Biography & Autobiography

George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the...

_________'Hepworth's knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious ... [a] hugely entertaining study of the LP's golden age' The Times_________The era of the LP began in 1967, with 'Sgt Pepper'; The Beatles didn't just collect together a...

A schoolboy prodigy, it was always clear that McCoist was destined for top flight football. At just 16 he signed his first professional contract with St Johnstone, shooting to prominence in the 1980/81 season, scoring 22 league goals and playing a...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by Nazis , leaving behind schools, jobs, friends, and...

A Daily Mail Book of the Week Prolific armed robber. Close ally of Joey Pyle. Friend and fellow inmate of the Kray twins. Last man to stand trial with a Kray brother. First prisoner in the notorious Belmarsh Unit ... Welcome to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343574Author Bruce Hales-DuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing Limited

'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy...

Shortlisted for Harper's Bazaar Book of the Year 2019A Guardian, Spectator and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2018'A lyrical portrait of a fast-vanishing way of life . . . Thompson is a terrific writer' New StatesmanLaura Thompson's grandmother Violet...

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survivedCATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir... ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to...

An Independent Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024 "A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma" Guardian "A powerful portrait of Joni Mitchell" Irish Independent "Displays a bracing rigour and an...

Platinum Jubilee edition 'Full of gems ... Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown'Daily Telegraph 'Entertaining and beautifully illustrated'The Sunday Times 'For real intel, [The Crown] can't come...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915075017Author Bryce WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Orkneyology PressPublisher Orkneyology PressWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This introduction presents Martin Luther as historians now see him. Instead of singling him out as a modern hero, the book emphasizes the context in which Luther worked, the colleagues who supported him, and the opponents who adamantly opposed his agenda...

Born on the 2nd of June 1960 to Jamaican parents, Shaun is a Londoner born and bred, and has been a devoted Chelsea fan since 1967. From the age of 12, Shaun knew he wanted to be a barrister and was determined to make it. Despite one or two setbacks...

'This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular every...

Required reading for any metalhead, this updated compendium of in-depth, entertaining, and profusely illustrated conversations spanning all of Iron Maiden's studio albums includes 2021's Senjutsu. In this new edition of Iron Maiden: Album by Album,...

The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil regime' EVENING STANDARD'Few English readers will fail to...

'Immensely powerful and is an extraordinary testament to the human desire for survival' Daily MailA harrowing and inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from internationally bestselling author Dave Pelzer. Brutally beaten and starved by...

'An honest, funny account of how we're all capable of changing for the better' SETH MEYERS'A great, motivating book that can really help - every bloke should read it' SHAUN RYDERSam Delaney was Jack the Lad. He was confident, loud and funny; an absolute...

Miss Dior is a wartime story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal and 'a gripping story' (Antonia Fraser).*The New Look, a new Apple TV drama series starring Maisie Williams as Catherine Dior - in a role inspired by Justine Picardie's Miss Dior -...

An American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book-Israel Fishman Nonfiction AwardA 2024 Michigan Notable BookBest Nonfiction Books of the Year-Kirkus ReviewsBest Books of the Year-Apple BooksTIME's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023 San Francisco...

In a Reformation kingdom ill-used to queens, Elizabeth I needed a very particular image to hold her divided country together. The 'Cult of Gloriana' would elevate the queen to the status of a virgin goddess, aided by authors, musicians, and artists such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450662Author Rachel WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

THE 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD FROM WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A book to read, reread, then read again to your children' Independent on Sunday 'Once embarked upon the journey of the book, one is loath, sometimes unable to turn back' Sunday...

Have you ever felt unheard by your doctor? Been frustrated that they haven't understood your symptoms, that they have neglected your concerns?When Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan was admitted to hospital as a patient she didn't receive the pain medication that...

Pioneer, activist, environmentalist, poet. Ethel Haythornthwaite is virtually unknown, even in her home town of Sheffield - the UK's outdoor city - yet her tireless campaigning led to the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 and the...

_______________ A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES SELECTED AS A SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES AND...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385546942Author Peter Ames CarlinFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French...

RIP GIANLUCA VIALLI 1964-2023'I WANT TO INSPIRE PEOPLE.I WANT SOMEONE TO LOOK AT ME AND SAY:"BECAUSE OF YOU I DIDN'T GIVE UP".'Goals is a very personal and deeply-moving collection of life-affirming and inspirational real-life stories from which the late...

A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy...

'Unbeaten is one of the best sports books I've read in years.' - Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life.Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary champions like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson: he never lost a...

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series of...

Growing up with him was like being in my own war zone, living in perpetual fear of when the bombs would fall. I was terrified of becoming him, and in moments I could feel I might. He still lives within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420974928Author Charles DarwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

'Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this' Observer'Fascincating and engrossing' Literary ReviewHow did South Africa turn out the way it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594633348Author Sigrid NunezFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)Publisher Penguin Putnam...

'I'm no angel.' Bernie Ecclestone Born into poverty, Bernie Ecclestone has made himself a billionaire by developing the world's second most popular sport - Formula One racing. Private, mysterious and some say sinister, the eighty-year-old criss-crosses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783242818Author Phil ManzaneraFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Wordzworth PublishingPublisher Wordzworth PublishingWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784612757Author Gaynor MadgwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa