Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631441Author Hélène GiannecchiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580083652Author Madeleine KammanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

The bitter struggle of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, against the Turkish state has delivered inspirational but often tragic stories. This memoir by Kurdish revolutionary Sakine Cansiz is one of them. Sakine, whose code name was 'Sara', co-founded...

ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE, Channel 4's Bafta-winning documentary series has been a critical and popular smash-hit. And in January 2012, we'll be back on the maternity ward for fourteen brand-new, thrilling episodes.In this wonderful book, midwives Maria Dore...

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 9780593237366Author Ross DouthatFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912031689Author John MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint GB Publishing OrgPublisher GB Publishing OrgWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

'A groundbreaking debut from an extraordinary writer ... a testament to where a woman can go after rock-bottom'PIPER KERMAN, New York Times bestselling author of ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACKKeri Blakinger's brave, brutal memoir, Corrections in Ink, is a...

More Than Love is a memoir of loss, grief, and coming of age, set amid Hollywood glamour and royalty, by Natasha Gregson Wagner, the oldest daughter of Natalie Wood and her second husband Richard Gregson. Beginning with the night Natalie Wood went...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983067Author Eric RipertFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)...

"In this hilarious, uplifting memoir, Wolfe describes her intense bond with Harlow...as she grapples with the chaos of her 20s, marriage, and eventually new motherhood."-Washington Post"An engaging debut with a lighthearted memoir of her tender...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400982Author Gary DexterFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

'One of the gems of the year' - Michele Magwood, Sunday Times (Books LIVE SA) The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who refuses to give up on him. Zack McDermott, a twenty-six-year-old Brooklyn...

A true story of sex, seduction and the pursuit of pleasure.Welcome to a world where women make - and break - the rules. An underground club notorious for parties wilder than 50 Shades of Grey; a place where, behind elegant masks, your innermost desires...

A true story of sex, seduction and the pursuit of pleasure.Welcome to a world where women make - and break - the rules. An underground club notorious for parties wilder than 50 Shades of Grey; a place where, behind elegant masks, your innermost desires...

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...

**A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2022**'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTON'A moving account of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Young Adult, LA Times Book Prize 2020 (United States). Long-listed for National Book Award, Young People's Literature 2019 (Australia).Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784387488Author Flight Lieutenant David CrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Greenhill BooksPublisher Greenhill BooksWeight(grams) 130g

The last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists - as they come to terms with the reality of approaching deathKatie Roiphe's extraordinary book is filled with intimate and surprising revelations. Susan Sontag, consummate public intellectual,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385549455Author Molly Roden WinterFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519986Author Christine Mathis-RimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 535gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

_______________ 'Beguiling ... I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge' - New York Times 'A wonderful book ... Reading it is akin to kicking a can along the road...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398424487Author Natalie BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307762Author Susan MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739970321Author Carolyn HobdeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ink! By The Author SchoolPublisher Ink! By The Author School

Guruji said: 'Sing not the song that others have sung. Sing only what you yourself have realised in your own heart.' What I've realised in my own heart is that its song is for many, that it sings for whom it meets on its way. It does not remain at...

Aged 29, Lu Spinney's son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the years following her son Miles's accident, revealing his existence imprisoned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679732396Author Richard NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

'A proper, heart-breaking, global sex-pirate adventure' - Caitlin Moran'An utterly gripping read [...] just don't miss your Tube stop' Sunday Times'Searingly honest, knuckle-bleedingly raw and very funny' - Jay Rayner'I LOVED this book [...] stunning' -...

What would happen if you quit your life for a year? In a pre-COVID-19 world, the Wheelan family decided to find out; leaving behind work, school, and even the family dogs to travel the world on a modest budget. Equal parts "how-to" and "how-not-to"-and...

'I'm just a nitwit girl who's sort of stumbling through life learning that we all have our own roads to walk - but that it's still valuable, and rather lovely, to hear about other people's journeys...'Filled with honesty, wit and wisdom, Fully...

'I'm just a nitwit girl who's sort of stumbling through life learning that we all have our own roads to walk - but that it's still valuable, and rather lovely, to hear about other people's journeys...'Filled with honesty, wit and wisdom, Fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225745Author Annie ErnauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 122g

Monique Dembele saves lives and dispenses hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. Her unquenchable passion to improve the lot of the women and children in her West African village is matched by her buoyant humour in the face of...

Life sometimes offers very special opportunities and experiences a some too magical not to share. That's what this book is: a wealth of stories about an incredible decade in Toni Shelbourne's life. Worldwide, only a handful of people get to spend time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905217182Author Ray ChiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jeremy Mills PublishingPublisher Jeremy Mills PublishingWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm)...

Frank Cascio was a close friend of tragic superstar Michael Jackson for more than twenty-five years. In My Friend Michael, Cascio offers a deeply personal, behind-the-scenes look at the Michael Jackson he knew. Filled with never-before-told stories and...

A powerful memoir about how one woman resurrects her life and career in the glamorous but sexist wine industry.Natalie MacLean, a bestselling wine writer, is shocked when her husband of twenty years, a high-powered CEO, demands a divorce. Then an online...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061152177Author Bill RomanowskiFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 288g