Personal Memoirs

'He'll either win the Victoria Cross or go to prison.' So said Keith Allen's headmaster, back in 1966. A Navy baby, Allen was moved from place to place, always leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. He could have been a footballer if his criminal...

In this haunting and frank account, Donna Ford, bestselling author of The Step Child, returns to the horrific abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother. As a tiny girl of five, and for six long years, Donna was physically, mentally and sexually...

'People say "Like father, like son", and the story of my life has mirrored my father's to a quite uncanny degree. Right from when I was a little boy, he was my rock; my mentor; my hero. It is no exaggeration to say that he taught me virtually...

A compelling and beautifully written memoir about dark and shameful family secrets, and one young Scottish woman's pilgrimage to Australia to attempt to lay the past to rest. In 1837 Angus McMillan left the Scottish Highlands for the other side of the...

'I did everything my sisters did, that's how my dancing days started - they went dancing, I went dancing and I just kept on dancing.' Still Got It, Never Lost It! tells the story of Louie Spence, star of Pineapple Dance Studios and Louie Spence's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753165515Author Gordon ChaplinFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint ISIS PublishingPublisher ISIS Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554685394Author Margaret TrudeauFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 535g

This is an incredibly moving account of tragedy and its aftermath, as told by Gill Hicks, survivor of the London bombings in July 2005. Gill was the last person to be pulled alive from the wreckage of the tube train at Russell Square underground station...

In December 1988, Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain. The resulting damage left him totally disabled and utterly changed. "In the Shadow of Memory" is a candid memoir of living with a brain and a mind that have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977224897Author Derry CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977225191Author Nakisha LesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977224422Author Enquied Fields-TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977224040Author Patricia Brown-GloverFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 73g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977200242Author Richard JellersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 227g

Winner of the 2021 New Welsh Writing Awards: Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting 'Vivid, quick and iridescent, Birdsplaining is an absolute kingfisher of a book' - Mike Parker A wren in the house foretells a death, while a tech-loving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977203564Author Sonia J SongFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977218520Author Jack DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977204639Author Norm RobergeFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 102g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941932193Author Cheryl E KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Brown Paper PressPublisher Brown Paper PressWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977219145Author Jerry MillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977202079Author Ralph SlavikFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977201348Author Helen Payson SebringFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977212986Author Kenya Richardson-WilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977222725Author Rob GoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 73g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977216564Author Don GneccoFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977211965Author Janet CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977209191Author Jacques BekaertFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977211330Author Ala Abed-RabboFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977205780Author Dorothy OmuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977222428Author Bob BestvinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977214072Author Jeanne Anne CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977206497Author Daphne AntoineFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 118g

An unforgettable memoir of growing up in Syria under al-Assad's regime, surviving a gas attack, and rallying worldwide support to break the siege of cities across the country, with a foreword by Janine di Giovanni Chosen for the Big Issue's Best Summer...

'A beacon of hope in a dark world' Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Pool Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Guardian and Observer This inspiring and courageous book is a guiding star for us all in troubled times. One night last winter, Antoine Leiris was...

As Cosmopolitan's professional agony aunt for the last forty years, Irma Kurtz has had to deal with the most intimate problems of successive generations of readers, while having to keep up with the changing mores and attitudes in British and American...

The legendary band leader and jazz trumpeter, broadcaster and humorist looks back at his extraordinarily rich and varied life and the many colourful characters he has known and played with - from Duke Ellington to Louis Armstrong. He also recalls his...

Bob Segalman tells his story -- all 60 years plus. Like Bob himself, it's funny, truthful, poignant, insightful and sometimes exasperating. Bob was born with significant cerebral palsy at a time when inclusion, mainstreaming and even special education...

"Just Breathe Normally" opens with a traumatic accident. Shattered perceptions and shards of narrative recount the events, from wreck through recovery and beyond. In lyric prose, the stories spiral back through generations to touch on questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399167812Author Jill NystulFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Weight(grams) 634g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649998613Author Tom JelinekFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Superare Dolo PressPublisher Superare Dolo PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...