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Dark Summit: The Extraordinary True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil
RRP: £16.99£12.28Everest - the highest mountain in the world and the ultimate climbing challenge. In 2006, 11 people died attempting to reach the summit, the most fatalities since 1996. But unlike 1996, 2006 saw no surprise blizzard, only the constant dangers posed by... -
The Real Mrs. Brown: The Authorised Biography of Brendan O'Carroll by Brian Beacom
RRP: £10.99£7.40Who'd have thought a potty-mouthed Dublin mammy with a cream cardigan and elasticated tan tights could storm British TV screens and leave a nation helpless with laughter? Brendan O'Carroll performs to tens of thousands of people a night in packed-out... -
Freak Unique: My Story by Pete Burns 9781844544387
RRP: £10.99£7.47Pete Burns has found a new audience with his outrageous antics on Celebrity Big Brother. Whether being berated for wearing an alleged 'gorilla' coat, or destroying any one of his housemates with a withering putdown, he's the undoubted star of the show... -
Mule: My Dangerous Life As A Drug Smuggler Turned Dea Informant by C. A. Heifner 9780762780280
RRP: £12.99£9.61An inside look at the gritty, brutal world of Mexican drug trafficking.About the AuthorC. A. Heifner earned his MBA in economics from the University of Texas at El Paso. Feature articles about him have appeared in Bluff, Mob Candy, and the New York... -
Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood by Trixie Mattel
RRP: £22.00£16.02Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova took the world by storm with their Guide to Modern Womanhood, a book of expert advice on beauty, homemaking and relationships. Now, they're tackling an even bigger challenge: finding success in the workplace.In... -
Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear by Willard Wood
RRP: £9.99£6.70We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultuous period in history - he is the one who knows how to philosophize in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we have never stopped reading him, always to pull ourselves out of a torpor. But what do we really... -
David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine by Nicholas Royle 9781526173638
RRP: £15.99£11.80In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delves deeply into questions about the value of art, music... -
Hollywood: The Oral History by Sam Wasson
RRP: £25.00£16.59Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century.What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who... -
Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed by Patrick Woodhouse
RRP: £16.99£13.16On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Jewish Dutch student living in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust. Over the course of the next two and a half... -
James II: King in Exile by John Callow 9780750964937
RRP: £14.99£11.95James II was Britain's last Catholic king. The spectacular collapse of his regime in 1688 and the seizure of his throne by his nephew William of Orange are the best-known events of his reign. But what of his life after this? What became of him during his... -
Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood by Robert Douglas
RRP: £10.99£7.40A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence... -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
RRP: £20.00£14.29Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L... -
Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten by Pamela Hicks
RRP: £9.99£7.11A magical memoir about childhood in India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten; a glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the 20th century's leading figures.Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's... -
Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor 9781848250659
£13.33Barbara Brown Taylor is one of America's most renowned and beloved spiritual writers and author of the acclaimed An Altar in the World. Here she reflects on keeping faith and the relentless demands that characterise life for so many today. In this... -
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller 9780471283621
RRP: £20.00£13.35"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a moredeeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, authorSon of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and... -
Charles III: A King and His Queen by Chris Jackson
RRP: £45.00£33.46From the excitement of royal tours to capturing official portraits and quiet behind-the-scenes moments of all senior members of the British royal family, Chris Jackson s singular insight into the most famous family on the planet has never been more... -
Young Romantics by Daisy Hay 9781408809723
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A most impressive achievement' Michael Holroyd 'Enthralling' Sunday Times 'Masterly' Telegraph _______________________ 'The web of our Life is of mingled Yarn' - John Keats In Young Romantics Daisy Hay shatters the myth of the Romantic poet as a... -
Liberation Through Hearing by Richard Russell
RRP: £9.99£6.80For almost 30 years as label boss, producer, and talent conductor at XL Recordings, Richard Russell has discovered, shaped and nurtured the artists who have rewritten the musical dictionary of the 21st century, artists like The Prodigy, The White... -
Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99£12.28Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a... -
A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar: A Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery by Harry Nicholas
RRP: £14.99£14.69'On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of what it is to be trans, but nothing really that encapsulates what is it to be both - to exist in the hazy terrain between.'After his relationship with his... -
