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Seven Deadly Sins by Corey Taylor
RRP: £14.99£10.95'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched, vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so'The action begins in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Corey Taylor, frontman of heavy metal bands Slipknot and Stone Sour,... -
First Quarter by John Tuomey 9781843518747
RRP: £13.00£11.96In this reflective and enriching memoir, John Tuomey navigates the places and memories of his life over the scope of twenty-five years. First recognised for the urban regeneration of Dublin's Temple Bar, which included the construction of the Irish Film... -
Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis
RRP: £20.00£13.86SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARIn Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the... -
Perfectly Human: Nine Months with Cerian by Sarah C. Williams
RRP: £11.99£8.00She knew they would only have a few fleeting months together, but in that time Sarah's unborn daughter would transform her understanding of beauty, worth, and the gift of life. Happily married and teaching history at the University of Oxford, Sarah... -
Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch by Deborah E. Lipstadt 9780300253511
RRP: £16.99£14.61A balanced biography of Golda Meir, who was both adored and abhorred, from award-winning author Deborah E. Lipstadt "Comprehensive. . . . Always thoughtful. . . . A nuanced account of a leader whose influence endures in the Middle East."-Kirkus Review ... -
The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon – Duchess of Marlborough by Hugo Vickers
RRP: £10.99£7.40**The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020****The Times Best Biography Audiobook of the Year 2021**'Vickers gives breathing, alarming life to a woman who puzzled and thrilled her contemporaries'SUNDAY TIMES 'Best Paperbacks of 2021''A... -
The Little Book of Kobe: 192 pages of champion quotes and facts! by Orange Hippo!
RRP: £6.99£5.00The wisdom of a king of sport, business and charity.Dedicated to a legend of basketball, this is a pocket-sized compendium of the inspirational thoughts of one of the game's all-time greats. From the earliest years of his life through to the heartfelt... -
Fast Forward: The Autobiography: The Hard Road to Football Success by Andrew Cole
RRP: £20.00£13.75SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2021'A moving chronicle of a journey' - Mail on Sunday'A powerful and moving book - it's quite a battle he has faced' - Nick Robinson, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme'It really is an... -
The Black Widow: The true crime book of the year by Linda Calvey 9781912624591
RRP: £18.99£14.01'What a fantastic read, but not for the faint-hearted!' MARTINA COLE'True crime has never been more female - or more deadly.' KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS'Admired and respected by the men who worked with her, she is the real deal.' FREDDIE FOREMANIf you think you... -
Charles & Camilla by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the definitive account of one of the most extraordinary stories of our time. Gyles Brandreth, acclaimed biographer of the Queen and Prince Philip, presents a unique portrait of their son, Charles, Prince of Wales, and of the one 'non-negotiable'... -
Judy Garland: A Biography by Anne Edwards 9781589797871
RRP: £13.99£11.24Praised as "undoubtedly the best of the many books on Judy Garland" by no less a critic than John Lahr (the son of Bert Lahr, the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz), Anne Edwards's biography attempts to present a complete picture of the late actress, and... -
Stop the Clocks: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind by Joan Bakewell
RRP: £10.99£7.40Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster, journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre company Shared Experience. She has written four radio... -
The Borgias: The Hidden History by G. J. Meyer
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345526922Author G. J. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
After the Annex: Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond by Bas von Benda-Beckmann
RRP: £25.00£17.30On 27 January 1945 Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. At that point not only his journey home started, but also his long quest to find out what had happened to his wife Edith, his daughters Margot and Anne and the four other... -
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht 9780861547241
RRP: £10.99£7.77Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be no better starting point... Brilliant.' John Suchet, Classic FM presenter Through 100 recordings,... -
The Draw of the Sea by Wyl Menmuir
RRP: £16.99£11.27Wyl Menmuir's The Draw of the Sea is a beautifully written and deeply moving portrait of the Cornish Coast and the people who make their livings there, examining the ephemeral but universal pull the sea holds over the human imagination.'A beautiful... -
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Fiona Maddocks 9780571371136
RRP: £25.00£16.99In 1940 Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland. What happened in those final haunted years and how did he come to write his farewell masterpiece, the Symphonic... -
A Gift from Bob: NOW A MAJOR FILM by James Bowen 9781473605800
RRP: £9.99£6.80The festive standalone from James and Bob, the stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob. Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway as James and Bob himself.STREET CAT BOB and James, stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob and The... -
Oasis the Truth: My Life as Oasis's Drummer by Tony McCarroll 9781843584995
RRP: £9.99£6.85In 1991, five wannabe Mancunian musicians came together and cracked a spark that was to ignite the explosion which became Oasis. The band went from obscurity to become a global phenomenon in the space of a year, achieving world-wide recognition and... -
The Axe and the Tree: How bloody persecution sowed the seeds of new life in Zimbabwe by Stephen Griffiths 9780857217899
RRP: £10.99£8.25A powerful account of British missionaries, Peter and Brenda Griffiths, who played a critical role in the development of the Elim church in the aftermath of the Vumba massacre. Peter and Brenda Griffiths, Stephen's parents, and their team had set up a... -
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: £10.99£7.77After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation... -
Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery to freedom by Ilyon Woo 9781804183632
RRP: £16.99£11.76A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond.The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who... -
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
RRP: £20.00£14.05The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton.They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to... -
Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford
RRP: £9.99£7.11WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSFrederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study to the arts and French literature,... -
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
RRP: £9.99£8.76Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. This is Christy Brown's own story. He... -
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J Fox 9781472278463
RRP: £20.00£9.61'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in... -
Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir by Paddy Armstrong
RRP: £17.99£13.35Looking back over the last six, almost seven decades, the images that flash through my mind are hardly believable - sometimes, it feels like I'm remembering someone else's life. The truth is, I've lived three very different lives: the one before prison;... -
General Jan Smuts and His Great War in Africa 1914-1917: Incorporating His German South West and East Africa Campaigns by David Katz 9781636240176
RRP: £30.00£21.35World War I ushered in a renewed scramble for Africa. At its helm, Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realise his ambition of a Greater South Africa. He set his sights upon the vast German colonies of South-West Africa and East Africa - the demise of... -
MÖTLEY CRÜE - THE DIRT: DECLASSIFIED: THE DIRT: DECLASSIFIED by Mötley Crüe
RRP: £14.99£10.07You thought you knew the story behind the world's most notorious rock band...the music, the mayhem...it is the stuff of rock n roll legend, chronicled in the New York Times bestselling book and subsequent Netflix movie, The Dirt. Now, as Nikki Sixx,... -
Straight On Till Morning: The Life Of Beryl Markham by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £12.99£8.60Beryl Markham, like Karen Blixen, could only have come out of Africa. Pioneering aviatrix, flamboyant beauty, brilliant race-horse trainer, unscrupulous seducer - her life story is for every reader who was enthralled by Blixen's exotic world, that of... -
Blazing Splendor: The Memoirs of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche 9789627341567
£22.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789627341567Author Tulku Urgyen RinpocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Rangjung Yeshe Publications,NepalPublisher Rangjung Yeshe... -
The Little Book of Pride: The History, the People, the Parades by Lewis Laney
RRP: £7.99£5.94Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride. What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York has grown to become a global celebration of LGBTQ culture. In the 50-odd years... -
Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains by Anna Fleming
RRP: £16.99£11.58SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING AND THE BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATUREIn Time on Rock Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock climbing, and the new developing appreciation... -
It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him by Justin Tinsley
RRP: £19.99£14.32From a talented young journalist on the rise, a deeply reported, timely new biography of the Notorious B.I.G., publishing for what would have been his 50th birthdayThe Notorious B.I.G. was one of the most charismatic and talented artists of the 1990s... -
The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99£11.58The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and most magical church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed and... -
Unspeakable: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography by John Bercow
RRP: £10.99£7.40When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures in British politics, occupying a ringside seat during one of the most febrile periods in modern British... -
Access All Areas by Barbara Charone
RRP: £20.00£14.29First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal, insightful and humorous memoir packed with... -
Tsunami Kids: Our Journey from Survival to Success by Paul Forkan
RRP: £16.99£12.16On Boxing day 2004, Rob, Paul, Mattie and Rosie Forkan tragically lost their parents in the Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka. Aged from 8 to 17, they subsequently faced a harrowing and solitary 200km trek across the decimated country to get... -
Roy Jenkins by John Campbell
RRP: £25.00£18.62Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson PrizeShortlisted for the 2014 Costa Biography AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Orwell PrizeWinner of the 2014 Political Book Awards Political Biography of the YearRoy Jenkins was probably the best Prime Minister... -
How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale by Jenna Jameson
RRP: £12.99£8.88Today, Jenna Jameson is the biggest star in the history of adult movies, consistently ranked as one of the most beautiful women alive. But behind the glamour and the meteoric rise to fame is a path paved with tragedy and heartbreak. Determined to...