Personal Memoirs

'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' Mail on Sunday'Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book . . . taps into a widespread feeling that we have become cut off from the natural world' TLS'A book to share or even fight...

Imagine how it would feel to be plucked from your daily life and transported far from home and forced to work in some unknown and terrible place. Imagine being treated with violence, never having enough to eat, living in bestial conditions, and never...

'An engrossing, urgent, and entertaining read. I couldn't put it down' Roddy Doyle______Marguerite Penrose's is an extraordinary story of making a great life from complicated beginnings. Marguerite was born in a Dublin mother-and-baby home in 1974, the...

In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of the...

The two true life stories contained in Tenacity span decades-- and two worlds, Australia and Britain. Told through the painful words of mothers Julie Rose and Marilyn Cowell (as recorded by her daughters, Michelle and Sarah), this compelling read has no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952386824Author John Patrick HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 100g

In this absorbing memoir, well-known eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and deep ecology activist /teacher Joanna Macy recounts her adventures of mind and spirit in the key social movements of our era. Macy's autobiography reads like a novel as she...

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2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza. As an act of penance, solidarity and hope, actor and musician Justin...

Salman Abu Sitta, who has single-handedly made available crucial mapping work on Palestine, was just ten years old when he left his home near Beersheba in 1948, but as for many Palestinians of his generation, the profound effects of that traumatic loss...

When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed...

Among the Trump era's savviest insiders, one name stands especially tall: Kellyanne. As a highly respected pollster for corporate and Republican clients and a frequent television talk show guest, Kellyanne Conway had already established herself as one of...

Fitted Up is the remarkable true story of George Thatcher, who spent four weeks in a death cell awaiting the noose for murder following the Mitcham Co-op robbery in 1962. He was later reprieved, but would still serve eighteen years for a crime he did not...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621645092Author Tom HineyFormat PaperbackPage Count 305Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 136mm * 21mm

A fascinating, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting tale of self-discovery from the beloved actress who earned a permanent place in the hears of millions for her role in Little House on the Prarie when she was just a child. To fans of the hugely...

The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062319784Author Michelle McNamaraFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperPublisher HarperWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557258083Author Heather KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm...

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AS SEEN ON BBC ONE'S THE ONE SHOWBrought together by a shared love of birding, Ollie Olanipekun and Nadeem Perera set up Flock Together to challenge the underrepresentation of people of colour in nature. What started as a walk in their local park...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955948305Author Anthony Montague BrowneFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Podkin PressPublisher Podkin PressWeight(grams) 774g

In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, John Corabi recounts his life from the mean streets of Philadelphia to the Sunset Strip. Take a look behind the scenes at Corabi's time fronting Moetley Crue, Union, and The Dead Daisies, as well as his time playing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804390993Author Charlotte GearingFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916290Author Jonathan SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers

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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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250267993Author Robert A. JensenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781592406388Author Michael OherFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gotham...

'All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning - the merging of senseless subjectivities.' In 1950s...

Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention with the publication of her autobiography, Desert Flower. The book was subsequently made into a film and little Safa Nour, from one of...

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 9780914671534Author Scholastique MukasongaFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

Bonnie and Clyde were responsible for multiple murders and countless robberies. But they did not act alone. In 1933, during their infamous run from the law, Bonnie and Clyde were joined by Clyde's brother Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche. Of these four...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939931986Author Pauline Baer de PerignonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint New Vessel PressPublisher New Vessel Press

In March 1944, some 2,200 battle trained men of 111 Brigade flew from India into northern Burma to land on improvised airstrips cleared from the jungle, They were part of General Orde Wingates Chindit force sent to fight the Japanese deep behind their...

* THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * WINNER OF THE 2022 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION * 'A heart on the sleeve, demons in check, eyes unblinking, unbearably sad, laugh-out-loud funny revelation' MARLON JAMES Isaac Fitzgerald has...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570756160Author Joyce RuppFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)