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The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury by Sean O'Connor
RRP: £9.99£6.41'A case study in human frailty, jealousy and desire ... fascinating.' The Times, Best Books of 2019 'Meticulously researched...superbly evocative and gripping...a narrative that builds with the intensity of an approaching thunderstorm.' The Spectator... -
Always Believe: The Autobiography of Olivier Giroud by Olivier Giroud 9781801500098
RRP: £19.99£14.28Always Believe is the gripping autobiography of Chelsea, Arsenal and France star Olivier Giroud. Join him on a remarkable journey, from playing for a small club in southern France to achieving top-flight glory there and in England, before lifting the... -
Her Stories Indian Women Down the Ages (Pb) by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
RRP: £14.99£6.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355202031Author Deepti Priya MehrotraFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Crazy Dreams by Paul Brady 9781785374654
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374654Author Paul BradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Zookeeper's Wife: An unforgettable true story, now a major film by Diane Ackerman
RRP: £10.99£7.40Now a major motion picture, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Bruhl, based on a remarkable true story of bravery and sanctuary during World War II - out in Spring 2017.When Germany invades Poland, Luftwaffe bombers devastate Warsaw and the city's zoo... -
Tales from Riding House Street: A faded London house and the Cypriots who lived in it by Helen Evangelou 9781916422308
RRP: £7.99£6.64In Riding House Street in the West End of London, a young Greek Cypriot couple, Photis Evangelou and Vasilou Ktori, carved out a life for themselves through the Depression, World War II and into the Swinging Sixties. London's burgeoning Greek Cypriot... -
Deliverance: Everyday investigations into poltergeists, ghosts and other supernatural phenomena by an Anglican priest by Jason Bray
RRP: £20.00£13.35_____________________________________________________________________________________________'Deliverance is an intriguing, strangely comforting book that shines a light into a world that's little talked about' - The Mail on... -
Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
RRP: £18.99£18.10The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory "A perfectly paced biography."-Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer... -
It Takes Blood and Guts by Skin 9781471194948
RRP: £9.99£6.41'One of the most important females in British music of my lifetime.' Colin Murray 'A beautiful, raw and exhilarating book that will leave you feeling empowered.' Fearne Cotton 'The pioneering Skunk Anansie frontwoman's memories offer a very different... -
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Robert Gordon
RRP: £16.00£10.96'Can't Be Satisfied is that rare thing in musical biographies: a book that maps out not just a single, extraordinary life but the cultural forces that shaped it' Sean O'Hagan, Observer Muddy Waters was the greatest blues musician ever, and the most... -
The Race Against the Stasi: The Incredible Story of Dieter Wiedemann, the Iron Curtain and the Greatest Cycling Race on Earth by Herbie Sykes 9781781315361
RRP: £9.99£6.80Cycling Book of the Year - Cross British Sports Book Awards When the 'Iron Curtain' descended across Europe, Dieter Wiedemann was a hero of East German sport. A podium finisher in The Peace Race, the Eastern Bloc equivalent of the Tour de France, he was... -
The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850) by William Wordsworth
RRP: £16.99£12.28First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader... -
The Old Weird Albion by Justin Hopper 9781908058379
RRP: £9.99£6.99A woman stands at the edge of a cliff, looking out to sea and the horizon. Dancers welcome the sun in a circle of stones. A dowsing road turns without warning. A church bell. Footsteps.Old Weird Albion is America writer Justin Hopper's dark love song to... -
Leadership: Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy by Simon McDonald 9781913368876
RRP: £12.99£8.99When 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 Leadership, Simon McDonald... -
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter 9781776562213
RRP: £25.95£24.74When we crashed over the line two and a half minutes later, there was a short, disbelieving silence and I could feel my knee trembling behind its sarcastic `Disco' patch. A song I'd written had just been played to the finish, and what's more, it hadn't... -
What's It All About? by Cilla Black
RRP: £18.99£13.61Cilla Black is without doubt one of Britain's most treasured personalities. Generations have grown up with Cilla's music, TV shows, and performances. But how much do we really know about 'the girl with the bright red hair and the jet black voice'? What's... -
Soar: As heard on Desert Island Discs by Simon Woolley 9781786581204
RRP: £10.99£7.47'Simon Woolley revolutionised British politics' - GuardianCan an outsider ever become a member of the establishment?Simon Woolley is a member of the House of Lords, the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college, and a policy changemaker who has the ear... -
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination by Amy Tan 9780007585571
RRP: £9.99£3.51From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The... -
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt by Charlotte Gray 9781398527720
RRP: £25.00£15.84A captivating biography of two famous women whose sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt, would change the course of the 20th century-by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray. Born into upper class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano... -
The Life Line: With an introduction by Miles Jupp and David Stenhouse by Phyllis Bottome 9781739879402
