Personal Memoirs

Cnuasach is the Gaelic word for collection or anthology. Irish author Martin Towey brings together a collection of heartfelt memoirs, thought-provoking poems and humorous short stories, many of which reflect key moments in the author's life. The book...

Soon after Dexter Petley began writing down his observations of people on the borders of rural Kent and Sussex during the 1960s and 1970s, he realised that his stories were acquiring a broader significance. Between the riverbank where he taught himself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995795402Author Lucinda OsmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Copper Kettle PressPublisher Copper Kettle Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451414069Author Chris PerezFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CelebraPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 138mm * 17mm

In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398801929Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Anne Kreamer thought she was a youthful 49 until she saw a photo taken with her teenage daughter that stopped her in her tracks. In one moment she saw herself for what she really was - a middle-aged woman with her hair dyed much too harshly. Kreamer...

For the first time ever, Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her amazing life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was really like in The Spice Girls. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ___________'What a woman and what a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345544827Author Elizabeth LettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

"Beauchemin discovers again and again that happiness is a function of the connection between beings-the nonhuman animals as well as the human."-Maria Popova, A Favorite Book of 2023For readers of Ross Gay's The Book of Delights comes a joyful, tender...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534156Author Courtney MaumFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 145mm...

_____________________ An intimate telling of the wild days of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution Ahdaf Soueif was born and brought up in Cairo. When the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 erupted on January 25th, she, along with thousands of others, called Tahrir...

'Deeply moving ... A triumph' Justin Webb 'What might, in other hands, have been simply macabre becomes peculiarly mesmerising' Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday Ten seconds before my father's death, I have a premonition - that the breath he is taking...

A dazzlingly original memoir, Paper Cuts takes us inside the mind of a young Oxford academic devastated by severe mental illness.'I have a small line of red dots on the back of my left hand, where the needle goes in. I have had hundreds of ketamine...

In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding...

Felicity Bryan was best known as one of Britain's leading literary agents. She packed an extraordinary life with adventure, her many passions - literature, journalism, ballet and opera, art and gardening - and her deep friendships across the world. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120292Author Professor XFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 129mm *...

TWO MEN Tom Crean, the Kerryman, whose phenomenal feats of bravery in the unexplored Antarctic earned him a rare medal for valour, pinned on him by King George. Aidan Dooley, the Galway man, who rejected a job in the bank for a life on the stage. ONE...

'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of the Year'Magical . . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035806720Author Brindley HoskenFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year A rich history of wanderers, exiles and intruders. A haunting personal journey through Central Asia. An...

Colin Shindler first wrote of his deep love for Manchester City in Manchester United Ruined My Life. Now he tells the story of his sorrowful disenchantment with his home town club as, on the instruction of its new foreign owners, it turns itself...

'On a subject that has in fact been written, sung and talked about extensively, Meijer manages to avoid all cliches. The Limits of my Language shows, despite the title, what language is capable of'Trouw (five stars) Much has been written about the...

At 10am on the 3rd of May, 2013, Paul walked into the therapy room. The sense of fear was immediate and palpable. He was shaking, hadn't slept meaningfully for weeks, was barely able to function and in unbearable psychological and physical pain. However,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983343660Author Wayne Vincent HatfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Whitley Heights PublishingPublisher Whitley Heights PublishingWeight(grams)...

In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised-should the governing Conservatives...

Martha's parents were both extraordinary people living in extraordinary times. Ralph was a brilliant, poor Jew from the East End. Edith, also Jewish from a bourgeois family in Central Europe was a gifted pianist. They met as students in Paris in 1937 and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312324841Author Emily R TransueFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318g

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996640589Author Anna WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Purple Pegasus PublishingPublisher Purple Pegasus PublishingWeight(grams)...

From the host of Everything Iconic with Danny Pellegrino comes a collection of stories you'll be glad didn't happen to you.Think of the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to you. Was it the time your high school cheer squad taunted you in front...

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...

Touching the Rock is a unique exploration of that distant, infinitely strange 'other world' of blindness. John Hull writes of odd sounds and echoes, of people without faces, of a curious new relationship between waking and dreaming, of a changed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899262571Author Nicolette Milnes WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Golden Duck (UK) LtdPublisher Golden Duck (UK) Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643884646Author Brooke JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Luminare PressPublisher Luminare PressWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140278798Author Frank PartnoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

A prize-winning Dutch journalist's unsparing memoir of growing up amid the excesses, triumphs, and devastation of post-World War II Europe. What can a son say upon discovering that his father wore a Nazi uniform? Reporter Alexander Munninghoff was...

From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today, a memoir that tells us all to seek out the good in life, celebrate the beauty of family and friends, and prosper within our communities because...

"For those who love boats, architecture and original enquiring minds, this book is a dream. " -Jeremy Irons World-famous architect Renzo Piano and his son Carlo set sail from Genoa one late Summer day, guided by the ancestral desire felt by many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804392911Author Sam DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers