Personal Memoirs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208688Author Yung WingFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Lester Paldy, a distinguished academic physicist, was tapped by the CIA in 1988 to join the Agency for a “trial run” as they faced a troubling new situation in Russia. That “temporary” assignment would last for 25 years, during which he would find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931507496Author Paul MarionFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Loom PressPublisher Loom PressWeight(grams) 64g

`All our animals showed their independence at a dishearteningly early age.' The Toveys attempt to settle down to a quiet life in the country. Unfortunately for them, however, their tyrannical Siamese cats have other ideas. From causing an uproar on the...

Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By her mid-twenties, she'd acquired two husbands and two children, and life wasn't going to plan...Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant, impossible, charismatic and kind, he was irresistible. Sex,...

In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle. He had no idea that the band's leader, Kurt Cobain, would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy...

Back-breaking days of lifting potatoes; excruciating hours of pulling thistles; total inadequacy when faced with a group of belligerent sows - these are the stories that Pat Peters recalls. The language is strong: 'Get the 'ell away. What do 'ee think...

Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Evening Standard, Observer, Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and The Economist Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Finishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992844103Author Tim LoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Waverley Media LtdPublisher Waverley Media Ltd

'You'll never come to any good', Chris McIvor is told by his headmaster as he is expelled yet again. Some years later he takes a temporary teaching job in Sudan. Unfamiliar with their language and customs he struggles to control his first class of 55...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122560Format HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643139555Author Barbara AmielFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804399705Author Michelle BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

A bemused Brit who served with the US Army in the 1950s recalls some of the humorous highlights of a life among the GIs: the 330lb New York Giants football hero with whom he shared a double bunk...the Polish asylum seeker who knew the Uniform Code of...

The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story. In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss of...

'I can't stop biting off more than I can chew. Maybe I'm wearing everything out, but I believe the body is a fantastic thing and it will repair itself and I'll go again. If it's running too rich, I don't stop what I'm doing, just weaken the mixture and...

This is beautifully told, deeply personal growing-up memoir from the BBC presenter about life, death, love and nature. Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat...

'A rattling tornado of a tale' DANNY BAKER 'Wonderful and wry . . . it will increase your zest for life' RICHARD AYOADE Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was...

Chris Thrall left the Royal Marines to find fortune in Hong Kong, but following a bizarre series of jobs he ended up homeless and hooked on Crystal Meth. He began working for the 14K, the city's most notorious crime syndicate, as a nightclub doorman in...

In this memoir of his childhood, O’Driscoll eloquently examines his troubled relationship with his father, whose bullying and mental abuse have affected him profoundly throughout his life. The task the author has undertaken is to give voice to the...

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'This is a book about the stories we tell ourselves and one woman's determination to make hers true' Spectator 'A fresh . . . heartfelt book that . . . makes you want to throw away your mobile, run for the hills and learn a traditional craft' The Lady 'A...

In this hilarious follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller Tuffers' Cricket Tales, ex-England cricketer, TV personality and Test Match Special commentator Phil Tufnell offers his unique take on the whole Ashes experience. Drawing on incidents from his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780522877298Author Peter DohertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Melbourne University PressPublisher Melbourne University PressWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505233Author Pascal Khoo ThweFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555976170Author Carmen BuganFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 318g

'This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read.' - Eleanor Mills in the Sunday Times Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative...

'Like a master class in memoir writing. Honest, perceptive and properly funny' Neil Gaiman 'A wonderful and very special book' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt'Glamorous. Heart-breaking. Hilarious. Feminist. Life-changing' Katherine Ryan...

A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788172236519Author Singh KhushwantFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 161g

Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil...

A joyful celebration of amateur theatre This is the story of amateur dramatics in Britain. In a triumphant mix of memoir, social history, interviews and manifesto, Jenny Landreth opens our eyes to am-dram and shows us a vibrant world that is a crucial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345457646Author Marlena De BlasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine BooksPublisher Ballantine BooksWeight(grams) 200g

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. Framed within the tribulations of a turbulent year in a racing yard, How's Your Dad? examines the relationship between a father and son. The father, Michael Channon Snr, an arthritic...

** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** You start with a vision, and you deliver a compromise. You want a play to be challenging, ambitious, nuanced and complicated. You also want it to sell tickets. You want to make art, and you know you're in show business...

When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go of...

There is a ranch that runs for several miles along the last free-flowing stretch of the Snake River. A beautiful but harsh environment, hellishly hot in the summer and cut off from the outside world for much of the winter, the area is also in the middle...

The enthralling letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible sisters of one of the most notorious families of the 20th century: Decca (Jessica) Mitford. Over her 78 years, Decca's letters are the most tangible tracks left of a remarkable...

This book is the winner of the 2002 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. When work took Tracy Daugherty from his family's roots in Oklahoma to the unfamiliar landscape of Oregon, his move mirrored the western migrations of so many earlier Oklahomans...