Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170960Author David BelbinFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982104979Author Beverley McLachlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

'Completely fascinating, revelatory . . . A classic of its kind.' WILLIAM BOYD'Compelling . . . compulsive.' MARGARET DRABBLE, NEW STATESMANT.S. Eliot and Mary Trevelyan shared a close friendship - twenty-five years in each others' company: playing...

THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.Eve joined...

THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.Eve joined...

Matt Sanford's life and body were irrevocably changed at age 13 on a snowy lowa road. On that day, his family's car skidded off an overpass, killing Matt's father and sister and leaving him paralyzed from the chest down and confined to a wheelchair. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400226726Author Laura SobiechFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams)...

In the shadow of the Holocaust, the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, "When God Looked the Other Way", gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet...

Many Americans today, of all backgrounds, lack a clear sense of cultural heritage or even a vocabulary for expressing this lack. And as the national conversation about identity becomes increasingly polarized, people tend to avoid talking about their...

For the first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the persecution facing his people. 'I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old,...

Dan Rhodes is one of the most successful and beloved YouTuber and TikTok influencers in the world with more than 5 billion views on YouTube and the most viewed personal post ever - over 300 million views - on TikTok.In this, his debut book, Dan brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112624Author Carl SaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984881656Author Camilla PangFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to...

'Urgent, compelling and lyrically, luminously beautiful . . . a brilliant, heart-rending read.' Psychologies MagazineBrown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin,...

'I never usually know what to give the men in my life but I've found the perfect book: VINTAGE ROGER by Roger Mortimer, a collection of letters from the author's war years. He manages to be hilariously funny, even about the most gruesome encounters. I...

The Surfboard is Dan Kieran's account of a week he spent in Cornwall building a seven-foot surfboard, even though he had never surfed a day in his life. He did this at a time when he felt he had reached his personal and professional limits: he needed to...

The Surfboard is Dan Kieran's account of a week he spent in Cornwall building a seven-foot surfboard, even though he had never surfed a day in his life. He did this at a time when he felt he had reached his personal and professional limits: he needed to...

Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked - even by those living within a stone's throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural crossing-point, it has shaped the world in myriad ways,...

'Poignant and often hilarious' Publishers WeeklyWhat if we responded to death... by throwing a party?By the time Erica Buist's father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385349949Author Sheryl SandbergFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 243mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170656Author Aleksander WatFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

It is almost impossible to summarise the extraordinary life of Mariella Novotny in a few paragraphs. In 1961 she was an underage hooker engaging in sexual relations with President John F. Kennedy, the most powerful man in the world. She was believed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470289068Author Don FelderFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 636gDimensions(mm)...

'Beautifully written and structured, deeply moving, and realised in wise, thoughtful, chiselled prose... it is that rarity: a genuine non-fiction classic' William Dalrymple'A troubling and moving account of lives gone wrong in the search for an eastern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993166808Author Neil HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Enthusiastic WhimPublisher Enthusiastic Whim

'Alister McGrath is a brilliant guide to Jim Packer's invigorating theological vision. Crisp, incisive commentary on every page!' - Andrew Atherstone, Wycliffe Hall, University of OxfordJ. I. Packer was one of the most influential evangelical theological...

Just how do you become a barrister? And why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession? If it's such a great occupation, how come you work 100-hour weeks for less than minimum wage? And why might a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398478978Author Mark JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901927856Author Iain MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Route PublishingPublisher Route PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 25mm

A New York Times Best Wine Book of 2021 A Washington Post Best Wine Book of 2021Named one of the Best Wine Books of 2021 by Henry Jeffreys, timatkin.comSouth of Somewhere begins and ends in American writer Robert Camuto's maternal ancestral town of Vico...

For more than half a century, Kenny Rogers has been recording some of the most revered and beloved music in America and around the world. In that time, he has become a living legend by combining everything from R and B to country and gospel to folk in...

For more than half a century, Kenny Rogers has been recording some of the most revered and beloved music in America and around the world. In that time, he has become a living legend by combining everything from R and B to country and gospel to folk in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770410596Author Neil PeartFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 885g

Adeline Harris grew up in surroundings steeped in religion, from the beloved ayah in India who told her stories of Jesus wrestling tigers, to the strict father in England who placed a stone under her knee when she said the Rosary. It was no wonder that...

In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra's barge. It asked for a GBP30,000 loan to buy a black-and-cream narrowboat...

'There are few things more enjoyable than reading the diaries of Simon Gray.' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday Simon Gray's witty, painful, and acutely observed Early Diaries chronicle the highs and lows of bringing two of his plays to the stage. An Unnatural...

For the past fifty years, Monday afternoons in New Haven have always been the same: Roz, Rhoda, Bea, Jackie and Bette - the Bridge Ladies. A card table with four folding chairs (and one dummy seat). A plate of homemade cookies or brownies on the kitchen...

A journey to find Norway's supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy-and does it translate? Norway is usually near or at the top of the World Happiness Report. But is it really one of the...