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The Hours of Richard III by Anne F. Sutton 9781803996325
RRP: £17.99£11.87As a person's religious convictions, especially in times past, can be considered fundamental to their character and behaviour, the nature of King Richard III's piety has been the subject of considerable debate. Much of this controversy has focused on the... -
Gentleman and Player: The Story of Colin Cowdrey, Cricket's Most Elegant and Charming Batsman by Andrew Murtagh
RRP: £18.99£14.72Colin Cowdrey is remembered for the elegance of his strokeplay; but there was more to this complex man than a classical cover drive. Successes were numerous: 114 Test matches, 22 Test hundreds, 100 first-class centuries, countless famous victories and... -
The Kenneth Williams Diaries by Russell Davies 9780006380900
RRP: £18.99£13.77'I'll put you in my diary!' comedian Kenneth Williams was known to threaten on occasion, although tantalisingly he kept the journal to himself during his lifetime. Here at last, in one spellbinding volume, are four million words of it. For... -
Making Decisions by Ed Smith
RRP: £20.00£14.29Winning takes many forms. For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a great sports book about leadership, judgement and decision-making - rooted in the theory that helped Ed Smith lead England cricket to sustained success. And to help us all win... -
For the Sins of My Mother by Marie Therese Rogers-Moloney
RRP: £12.00£10.96In rural Ireland in 1950, a respectable widow has an affair with a visiting stranger. To conceal her pregnancy, she travels to Belfast, where she gives birth to a baby girl called Marie Therese. She returns to her village life, leaving her daughter to... -
Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier by Marisa Meltzer
RRP: £18.99£17.52The bombshell expose that reveals-for the first time-exactly what happened at Glossier, one of America's hottest and most consequential startups, and dives deep into the enigmatic, visionary woman responsible for it all.Called "one of the most disruptive... -
A 1980s Childhood by Derek Tait
RRP: £9.99£6.64This book describes just what it was like to be a child during the 1980s. It was a time before people had smartphones, and the last decade before work, society and social life changed forever with the introduction of the internet in the 1990s. There were... -
Life Lessons from Remarkable Women: Tales of Triumph, Failure and Learning to Love Yourself by Stylist Magazine
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE REMARKABLE WOMAN IN YOUR LIFE! If you could share one lesson from your life with every woman, what would it be?Stylist magazine has asked that question of remarkable women from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sport and... -
Maximum Diner: Making it Big in Uckfield by Christopher Nye 9780954221737
RRP: £6.99£4.98Join Christopher Nye on his hilarious journey to become the self-styled Rocco Forte of the Road to Eastbourne... This is a book about a dream. The dream of running a restaurant. In Uckfield, East Sussex. Well, okay, Uckfield didn't actually appear in... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone by Charles Moore
RRP: £18.99£14.01The final part of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister, 'One of the great biographical achievements of our times' (Sunday Times)A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, IRISH TIMES, NEW... -
Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul by Claire Dunne
RRP: £25.00£16.78This is the essential fully illustrated biography of Carl Jung - one of the world's most influential thinkers and a founding father of psychology. It offers a unique insight into Jung's life and work, featuring generous excerpts from his writings and... -
The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook: a history of the Renaissance mathematics that birthed imaginary numbers, probability, and the new physics of the universe by Michael Brooks 9781911617358
RRP: £9.99£6.70A Daily Telegraph book of the year. This is a landmark in science writing that resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer,... -
On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest by Roger A. Stritmatter 9780786471041
RRP: £21.99£17.97This book challenges a longstanding and deeply ingrained belief in Shakespearean studies that The Tempest - long supposed to be Shakespeare's last play - was not written until 1611. In the course of investigating this proposition, which has rarely been... -
I Will Protect Her: For the Protection of Oneself Is Key to Survival After All by I.R. Dujon 9781035818488
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035818488Author I.R. DujonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Stanley: Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
RRP: £14.99£9.80Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of... -
The Funny Thing About Death by Jo Caulfield 9781846976353
RRP: £16.99£11.58'It's a wildly satisfying and moving read ... I loved this special book' - Graham Norton Six years ago, Jo Caulfield was about to go on stage when she found out that her big sister Annie had cancer. Not the best way to start a nationwide comedy tour... -
Leadership: Lessons From My Life in Rugby by Eddie Jones 9781529072150
RRP: £20.00£14.69What does it take to become one of the most successful coaches in the world?Eddie Jones is one of the most successful sports coaches of all time. From coaching three different nations to Rugby World Cup Finals and with a winning record with England of... -
The Perfect Stranger by P. J. Kavanagh 9781910463291
RRP: £8.99£6.20The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and engaging, and ultimately deeply emotional, The Perfect Stranger is the story of a soldier, a poet and a husband... -
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
RRP: £25.00£24.88The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be magisterial, has adopted many of his hero's mannerism! And,... -
Mr Smiley: My Last Pill and Testament by Howard Marks 9781509809684
