Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986732904Author Mark LewisFormat HardbackImprint Mark Lewis EntertainmentPublisher Mark Lewis EntertainmentWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Audies (Business/Personal Development) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781982143091Author Dr Edith Eva EgerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780912042Author Tony ReddingFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

What happens when the minibus full of your fellow wedding travellers hits a bear in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness? Or you hear the voice of your high school's long lost queen bee from a bathroom cubicle? Why is there always a moment of utter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114741Author Michael PollanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm...

In his previous book, Running Hot & Cold, Doug described his journey from couch potato in late middle age to running long-distance races across deserts, mountains, jungles and snow fields in locations as diverse as the Sahara Desert and the polar ice-cap...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905128150Author Geoff NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Harbour Books (East) LtdPublisher Harbour Books (East) Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553459272Author Bob EcksteinFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid chronicles the author's decade-long obsession with televised sport during his teenage years in the 1980s. Charting similar waters to Nick Hornby's classic Fever Pitch, but with the hopeless devotion of a teenager...

"You are Black; you are female," Leslie Jones' father once said. "But if you work harder and you're better than everybody else, they can't f*cking deny you." Leslie Jones is a warrior. Raised by a tough dad and a loving but often sick mom, her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528987646Author Alison PeppertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250810885Author Alyssa ShelaskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

Laura Thompson's grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to be given a publican's license in her own name and, just as pubs defined her life, she seemed to embody their essence. Laura spent...

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...

HERE IF YOU NEED ME is the story Kate Braestrup's remarkable journey from grief to faith to happiness - as she holds her family together in the wake of her husband's death, pursues his dream of becoming a minister, and ultimately finds her calling as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982185763Author Mike RinderFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 160mm * 32mm

In nineties small-town Surrey, watching Top of the Pops was Malcolm's only escape from boredom and the bullies at school... until a phone call from a pop star changed his life forever. Before long, he was getting compliments from Beyonce, hanging out at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322899Author StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)...

Here Comes Trouble is Michael Moore's blistering anti-memoir, a hilarious book tracing the origins of his political rabble-rousing and his early forays into campaigning for change.Michael Moore has been called an iconoclast, a maverick, a vital...

Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchu suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother,...

Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers through her experience of stumbling through grief and loss, and helps them to get through it, too. This isn't a weepy, sentimental story, but rather a frank,...

'A life-changing book' Viv GroskopMarisa Meltzer was put on her first diet aged five: it was the beginning of a fraught relationship with food.Jean Nidetch was a housewife from Queens who defiantly lost 70 pounds after she was mistaken for being pregnant...

A wry, intelligent, and unputdownable look at class and national identity today. Alberto Prunetti arrives in the UK, the twenty-something-year-old son of a Tuscan factory worker who has never left home before. With only broken English, his wits, and an...

Otto Skorzeny, Germanys top commando in the Second World War, is one of the most famous men in the history of special forces. His extraordinary wartime career was one of high risk and adventure and here he tells the full story. Skorzeny quickly proved...

"Seven years on from its original publication, Pastrix remains bracing and beautiful. Nadia's bold vulnerability and tender heart are timeless gifts. And the words she has added to this edition remind me: We need her call to tender grace and a loving,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780758229649Author Cloris LeachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 368g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935347484Author Claire FejesFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

Chris Rennard's long relationship with the Liberals, and later the Liberal Democrats, began when a compassionate Liberal candidate helped his disabled mother receive her widowed mother allowance. By his 20s Rennard was the most successful election...

Duncan Williamson was the son, grandson and great grandson of nomadic tinsmiths, basket makers, pipers and storytellers. In this book, he describes his life as a traveller with verve, candour and intimacy, recounting a childhood spent on the shores of...

This is one boy's tale of growing up in Oxford in the forties and fifties. It is a foreign land of being caned on hand and bottom, of teachers washing out a child's mouth with soap as punishment for swearing. It was a time of conkers, fag cards and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373930Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

OUR LIVERPOOL is an oral history about the real Liverpool - about the city before its slick transformation to European City of Culture and about the spirit that remains at its heart. Here, at last, is Liverpool's grievous and glorious past. And here,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971491Author Jon KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR LESBIAN MEMOIR'A muscular, canny memoir . . . I couldn't put it down. What a fucking gorgeous book' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO'Entertaining' New York Times'Absolutely not to be missed' Vogue'A gripping story'...

'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one...

"Bregje Hofstede is an extraordinary writer."-Rutger Bregmans, author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind: A Hopeful HistoryJenny Odell's How to Do Nothing meets Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep in this fascinating deep-dive into the science and history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416546979Author David BellaviaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838307417Author Charlie WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint DrCharlieWardPublisher DrCharlieWardWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838307417Author Charlie WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint DrCharlieWardPublisher DrCharlieWardWeight(grams) 170g

Through the linked pieces of The Coral Sea, Patti Smith honors her comrade-in-arms Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). She tells the story of a man on an ocean journey to see the Southern Cross, who is reflecting on his life and fighting the illness that is...