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The Hounding of David Oluwale by Kester Aspden 9780099506171
RRP: £10.99£7.77'David Oluwale's story has a raw power...and Kester Aspden makes it relevant for the reader of today' Mishal HusainAn award-winning microhistory that examines the death of David Oluwale and institutionalised police racism in Britain.When, in May 1969,... -
Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood by Suzanne Finstad
RRP: £18.99£13.61Born Natasha Zakharenko, Natalie Wood continues to haunt us 20 years after her tragic and mysterious death. Her dark hypnotic beauty and passionate performances made her a movie star legend, appearing in over fifty films including West Side Story and... -
Raising an Eyebrow: My Life with Sir Roger Moore by Gareth Owen 9780750993272
RRP: £20.00£15.04Having taken on the role of Roger Moore's executive assistant in 2002, Gareth Owen became the right-hand man to an icon, as well as his co-author, onstage co-star and confidant. Gareth was faithfully at Roger's side for fifteen years until his passing in... -
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert
RRP: £10.99£7.77In the ten years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers to set out on paths they never thought possible. In this candid and captivating collection, nearly fifty of... -
Wolsey: The Life of King Henry VIII's Cardinal by John Matusiak
RRP: £12.99£9.62Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher's son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle - yet, to some, an arrogant upstart. As Lord Chancellor to the incorrigible Henry VIII he achieved much both at... -
Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home Nikesh Shukla 9781529032918
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Brown Baby is a beautifully intimate and soul-searching memoir. It speaks to the heart and the mind and bears witness to our turbulent times.' - Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, OtherHow do you find hope and even joy in a world that is... -
Murder in the Graveyard: A Brutal Murder. A Wrongful Conviction. A 27-Year Fight for Justice. by Don Hale
RRP: £9.99£6.64'An Extraordinary story of innocence and persecution, determination and grit ... it had me rattling through the pages' SOPHIE DRAPER A gripping true crime investigation into the longest miscarriage of justice in... -
Liam Lynch: To Declare a Republic by Gerard Shannon
RRP: £17.99£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788558211Author Gerard ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Hop Pickers Children by Sheila Judith Anne Ayres 9781784659028
RRP: £8.99£7.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784659028Author Sheila Judith Anne AyresFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers -
The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders by Connie Bruck 9780140120905
RRP: £15.00£11.17During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as "the highly confident letter" (I'm highly confident that I can raise the money you need to buy company X) and "the blind pool"... -
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene by Anna Wiener
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener... -
The Angina Monologues: stories of surgery for broken hearts by Samer Nashef 9781911617785
RRP: £14.99£9.80A pioneering cardiac surgeon expertly sews up the heart of surgery, the health of the nation, and the NHS. The Angina Monologues speeds from the transporting of a donor's heart up the motorway hard shoulder, to cautionary stories of excessive... -
Allez Allez Allez: The Inside Story of the Resurgence of Liverpool FC by Simon Hughes
RRP: £10.99£7.77_________'WE ARE LIVERPOOL - THIS MEANS MORE.' JUERGEN KLOPPAllez Allez Allez is the inside account of Liverpool FC during the Klopp era, including the 2018/19 campaign which saw the club compete in the most gripping Premier League title race in history... -
Coco Chanel: A Biography by Axel Madsen 9781408805817
RRP: £16.99£13.89Coco Chanel's genius for fashion may have been distilled in simplicity, but her life was an extravaganza. A brilliant array of luminaries fell under her spell - Picasso, Churchill, Cocteau; lovers included the Grand Duke Dmitri; the English roue, Boy... -
Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir by Don Eyles
RRP: £20.99£13.86In 1966 the author, newly graduated from college, went to work for the MIT laboratory where the Apollo guidance system was designed. His assignment was to program the complex lunar landing phase in the Lunar Module's onboard computer. As Apollo 11... -
Hitler's Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man by Brigitte Hamann 9781848852778
RRP: £25.00£13.11What turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to the critical, formative, years that the young Hitler... -
Fragrant Palm Leaves by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: £15.99£11.61'It isn't likely that this collection of journal entries will pass the censors. If it can't be published, I hope my friends will circulate it among themselves. I'll leave Vietnam tomorrow...' Thus Thich Nhat Hanh begins his 11 May 1966 journal entry... -
Lion of Speech: The Life of Mipham Rinpoche by Dilgo Khyentse
RRP: £26.00£16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559394949Author Dilgo KhyentseFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Secret Life: Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: £9.99£6.70In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and the 'real world'.'Ghosting' introduces us to the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose autobiography the author agrees to... -
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived' Daily Telegraph'Clever and poignant . . . there is much to enjoy. This is Lively at her best' Sunday ExpressIn this... -
