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The Sweetness of Life by Francoise Heritier
RRP: £7.99£5.79The number one bestseller in France and Italy, from Francoise Heritier, The Sweetness of Life is a beautiful and poetic list of the everyday reasons that make life worth livingIf you assume an average life expectancy of 85 years, and deduct the hours we... -
Graft: How to Smash Life by Tom Skinner 9780008643997
RRP: £22.00£19.29GET OUT THERE, GIVE IT 110% AND ABSOLUTELY SMASH IT! . Tom Skinner is a grafter. Born and bred in Romford, he's spent a lifetime on market stalls and has always had an eye for opportunity. He's sold... -
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton by Christopher Hitchens 9781838952280
RRP: £9.99£6.70In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer and... -
The Parting Years: A British Family and the End of Empire by Sheila Bevan 9781860647345
£54.87How did the end of Empire affect a family steeped in British imperial traditions for more than four generations? Shiela Bevan's story begins when the British Empire still seemed in its heyday of world dominion, when the vast increase in territorial... -
Isaac Watts: His Life and Thought by Graham Beynon
RRP: £9.99£6.45Isaac Watts(1674-1748) is one of the best-known hymn-Writers in history. He wrote over 700 hymns including the well-known "When I survey the Wondrous Cross", "O God, our help in ages past" and "Jesus shall reign where'er the... -
Country Doctor: Hilarious True Stories from a Rural Practice (Book 1 in the Country Doctor series) by Michael Sparrow
RRP: £9.99£6.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788420723Author Michael SparrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PreludePublisher Duckworth Books -
Joseph Conrad by Robert Hampson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Born in Poland in 1857, Joseph Conrad is one of the great writers of the twentieth century. This book traces Conrad's life from his childhood in a Russian penal colony, through his early manhood in Marseille and his years in the British Merchant Navy, to... -
The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World by Toby Musgrave
RRP: £12.99£11.46A fascinating life of Sir Joseph Banks which restores him to his proper place in history as a leading scientific figure of the English Enlightenment"An extensive, admiring account of his subject's circuitous route to fame and power."-Wall Street... -
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
RRP: £14.99£9.76**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one... -
Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99£8.56The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be shot. In Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA Mark Urban meticulously explores... -
The Victorian Master Criminal: Charles Peace and the Murders of Cock and Dyson by David C. Hanrahan 9780750962971
RRP: £16.99£12.94On 2 August 1876, a young policeman named Constable Nicholas Cock was shot dead while walking 'the beat' at Whalley Range, Manchester. A few months later, on the evening of 29 November 1876, Arthur Dyson, an engineer, was murdered in his own backyard at... -
Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars by Nick Duerden 9781472277770
RRP: £20.00£13.75**A TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** **INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH** **GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY** **FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2022' PICK** 'Incredibly moving.' - Guardian'Funny and humane.' - Telegraph'Most books about pop stars... -
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps
RRP: £12.99£9.09Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy...Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge... -
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust 9780008340063
RRP: £9.99£7.58A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp... -
Before Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of the First World War by Paul Gannon
RRP: £20.00£15.44The story of Bletchley Park's codebreaking operations in the Second World War is now well known, but its counterparts in the First World War - Room 40 & MI1(b) - remain in the shadows, despite their involvement in and influence on most of the major... -
Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency by Sadiq Khan
RRP: £16.99£11.27'A breath of fresh air' Observer'Passionate and authentic' GQ'Refreshing and galvanising' Vogue'Rousing and thoughtful' Independent'Quite the page-turner' Evening StandardTo win the climate war, you first need to win the climate argument.For many years,... -
The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park: A unique history of one of Ireland’s most famous places by James Flanagan 9781399722810
RRP: £22.99£15.57The Phoenix Park in Dublin holds a special place in the collective memory of Irish people. From the assassinations of 1882 and the destruction of several imperial monuments, to the arrival of Douglas Hyde as Ireland's first president and Pope John Paul's... -
The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time by Catherine Taylor
RRP: £16.99£12.28No life exists outside the times.This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place and time that shaped her: the North of England in the 1970s and 80s.About the scorching summer of 1976 - the last Catherine Taylor would spend with... -
Getting Stoned With Savages by J. Maarten Troost
RRP: £15.99£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767921992Author J. Maarten TroostFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Bilbo the Lifeguard Dog: A true story of friendship and heroism by Steven Jamieson
