Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250024152Author Sarah MangusoFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957511804Author Bev MattocksFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Creative CopyPublisher Creative Copy

This is a hard-hitting account of growing up in Newcastle's West End during the uncertain years of the First World War and the Depression. Samuel Herbert had to grow up fast when his mother moved the family to a cockroach-infested tenement in Elswick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593296950Author Erika L. SánchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 198g

Deserted by his mother and abandoned by his father at just three months old, Jerry Coyne was sent to live in a Catholic children's home run by nuns of the order of the Sisters of Nazareth. Life soon settled into a rhythm and then, one day, the beatings...

In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524759216Author David ChangFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 561gDimensions(mm)...

On 26 December 1960, 12,000 Ulster police and B Specials began one of their biggest manhunts. It was for Prisoner 1082 - Donal Donnelly - who had made a dramatic escape from the prison known as 'Europe's Alcatraz'. Using hacksaw blades, torn sheets and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122553Author Phyllida BarstowFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 449g

Deeba first left Afghanistan in 2002, fleeing a war torn country and an abusive husband shortly after she was captured by the Taliban and nearly sold to an Arab Shaikh narrowly escaping due to a small twist of fate. In June 2021 Deeba returned to visit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035809400Author Cathy O MalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

A perfect family. A horrifying secret. A child's innocence destroyed.No little girl could have been safer. Emily Christie grew up surrounded by relatives whose job it was to protect her. Her father was a hard-working policeman, her grandad was a...

Few writers have had as many distinct lives as Bruce Chatwin and few have been as compelling in person as in print. Chatwin was a traveller, an aesthete and an anthropologist. In his twenties he was a star at Sotheby's; in his thirties he was a star at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537760Author Michael CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

'Deeply moving... This is a beautiful book.' TLS______________________________Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford University when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250215772Author Ilana KurshanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 136mm *...

City Gate, Open Up is the lyrical autobiography of China's a memoir legendary poet Bei Dao. Exiled from Beijing in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Bei Dao returned to his homeland in 2001 for the first time in over twenty years. The city...

With irreverence, humor, and soul-touching candor, the former editor of Bicycling magazine explores the CrossFit phenomenon, the fitness revolution sweeping America, chronicling his experience "inside the box" and how he got into the best shape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632867018Author Andrew ForsthoefelFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 420g

Beyond Fear is the testimony of Ebrahim Ebrahim, a revolutionary amongst revolutionaries, whose poignant and inspirational account of his years spent dedicated to bringing down the apartheid state is told in ways we have not heard. As one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250852069Author Minka KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Henry Holt & CompanyPublisher Henry Holt & CompanyWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 242mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793385Author E J KohFormat HardbackPage Count 203Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm * 23mm

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'I have already touched on my childhood in Strange Places, Questionable People. But the further through life I get the more I want to revisit it. I want to look at the whole of my childhood, the England I grew up in and my family.' This is not a mere...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398405639Author Norman HandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Coming up to her sixtieth birthday, Kate Figes found herself turning to the larger questions of family, love and life's meaning. It is like this author to examine different stages in writing, and her books - from new motherhood and adolescence to...

Coming up to her sixtieth birthday, Kate Figes found herself turning to the larger questions of family, love and life's meaning. It is like this author to examine different stages in writing, and her books - from new motherhood and adolescence to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546012672Author Yvonne OrjiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Worthy BooksPublisher Worthy BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm * 25mm

The Calculus of Friendship is the story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a student, as chronicled through more than thirty years of letters between them. What makes their relationship unique is that it is based almost entirely on a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143461296Author Lt Gen KJS 'Tiny' DhillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin Random House IndiaPublisher Penguin Random House India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913051006Author David McGillivrayFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398405370Author Elizabeth AmoaaFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of his Jewish immigrant family by lovingly reconstructing its dramatic encounters with the memory-filled objects of ordinary life.At a pushcart stall in East New York, Brooklyn, in the spring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328511911Author Sarah PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501110603Author Jo MaloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906387716Author Chambi ChachageFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Pambazuka PressPublisher Pambazuka PressWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

An insider's look at Hollywood and how movies and television shows are made.In Batman's Batman, Michael E. Uslan, executive producer of the Batman movie franchise, offers an insider's look at Hollywood and the process of how movies and television shows...

When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble in New York City, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When the group "performs", the microphones are never on...

One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable faith, and extraordinary courage in the face of evil.At only sixteen years old, Josef Lewkowicz became a number,...

"What did you have? A boy or a girl?" Kyl and Brent imagined it would be years before their child would identify with a gender. Until then... As a first-time parent, Kyl Myers had one aspect dialed in from the start: not being beholden to the boy-girl...