Personal Memoirs

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 *...

'W-3 is one hell of a debut' Lucy Scholes, Paris Review'At moments dazzlingly and daringly written' Rachel Cook, Observer'Howland is finally getting the recognition that she deserves' Sarah Hughes, iNewsW-3 is a small psychiatric ward in a large...

'W-3 is one hell of a debut' Lucy Scholes, Paris Review'At moments dazzlingly and daringly written' Rachel Cook, Observer'Howland is finally getting the recognition that she deserves' Sarah Hughes, iNewsW-3 is a small psychiatric ward in a large...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724759Author Isak DinesenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Aparna Piramal Raje's life looks successful. Hailing from a well-known business family, she is married, has two children, is a published author, a popular columnist with a leading daily and was the CEO of a leading furniture company. However, only a few...

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...

'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' -...

'Riveting ... Providing a window into the upheaval in the church during the 1960s and 70s, Prejean's engrossing memoir also fleshes out how she rose to be an influential voice within the church before becoming a renowned proponent of abolishing the death...

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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)...

Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry-from the physical and emotional abuse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380472Author Timothy C. BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

'There is so much aching love in this book, such pain and beauty. Behold, and rejoice.' - Tim Winton, author of CloudstreetWas he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is?As a boy growing up on the south coast of...

'There is so much aching love in this book, such pain and beauty. Behold, and rejoice.' - Tim Winton, author of CloudstreetWas he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is?As a boy growing up on the south coast of...

For over thirty years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories in the world for ITN and Sky News. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman he has witnessed first-hand some of the most significant events of our times, including the Iraq War, during...

A searing memoir of American racism from a Somali-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Black people in his adopted land, the United States."No one told me about America." Born in Somalia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812985153Author Naoki HigashidaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Aged seven, Francesco Scannella's world turns upside down when he is uprooted from his English suburban home, and sent to the heartland of the Cosa Nostra. He quickly forgets that he ever spoke English and survives by the sharpness of his wit and the...

Following on from the success of 'The Speckled People', Hugo Hamilton's new memoir recounts the summer he spent working at a local harbour in Ireland, at a time of tremendous fear and mistrust. Young Hugo longs to be released from the confused...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136422Author Raynor WinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *...

The Hero's Body is a memoir of what it means to be a man in modern America. At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle accident. Writing here with searing honesty about grief, obsession, shame and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732836242Author William Oliver O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint William Oliver O'NeillPublisher William Oliver O'NeillWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984021000Author John BurbidgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint HphrPublisher HphrWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 10mm

As Hitler's bombs threatened London during World War Two, eight-year-old David Merron was removed from his family and close-knit Jewish community in the East End and evacuated to the safety of the English countryside.Placed into the car of strangers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804392980Author Teresa RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913012694Author Robbie BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Riverside Publishing Solutions LtdPublisher Riverside Publishing Solutions...

Meet Boris, the chimp who took a bite out of the Big Apple-and wished it had been a banana: "No one concerned with either apes or people should miss it." -Peter S. Beagle, award-winning author of The Last Unicorn This book answers the question that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802149077Author Tobias WolffFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250312341Author Erin FrenchFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Celadon BooksPublisher Celadon BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781443458764Author Jane ChristmasFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins (Canada) LtdPublisher HarperCollins (Canada) LtdWeight(grams)...

Asa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. Educated at the United Nations International School in Manhattan, she soon was earning a good living by stripping and working as a dominatrix at a sex dungeon. Akira has now built up a reputation...

The cruel early death of his wife Helen tears up the script of Adam Golightly's middle-class, middle-aged existence. Miserably single, outnumbered by his kids and haunted by life's screaming fragility, he recounts his fight back against the hand of fate...

The cruel early death of his wife Helen tears up the script of Adam Golightly's middle-class, middle-aged existence. Miserably single, outnumbered by his kids and haunted by life's screaming fragility, he recounts his fight back against the hand of fate...

At seventeen, Barbara's daughter Jennifer is in a horrific car accident and sustains a traumatic brain injury that sends her into a two-week coma. Once she awakens, a unique disability presents itself: Jenn lacks any traditional method of communication...

_____________________ 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...

Chickens Eat Pasta is the tale of how a young Englishwoman starts a new life after watching a video showing a chicken eating spaghetti in a mediaeval hill village in central Italy. Unlike some recent bestsellers, this is not simply an account of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374275792Author Bobby HundredsFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint MCDPublisher MCDWeight(grams) 444gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 145mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455549214Author Chelsea HandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

In one of America's most notorious prisons, a young man sentenced to life without parole miraculously found faith, forgiveness, redemption, and restoration. In 27 Summers Ronald Olivier shares his dramatic and powerful story and offers proof that God can...