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Niki Lauda: The Biography by Maurice Hamilton
RRP: £9.99£6.41LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020'The definitive biography of a racing driver who won three World Championship titles' Matt Dickinson, The Times, Sports Books of the Year'Thoroughly gripping...a fitting tribute' Justin... -
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
RRP: £22.00£13.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979275Author Roger LowensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)... -
Yesterday's Children by Jenny Cockell
RRP: £14.99£9.80This is the extraordinary story of Jenny Cockell, a young woman from Northamptonshire, who has always known that she has lived before. In her previous life her name was Mary. She was an Irishwoman who died 21 years before Jenny was born leaving several... -
On The Frontline of Britain's Mental Health Emergency by Stacey Dooley
RRP: £16.99£15.11We 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... -
Pet Shop Boys, Literally by Chris Heath
RRP: £16.99£12.68The Pet Shop Boys are one of the most successful and unusual bands of the last five decades. They are the pop duo that proves pop music can be modern, ecstatic and playful as well as serious and intelligent, winning them legions of devoted fans... -
A Short History of Falling: Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying by Joe Hammond 9780008339944
RRP: £8.99£2.96A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgettable memoir that finds light and even humour in the darkest of places. ... -
The Other Elizabeth Taylor by Nicola Beauman 9781906462109
RRP: £13.00£12.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906462109Author Nicola BeaumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 198mm * 134mm * 33mm -
Some Fantastic Place: My Life In and Out of Squeeze by Chris Difford
RRP: £9.99£6.80Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book PrizeOver the course of a thirteen-album and multi-award-winning career with Squeeze, it was clear from the very beginning that Chris Difford has few peers when it comes to smart, pithy lyricism. In Some Fantastic... -
The Shop Girls: A True Story of Hard Work, Friendship and Fashion in an Exclusive 1950s Department Store by Ellee Seymour
RRP: £10.99£7.40For Eve, Irene, Betty and Rosemary, working at the exclusive Heyworth's department store in Cambridge is a dream come true. Once the girls step inside the elegant building - surrounded by luxurious dresses and beautiful accessories - the hardships of... -
Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman
RRP: £12.99£9.62New Zealand's prime minister has been hailed as a leader for a new generation, tired of inaction in the face of issues such as climate change and far-right terrorism. Her grace and compassion following the Christchurch mosque shooting captured the... -
Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods by Hilma af Klint
RRP: £40.00£28.75At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, or Piet Mondrian... -
Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America by Donald J. Trump 9781501138003
RRP: £10.99£6.35In this book (previously published as Crippled America), we're going to look at the state of the world right now. It's a terrible mess, and that's putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in... -
The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years by Clive James
RRP: £9.99£7.27In the 1980s, Clive James found his way into full-time television. In The Blaze of Obscurity, his fifth book of memoir, he delivers the inside story. A hilarious, thoughtful, warts and all account of a life in the public eye.'Clive James is an... -
Billions to Bust and Back: How I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way by Thor Bjorgolfsson 9781781253694
RRP: £20.00£14.69Thor Bjorgolfsson is a self-styled adventure capitalist with an addiction to debt and an insatiable appetite for business deals who became Iceland's first billionaire. After 10 years establishing his financial empire with alco-pops and beer in the... -
Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: £18.99£16.58A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Philip II, Spain's best-known king"A superbly informed narrative of Philip II's long career as Europe's most powerful king."-Henry Kamen, Little Reviews"This... -
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai 9781399608992
RRP: £9.99£6.80In the face of Taliban oppression, one girl's unwavering defiance sparked a worldwide movement. Shot in the head for daring to seek an education, Malala Yousafzai defied all odds, emerging stronger than ever. From a valley in Pakistan to the global... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
RRP: £20.00£14.69What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old... -
All Gates Open: The Story of Can by Rob Young
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A real treat for Can fans.' SpectatorAll Gates Open is the definitive story of the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: Can. In part one, Rob Young gives us the full biography- an in-depth and exhilarating history... -
Penal Company on the Falklands: A Memoir of the Parachute Regiment at War 1982 by Neame, Philip 9781399070713
£26.66On 1 April 1982 the Argentinian junta invaded the Falkland Islands, while the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment was on leave. Recalled to barracks, it joined the hastily assembled task force to recover the Islands. No parachutes - instead a journey of... -
Elizabeth and Philip: The Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop
RRP: £20.00£14.29'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal BiographerShe was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins... -
We Bought a Zoo (Film Tie-in): The amazing true story of a broken-down zoo, and the 200 animals that changed a family forever by Benjamin Mee 9780007431823
