Personal Memoirs

-----------------------------'Touching and on occasion profoundly moving ... The connections and affinities that fill this book enliven, enlighten and delight.' STEPHEN FRY'Beautifully written and insightful.' RAYNOR WINN'Searle creates a powerful sense...

-----------------------------'Touching and on occasion profoundly moving ... The connections and affinities that fill this book enliven, enlighten and delight.' STEPHEN FRY'Beautifully written and insightful.' RAYNOR WINN'Searle creates a powerful sense...

For a special decade, from 1965 (when the author was 15 years old) to ten years later in 1975, David Chudwin was at the centre of many events which have shaped American life, culture and history. Like the fictional character Forrest Gump, he happened to...

Funeral Diva is the Winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry!A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art."Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry, and the book has the feeling of live performance. . . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for The Arts Foundation Futures Awards, Comics Category 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781912408665Author Zara SlatteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Myriad...

This is a story she never wanted to tell, but in the end she had no choice. When her older sister dies at the age of sixty-nine, it brings back a past the author thought she had left behind. Incensed, she delves back into her childhood, recreating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455530533Author FleaFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889514Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861513168Author Anna J SkyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 350g

A major new history of the disaster that weaves into the narrative the first-hand accounts of those who survived. It was twenty minutes to midnight on Sunday 14 April, when Jack Thayer felt the Titanic lurch to port, a motion followed by the slightest of...

Jack Webster has had a lifetime of adventure as a respected and highly-commended journalist, meeting the rich and famous and experiencing what the world has to offer. From his upbringing in rural Aberdeenshire - where he survived a serious heart...

Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmother's name was not Seher but Heranus. She was born a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909623248Author Elizabeth RoddickFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 203gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Vicky Unwin had always known her father - an erstwhile intelligence officer and respected United Nations diplomat - was Czech, but it was not until a stranger turned up on her doorstep that she discovered he was also Jewish.So began a quest to discover...

*Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year*'Harrowing, brave, hugely important book' HENRY WINTER'Absolutely amazed by the power of Andy Woodward's testimony' JEREMY VINE SHOW'I'm sure this will be one of the defining football books of the...

'A beacon of hope in a dark world' Cathy Rentzenbrink, on international bestseller You Will Not Have My HateA moving account of single fatherhood in the wake of bereavement. When Antoine Leiris lost his wife, Helene, in a terrorist attack in Paris, he...

When George Mitchell described his time helping broker peace in Northern Ireland, he said, 'We had 700 bad days - and then one good day, which changed the course of history.' One Good Day is the fascinating insider account of those negotiations...

'Keelin's compelling story is as powerful as the woman she was.' Liz Nugent Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking is a masterpiece. This ranks alongside. How can such a beautifully written, intimate, heartbreaking memoir be so uplifting?' Joe...

'Keelin's compelling story is as powerful as the woman she was.' Liz Nugent Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking is a masterpiece. This ranks alongside. How can such a beautifully written, intimate, heartbreaking memoir be so uplifting?' Joe...

THE LONG-AWAITED, MOVING MEMOIR OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR HANNAH PICK-GOSLAR.'Heartbreaking and life-affirming' - Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'An extraordinary story of love, loss and the power of friendship in the darkest time.' - Jack...

In 2003, England won the Rugby World Cup. Steve Thompson was there, in England's front row, at the heart of the match, and at the heart of the scrum - one of sport's most destructive, repetitive impacts. But the triumphs came at a cost. When rugby union...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316347846Author Hida ViloriaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm *...

On 7 July 2005, Julie Nicholson's life was changed forever. Her daughter, Jenny, was killed on her way to work in the London bombings, shaking Julie's beliefs. With heartbreaking honesty and integrity, Julie tells her story of love, tragedy and heartache...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533113Author Professor Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035818624Author Valerie DignamFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

The day Lacey Sturm planned to kill herself was the day her grandmother forced her to go to church, a place Lacey thought was filled with hypocrites, fakers, and simpletons. The screaming match she had with her grandmother was the reason she went to...

A hard-hitting memoir about a woman’s search to understand the man who raped her Joanna Connors was thirty years old when she was raped at knifepoint by a stranger. Many years later she realised she had to confront the fear that had ruled her life ever...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062442581Author Bobby BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves,...

On the Road Not Taken is a memoir about the transformational power of music. It begins with a boy growing up in a small town on the Kent coast in the 1970s, who learns to play the guitar and dreams of heading out on the open road with a head full of...

`Offering a painfully honest insight into the male psyche, 'The 12th Man' is a fascinating account of how there can be far more to a die-hard football fan than meets the eye. Most fans don't choose their football club. In fact, the majority of them...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954118461Author Margaret RenklFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA Inc

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982127763Author Gabrielle KornFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 18mm

LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443163Author Katalin KarikoFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679732419Author Anne Morrow LindberghFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm)...

When I've been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm's shriek. When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with...

What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, ageing in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the 'new', in a ruling orthodoxy daily disparaging all it portrays as the 'old'? Delving into her own life and those of others who...

In 1841 the 'peasant poet' John Clare escaped from an asylum in Epping Forest, where he had been kept for four years, and walked over eighty miles home to Northamptonshire. Suffering from poor mental health, Clare was attempting to return to his...