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The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
RRP: €13.08€9.25A wonderful novel and perfect book club choice, The Right Stuff is a wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's early space programme.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY'What is it,' asks Tom Wolfe, 'that makes a man willing to sit... -
Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found by Warren Ellis
RRP: €13.08€8.71THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing... -
An Autobiography by Agatha Christie 9780007314669
RRP: €17.84€11.54Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Blue Remembered Hills by Rosemary Sutcliff 9781912766802
RRP: €16.65€11.02Blue Remembered Hills is Rosemary Sutcliff's memoir of her childhood, youth and her first love affairs. It's a classic of perfect writing about her close and not always easy relationship with her bipolar mother, life in the naval dockyards where her... -
Me And A Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley by Jerry Schilling
€13.97On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the local teenager whose first record, "That's All Right," had... -
Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia by Hadley Freeman
RRP: €20.22€13.65A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNAL From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience with anorexia, and her long... -
Destination Fabulous: Finding your way to the best you yet by Anna Murphy
RRP: €23.80€13.86'Full of uplifting advice, practical wisdom and kind intelligence: I certainly felt more fabulous after reading it.' Elizabeth Day'An encouraging and exhilarating celebration of ageing. Full of life-wisdom for mind, body and spirit.' Victoria... -
The Most of Nora Ephron: with a new introduction from Candice Carty-Williams by Nora Ephron
RRP: €13.08€9.25A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF THE ULTIMATE NORA EPHRON COLLECTION, PACKED WITH WIT, WISDOM AND COMFORT, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'The perfect introduction to the iconic writer' STYLISTINCLUDING:* Nora's much-loved essays on everything... -
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin 9780743277464
RRP: €13.08€8.33In THE ART OF LEARNING,Waitzkin offers an inside look at two of the world's most intense subcultures while also sharing the principles at the core of his success. One must focus on long-term goals, Waitzkin argues, instead of the immediate thrill of... -
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
RRP: €20.22€14.61SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORKER Raw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to... -
The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw by Sheila Hancock 9780747577096
€1.04 - €10.82When John Thaw, star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives - personal and professional,... -
Tiffany & Co.: The Story Behind the Style by Rachael Taylor
€6.88 - €10.91Tiffany & Co.: The Story Behind the Style is a beautifully illustrated, handbag-sized visual history of one of the world's most iconic brands. Open the world's most famous little blue box to discover the story of Tiffany & Co. since its founding in 1837... -
Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes by Alastair Humphreys
€5.31 - €15.60'Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap' Geographical Adventure - something that's new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm... -
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee 9780060989156
€4.91 - €10.57Celebrate thirty years of the world's most notorious rock band with the deluxe collectors' edition of The Dirt-the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Motley Crue. Fans have gotten glimpses into the band's crazy world of backstage... -
Grayson Perry: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Girl by Perry Grayson
€3.76 - €8.46Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models. Fantasy took over his life, in a world of battles ruled by his teddy bear, Alan Measles. He grew up. And in 2003, an acclaimed ceramic... -
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
RRP: €22.60€16.67THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA magnificently fresh and... -
Rod: The Autobiography by Rod Stewart
€4.03 - €7.08THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Ridiculously funny and astonishingly candid, Rod Stewart's memoir is the rock autobiography of the decade' DAILY MAIL'One of the most entertaining, revealing, captivating books of the year'... -
SAS Band of Brothers by Damien Lewis
€4.21 - €8.75The new SAS epic from bestselling military historian Damien LewisWe share the triumphs and tragedies of a group of elite soldier trailblazers as they commit daring raids behind enemy lines in 1944, manage an against the odds escape to victory, and then... -
2SAS: Bill Stirling and the forgotten special forces unit of World War II by Gavin Mortimer 9781472856739
RRP: €29.75€20.97Drawing on recently declassified files and interviews with veterans, this is a fascinating history of Bill Stirling and 2SAS - pioneering founders of modern special forces. David Stirling is the name synonymous with the wartime SAS, but the real... -
Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens
RRP: €23.80€17.06The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022 'Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon ... A biography that no Bacon fan - or indeed foe - can afford to overlook ... Mesmerising'... -
Nigel Owens: Full Time: The long-awaited sequel to his bestselling autobiography! by Nigel Owens
€14.78 - €21.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912631315Author Nigel OwensFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes by Damien Lewis 9781529429428
€5.13 - €6.84'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildSAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold stories of six of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed by the world's most famous fighting force during WWII. From... -
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch
RRP: €13.08€9.25From Afua Hirsch - co-presenter of Samuel L. Jackson's major BBC TV series Enslaved - the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today.You're British.Your parents are British.Your partner, your... -
A 1950s Childhood Special Edition: From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping by Paul Feeney
RRP: €14.27€10.34Do you remember Pathe News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then chances are you were born in or around 1950. To the young people of today, the 1950s seems... -
Gazza: My Story by Paul Gascoigne
RRP: €17.84€11.66Almost as soon as Gazza burst on to the scene at Newcastle United, the young Geordie was the centre of attention: Vinnie Jones's notorious ball-handling showed the lengths people would go to try to stop him. Then, with England on the verge of possibly... -
Open the Cage, Murphy! by Paul O'Grady
€4.21 - €9.25THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'With typical razor-sharp wit and candour, Paul tells of his rise to fame as Lily Savage . . . Riveting.' Daily MirrorFrom Britain's most beloved TV star, Open the Cage, Murphy is an action-packed roller-coaster ride through a... -
Unscripted: Sex and Lies in Hollywood’s Most Powerful Company by James B. Stewart 9781804946206
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Explosive' Esquire 'Epic' Financial Times 'Riveting' Vanity FairSumner Redstone was the CEO of Hollywood's most influential company: the powerhouse behind Indiana Jones and Star Wars, film studios and TV production companies, a fleet of private jets and... -
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography by Martyn Ware
RRP: €23.80€17.48This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were among some of the most pioneering bands of the 1980s, with Ware having played an integral role in each of their numerous successes. A young... -
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
RRP: €13.08€9.25THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family... -
The Sure Thing: The Greatest Coup in Horse Racing History by Nick Townsend
€4.03 - €9.25__________________The bookies always win. But one man has been proving them wrong for four decades. In the summer of 1975 Barney Curley, a fearless and renowned gambler, masterminded one of the most spectacular gambles of all time with a racehorse called... -
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: €17.84€12.02A smaller, cheaper edition of this acclaimed illustrated biography of Beatrix Potter. Respected biographer Sarah Gristwood discovers a life crisscrossed with contradictions and marked by tragedy, yet one that left a remarkable literary - and... -
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
RRP: €13.08€9.25I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but... -
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell 9781800812437
RRP: €13.08€8.47The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't... -
The Longest Kill: The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers by Craig Harrison
€4.50 - €8.94Through conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the vivid memoir of British sniper Craig Harrison.It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a... -
Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity by Monica Macias 9780715655177
RRP: €13.08€8.78The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged only seven, Monica Macias was sent from West Africa to the unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea by her... -
Fearless: Adventures with Extraordinary Women by Louise Minchin 9781399401180
RRP: €22.60€16.98A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - SPORT 'Incredibly moving and inspiring' Gabby Logan 'It's brilliant - I loved it' Lorraine Kelly 'Brilliant ... impressive and vividly told' The Times 'Louise is such a positive and uplifting... -
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell 9780008436988
RRP: €29.75€19.67'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORY ... -
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family by Arthur Edwards
RRP: €29.75€20.74For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters, their laughter and tears, when they've found love and when their relationships splinter. I'm there when they emerge from the... -
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
€6.34 - €8.46Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic, in Penguin Modern Classics.From hustling, drug addiction and armed... -
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Ravishingly beautiful' Observer 'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' Irish Times 'Provocative and rich' Economist 'Daring, chilling, and unlike anything else you've ever read' Esquire 'An absolute must-read' Stylist WINNER OF THE...