RRP: £10.99£7.93Howard Marks is the most famous drug smuggler of his age, and a hero to a generation. On his release from one of America's toughest prisons, Howard made a promise to himself to go straight. No more drugs, no more smuggling, no more fake passports. He... -
Football's Braveheart: The Authorised Biography of Dave Mackay by Mike Donovan 9781785317910
RRP: £19.99£9.32Football's Braveheart is the riveting life story of Dave Mackay, the fearless, skilled, heroic and barrel-chested left-half who was an icon for Spurs, Hearts, Derby and Scotland. Off the field, Dave was a humble, fair-minded, sociable man. On it, he was... -
A Northern Soul: The Autobiography by Jimmy Nail
RRP: £14.99£10.95Get acquainted with a northern soul ...Jimmy Nail has been a household name since Auf Wiedersehen, Pet hit our screens in the 1980s. since then, his career as an actor and a musician has put on him on the silver screen alongside Madonna and given him a... -
Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu
RRP: £9.99£7.11Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu... -
Shipwreck Of The Whaleship Essex: The true story that inspired the film In the Heart of the Sea by Owen Chase
RRP: £9.99£2.26DON'T MISS THE MAJOR FILM INSPIRED BY CHASE'S NARRATIVE, IN THE HEART OF THE SEA On 20 November 1820, just south of the equator, the whaling ship Essex, spotted and pursued a shoal of sperm whales. As the crew started harpooning, the largest whale - some... -
Lethal Shot: A Royal Marine Commando in Action by Robert Driscoll
RRP: £20.00£5.60Rob Driscoll, former sergeant with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, served tours in Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo. A born leader of fighting men, he also endured three tours in Afghanistan. The third of those will go down in history as one of the UK military's... -
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music by Tony King
RRP: £20.00£13.46The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years and features stories of his time working with everyone from the Beatles to the Ronettes and Elton John to the Rolling... -
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey Ward
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDHe was the first black heavyweight champion in history (1908-15) and the most celebrated - and most reviled - African American of his age. In Unforgivable Blackness, prize-winning biographer... -
Ake: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinda
RRP: £10.99£8.94'A beautifully drawn picture ... that will surely number among the classics of childhood' Evening Standard Ake is the first volume of Wole Soyinka's acclaimed series of autobiographical works. This vivid, exuberant book is Soyinka's record of his... -
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein
RRP: £13.99£12.58Attila Ambrus was a gentleman thief from Transylvania, a terrible professional hockey goalkeeper - and preferred women in leopard-skin hot pants. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Ambrus took up bank robbery to make... -
The Life of the Prophet Muhammad by Leila Azzam 9780946621026
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621026Author Leila AzzamFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 350g -
Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A wonderful book ... Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times 'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave _______________ Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel. A free... -
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £8.99£6.45Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist... -
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Powerful and poetic ... For anyone interested in the myth of Che Guevara ... this book is essential reading' Colm Toibin, Observer'We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of some dark psychic mechanism...'The Cuban Revolution... -
Bill Shankly: It's Much More Important Than That: The Biography by Stephen F. Kelly
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Football is not just a matter of life and death: it's much more important than that' - Bill ShanklyBill Shankly was without doubt among the greatest football managers of the post-war era and his life story is an inspiring read for anyone interested in... -
Little Book of Christian Louboutin: The Story of the Iconic Shoe Designer by Darla-Jane Gilroy
RRP: £13.99£9.61'A woman can carry a bag, but it is the shoe that carries the woman' - Christian LouboutinAmong designers of luxury shoes, there is one whose designs are instantly recognizable: Christian Louboutin. His iconic red soles can be seen everywhere from the... -
The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin by Margaret Rhodes 9781780270852
RRP: £9.99£6.70This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of the late Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of... -
Call Me Elizabeth: Wife, Mother, Escort by Dawn Annandale 9780751536980
£12.73Dawn Annandale is bright, witty and well educated. But when her marriage began to fall apart, she had to face a seemingly insurmountable pile of debts on her own. Determined that her children would not suffer because of their parents' mistakes, and with... -
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire by Katherine Connelly
RRP: £16.99£11.54From militant suffragette at the beginning of the twentieth century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after the Second World War, Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice. In this vivid biography Katherine... -
Josephine Tey: A Life, 125th Anniversary Edition by Jennifer Morag Henderson
RRP: £14.99£10.95Josephine Tey was the pen-name of Elizabeth MacKintosh (1896-1952). Born in Inverness, MacKintosh lived several lives: Best known as Golden Age Crime Fiction writer Tey, she was also successful novelist and playwright Gordon Daviot. During her... -
Are You Really OK?: Understanding Britain’s Mental Health Emergency by Stacey Dooley
RRP: £10.99£7.77We are not OK...I've been fortunate enough to meet many remarkable people over the last decade of making documentaries - sometimes in incredibly hostile environments, where they've been really up against it - and I've seen the devastating effect that...