Novak Djokovic by Chris Bowers
RRP: £9.99£6.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786064608Author Chris BowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint John Blake Publishing LtdPublisher John Blake Publishing Ltd -
The Last Prince of Bengal: An Indian Family's Journey from Royalty to Obscurity in the Age of Empire by Lynn Innes
RRP: £20.00£13.75The Nawab Nazim was born into one of India's most powerful royal families. Three times the size of Great Britain, his kingdom ranged from the soaring Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. However, in 1880, he was forced to abdicate by the British authorities,... -
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney
RRP: £14.99£10.23Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Suffering from (but enjoying) extreme mania, and terrified that medication would cause her to lose creativity, she began a long struggle over many years to find mental... -
Swimmiing to Antarctica by Lynne Cox
RRP: £18.99£12.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Green Mountain Book Award 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780156031301Author Lynne CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 359Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher... -
Roy Massey: A Life in Football and a Coach to the Stars by Roy Massey 9781801504348
RRP: £19.99£14.28In this compelling memoir, Roy Massey tells the fascinating story of his 50 years in football as a player, coach and scout, including a long spell at Arsenal during the Wenger glory years. As a player, Massey overcame a series of injuries to score goals... -
34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor's life by Tom Templeton
RRP: £9.99£7.11Discover the profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes________They can't teach you how to be a doctor at medical school . . ... -
How to Make a Dress: Adventures in the art of style Jenny Packham 9781529103038
RRP: £10.99£7.77'From inspiration to sketch, pattern to fabric, the making of a dress has been the structure that has held me, and my passion to dress others is the momentum of my life.' Jenny Packham is one of Britain's leading designers and most in-demand couturiers,... -
Waterloo: Wellington's Victory and Napoleon's Last Campaign by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £9.99£4.11THE GREATEST OF BATTLESThe defining military engagement of the nineteenth century. The epic battle that forever ended one man's dreams of a European empire unified under his rule.THE GREATEST OF RIVALSThis epoch-defining conflict would ultimately be... -
The Good Spy by Kai Bird
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Silver Falchion Award 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780307889768Author Kai BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service 9781509883059
RRP: £10.99£7.93In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite... -
Mosquito Mayhem: de Havilland's Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII by Bowman, Martin W 9781399085069
£18.75The flak started about four or five minutes before the target and immediately it was apparent that it was intense and extremely accurate. Oboe entailed the pilot flying dead straight and level for ten minutes on the attack run. Suddenly a tremendous... -
Connected Women: Inspiring women who have shaped the world and each other by Kate Hodges
RRP: £12.99£8.60Behind every great woman... is another great woman. Here, the extraordinary achievements, relationships and secret histories of 84 pioneering women are revealed in inspirational stories which together show the indomitable strength of womankind. From... -
6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain by Eric LeMarque 9781680993691
RRP: £10.99£9.18In this riveting first-person account, former Olympian and professional hockey player Eric LeMarque tells a harrowing tale of survival-of how, with only a lightweight jacket and thin wool hat, he survived eight days stranded in the frozen wilderness... -
Faithful in Adversity: The Royal Army Medical Corps in the Second World War John Broom 9781526749550
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Royal Army Medical Corps was present during all engagements in the Second World War. From the frozen wastes of Norway through to liberation from the death camps of Germany and the Far East, RAMC personnel were frequently close to the front line,... -
The New Bach Reader by Hans T. David 9780393319569
RRP: £19.99£17.37Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous... -
Slim: Unofficial History by John Douglas 9781844157914
RRP: £12.99£10.95Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's... -
Will by Will Self 9780141046402
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Darkly angelic prose... a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best' Alex Preston, Observer ________________________________ Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in his ears as he... -
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven 9780141984452
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperors For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their... -
Sir Alex: Simply the Best Harry Harris 9781913543525
RRP: £8.99£6.20A must-read biography of one of the greatest football managers of all time. Sir Alex Ferguson CBE, born 31 December 1941, is a former Scottish football player and was manager of Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. During his 26 years in charge of... -
Russian Disco by Wladimir Kaminer 9780091886691
RRP: £12.99£9.09Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the emigres in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of...