RRP: £10.99£7.40Mark Chalmers, 36, dark haired, athletic, keen on skiing and winter sports, speaks fluent French and German and has a taste for wine, food and women. Sounds familiar? It is 1938, pre the Munich Agreement and post Anschluss. Chalmers, a master at Eton,... -
Red: A Natural History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey
RRP: £16.99£11.58A New York Times bestseller, Red is the first book to explore the history of red hair and red-headedness throughout the world.With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, Jacky Colliss Harvey explores red hair in the ancient... -
Green Hills Of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: £8.99£7.25'I remember seeing the lion looking yellow and heavy-headed and enormous against a scrubby-looking tree in a patch of orchard bush and P. O. M. kneeling to shoot him. Then there was the short-barrelled explosion of the Mannlicher and the lion was going... -
Coco Chanel Revolutionary Woman by Chiara Pasqualetti Johnson
RRP: £25.00£17.38Coco Chanel was founder and queen of a fashion empire, and her name is forever linked to an unmistakable style. Before all this, Mademoiselle Coco was Gabrielle, a poor orphan who rejected convention and put her independence above all else. With her grit... -
The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria by Max Adams
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A triumph - a Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages' TOM HOLLAND. The magisterial biography of Oswald Whiteblade, exiled prince of Northumbria, who returned in blood and glory to reclaim his birthright. A charismatic leader, a warrior whose prowess in... -
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle 9780062238863
RRP: £7.99£5.41Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper kills (officially a record 155, though the real number is even much higher) in the history of the United... -
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks 9781529087451
RRP: £10.99£7.93When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . .From its opening pages on his youthful obsession... -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather,... -
Marillion, Misadventures & Marathons: The Life & Times Of Mad Jack by Mark Kelly
RRP: £24.99£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838491819Author Mark KellyFormat HardbackImprint Kingmaker PublishingPublisher Kingmaker Publishing -
Flight from the Croft by Bill Innes 9781849953979
RRP: £18.99£15.65As a barefoot lad in the Outer Hebrides, Bill Innes dreamed the impossible dream of becoming a pilot and this book tells how that dream came to pass. The author's career of over forty years spanned a period of incredible advances in the air - now... -
Fleetwood Mac: Everywhere by Mike Evans 9781786751355
RRP: £30.00£13.60Fleetwood Mac is one of the most successful bands of all time. Despite a long and complicated history, the band has survived dysfunction on a scale that would see many others implode, and remains a perennial favourite across generations. Formed in... -
Meant to Be by Lisa Faulkner
RRP: £10.99£7.77What happens when life doesn't turn out as you expect?When Lisa Faulkner learned that she wouldn't have biological children, her plans and expectations for her life were derailed. But, in the months and years that followed, she discovered that there was... -
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson
RRP: £10.99£7.32The prize-winning biography of Wordsworth's beloved sister, champion, muse who was at the heart of the Romantic movement in Britain - reissued to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Dorothy's birth.'Genius ... Its own kind of heaven.' New York Times 'A... -
Greene On Capri by Shirley Hazzard
RRP: £10.99£7.40When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him - not wisely, perhaps, but... -
I Fear for This Boy: Some Chapters of Accidents by Theo Fennell
RRP: £25.00£18.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912914401Author Theo FennellFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Mensch PublishingPublisher Mensch PublishingWeight(grams) 480g -
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to be Free by Andy West
RRP: £9.99£6.87An Irish Times and The i Book of 2022'Tense and intimate . . . an education' - Geoff Dyer'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending. A wonder' - Sir Lenny Henry'Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving' - Terry Waite__________Can someone in prison be... -
Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin by David Ritz
RRP: £15.99£12.37Aretha Franklin begain life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who have birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detriot for New York, where she... -
Apathy for the Devil by Nick Kent
RRP: £12.99£8.56Pitched somewhere between Almost Famous and Withnail & I, Apathy for the Devil is a unique document of this most fascinating and troubling of decades - a story of inspiration, success and serious burn out.As a 20-something college dropout Nick Kent's... -
Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein by Jamie Bernstein
RRP: £18.99£11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062641366Author Jamie BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 198mm... -
Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label by Alan McGee
RRP: £12.99£9.26'Essential reading for anyone interested in the heady, vulgar, marvellous miasma of British music and culture in the nineties' - Irving Welsh'A true believer in the power of music and more importantly a believer in the people that make music. He gave me... -
The Spite of Fortune: The Fabulous Story of an 18th-Century Heiress by Kishanda Fulford
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is the true story of Louisa Carolina Colleton, whose tale could have flown from the pages of a gothic novel. In 1777, at the age of fourteen, after many adventures, the beautiful heiress inherited valuable estates on two sides of the Atlantic. As in...