Personal Memoirs

British post-imperial decline has been much examined. In these memoirs, David Hannay, one of Britain's leading behind-the-scenes players in this process, provides fascinating frontline information and insights into Britain's complex relations with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635576887Author Bill HayesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 304g

The author of 'Across the Wire' offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. 'Superb . . . Nothing...

Come on my journey. Look at where man's come from. I was working in retail in 2017.You might know Mo as the critically acclaimed stand-up comedian, BAFTA-winning presenter, Masked Singer judge and social media mega star. But do you know the moments that...

Come on my journey. Look at where man's come from. I was working in retail in 2017.You might know Mo as the critically acclaimed stand-up comedian, BAFTA-winning presenter, Masked Singer judge and social media mega star. But do you know the moments that...

Botanist and ecologist Ros Bennett has spent a lifetime helping people understand and identify plants, all the while nurturing her daughter Nell's love for them too, helping Nell to discover the visual and tactile beauty of trees through leaves, bark...

In 2007, Mary Eldergill, a volunteer member of Amigos de Los Animales (Friends of the Animals), discovered a group of newborn puppies on Dead Dog Beach in Puerto Rico. Mary rescued and rehabilitated them and, three months later, they flew to Newark, New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179262Author Kelly Randall RickettsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

Fr Tony Coote was just fifty-three years old in February 2018 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Just a few short months later, he found himself confined to a wheelchair. But rather than succumbing to the darkness that threatened to...

The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a repentant jihadist and an idealistic journalist. This troubling real-life thriller takes us from their first meeting in a spartan flat in the rough...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631322013Author Martin P HynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Advanced Publishing LLCPublisher Advanced Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

A Homeland Denied follows the horrific journey of Waclaw Kossakowski, a young Warsaw University student whose peaceful life was changed dramatically and with far reaching consequences that fateful day of 1st September, 1939. From imprisonment in the...

In her new memoir, Abigail Thomas ruminates on aging during the confines of COVID-19 with her trademark mix of humor and wisdom, including valuable, contemplative writing tips along the way.As she approaches eighty, what she herself calls old age,...

As a Facebook moderator, Chris Gray made a living looking at graphically violent images and reviewing some of the internet's most toxic debates. Following a short training induction, he was responsible for deciding what material could remain online and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062438737Author Johnny MarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 363g

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 22.5px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #353535} On the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq's Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day, his team of Navy SEALs, and a group of Iraqi scouts were on the hunt for a high-level al Qaeda...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476785790Author Charlie EngleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Tom is an Asian puppy, destined to be dinner. Instead, an Irish couple rescue him from a street vendor and take him into their care. Together they embark on a whirlwind tour through Vietnam, Nepal and Cambodia, thwarting street dogs and customs officials...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401323868Author Michael J FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953623839Author Jo JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Rosebine PressPublisher Rosebine PressWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This is an utterly charming history of life at Yew Tree Farm, North Cheshire, over the last eighty years. Beginning in the era when shire horses pulled the plough and country news passed from mouth to mouth at the blacksmith's forge, it explores a world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988768741Author Artt FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Booksendependent, LLCPublisher Booksendependent, LLCWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)...

'Axel Linden is a shepherd-philosopher with James Herriot's knack for mishap and an almost Chekhovian deadpan humour.' Observer'Endearing and liberating.' Idler Magazine'A sublime little book.' Cotswold Life_______Why do we keep sheep? Alex Linden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770437206Author John DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

An intimate memoir about coming of age in a tight-knit working-class family during Iraq's seemingly endless series of wars. Faleeha Hassan became intimately acquainted with loss and fear while growing up in Najaf, Iraq. Now, in a deeply personal...

As Roseann Sdoia waited to watch her friend cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, she had no idea her life was about to change-that in a matter of minutes she would look up from the sidewalk, burned and deaf, staring at her detached foot,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501116391Author Amber SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

'The UK's most influential LGBT Power Couple' - GuardianThis is the inspiring and moving memoir of a couple in search of a normal family life. And in many ways that have found that: married, doing jobs they love and expecting their second child. But...

Set against the backdrop of Iran s struggle against the rising powers of Russia and Britain, the memoirs of Mirza Riza Khan Arfa -ed-Dowleh otherwise known as Prince Arfa (1853 1902) are packed with picaresque adventures as the prince tells the story of...

Hugh Dorian was born in poverty in rural Donegal in 1834. He survived Ireland's Great Famine, only to squander uncommon opportunities for self-advancement. Having lost his job and clashed with priests and policemen, he moved to the city of Derry but...

Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretence of protecting him. Their real reason was to turn him into cannon-fodder for use against Hitler's enemies. Deployed to the collapsing Eastern Front in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645163077Author Eira Wynn BishFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Eira BattagliaPublisher Eira BattagliaWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

"Reads like a novel. . . . But it has the ring of truth, and an uplifting message that endures."-New York Times. Features a new foreword by the author and a heartfelt endorsement by Washington State's First Lady, Trudi Inslee!Once a happily married...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035836444Author Maria AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

This is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and...

This is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800164680Author Jack Leon MackeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Nelson Mandela's comrade in the struggle, Denis Goldberg, spent 22 years in an Apartheid South African political prison from 1963 to 1985. In this memoir, Denis, the perennial optimist, writes about the human side of the often painful road to freedom;...

MTV stars Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra share their story of teen pregnancy, adoption and breaking the cycleSince Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra shared their story of teen pregnancy and adoption on the MTV's 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom,...

A memoir about how secret high-level mind control, the ways heads of governments and religious organizations participate in this, as well as the healing process and ultimately, how the mind becomes whole again. The memoir begins with the author's...