RRP: £9.99£6.52Warm, funny and moving; the perfect summer read. For fans of Arthur, Finding Gobi and Damien Lewis' A Dog Called Hope.When Steve Jamieson met Bilbo, a chocolate Newfoundland puppy, little did he know that the small bundle of fluff would grow to take up a... -
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation by Anne Frank
RRP: £14.99£11.95The First Graphic Adaptation of the Multi-Million Bestseller'12th June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.'In the summer... -
One Day In April: Hillsborough - A Mother's Story by Jenni Hicks
RRP: £14.99£7.54It is a privilege to know her - Jordan HendersonQuite remarkable - David DeinHer tenacity and courage is astonishing - Prof Phil ScratonUtterly gripping - Jimmy McGovernHer strength is inspiring - Simon RimmerPathos-laced memoires on every page - Steve... -
The Skin Collector: Lincoln Rhyme Book 11 by Jeffery Deaver
RRP: £9.99£6.80From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Goodbye Man, discover Jeffery Deaver's chilling series featuring much-loved protagonists Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs.They have never seen a murder like it - but something about this killer is all too... -
I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music by Sylvia Patterson
RRP: £10.99£7.40DON'T MISS SYLVIA PATTERSON'S BRAND NEW MEMOIR, SAME OLD GIRL, COMING SPRING 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2016 'Celebratory and elegiac' Guardian 'A roller-coaster memoir' Sunday Times 'Funny, anecdote-packed, nostalgic but also very... -
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet
RRP: £9.99£7.11A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. From the glamorous singles clubs of Paris to the Bois de Boulogne, she... -
Boris Johnson: The Neverending Tory: The Adventure Where You Take Back Control by Iain Hollingshead 9781787636927
RRP: £9.99£7.11Now that Boris Johnson has left Downing Street to spend more time with his families, you can celebrate/lament his departure with this multiple-choice adventure where you take back control. Packed with 350 million* endings, this is the perfect stocking... -
Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival by Amira Keidar 9781913543075
RRP: £8.99£2.91A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of World War II, in a Polish ghetto, a baby girl named Rachel is born. Her parents, Jacob and Zippa, are willing to... -
Lights Out, Full Throttle: The Good the Bad and the Bernie of Formula One by Damon Hill 9781529039993
RRP: £20.00£14.29Drawing on a lifetime of sniffing petrol fumes, Lights Out, Full Throttle stands large over the landscape of Formula One and takes the temperature of the good, the bad and the ugly of the petrolhead's paradise.Johnny Herbert and Damon Hill between them... -
The Case for Trump by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: £25.00£19.21In The Case for Trump, acclaimed historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a... -
Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: £10.99£7.25The first major biography of Henry VIII least favourite wife - but the one who outlived them all. 'I like her not!' was the verdict of Henry VIII on meeting his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, for the first time. Anne could have said something similar on... -
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £12.99£8.60The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader.In 1931, at the age of 21, Douglas Bader was the golden boy of the RAF. Excelling in everything he did he represented the Royal Air... -
LeBron by Jeff Benedict 9781398517264
RRP: £20.00£13.26THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first definitive biography of basketball legend LeBron James, by the acclaimed author of Tiger Woods. LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century and vying with Michael Jordan as the... -
Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny by Ann Marks 9781982166731
RRP: £14.99£9.76The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life... -
King Charles II by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £16.99£11.54Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660.Spanning his life... -
Paul: Photographs by Andy Crofts by Andy Crofts
RRP: £39.99£33.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838078331Author Andy CroftsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint This Day in Music BooksPublisher This Day in Music Books -
Lifting the Latch: A Life on the Land - Based on the Life of Mont Abbott of Enstone, Oxfordshire by Sheila Stewart 9780953221332
RRP: £8.99£8.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953221332Author Sheila StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Day BooksPublisher Day Books -
Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys by Peter Evans 9780060580544
RRP: £10.99£7.25A longtime investigative journalist uncovers one of the great untold stories of twentieth-century international intrigue, and the secrets it has held until now. Shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and Bobby Kennedy, two of the world's richest and most... -
Steely Dan FAQ: All That's Left to Know About This Elusive Band by Anthony Robustelli 9781495025129
RRP: £14.99£11.93Despite Steely Dan's popularity its ability to cultivate an ever-growing base of avid and loyal fans and its chart positions relatively little has been written about the group. ESteely Dan FAQE clears up some of the many misconceptions about the band... -
My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream by Janine Marsh
RRP: £9.99£6.85One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something... -
Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents--One Queen's Special Relationship with America by David Charter 9780593712870
RRP: £24.99£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593712870Author David CharterFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc