Personal Memoirs

Whether a novice or expert horseman, every rider, trainer, or owner in any equestrian discipline will benefit from this book's wide-ranging and practical information for years to come.As even a quick glance around a saddler shop or through a tack store...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804141109Author Michael A. SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 227mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784658489Author Anne BolamFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

"I was born a boy, raised as a girl. . . . One may raise a healthy boy in as womanish a manner as one wishes, and a female creature in as mannish; never will this cause their senses to remain forever reversed." So writes the pseudonymous N. O. Body,...

Have ewe herd? 'Stuck in the Middle with Ewe: or how I lost my heart and found my flock in Northern Ireland', is a chaotic, funny and poignant tale, recounting how an English journalist fell in love with a Northern Irish farmer, his sheep and a new way...

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 *...

Alice Taylor brings the reader with her on her 80th birthday year. Alice had a big birthday on the horizon, the village was about to celebrate many milestones, and she had just received the gift of a book focusing her on the art of living well. So...

"A father shares the joys of fly-fishing with his daughters... A heartfelt, beautifully written celebration of the wonders of nature and comfort of family" (Kirkus STARRED)Fishing was Mark Hume's passion since he was a young boy, a lifeline through a...

How does it feel when, in the middle of your life, you come to the shattering realisation that you and your younger sister were sexually abused as young girls? How, having endured years of tragedy as a consequence, do you come to terms with uncovering...

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...

Ploughing through peat bogs, rescuing sheep, walking alone in the dark; this book has it all. It is full of riveting adventures of walking solo in the glorious British countryside. 'Just Another Pile of Stones' will take you on a journey from a child's...

'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...

'A mesmerising book, full of story, truth, pain, lyricism, humour and astonishment: the stuff of a difficult life, fully lived, and masterfully transformed into art' SALMAN RUSHDIE'Intimate and wise, poignant and compassionate, redemptive and raw. You...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250795786Author Betty GilpinFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 145mm *...

The suicide of Joanne Limburg's beloved brother Julian left her shattered. When her mother dies too, Joanne pulls herself from the depths of grief by embarking on a journey of salvage, collecting up those scattered fragments of memory from her childhood...

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Brian Woodworth was born in 1968 and became one of England's longest serving funeral workers. He has clocked up 35 years of service working in the Salford area of Manchester. His first book 'Wooden Overcoat' went into great detail, telling the story of...

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 9780807033302Author Danielle OfriFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306903496Author Jimmy O YangFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Da Capo PressPublisher Da Capo PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 25mm

From one of the most vital and passionate LGBTQ+ activists comes a powerful memoir about self-discovery, community, love, and resilience in the face of adversity. You never forget your first. First kiss. First love. First heartache. They all burrow...

"One of the most original, amazing stories I've ever read" (Mary Gaitskill), iconic rock-and-roll musician Adele Bertei's memoir Twist is her harrowing and electric story of transforming trauma through art, pluck, and imagination, as told through the...

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 *...

During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions he widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, So many taboos have...

Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) was a leading figure in the cultural revolution that transformed Japan from an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged player in the modern world. He translated a wide range of Western works and adapted them to Japanese...

The extraordinary and exciting story of East Germany's first Black police officer.Samuel Meffire grew up as a Black German in East Germany and, against all odds, became East Germany's first Black police officer. In the nineties, marked by upheaval and...

One day Greg Mortenson set out to climb K2 - the world's second highest mountain - in honour of his younger sister, but when another member of his group fell ill, they turned around and Greg became lost in the mountains of Pakistan. He wandered into a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452271876Author Robert RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm)...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181614Author Eric SpitznagelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501177293Author Ivana TrumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 23mm

Bill Ferguson was a keen amateur photographer who took many photos of his family growing up in post-war Glasgow. His daughter, Ann Burnett, wrote many articles for the magazine 'Scottish Memories', about her childhood illustrated by his photos. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953002228Author Christine BarkerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Delphinium BooksPublisher Delphinium BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

America's greatest living crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir-as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels-about his obsessive search for "atonement in women."The year was 1958.Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler...

Proclaimed "girl-pervert" Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and her own firebrand of what it means to live ecstatically. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147530394Author Jackie EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418832Author Christopher RonnauFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908699763Author Willy SmaxFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing

From 1993 to 1994, Sigrid Rausing completed her anthropological fieldwork on the penninsula of Noarootsi, a former Soviet border protection zone in Estonia. Abandoned watchtowers dotted the coastline, and the huge fields of the Lenin collective farm were...