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Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin 9780684824901
RRP: £40.00£27.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award (Nonfiction) 2006. Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Biography) 2005. Short-listed for National Book... -
High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess by Charles Fleming 9780747542629
RRP: £16.99£12.92Using the life and career of Don Simpson as a point of departure, "High Concept" takes readers on a riveting journey inside the Hollywood of the 1980s and 90s. For over two decades, Simpson was Hollywood's reigning bad boy, yet through the same period he... -
Lofty: Nat Lofthouse, England's Lion of Vienna by Matt Clough
RRP: £14.99£11.55Shortlisted for the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Biography of the Year.Nat Lofthouse is a name that rings through the annals of English football history like few others. He was a pivotal figure in one of the true golden ages of the beautiful game, ending... -
King Stephen by Edmund King
RRP: £19.99£17.37This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the... -
They Also Serve: The real life story of my time in service as a butler Tom Quinn 9781444735925
RRP: £10.99£7.40During more than thirty years in a variety of houses, Bob Sharpe managed to rise from garden boy to valet and butler.As a boy he had to kill pheasant chicks, boil rabbits for the estate dogs, carry the wood up and down stairs every day for thirty fires... -
be/longing: understories of nature, family and home by Amanda Thomson
RRP: £16.99£11.58SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2022Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature,... -
A Drake at the Door: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm by Derek Tangye
RRP: £8.99£5.92The third title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flower farm on the coast of Cornwall. This book takes a closer look at some of the animals who shared the... -
The King of White Hart Lane: The Authorised Biography of Alan Gilzean by Mike Donovan
RRP: £19.99£6.54The King of White Hart Lane is the authorised life story of Alan Gilzean, the legendary, world-class Tottenham Hotspur, Dundee and Scotland footballer. Exclusive insights provided by his family, closest friends and colleagues add to the author's own... -
Believe: Boxing, Olympics and my life outside the ring by Nicola Adams
RRP: £9.99£7.11THE STORY BEHIND THE WOMAN WHO CHANGED THE FACE OF BOXING FOREVER, OBE NICOLA ADAMSAt London 2012, Nicola Adams made history when she became the first woman ever to win an Olympic Gold medal for boxing. In Rio 2016, with the nation cheering her on, she... -
The Elite: The Story of Special Forces - From Ancient Sparta to the War on Terror by Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: £10.99£7.00"Riveting stuff. Through the prism of his experience of the military elite, Fiennes presents a dazzling history of the world's best fighting units to amaze and enthral the reader." Damien Lewis, Bestselling author of Zero Six Bravo Inspired by the heroic... -
Turbulence: A True Story of Survival by Annette Herfkens 9780991317905
RRP: £13.50£9.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991317905Author Annette HerfkensFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Matter and MindPublisher Matter and MindWeight(grams) 476g -
Arnhem Lift: A German Jew in the Glider Pilot Regiment by Louis Hagen 9780752468686
RRP: £14.99£11.55Of the 10,000 men who landed at Arnhem, over nine days 1,400 were killed and more than 6,000 - about a third of them wounded - were captured. It was a bloody disaster. The remarkable Louis Hagen, an 'enemy alien' who had escaped to England having been... -
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home by Benjamin Hall
RRP: £25.00£19.14Dispatches from the Edge meets In an Instant in this dramatic memoir of war, family, resilience, and recovery from Benjamin Hall, the Fox News journalist who was gravely injured by a Russian drone attack in the early days of the invasion of Ukraine. ... -
Katherine Howard: Henry VIII's Slandered Queen Conor Byrne 9780750990608
RRP: £18.99£15.65Over the years Katherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, has been slandered as a 'juvenile delinquent', 'empty-headed wanton' and 'natural born tart', who engaged in promiscuous liaisons prior to her marriage and committed adultery after. Though she was... -
Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther
RRP: £10.99£7.00In this vividly rendered and empathetic biography of two of the greatest poets of the 20th century-Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton-"the friendship and rivalry that the pair shared-not to mention the titular cocktails at a Boston hotel-is explored in... -
Naked Theater & Uncensored Horror: A Memoir by Stuart Gordon 9781913051235
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913051235Author Stuart GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint FAB PressPublisher FAB Press -
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
RRP: £9.99£7.11During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with... -
Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow
RRP: £14.99£10.95A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the definitive Welles biography.Insightful, incisive &... -
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru 9780062356925
RRP: £14.99£9.70A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York Times"A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific and sometimes funny, but most important of all they are... -
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story by Justine Cowan 9780349013183
RRP: £20.00£13.35A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its care - the author's own mother.'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the... -
