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The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days by Helen Rebanks 9780785290483
RRP: £29.99£17.44A heartfelt, unvarnished reflection on the power of domestic life.Helen Rebanks' beautifully written memoir takes place across a single day on her working farm in the Lake District of England. Weaving past and present, through a journey of... -
No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters by Anne-Marie Fyfe 9781781725177
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725177Author Anne-Marie FyfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Swimming for My Life: A Memoir by Kim Fairley
RRP: £17.99£15.40In 1970s Cincinnati, Kim's overwhelmed, financially stressed parents dragged her and her four younger siblings into swimming-starting with a nearby motel pool-as a way to keep them occupied and out of their way. When Kim was eleven, they began leaving... -
The Fossil Woman: A Life of Mary Anning by Tom Sharpe
RRP: £15.00£13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838473501Author Tom SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Escape from St-Valery-en-Caux: The Adventures of Captain B.C. Bradford by Andrew Bradford 9781803995922
RRP: £15.99£12.25The dramatic story of Captain Bill Bradford, Adjutant of the 1st Battalion Black Watch, compiled using diaries and letters, coded messages and correspondence between his family and the War Office in their desperate effort to hear news of his safety... -
Burn: A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing by Ben Short
RRP: £10.99£7.40'An extraordinary and powerful book, full of vitality. Every page celebrates the way traditional skills can shape who we are' Tristan Gooley'Lyrical, moving and never self-pitying . . . a lovely book' The TimesBen Short has a successful career in... -
Bowler's Name: The Life of a Cricketing Also-Ran by Tom Hicks
RRP: £16.99£12.94Bowler's Name? is a tale of a life in cricket's margins. Tom Hicks is no household name, but he often rubbed shoulders with cricketing royalty, going from the village green to walking out as captain at Lord's. As an ambitious youngster, Hicks dreamed of... -
Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach by Horatio Clare 9781908213778
RRP: £10.00£7.12In the depths of winter in 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher and organist, set off on a long journey by foot to Lubeck to visit the composer Dieterich Buxterhude, a distance of more... -
The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir by Alan Lane 9781914228414
RRP: £12.99£8.63'There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons no one gets opera. That's what I believe.' A deeply moving memoir of how a group of... -
Murder Under the Microscope: Serial Killers, Cold Cases and Life as a Forensic Investigator by James Fraser
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Jim Fraser has been at the forefront of forensic science in the UK for decades... A superb story of real-life CSI.' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes'Powerful... Fascinating' Independent Most murders are not difficult to solve... -
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
RRP: £16.99£11.54For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels - several of which are now established classics... -
The Last British Dambuster: One man's extraordinary life and the raid that changed history by George Johnny Johnson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Johnny Johnson has been awarded an MBE for his remarkable services in World War II'I was anxious to fight. Hitler was the bastard who had started all this and he needed sorting out. We were under threat. Everything we stood for: our country, our families... -
A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game by Calum Jacobs
RRP: £10.99£7.77A New Formation is an inventive and highly original analysis of the contributions that Black British footballers have made to Black British culture.Calum Jacobs and his co-contributors - including authors Musa Okwonga and Aniefiok Ekpoudom and sports... -
The Autobiography Of Andrew Carnegie And The Gospel Of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
RRP: £7.99£5.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530387Author Andrew CarnegieFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 173g -
EB325573 by EBtbc325573
RRP: £20.00£14.29Denise Van Outen, original 90s 'ladette', West End star and primetime TV favourite, reveals for the first time the true story of grit and graft beneath the famous Essex sparkle.In this refreshingly candid memoir, Denise speaks openly and sensitively... -
Time the Present: Selected Stories by Tess Slesinger 9781913861605
RRP: £14.99£10.77Pull Devil, Pull Baker is one of the oddest autobiographies ever written.The novelist Stella Benson first encountered an eccentric Russiannobleman, Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec De Savine in the pauper'sward of a Hong Kong hospital. Striking up a... -
A Hundred to One: 100 convictions. 1 Million Euro. The devastating true story of a compulsive gambler by Pat Sheedy 9781804580585
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804580585Author Pat SheedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gill BooksPublisher Gill BooksWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 152mm * 20mm -
Ernestine L. Rose: Agitate! by Joyce B Lazarus 9780761873426
RRP: £15.99£14.28Overlooked by historians for over half a century following her death, Ernestine L. Rose (1810 1892) was one of the foremost orators and social reformers of her era. A fearless human rights activist, she fought for racial equality, women's rights,... -
Father and Son: A memoir about family, the past and mortality by Jonathan Raban 9780330418409
