Personal Memoirs

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Adventurous stories told from a non-Western perspective by one of the most accomplished early Himalayan climbersnow in English for the first time. Sherpas have recently been in the public eye, in part because of the 2013 Everest "brawl," the 2014...

After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a...

Punk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcade's first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding up in New York City and becoming...

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact...

Sir Vidia's Shadow is a book that chronicles bestselling author Paul Theroux's long friendship with writer V.S Naipaul from its beginning to untimely end with both funny and moving moments and stark honesty. 'Both unputdownable and utterly engaging'...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHThe extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth in 2022On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562955Author Philip PullmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba's coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345383488Author Lorenzo CarcaterraFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

At the age of 30, Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend, and his job as a designer in Tokyo to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous Zen training temples in Japan. This book is Nonomura's recollection of his...

Mia is nineteen, too mentally ill and too often on drugs to keep a 'straight' job so she starts working at a massage parlour. She takes to sex work with recklessness, aplomb, and good humour.As she works her way through Sydney's many rub-and-tug joints,...

At thirteen, Rachel Lloyd found herself caught up in a world of pain and abuse, struggling to survive as a child with no responsible adults to support her. Vulnerable yet tough, she eventually ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. It took...

At thirteen, Rachel Lloyd found herself caught up in a world of pain and abuse, struggling to survive as a child with no responsible adults to support her. Vulnerable yet tough, she eventually ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. It took...

In Azar Nafisi's personal story of growing up in Iran, she shares her memories of a life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution. Nafisi's intelligent and complicated mother,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982381Author Ruth ReichlFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679762874Author Robyn DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398474116Author Della Patricia AllawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Mark O'Connell didn't want to be Luke Skywalker, He wanted to be one of the mop-haired kids on the Star Wars toy commercials. And he would have done it had his parents had better pine furniture and a condo in California. Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounters...

The true and remarkable story of the English double agent who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow. Like many working class children growing up in the war, the young Jim Riordan would fantasise his way out of his devastated surroundings with...

'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I write myself off.' Booze had dominated Jill Stark's social life ever since she had her first sip of beer, at 13. She thought...

A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media. When Les Hinton first fulfils his schoolboy dream of working on Fleet Street, it is still a place awash in warm beer, black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398406544Author Peter AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he became one of Paris's most influential food critics Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593448946Author Jon M. ChuFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers and the secret lives of deer and dogs. In this book, the capstone of her long career, Thomas, now 88, turns her keen eye...

Es'kia Mphahlele's seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa-available for the first time in Penguin ClassicsNominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es'kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African...

An incredible true coming-of-age storyIn 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from her quiet seaside home for the Hackney Hospital in London's bustling East End, where she is to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062978806Author Ree DrummondFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments is a collection of essays unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the physical and philosophical power of sound and music, and...

In Wind In My Hair, Josephine Loewenstein captures the rich kaleidoscope of a life lived to the full. Many of the worlds she has been part of have vanished, or are fast disappearing. By breathing new life into them, she has created a collage of memories...

Tales of the Gypsy Dressmaker is the much-anticipated memoir from Thelma Madine, the dressmaker and breakaway star from Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, the hottest show on TV right now. From 200 ft trains to 20 stone skirts, hundreds of LED lights to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908026453Author John MallonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Diadem BooksPublisher Book Printing UKWeight(grams) 262gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908026453Author John MallonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Diadem BooksPublisher Book Printing UKWeight(grams) 262gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Imagine for a moment that you have never heard the voices of those you love, the music on the radio, the sound of birdsong at dawn, nor the persistent passing traffic on the road you walk down. Now imagine that the lips you have watched moving, the faces...

The extraordinary life of the best poker player who ever livedWhen Stuey 'The Kid' Ungar took his first World Series of Poker title, one journalist asked him what he would do with the money. His answer: 'Gamble it'.Stuey grew up among the hoodlums and...

'Shh, new vicar might be listening . . .' As the newly appointed Vicar of Helmsley, David was looking forward to working in this picturesque market town, set in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside. Admittedly the vicarage, which dated back to the...

'Shh, new vicar might be listening . . .' As the newly appointed Vicar of Helmsley, David was looking forward to working in this picturesque market town, set in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside. Admittedly the vicarage, which dated back to the...

In the 1960s and '70s, thousands of baby boomers strapped packs to their backs and flocked to Europe, wandering the continent on missions of self-discovery. Many of these boomers still dream of "going back"-of once again cutting themselves free and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995589711Author Ian McNeishFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Extremis Publishing LimitedPublisher Extremis Publishing Limited