CoWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504372060Author Matt JardineFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Balboa PressPublisher Balboa PressWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062962812Author Ree DrummondFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

With only a sextant, his instincts as a seasoned sailor, and a boat filled with memories of his floundering marriage, Peter Nichols sets out on a solo voyage from England to Maine, where he plans to sell his beloved, twenty-seven-foot, engineless boat,...

From the frontlines of the COVID crisis to the real events behind the meteoric rise and unfathomable fall of Governor Andrew Cuomo, one of the most powerful women in New York State government history shares her gripping and candid story for the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849145589Author Amanda EpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint CompletelyNovel.comPublisher CompletelyNovel.comWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525537380Author Michele HarperFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035809318Author Neil J MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

"Often reads like the latest entry from Ludlum or Le Carre . . . fascinating."-Book News, Inc.A true story that pulls no punches, Enter the Past Tense also chronicles Haas's descent into, and recovery from, alcoholism that resulted from the stress of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999118115Author Oheneyere Gifty AntiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Triple a PressPublisher Triple a PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

In Letters to a Young Gymnast , Nadia Comaneci tells how she found the inner strength to become a world-class athlete at such a young age. Now a woman of tremendous poise and self-assurance, she offers unique insights into the mind of a top competitor...

What would happen if you built one of the world's most advanced societies inside a forest-and strove to make women full partners in power?After living for twenty-five years in New York, Naomi Moriyama moved with her husband and co-author William Doyle...

'A tale of loss and hope, of strength drawn from truly inhabiting the moment.' - Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt PathAn inspiring memoir and simple guide that anyone can use to find a new kind of happiness in the small pleasures of everyday...