This Really Isn't About You by Jean Hannah Edelstein 9781509863815
RRP: £8.99£6.60'A most magnificent, beautifully written memoir' - Nina Stibbe'Deft, witty and profound . . . had me turning the pages all night' - Jessie BurtonJean Hannah Edelstein was looking for love on OKCupid the night she lost her father. She had recently moved... -
Dancing Barefoot: How To Be Common by Glyn Brown 9780993204494
RRP: £14.00£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993204494Author Glyn BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Ignite BooksPublisher Ignite Books -
Changeling: The Autobiography of Mike Oldfield by Mike Oldfield
RRP: £16.99£12.28Born without social instincts many people take for granted, brought up in a troubled environment and possessed with an extraordinary musical talent, Mike Oldfield was thrust into the spotlight at the tender age of nineteen. His first album Tubular Bells... -
Paddy Reilly: From The Fields of Athenry to The Dubliners and Beyond by Paddy Reilly
RRP: £17.99£13.80Patrick 'Paddy' Reilly is an Irish folk singer and guitarist. Born in Rathcoole, County Dublin, he is one of Ireland's most famous balladeers and is best known for his renditions of "The Fields of Athenry", "Rose of Allendale" and "The Town I Loved So... -
Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind: The Life and Letters of an Irish Zen Saint Maura O'Halloran 9780861712830
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861712830Author Maura O'HalloranFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom by Erica Benner
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A ripping read ... fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox' Daily TelegraphWas Niccolo Machiavelli really the cynical schemer of legend - or was he a profound ethical thinker, who tried to save the democratic freedom of Renaissance Florence as it... -
Russell: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £8.99£6.45Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A.C. Grayling introduces both his technical contributions to logic and philosophy, and his wide-ranging views... -
A Mother's Courage: How I survived the Holocaust - a remarkable story of bravery, kindness and hope by Malka Levine 9781035025008
RRP: £20.00£13.10'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - PHILIPPE SANDS'A fabulous memoir . . . a testament to [Malka's] skill and determination' - DAME MAUREEN LIPMANA Mother's Courage is... -
Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings by Henry James 9781598534719
RRP: £35.99£23.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534719Author Henry JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 722g -
Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion by Bad Religion 9780306922220
RRP: £20.00£16.48Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion reveals the ups and downs of the band's forty-year career. From their beginnings as teenagers jamming in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell Hole" to headlining major music festivals around the world,... -
Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles 9781838852184
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. LeeNina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became... -
The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman 9781982182632
RRP: £20.00£12.86**Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biography**This celebration of the woman who took us to the heights of a secluded attic and the depths of our own dark psyches reveals an intimate portrait of the famously private V.C. Andrews-featuring... -
Heart Berries: A Memoir Terese Marie Mailhot 9781526604507
RRP: £8.99£6.45A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Whiting Award for Non-Fiction Selected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick 'I loved it' Kate Tempest 'Astounding' Roxane Gay 'A sledgehammer' New York Times Heart Berries is a powerful,... -
A Short History of Falling: Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying by Joe Hammond
RRP: £12.99£8.60A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgettable memoir that finds light and even humour in the darkest of places. ... -
Coco Chanel, New Edition: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie 9780063372887
RRP: £45.00£25.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063372887Author Justine PicardieFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1138g -
Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown
RRP: £12.99£11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061348112Author Daniel James BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Taylor Swift The Brightest Star: The Life, Loves and Music of a Global Sensation by Michael Francis Taylor 9781912587551
£17.13Encyclopaedic in its scope, this is the ultimate tribute to the life and music of Taylor Swift. No need for glossy images here, the narrative says it all - a chronological account of her mercurial rise to fame; the stories that inspire the songs; an... -
My World by Luciano Pavarotti
RRP: £12.99£9.09Every generation or so an opera singer attains the kind of public adulation and affection usually reserved for film stars or pop singers. Luciano Pavarotti reached this level of fame: he was the most celebrated tenor of all time, his concerts attended by... -
Before and After by Lisa Wingate
RRP: £9.99£6.80The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal - inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were YoursFrom the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a corrupt baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society... -
Nature Cure by Richard Mabey 9781908213952
RRP: £18.00£12.96To celebrate Richard Mabey's 80th birthday, a reissue of the seminal Nature Cure, originally published in 2005 to great acclaim. At the height of his career, having recently published Flora Britannica, the author and naturalist fell in to a deep and...