Personal Memoirs

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Colin O'Brady's awe-inspiring memoir spans his triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica. Prior to December 2018, no individual had ever crossed the landmass of Antarctica...

As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life. In this moving memoir, Antrim vividly recounts what led him to the roof...

What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer?In 2005, Kerri Rawson opened the door of her apartment to greet an FBI agent who shared the shocking news that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389831Author Haruki MurakamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

*Stars of the hit television series The Casketeers, as seen on Netflix* Francis and Kaiora Tipene aren't your typical funeral directors. With their famous humour and big-hearted personalities, the TVNZ and Netflix reality TV stars are changing the way we...

The star of the Harold and Kumar franchise, House, and Designated Survivor recounts why he rejected the advice of his aunties and guidance counselors and, instead of becoming a doctor or "something practical," embarked on a surprising journey that has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035808656Author Aj TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546219552Author Susanne LangFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening exploration of the human weakness for power, Daniel Levin takes us on a hilarious journey through the absurd world...

'Will resonate with any bereaved reader' Daily Mail'A heart-warming memoir' OK'Laugh. There's humour to be found everywhere, even in your darkest days there's something to joke about. Laugh long and loud and make other people laugh. It's good for you...

On the eve of the first Chechen war in the 1990s, Mikail Eldin was a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of the second war, he had become a battle-hardened war reporter and mountain partisan who had endured torture and imprisonment in a...

Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat in 1815 came at an inconvenient time for John Monk, an ambitious young naval officer. Forced to rethink his plans, John turned to the merchant service, where he encountered storms, shipwreck and even piracy as he traded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528905701Author Shazia Calvert-DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528938259Author Stanley BeavanFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Illustrated by Elizabeth Baker-Bartlett A unique insight into life in a South Wales Valleys town in 1979 through the eyes of an 11 year old girl. A nostalgic and amusing account of the social and cultural history at the end of the 1970s. Everything...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760716Author Bill MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979047077Author Ray HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 207mm...

"My story is in no way all sweetness and light, cute and slushy. It's earthy, gritty and heartbreaking, yet also rewarding,challenging, life-changing and vital." Kath Padgett was a naive, newly qualified graduate teacher of modern languages just as Dawn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062419385Author Nora McInerny PurmortFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Newly revised and available in trade paper! I Still Believe shares Jeremy Camp's journey of finding hope and healing through life's toughest moments and the songs that came from his journey that have inspired a generation.When Jeremy Camp lost his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634980494Author Stanley SwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Bookstand PublishingPublisher Bookstand PublishingWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307948762Author Jon KrakauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604074307Author Hank WesselmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Sounds True IncPublisher Sounds True IncWeight(grams) 358g

Finding himself in Alexandria in the winter of 2010, Peter Stothard, editor of the TLS and former editor of The Times, is forced to contemplate his past in circumstances he does not expect. The aftermath of a bombing and the onset of the Arab Spring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198489Author Grace LaveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394743097Author Truong Nhu TangFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Author, social critic and "New York City's career elegist" (The New York Times), Jeremiah Moss felt alienated in a town that had become suburbanised and sanitised. Then lockdown launched an unprecedented urban experiment: What happens when an entire...

In Exhumation, Madan Lal's great niece, the actor and writer Leena Dhingra, unravels and reveals his remarkable story. Born in Amritsar, the sixth of seven sons of an eminent surgeon, Madan Lal arrived in England in 1906 to study engineering at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062848307Author Neil StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

'A life-affirming book' Daily Mail'An uplifting personal story of a year lived like no other' Daily ExpressTwo days after her husband of sixty-seven years dies, nonagenarian Miss Norma is diagnosed with cancer. When given her treatment options - surgery,...

Further adventures in extreme (and not so extreme) sports, from the bestselling author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS.Having learnt Aikido with the Tokyo riot police (ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS) and hunted for the world's longest snake in the jungles of the Far East...

Further adventures in extreme (and not so extreme) sports, from the bestselling author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS.Having learnt Aikido with the Tokyo riot police (ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS) and hunted for the world's longest snake in the jungles of the Far East...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory.By inviting so many into the final months of Joey's life as she battled cancer, Joey and Rory Feek captured hearts around the world with how they handled the diagnosis;...

From an acclaimed musician comes an inside look at one of the most controversial and influential civil rights movements of our time.Nights in Tents is a memoir of the profoundly moving, and often hysterical, circumstances a fifty-one-year-old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060915186Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997900705Author J P SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint John SextonPublisher John SextonWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

A unique, unfiltered memoir from the NBA champion and fifteen-time all-star ahead of his induction into the Hall of Fame.Kevin Garnett was one of the most dominant players the game of basketball has ever seen. He was also one of its most outspoken. Over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277893Author Kay Redfield JamisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)...

A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION "...[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary." -Vogue "Personal, convincing, unflinching." -Tablet From an author who's been called "one of the most emotionally...

Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to witness the rapture. The journey that follows is a beautiful and moving story of a young...