RRP: £22.00£15.10A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, and on the other, the conventional codes of what must remain unsaid. This,... -
An Octopus in My Ouzo: Loving Life on a Greek Island by Jennifer Barclay
RRP: £10.99£7.00Escape to the sunlight and colour of a wild island in the south Aegean.When Jennifer moves alone into the Honey Factory on a tiny Greek island, bringing a laptop, her hiking boots and plans for a peaceful life, she has no idea what surprises are in store... -
Silver and Gold: The autobiography of Norman Hartnell by Norman Hartnell
RRP: £9.99£7.11Sir Norman Hartnell (1901-1979) was the star of London couture during the interwar years, gaining international fame as dressmaker to the British royal family. His autobiography, first published in 1955, tells the story of the creation of his couture... -
A Woman of Firsts: The midwife who built a hospital and changed the world by Edna Adan Ismail
RRP: £9.99£5.82'The Muslim Mother Teresa' Huffington Post Winner of the 2023 Templeton Prize Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all - for the women of Africa. ... -
Six-String Stories by Eric Clapton
RRP: £40.00£28.53'These guitars have been really good tools; they're not just museum pieces. They all have a soul and they all come alive.' - Eric Clapton 'In his own words, Clapton tells his story through the history of his instruments.' - Rolling Stone In Six-String... -
Trump by Donald J. Trump
RRP: £8.99£6.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345481405Author Donald J. TrumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)... -
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
RRP: £12.99£8.56A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKA dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries.After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has... -
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
RRP: £25.00£16.53'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER A TIMES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2023 From one of South... -
Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen 9780300078008
RRP: £16.99£14.61"A historian's biography of Philip II as Renaissance prince, refuting the Elizabethan propaganda picture of the spider of the Escorial."-New York Times Book Review (And Bear in Mind)"In humanizing a man too often viewed as a cardboard tyrant, Kamen has... -
10 Scotland Street by Leslie Hills 9781910895733
RRP: £24.99£17.31This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. - Sara Sheridan As a writer of fiction, I found myself itching to lift some of these characters from the page into the fertile fields of my own imagination... -
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Hawksley
RRP: £25.00£15.26Over 2,000 years of history seen through the eyes of 50 extraordinary women. Was Jane Austen a fan of her own work? What did Harriet Tubman want to tell Abraham Lincoln? And how did Greta Thunberg respond to her critics? This carefully curated selection... -
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
RRP: £11.99£8.43Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie PittUntil the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried... -
And Now The Shipping Forecast: A Tide of History Around Our Shores by Peter Jefferson
RRP: £12.99£12.55Peter Jefferson presented The Shipping Forecast for over 40 years, and his familiar voice continued to be heard reading quotations on BBC Radio 4's Quote... Unquote. This book is both an affectionate memoir and a history of the science and BBC... -
Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story by Alice Bag 9781936239122
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239122Author Alice BagFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 508g -
This is the Place to Be by Lara Pawson
RRP: £8.99£7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585218Author Lara PawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions -
Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton
RRP: £13.99£10.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375878Author Lucille CliftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: The Autobiography by Steven Tyler
RRP: £9.99£7.11The long-awaited, never-before-told, no-holds-barred memoir from the legendary Aerosmith frontman. Finally, all the lurid tales of debauchery, sex, drugs and rock n' roll are told straight from the horse's lips as The Demon of Screamin' describes his... -
Paperboy by Christopher Fowler
RRP: £10.99£7.77Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, cereal packets - anything that might reveal a... -
The Secret Life of Special Advisers by Peter Cardwell 9781785907395
RRP: £10.99£7.77Shadowy geniuses whispering, Rasputin-like, into the ears of our elected politicians under a cloak of secrecy, or a crucial but undervalued cog in the machinery of government? ... Or just a rag-tag band of weirdos and misfits? Despite the acres of... -
Aleister Crowley: The Biography - Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master - and Spy by Tobias Churton 9781780283845
RRP: £30.00£18.71Blowing the myths wide open, this exciting exploration of the notorious Aleister Crowley, packed with previously unpublished information, is the true story of a poet, explorer, mystic, mountaineer, philosopher, prophet and spy.About the AuthorTobias... -
Strong Women Lift Each Other Up by Molly Galbraith
RRP: £20.00£13.34Many women have false beliefs about who we are and what we must do to succeed. If you pit yourself against other women because of this, you're holding yourself back. It's time for a change.Women are ready to stop the vicious cycle of criticizing,... -
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £10.99£7.77A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of...