Personal Memoirs

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POPULAR SCIENCEWhat Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that is both fit for purpose and free. Using stories and case studies from across his thirty-year career as a GP,...

From the author of Unbroken - a major motion picture releasing in 2015 - this is the bestselling true story of three men and their dreams for a racehorse, Seabiscuit. In 1938 one figure received more press coverage than Mussolini, Hitler or...

'A vital, heartfelt read for anyone navigating the rough seas of infertility and pregnancy loss' - Leah Hazard, author of Hard PushedAn insightful, moving memoir, capturing life working as a midwife in a busy NHS hospital at the same time as dealing with...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 'I loved this book' Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path'Utterly absorbing' Lucy Jones, author of Losing EdenWishing to leave behind the quiet isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books...

'Swan Dive is to ballet what Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential was to restaurants, a chance to go behind the serene front of house to the sweaty, foul-mouthed, psychofrenzy backstage.' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday TimesAward-winning New York City Ballet...

After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her father sold the family home, broadcaster and writer Emma Kennedy found herself floundering, unable to make peace with the complex, charismatic woman who had been her mum. And then they found the letters . . ...

____________________________ A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks. ...

Author Jamie Blackett arrives home from the Army to take over a small family estate on the Solway Firth in Dumfries and Galloway, and finds a rapidly changing countryside. In a humorous and occasionally moving tale, he describes the return of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398451957Author Captain Mike ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting...

Sir Trevor McDonald is an extraordinary man - and he has led an improbable life. Now in his 80th year, he is known and loved by people the world over for his humility, charm and natural ease. As a natural storyteller and communicator, he has few equals...

Sir Trevor McDonald is an extraordinary man - and he has led an improbable life. Now in his 80th year, he is known and loved by people the world over for his humility, charm and natural ease. As a natural storyteller and communicator, he has few equals. ...

In a nation of rugby heroes, Jamie Roberts has become a legend.Jamie Roberts is your quintessential hard man: a 6 foot 4, 17 stone slab of rippling muscle, conditioned to run hard into other huge men in an arena where physical dominance is the prime...

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into...

The story of the Titanic in the words of the hero whose swift action saved the lives of 710 survivors. The Carpathia was on its regular voyage to New York City, when early on 15 April 1912 it received a distress signal from the White Star Line ocean...

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE LONGEST-HELD AL QAEDA CAPTIVE IN THE WORLDStephen McGown was en route from London to South Africa, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip by motorbike, returning home to Johannesburg. He had reached Timbuktu, in Mali, when he was...

'One of the most original and talented young writers we have.' Sathnam Sanghera 'A must-read.' Elizabeth Day ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993086212Author Brenig DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Cambria BooksPublisher Cambria PublishingWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993086212Author Brenig DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Cambria BooksPublisher Cambria PublishingWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

*The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London - a city still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed. But when she is ten years old, everything changes. She loses her...

The long-awaited memoir by 'the most prolific and popular of all contemporary composers' (New York Times)Rapturous in its ability to depict the creative process, Words Without Music allows readers to experience that sublime moment of creative fusion...

Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809303Author Jeffery QuillFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307464729Author Peter BuffettFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 194mm *...

'A wildly entertaining and necessary book' Elizabeth Day, author of Magpie An honest conversation about Christie Watson's journey through midlife and how to navigate new challenges of a changing body. In her early twenties, Christie Watson was convinced...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe inspirational memoir from the founder of the You, Me and the Big C podcast, Rachael Bland. Courageous and life-affirming, this is a mother's final gift to her son. My beautiful son, I so wish that I didn't have to leave you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863958202Author Heather EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint NeroPublisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 154mm * 29mm

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERHi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside cover flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites like this one, so... here it goes!!! Yearbook is a collection of true stories that...

With his unique and powerful voice, Tony Hadley has been a successful music artist for more than forty years, from fronting one of the biggest bands of the 80s, Spandau Ballet, to now enjoying a thriving solo career around the world. Featuring...

Shortlisted for Harper's Bazaar Book of the Year 2019A Guardian, Spectator and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2018'A lyrical portrait of a fast-vanishing way of life . . . Thompson is a terrific writer' New StatesmanLaura Thompson's grandmother Violet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593596791Author Cory RichardsFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780647519837Author Anna McGahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Acorn PressPublisher Acorn Press

*THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER* What are the things we live for? What matters most in life when your time is short? This brave, frank and heartbreaking book shows what it means to die before your time; how to take charge of your life and fill it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938793189Author Ryan NicodemusFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Asymmetrical PressPublisher Asymmetrical PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDenton Welch was born on 29 March 1915 in Shanghai, the youngest of three brothers. Welch was sent back to England to attend St Michael's prep school in Uckfield,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647193850Author James D BondFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Booklocker.comPublisher Booklocker.comWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908670694Author Katja OskampFormat PaperbackImprint Peirene Press LtdPublisher Peirene Press Ltd

The Sound of Gravel is Ruth Wariner's unforgettable and deeply moving story of growing up in a polygamist Mormon doomsday community. The thirty-ninth of her father's forty-one children, Ruth is raised on a farm in the hills of Mexico, where polygamy is...

Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cevennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cevenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995556140Author Dawn BrookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Oakwood PublishingPublisher Dawn Brookes Publishing