Personal Memoirs

'I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I've read in years. It's likely the best memoir published in years.' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life and Chang and EngFrom the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914424328Author Tom FowkeFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

An emigrant to England in the 1970s, Felicity Hayes-McCoy knew she'd return to Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland's Dingle peninsula, a place she had fallen in love with at seventeen. Now she and her husband have restored a stone house there, the focus for this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Award 2022 and Pulitzer Prize 2023 and The National Book Critics Circle Award - Autobiography 2022. Long-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for...

The book begins by the North Sea. It is a late summer's afternoon, and a bright sun has dispersed the greyness of the day. Two Englishmen are enjoying a swim off the Essex coast when all at once both have the feeling that they are back at the French...

An extraordinary memoir of one woman's fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given. Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life...

The present translation of the Reminiscences is based on the second Russian edition, published in Moscow in 1971 and edited by the Dostoevsky scholars S. V. Belov and V. A. Tunimanov. They have carried Grossman's work further by rearranging the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419680038Author Geoff StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785547188Author Peter TryonFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692156506Author Brittany RennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint B. Renner FitnessPublisher B. Renner FitnessWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

From the author of Mrs Engels and The Sisters Mao, an intimate family memoir about filial love and its limits, separation, and loss. Gavin is spending the quarantine with his eighty-year-old mother, whose mind is slowly slipping away. He has returned...

The harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonded by love, broken apart by life, and then betrayed by their carers in a cruel convent in Ireland. “For those who we lost along the way, I tell this story. For all the children who suffered in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618521200Author Elizabeth MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Turning Stone PressPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Clint Emerson, retired Navy SEAL and author of the bestselling 100 Deadly Skills, presents an explosive, darkly funny, and often twisted account of being part of an elite team of operatives whose mission was to keep America safe by whatever means...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The former middle distance Olympic runner and high-end escort speaks out for the first time about her battle with mental illness, and how mania controlled and compelled her in competition, but also in life. This is a...

Paul Joseph grew up in the 1930s South Africa. He awoke to political activism as an Indian in the racially segregated schools and slums of Johannesburg, and aged just 15, committed himself to fight oppression. He participated in ANC political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645235500Author Catherine BensteadFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Hear Us Scream: The Voices of HorrorPublisher Hear Us Scream: The Voices of...

'I was nine and the big sister. I wanted to keep her safe. He basically promised me that if I let him abuse me, he wouldn't touch my sister again.' Debbie Grafham's childhood had been far from normal, but when she was just nine years old her life changed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785342581Author Onyeka OnwenuFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Parresia PublishersPublisher Parresia PublishersWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906551407Author Gordon RendellFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Ryelands PublishingPublisher Halsgrove

'Essential reading for anyone who wants to experience and understand the unique comfort that Austen's works universally provide.' NATALIE JENNER Ruth Wilson first encountered Pride and Prejudice in the 1940s and has returned to Jane Austen countless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035814268Author Vince PrudenteFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593685211Author Cheryl StrayedFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982171872Author Pope FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

In 2003 the former Women's Press editor and critic Sarah LeFanu published her acclaimed biography of Rose Macaulay with Virago Press. 'A magnificent job ... imaginative and thoughtful, dense with distilled information ... LeFanu offers a skilled,...

The 40th anniversary edition of the "shocking" #1 New York Times bestseller with an exclusive new introduction by the author (Los Angeles Times). When Christina Crawford's harrowing chronicle of child abuse was first published in 1978, it brought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648349877Author Megan BlandfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Wild Dingo PressPublisher Wild Dingo Press

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594484384Author Kathleen NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061961410Author Dyan CannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

At nineteen Bieke Vandekerckhove fell ill. The diagnosis was devastating: the fatal motor neuron disease ALS. Life expectancy: two to five years. So what did she do with the paltry bit of life that was left? By force of circumstance she was led to Saint...

A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight...

Inconceivable combines memoir and investigative reporting to reveal an underground community of sperm donors and recipients who have chosen to circumvent traditional fertility avenues and meet up on their own terms. As an active participant in this...

"Ravishing and provocative."—Olivia Laing *** "Stunning and powerful."—André Aciman The example of the Greek philosopher Diogenes, who lived “a dog’s life,” sleeping, teaching, having sex in the public square, sets the tone for this extraordinary,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593497371Author Emma LovewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

"Taut and illuminating? memorable? written with the humility of he who confesses himself and with the honesty of he who bore witness." Primo Levi"Luminous,...

In THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Reflecting with gratitude on the exquisite beauty of the intimacy they shared, grappling with the resulting void, and finding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398467644Author Peter FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398468559Author Auguste KnucklesFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers