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Shame Travels by Jasvinder Sanghera
RRP: £10.99£7.40When she was a little girl, Jasvinder Sanghera's father told her about the village he came from, Kang Sabhu in rural Punjab. One day, he promised to take her there so she could meet her half-sister, Bachanu, who had stayed behind. But at the age of... -
Warrior: A Champion's Incredible Search for His Identity by Tris Dixon
RRP: £22.99£16.28Matthew Saad Muhammad was arguably the most exciting fighter of all time. He was WBC light-heavyweight champion from 1979 to 1981, but it wasn't what he did that captured the hearts of fight fans, it was how he did it. Fight after fight was war after war... -
Ghost Image by Herve Guibert
RRP: £18.00£14.16Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays - meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems - and not a single image. Herve Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthes'... -
Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music by Jane Glover 9780330418584
RRP: £16.99£12.47Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women. He loved and respected them, composed for them, performed with them. This unique biography looks at his interaction with each, starting with his family (his mother, Maria Anna and... -
Frankie Says: Stories about growing up in the 70s & 80s by Gavin Canham 9781399928786
£28.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399928786Author Gavin CanhamFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Roman Bank PublishingPublisher Roman Bank Publishing -
Summerlands: A Personal Journey around the Underworld of the Glastonbury Zodiac by Jenny Chapman 9780995618848
RRP: £10.00£7.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995618848Author Jenny ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Jenny ChapmanPublisher Jenny Chapman -
Confessions by Saint Augustine
RRP: £18.99£13.61One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world... -
Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan
RRP: £9.49£6.78Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... -
Unmasked: Crime Scenes, Cold Cases and My Hunt for the Golden State Killer by Paul Holes
RRP: £12.99£8.60From the detective who helped catch the Golden State Killer, a memoir about investigating America's toughest cold cases, and the rewards - and toll - of a life spent solving crime.For a decade, from 1973, The Golden State Killer stalked and murdered... -
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini 9780140447187
RRP: £14.99£10.95Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer... -
Calamities by Renee Gladman 9781940696270
RRP: £12.99£8.63"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes." --Eileen Myles A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and... -
Calling Detective Crockford: The story of a pioneering policewoman in the 1950s by Ruth D'Alessandro
RRP: £10.99£7.40This nostalgic and absorbing memoir tells the story of a real-life female police detective in post-war Britain, as she navigates a man's world.It's 1956, and the Berkshire Constabulary has never had a woman detective before. That is, until bright and... -
Redeeming Features: A Memoir by Nicky Haslam
RRP: £15.99£11.61Nicky Haslam has always been at the centre of things wherever he is - at parties, opening nights, royal weddings - and has stories to tell of crossing paths, and more, with the cultural icons of our time: Cecil Beaton, Francis Bacon, Diana Cooper, Lucian... -
General Sir Frederick Poole by Henry Poole
RRP: £15.00£10.96The First World War brought extraordinary opportunities to those who were or had been professional soldiers. There are few clearer examples of this than the career of Major General Sir Frederick Poole. A retired major in 1914, Poole won rapid promotion... -
Why I Am so Clever by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness.One of 46 new books... -
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell 9780008436988
RRP: £25.00£16.53'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORY ... -
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination by J. K. Rowling
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, Very Good Lives offers J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life, asking the profound... -
Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne
RRP: £10.99£7.25The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. The favourite child of Joe Kennedy and favourite sister... -
This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell
RRP: £10.99£7.12Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2022 Guardian Art Book of the Year 2021 A dazzling, boldly original work that tells the powerful and passionate stories of a... -
The Sisters of Battle Road: The Extraordinary True Story of Six Sisters Evacuated from Wartime London by J. M. Maloney
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A tale of survival.' Daily Mail'Survival against the odds ... [an] amazing story.' The SunIn 1939 Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from their south London home and sent to the Sussex countryside to wait out the war. Refusing to be... -
Coconut: A memoir of belonging, identity and finding home by Florence Olajide
RRP: £8.99£6.20'Why am I not white like everybody else?' Nan came and sat on the edge of my bed. 'What do you mean?' A tender finger brushed against my cheek. 'Well, everyone in this house is white. Why am I Black?'A generation of Nigerian children were born in Britain... -
I Never Gave My Consent: A Schoolgirl's Life Inside the Telford Sex Ring by Holly Archer
RRP: £8.99£5.82In 2013, a series of high-profile court cases sent shockwaves through the West Midlands town of Telford. Seven men, all from the town's Pakistani heritage community, were jailed for selling vulnerable young girls for sex. The convictions made national... -
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham 9780349014937
RRP: £10.99£6.47'Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk' NEW STATESMAN'Wonderful ... both frank and fearless' TELEGRAPH BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Fascinating' GUARDIAN TOP TEN NATURE MEMOIRSFrom Mexico to the... -
Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen by Richard Hingley 9781852855161
£27.20Boudica, or Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, led a famous revolt against Roman rule in Britain in AD 60, sacking London, Colchester and St Albans and throwing the province into chaos. Although then defeated by the governor, Suetonius Paulinus, her rebellion... -
Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal 9780500294550
RRP: £20.00£13.03Over the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin's austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solitary existence in the American Southwest. 'I paint with... -
Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars by Barry Adamson 9781913172251
£20.12In Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars, the enigmatic Barry Adamson shines a probing light into his own heart of darkness. Born in the black and white world of post-industrial Manchester, Adamson saw music as a chance to turn his world... -
Going Solo: My choice to become a single mother using a donor by Genevieve Roberts
RRP: £13.99£9.20GOING SOLO is the empowering and uplifting story of one woman's choice to become a single mother. 'I hope this story gives hope to anyone who wants children and to anyone who finds themselves single. Not to follow this path necessarily, but to remember... -
The Commanders: The Leadership Journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel by Lloyd Clark 9780857897305
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Utterly fascinating.' James Holland'First-class... The intense rivalry of Monty and Patton is one of the great stories of the war, and has never been told better.' Andrew RobertsBorn in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard... -
Secrets and Lies – Tales of an Employment Lawyer by Gillian Howard 9781398486027
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398486027Author Gillian HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Krays: The Final Word - the definitive account of the Krays' life and crimes by James Morton
RRP: £14.99£11.35Think you know everything about the Krays?Think again.Britain's most infamous criminals: the Kray twins. The extent of their activities has always been uncertain. But now, it is time for the conclusive account of their story, from their East End... -
The Queer Bible by Jack Guinness
RRP: £20.00£13.74'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' THE QUEER BIBLE is a collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to... -
The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari by Simon Barnes 9781398518889
RRP: £16.99£11.08From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural joys to be discovered on your doorstep. In the autumn of 2020, Simon Barnes should have been leading a safari in Zambia, but Covid restrictions meant his... -
Art of Freedom: The life and climbs of Voytek Kurtyka by Bernadette McDonald 9781911342526
RRP: £14.95£11.11Voytek Kurtyka is one of the greatest alpinists of all time. Born in 1947, he was one of the leading lights of the Polish golden age of mountaineering that redefined Himalayan climbing in the 1970s and 1980s.His visionary approach to climbing resulted in... -
Beneath The Underdog by Charles Mingus
RRP: £10.99£7.32Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished, shocking and profoundly moving memoir, is the greatest... -
Red One: A Bomb Disposal Expert on the Front Line by Kevin Ivison
RRP: £9.99£6.80The British Hurt Locker. In the Iraq War, Cpt Kevin Ivison defused bombs and IEDs left by the Taliban. Each time he took the 'longest walk' to a bomb, it could have been his last. How many times can a man stare death in the face before he breaks? Even... -
John MacBride: 16Lives by Donal Fallon 9781847172709
RRP: £15.99£12.37Major John MacBride, who was Born in Westport, County Mayo in 1868, was a household name in Ireland when many of the leaders of the Easter Rising were still relatively unknown figures. As part of the 'Irish Brigade', a band of nationalists fighting... -
The Mafia Philosopher: Two Tonys by Shaun Attwood 9780993021596
RRP: £10.00£9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993021596Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood -
The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All by Mary Childs
RRP: £21.99£14.56From the host of NPR's Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad,... -
Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity by Nabeel Qureshi
RRP: £17.99£12.09NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 2015 Christian Book Award winner * Nabeel Qureshi describes his dramatic journey from Islam to Christianity in this expanded edition with new bonus content and reflections. "My friend Nabeel Qureshi was courageous enough to... -
Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Stimulating, erudite and above all entertaining...For any reader tired of the seemlingly endless round of Churchill-worship' Robert HarrisA radical biography for a new generationIn A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country' when...