Personal Memoirs

Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The Simpsons, Late Night with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568589404Author Darnell L MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 227g

After reading Film and Drama at London University, Gillian Lee trained as a film editor with the BBC, then worked as a drama teacher. She lives in Cheshire with her husband, Christian. They have four children. In December 2015, Gillian was diagnosed...

As a writer, poet, musician and dissident, Liao Yiwu is one of the most important chroniclers and analysts of contemporary China. In his books, he draws on his own experiences of imprisonment and mistreatment at the hands of the Chinese state to...

What was it like to survive an illegal abortion, come out as a lesbian, and train to become a doctor in the late 1960s and early '70s-before Roe v. Wade, before Title IX, and in a largely homophobic nation?In this unflinching and riveting coming-of-age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593137758Author Howell RainesFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174782Author Paul MartelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101973721Author Ayelet WaldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501107849Author Mary -Louise ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593764258Author Tim WiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

If your mom is dead, is she still your mom? At twenty-five-nearly two decades after losing her mother to breast cancer as a little girl-an accident on a downtown street unleashes startling emotional reactions in Peg Conway, and this question starts to...

'This story is the result of long hours of delving into the pasts of my nanny and my ma. I hope it will give some insight into the experiences of one family of colour in Ireland today. Most of all, I just want to start a conversation, because once people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732767607Author Sidney PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Sidney PowellPublisher Sidney PowellWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

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We join George East at the start of the 60's when Rock 'n' Roll was in its infancy. Young men and women throughout the UK are dancing the night away as they experience teenagehood. Following the US with music, fashion and a new-found freedom. Eventually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250059352Author James HerriotFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476714790Author Clive DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

Stanley Aylett's remarkable account of six years' service as a front-line surgeon with the British Army is that rare thing: a complete narrative from the first week of the Second World War until months after the final capitulation of Nazi Germany. That...

Sharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals. For many Americans, Kansas represents a vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and...

Do you wish you knew how to talk to people about life's deepest and most sensitive topics? In The Listening Road, you'll ride along on one man's remarkable 33-day journey cycling 3,000 miles across the United States on a mission to engage with people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908832504Author Malcolm WalfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Aspect DesignPublisher Aspect Design

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345544803Author Elizabeth LettsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm)...

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works.The pre-eminent American slave narrative published in 1845, the Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist Frederick...

'Poignant and often hilarious' Publishers WeeklyWhat if we responded to death... by throwing a party?By the time Erica Buist's father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328477873Author Tova MirvisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354472855Author Wendy DonigerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private LimitedPublisher Speaking Tiger Publishing Private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735043234Author Elisa EFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint LogosophiaPublisher LogosophiaWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398430136Author Betty RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'Like so many other boys of my generation, I wanted to be an engine driver; my dreams, however, were dashed in 1956 when I went for a medical at Derby. So much depended upon having perfect eyesight ...' So wrote the author in his introduction in Last...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035809318Author Neil J MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

'She was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal in leading the way' Sandi Toksvig'Some people thought her merely bohemian, but others were grateful to have so engaging a role-model' INDEPENDENTThe superb classic...

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;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838094300Author Patrick TierneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Cottage Grove EditionsPublisher Cottage Grove Editions

A punch in the face of the puritanism and conservatism he raged against, My Life and Loves is the highly-charged, erotic autobiography of Frank Harris (1856-1931), an Irish writer and editor who founded Pearson's Magazine in the United States (1914-1918)...

Cole has heard it all before - token, bougie, oreo, Blackish - the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists. He needed to get far away from the preppy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398413030Author Terence RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982173531Author Michelle D HordFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 213g