Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451475633Author Brandon WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 310g

In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013, Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, shooting her multiple times while she cowered behind the locked door of their bathroom. His trial has attracted more international media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501136429Author Shirley MacLaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250075734Author Glennon Doyle MeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

One woman embarked on a dance journey around the world, finding out how each dance tells a story of its country and learning how beautiful life can be when you take the lead.If you could do anything you wanted, what would it be? Alienor Salmon was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942762195Author Tom HuthFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Heliotrope Books LLCPublisher Heliotrope Books LLCWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

In Apollo and Thelma, broadcaster and lawyer Jon Faine shares a yarn that has enthralled him for forty years, taking him from Melbourne's depression-era slums to the isolation of the outback. Apollo and Thelma have been a constant in Jon Faine's life for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767906319Author David RakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division...

Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady, Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor.'The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and...

'The path I have travelled, the things I have done and the people I have met in crisis situations have given me a window into those qualities that make us perform. My military training created a mindset, an outlook and skills that can be channelled into...

Between 1945 and 1963 over 2 1/2 million 18-year-olds were called up for national service. Alf Townsend was one of them, and here he tells his story - the highs and lows of life as a lowly Aircraftman Second Class in the early 1950s. Before national...

Missing is Shelley MacKenney's remarkable story of life as a 'missing person'. An inspirational tale of her journey through extreme personal crisis."You can run, but you can't hide from yourself."Abandoned by her mother as a young child and with a father...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743269162Author Maureen O'HaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

An odyssey of family, heartbreak, violence, punk rock, brokenness, broke-ness, sex, love, loss, drinking, drinking, drinking, and an unlikely savior: distance running.A misfit kid at the best of times, Mishka Shubaly had his world shattered when, in a...

This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a...

It's 1971 and seventeen-year-old Christine is about to give birth to her son. When her family throw her out, Christine has the biggest fight of her life to bring up her son safe on the infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, rife with crime, alcohol and...

It's 1971 and seventeen-year-old Christine is about to give birth to her son. When her family throw her out, Christine has the biggest fight of her life to bring up her son safe on the infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, rife with crime, alcohol and...

Published to commemorate Albert Schweitzer's only visit to the United States 60 years ago, this anniversary edition of his autobiography gives 21st-century readers a unique and authoritative account of the man John F. Kennedy called "one of the...

Jason Priestley, star of the iconic hit television series Beverly Hills, 90210 and one of the biggest teen idols of the 1990s, chronicles the highs and lows of his life and career in this charming and honest memoir. The hit Fox show Beverly Hills, 90210...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312565787Author Lawrence AnthonyFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Peter Carton discovered his Irish family history contained hidden secrets, stretching back 100 years, involving religious prejudice that divided family members; bravery in service with the British Army; a presence at a Dublin massacre; an ambush by the...

Andrew White is something of a legend: a man of great charm and energy, whose personal suffering has not deflected him from his important ministry of reconciliation. Andrew grew up in London, the son of strongly religious parents: by the age of five he...

***2020 winner of the Christopher Bland Prize***"Beautifully crafted and written, filled with darkness and light, compelling... She fights addiction with honesty and humour. And, like her, [we] come away changed forever." Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, RSL...

Janet Rising has written sixteen pony books for young readers including, with Carl Hester MBE, FBHS, the life story of Valegro, the greatest dressage horse that has ever lived. Although no stranger to writing fiction for adults, this is her first book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621644514Author George PellFormat PaperbackPage Count 339Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

The father of a real american chess prodigy reflects on chess, competition, childhood, and his son's meteoric rise to the highest levels of global competition."[A] little gem of a book." -The New York TimesFred Waitzkin was smitten with chess during the...

An ordinary woman: an extraordinary life In 1979 Helen returns from Algeria to a much-changed UK, where she must juggle sole parenthood with the demands of a successful career. Her life unravels when her older son develops acute leukaemia and his ...

AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'A searingly honest depiction of raising a disabled child . . . Intimate, sometimes heartbreaking and often funny, this letter of love is essential reading.' Mail on Sunday'It's so good - a beautiful piece of writing that really...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127963Author Norman LearFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 394g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307956743Author Chip CoffeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

After the death of her mother and the end of a post-divorce relationship leave her heartbroken, novelist Amanda Brookfield finds her once secure world imploding. As despair closes in, she talks of getting a puppy to revive her optimistic spirit. ...

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This deeply moving memoir tells the story of Hannah: a child who has been beaten and abused; a girl full of loneliness and rage; a student no one but learning disabilities teacher Mary MacCracken could reach. Mary had reservations about eight-year-old...

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'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992549602Author Tara FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Assh PublishingPublisher Assh PublishingWeight(grams) 263g

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 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838003951Author K Allado-McDowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Ignota BooksPublisher Ignota Books

WINNER OF THE BIG RED READ PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION IN 2013.Cathryn Kemp was a successful travel journalist who was struck down by a life-threatening illness, pancreatitis. After four years of operations and mis-diagnoses she left hospital with a repeat...