RRP: £9.99£6.64A film tie-in edition to 20th Century Fox's film adaptation of the heart-warming international bestseller starring Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon and directed by Oscar-winning director Cameron Crowe. An amazing true story that has inspired... -
Queen Elizabeth II: A Glorious 70 Years by Alison James
RRP: £21.00£15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAlison James, a successful historian and journalist who writes about royals and celebrities for the Daily Mail, the Daily Express and Yours magazine in the UK and... -
At the Yeoman's House by Ronald Blythe 9781904634881
RRP: £15.00£10.96What happens in an old farmhouse when the farmers have left? Perhaps only a poet-historian-storyteller can say. These traditional work centres were established centuries ago, sometimes in the village street, often far away in their own fields. But the... -
Yeats Now: Echoing into Life by Joseph M. Hassett 9781843517788
RRP: £13.00£11.02W. B. Yeats believed that a poet's life should be an experiment in living. His poems fashion into memorable words the sometimes puzzling emotions that hover over important life events. Yeats's remarkable work can clarify our own thinking about similar... -
Encore Provence by Peter Mayle 9780140242669
RRP: £10.99£7.77The third spellbinding volume in the series begun by A Year in Provence, ENCORE PROVENCE continues the account of an English couple's life abroad. Among other curiosities, explore a school for noses in Haute Provence, the mysterious death of an oversexed... -
I Hate Men by Pauline Harmange
RRP: £6.99£4.80The feminist book they tried to ban in France 'A delightful book' Roxane Gay Women, especially feminists and lesbians, have long been accused of hating men. Our instinct is to deny it at all costs. (After all, women have been burnt... -
Writing for Wellbeing: Theory, Research, and Practice by Katrin Den Elzen 9781032163147
RRP: £37.99£33.38Writing can support our wellbeing even under the most difficult life circumstances, helping us to adapt to significant change, make sense of loss, improve our physical and emotional resilience, and foster personal growth. Numerous studies of Expressive... -
Doddie's Diary: The Highs, the Lows and the Laughter from My Fight with MND by Doddie Weir 9781785303005
RRP: £20.00£14.29In 2016, Doddie Weir's life - as much-loved sporting hero and Borders farmer - switched direction with the same speed and power this indefatigable No. 5 once displayed on the rugby pitch. Reeling from his own MND diagnosis, Doddie became a... -
Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe by Silvan S. Schweber 9780674065871
RRP: £35.95£29.96On the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima, Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe called on his fellow scientists to stop working on weapons of mass destruction. What drove Bethe, the head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to... -
John le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman
RRP: £16.99£12.28The definitive biography of the undisputed giant of English literature, a man whose own true history has long been hidden behind the fictional world of his books 'Compendious and compelling ... it is impossible to imagine this Life being bettered'... -
Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood by Tirzah Garwood 9781910263099
RRP: £16.00£15.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263099Author Tirzah GarwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd -
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Bernardine Evaristo is one of those writers who should be read by everyone, everywhere' Elif ShafakThe powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo.In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first... -
What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £12.99£9.09In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political... -
The Man Who Created Merseyside Football: John Houlding, Founding Father of Liverpool and Everton by David Kennedy
RRP: £14.99£10.95A comprehensive look into early professional football, this biography of Everton and Liverpool's founding father John Houlding breaks new ground by addressing the important role of football club ownership in the early history of the game.Football... -
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space by Stephen Walker
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW 9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A... -
Life in the Balance: A Doctor's Stories of Intensive Care by Dr Jim Down
RRP: £18.99£13.61'A remarkably honest memoir of a life spent pulling people back from death' - Adam KayIn these stories, Dr Jim Down brings us to the very heart of the intensive care unit - the section of the hospital where the sickest patients are brought to be cared... -
Marie Marvingt, Fiancee of Danger: First Female Bomber Pilot, World-Class Athlete and Inventor of the Air Ambulance by Rosalie Maggio 9781476675503
RRP: £21.99£17.97As accomplished as she is unknown, Marie Marvingt set the world's first women's aviation records, won the only gold medal ever given for being outstanding in all sports, invented the ambulance airplane, was the first female bomber pilot in history,... -
Bossypants by Tina Fey
RRP: £9.99£6.80Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything. Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her.Before 30 Rock, Mean Girls and 'Sarah Palin', Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring... -
Once Upon A Time In The West...Country by Tony Hawks
RRP: £10.99£7.40Waking in the middle of the night whilst on holiday, Tony Hawks declares an epiphany to his barely conscious partner Fran. Fed up of living in a city where the only contact with his neighbours in three years was a dispute over a boundary fence, his mind... -
The Art of Risk: What we can learn from the world's leading risk-takers by Richard Harris 9781761424052
RRP: £9.99£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761424052Author Richard HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & Schuster AustraliaPublisher Simon & Schuster Australia