Dare to Dream: Develop the courage and tools to realize high stake dreams by Lowell Sheppard 9781911687900
RRP: £12.99£8.60Lowell Sheppard had a life-long dream: to buy a sailboat, live on it, learn how to sail, and then cross the Pacific Ocean...solo and by the time he was 70. When he finally announced that he was going to do just that, he was at the ripe age of 64..... -
My Life in Design by Gauri Khan 9780670094776
RRP: £43.95£29.14Gauri Khan strikes the perfect balance between her sense of design and personality, and factors in the clients' brief while transforming a space into something that the user can truly call their own. She uses her quiet, elegant style and... -
Outlaw Riding Through The Storm by George Christie 9781667836829
RRP: £25.99£18.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667836829Author George ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBabyWeight(grams) 417g -
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan
RRP: £15.99£13.58Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also... -
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE GRIPPING, TERRIFYING STORY OF A BRUTAL STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL ON THE UPPER SLOPES OF THE HIMALAYAN K2, THE WORLD'S MOST HOSTILE TERRAIN. 'Unputdownable. A portrait of extreme courage, folly and loss, leavened by a small dose of survival' Financial... -
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey 9780099437246
RRP: £18.99£14.01Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survivedCATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir... ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... -
Chanel: The Fashion Icons by Michael O'Neill 9781915343215
RRP: £21.99£16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343215Author Michael O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm)... -
Other People's Houses by Lore Segal
RRP: £8.99£6.73'First published 54 years ago and yet feels as timely as any book I've read this year' Observer Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for... -
Princess Diana: A Little Golden Book Biography Sonali Fry 9780593703854
RRP: £4.99£3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593703854Author Sonali FryFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Be My Baby by Ronnie Spector
RRP: £18.99£14.01Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, Be My Baby is the true story of how Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ronnie Spector carved out a space for herself against tremendous odds amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene... -
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970658Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 248g -
Basta: My Life, My Truth - The International Bestseller by Marco van Basten
RRP: £9.99£6.80*****Shortlisted for International Autobiography of the Year in the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2021'This account is often poetic and sometimes haunting.' - FourFourTwoTriple European Footballer of the Year. Once World Footballer of the Year. European... -
Silent Child: From no.1 bestseller Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival, for fans of Cathy Glass by Toni Maguire
RRP: £8.99£6.22Unlike people with carefree previous lives, I packed away my past. There are some memories labelled 'Look at', and others 'Leave well alone'...Emily Smith was held in a prison of fear for ten years. When she was four, her father left and a new man was... -
Leadership: Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy by Simon McDonald
RRP: £20.00£14.06When Abraham Lincoln said, 'You can be anything you want to be,' Americans, and eventually everybody everywhere, lifted their sights. Nowadays anybody can aspire to be a leader, and nearly everybody has to lead sometimes. In his first book, Simon... -
Never Shaken, Never Stirred: The Story of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough by Christopher Reindorp
RRP: £22.99£17.52Glamorous, fun and packed with scandalous anecdotes and exclusive interviews, Never Shaken, Never Stirred tells the story of two extraordinary sisters, Ann and Laura Charteris, who made marrying well an art form.While Laura eventually became the Duchess... -
There and Black Again: The Autobiography of Don Letts by Don Letts
RRP: £20.00£14.69Don Letts - filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father - has always defied conformity. A British-born son of Windrush parents, he seamlessly pivoted between London's punk and reggae scenes - earning his reputation as the... -
Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling by Jim Ross 9781683583974
RRP: £12.99£8.18New York Times bestselling author! Here is the story of how Jim Ross, an Oklahoman farm kid with a vivid imagination and seemingly unattainable dreams, became "The Voice of Wrestling" to record TV audiences and millions of fans around the world. There... -
This Is Not About Me by Janice Galloway
RRP: £9.99£6.70From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother, Janice Galloway grew up as a watcher - careful and vigilant. Then her parents' marriage broke up and mother and daughter moved to an attic above a doctor''s... -
In Parenthesis by David Jones 9780571259809
RRP: £17.99£12.20In Parenthesis was first published in London in 1937. I am proud to share the responsibility for that first publication. On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and still regard it, as a work of genius... Here is a book... -
Babes in the Wood: Two girls murdered. A guilty man walks free. Can the police get justice? by Graham Bartlett
RRP: £8.99£6.60A gripping true crime story and an insight into the motivations of a truly evil man, Babes in the Wood by Graham Bartlett with Peter James is a fascinating account of what became a thirty-two year fight for justice.On 9 October 1986, nine-year-olds...