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Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock, and Loving Lou Reed by Simon Doonan
RRP: £16.99£14.06In this funny and poignant memoir and cultural history, the television personality, columnist, and author of Drag pays homage to Lou Reed's groundbreaking album Transformer on its fiftieth anniversary and recalls its influence on his coming of age and... -
The Spy Who Painted the Queen: The Secret Case Against Philip de Laszlo by Phil Tomaselli
RRP: £9.99£7.55Was Philip de Laszlo a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, who painted such luminaries as the... -
Golden Boy: Kim Hughes and the bad old days of Australian cricket by Christian Ryan
RRP: £11.99£7.93**Voted Wisden Cricket Monthly's best cricket book ever in 2019**WINNER, BEST CRICKET BOOK, BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2010_________________Golden Boy is a blistering expose of the tumultuous Lillee/Marsh/Chappells era of Australian cricket, as viewed... -
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The definitive biography' Roy StrongThe remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British architectural history.Born in 1521, Bess of Hardwick, businesswoman, money-lender and... -
Stronger Gareth Thomas 9781529107753
RRP: £20.00£14.69To understand how to empower yourself, first of all you have to recognize and accept your vulnerability. In Stronger, Gareth shares how he has managed to deal with the adversity life has thrown at him over the years, from his school years to his most... -
Rasputin: A short life Frances Welch 9781780722320
RRP: £12.99£8.60Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian peasant-turned-mystic, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played the role of the simple man, eating with his fingers and boasting, 'I don't even know my ABC...' But, as the only person able to relieve the... -
El Sicario: Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man by Molly Molloy
RRP: £8.99£6.45MEET EL SICARIO.A fugitive in the US with a $250,000 price tag on his head.He has executed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture, spent years working for the state police, and received training from the FBI. In grim and graphic detail he offers a... -
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £22.99£16.28Mrs Jordan's Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin'Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully readable. As gripping as the best fiction' Independent on Sunday Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of... -
The Book Of My Life by Girolamo Cardano
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170168Author Girolamo CardanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Revolution: the bestselling memoir by France's recently elected president by Emmanuel Macron 9781911344797
RRP: £14.99£9.80The bestselling memoir by France's president, Emmanuel Macron. Some believe that our country is in decline, that the worst is yet to come, that our civilisation is withering away. That only isolation or civil strife are on our horizon. That to protect... -
Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £16.99£12.11Gustaf Mannerheim was one of the greatest figures of the 20th century. As a young Finnish officer he witnessed the coronation of the last Tsar and was decorated for bravery in the Russo-Japanese War. He spent two years undercover in Asia as an agent of... -
Somebody's Daughter: The International Bestseller and an Amazon.com book of 2021 by Ashley C Ford
RRP: £9.99£6.61"Beautifully written, searingly honest, and deeply affecting ... when the book ended, I only wanted more" - Roxane Gay"Ford is a writer for the ages, and Somebody's Daughter will be a book of the year" - Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed"Truly a classic... -
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £12.99£8.60An updated edition of this acclaimed book, now with a new preface and published to tie in with the bicentenary of Champollion's breakthrough in 1822. Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-Francois Champollion, the... -
Women's Work: a personal reckoning with labour, motherhood, and privilege by Megan K. Stack 9781912854066
RRP: £14.99£9.80'The cold reality of my gender was dawning on me. It was motherhood that forced me to understand the timeless horror of our position. The reason women had not written novels or commanded armies or banked or doctored or explored or painted at the same... -
Cack-Handed: A Memoir by Gina Yashere
RRP: £16.99£11.47The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. ... -
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon by Jay Jayamohan 9781789293203
RRP: £8.99£6.13'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair, use a scalpel to nick the skin then apply an electro-cautery device to burn down to bone level. It's a slow, precise method and it leaves almost no... -
Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape: The Remarkable Life of Jacques Anquetil, the First Five-Times Winner of the Tour de France Paul Howard 9781910948002
RRP: £12.99£9.09Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape is the astonishing biography of French cycling star Jacques Anquetil. For the first time since his death in 1987, it reveals the extraordinary truth behind the legend, the man and the cyclist.His list of 'firsts' alone makes... -
Ten Years Hard Labour Chris Williamson 9783944203485
RRP: £19.00£15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783944203485Author Chris WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Lola BooksPublisher Lola BooksDimensions(mm) 217mm * 130mm * 22mm -
A Nazi in the Family: The hidden story of an SS family in wartime Germany Derek Niemann 9781780723716
RRP: £12.99£8.60WARTIME BERLIN: The Niemann family - Karl, Minna and their four children - live in a quiet, suburban enclave. Every day Karl commutes to work, a business manager travelling around inspecting his "factories". In the evenings he returns home to life as a... -
Romeo and Juliet in Palestine - Teaching Under Occupation Tom Sperlinger 9781782796374
RRP: £9.99£8.59Is 'Romeo and Juliet' really a love story, or is it a play about young people living in dangerous circumstances? How might life under occupation produce a new reading of 'Julius Caesar'? What choices must a group of Palestinian students make, when... -
Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music by Burt Bacharach 9780857898036
RRP: £12.99£8.56Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated and legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year career he has worked with artists from Dionne Warwick to Dr Dre, Marlene Dietrich to Elvis Costello.In Anyone Who Had a Heart,... -
No Cure for Being Human: (and Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler
RRP: £10.99£7.77***A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn't choose?Hailed by Glennon... -
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy 9780691218557
RRP: £20.00£16.29The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the... -
The Faith of William Shakespeare by Graham Holderness
RRP: £9.99£7.11William Shakespeare stills stands head and shoulders above any other author in the English language, a position that is unlikely ever to change. Yet it is often said that we know very little about him - and that applies as much to what he believed as it... -
Sinatra: The Life by Anthony Summers
RRP: £17.99£12.95In 1941, at age twenty-five, Sinatra told a friend, 'I'm going to be the best singer in the world'. Two years on, the bobbysoxers were already weeping and screaming for him in their thousands. Half a century on Bono defined him as 'the Big Bang of... -
Peiper's War: The Wartime Years of SS Leader Jochen Peiper, 1941-44 Danny S Parker 9781526743428
RRP: £35.00£25.29A bad reputation has its commitments.' So wrote home Jochen Peiper from the fighting front in the East in 1943, characterizing his battle-hardened command during the Second World War. Peiper's War is a new serious work of military history by the... -
Black Sabbath: Master of Reality by John Darnielle
RRP: £9.99£7.67John Darnielle describes Master of Reality through a fictional character, a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric centre in southern California in 1985.John Darnielle describes "Master of Reality" in the voice of a fifteen-year-old... -
King Henry VIII by Angela Royston
RRP: £6.00£4.44Henry Tudor is probably the best known king in English history, most famous for having had six wives. Henry wanted immortality, not as a notorious husband, but as a king who made England strong and powerful. Essential to that, he believed, was the... -
The Art of Not Falling Apart by Christina Patterson
RRP: £9.99£6.70New Statesman's Best Books of the Year, 2018Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year, 2018When life threw journalist Christina Patterson an involuntary-redundancy shaped curveball she decided to tear up the rulebook. Dreaming of revenge and irritated by... -
Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts by Davis Miller 9781631492235
RRP: £12.99£9.83In 1988, then struggling writer Davis Miller drove to Muhammad Ali's mother's modest Louisville house, knocked on the door and introduced himself to his childhood idol. Nearly thirty years later, the two friends have an uncommon bond, the sort that can... -
Smokin' Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier by Mark Kram 9780062654472
RRP: £12.99£8.48A gripping, all-access biography of Joe Frazier, whose rivalry with Muhammad Ali riveted boxing fans and whose legacy as a figure in American sports and society endures History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the... -
To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci by Jean-Yves Frétigné 9780226829388
RRP: £15.00£13.05This in-depth biography of Italian intellectual Antonio Gramsci casts new light on his life and writing, emphasizing his unflagging spirit, even in the many years he spent in prison. One of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth... -
Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
RRP: £9.99£7.16Is it still WFH when you're now just binary code? Whilst working on a spreadsheet for a New York-based PR firm, Gerald has his consciousness uploaded into his company's Slack channel. He posts for help, but his colleagues assume it's an elaborate joke to... -
Crystal Horizon: Everest: The first Solo Ascent by Reinhold Messner
RRP: £16.99£15.71Messner describes with clarity and passion his journey through Tibet. He identifies with legendary mountaineers who have been before him - Mallory, Irvine and Wilson come to life as he makes his ascent to the roof of the world.About the AuthorAn Italian... -
In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever After by Christina Ford
RRP: £16.99£11.98'A 21st-century Nora Ephron' Stephen May'Witty, hilarious at times, poignant' Alyson Feltes, writer, OzarkPRINCE CHARMING? HAPPILY EVER AFTER? CHILDHOOD FAIRY TALES ARE FULL OF PROMISES, BUT THE REALITY - LIFE - IS A VERY DIFFERENT STORY. AND THAT STORY... -
Meghan and the Unmasking of the Monarchy by Andrew Morton
RRP: £15.99£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538747339Author Andrew MortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
School of Darkness by Bella V Dodd 9781621382928
RRP: £16.00£15.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621382928Author Bella V DoddFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *... -
Nobody Lives Here: A Jewish Childhood in the Occupied Netherlands by Lex Lesgever 9781803993225
RRP: £18.99£14.32'I was on the street and I was free - but what now?'This is the story of Lex Lesgever: a young Jewish boy who found himself alone on the streets of wartime Amsterdam, the only survivor of his large family. He was just 11 when the Germans invaded in May... -
How to be Sad: Everything I've learned about getting happier, by being sad, better by Helen Russell
RRP: £9.99£6.64'In any human life there are going to be periods of unhappiness. Learning how to be sad is a natural first step in how to be happier' Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute Helen Russell is an expert on... -
Elite Bastards: The Combat Missions of Company F, LRP Teams in Vietnam by Edward L Dvorak
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is the quintessential first-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier at war. Edward Dvorak joined the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam in the summer of 1967. He then joined Company F, 51st Infantry, Long Range Patrol, Airborne. For Dvorak...