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Travelling With Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary Alberto Granado 9781844134267
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from a distinguished Buenos Aires family decided to explore their continent. They set off from Cordoba in Argentina on a 1949 Norton 500cc motorbike... -
Tommy Turnbull by Joseph Robinson
RRP: £14.99£11.95My name is Tommy Turnbull. I've been a coalminer all my life. My father was a miner, so was my grandfather, my uncles, my cousins and my brother. Wherever there's a pit, you can bet there'll be a Turnbull somewhere down there.About the AuthorJoseph... -
The Man Who Listens to Horses by Monty Roberts 9780345510457
RRP: £17.50£11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345510457Author Monty RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Sir Herbert Baker: Architect to the British Empire by John Stewart 9781476684345
RRP: £28.99£23.38This is the first full biography from childhood of the eminent British Architect Sir Herbert Baker. Written with the full cooperation of his family and with access to his archive and private papers, it gives an account of his remarkable life as the... -
The Wicked Wit of the Royal Family by Karen Dolby
RRP: £9.99£6.85The Wicked Wit of the Royal Family celebrates the flashes of fun and brilliance of the most famous family in the world.There is no doubt that the British royal family is THE most famous family in the world. Watched and picked over in the media for... -
Ben Ainslie: Close to the Wind: Britain's Greatest Olympic Sailor by Ben Ainslie
RRP: £12.99£9.09Knife-edge decisions, adrenalin rushes, extreme weather, bitter rivalries, heart-stopping races - they are all in a day's work for Ben Ainslie. Against all odds, in the London 2012 Olympics Ben Ainslie thrillingly won a fourth successive gold medal,... -
Luck of the Devil: Flying Swordfish in Wwii by Robert le Page 9781848845442
RRP: £19.99£14.28Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the Arctic seas and covering... -
Sectioned by John O'Donoghue
RRP: £10.99£7.40'I'd been in Claybury for four months before I was given ECT. I was sixteen. The day I went down for it I was wearing a striped hospital dressing gown and yellow pyjamas. I'd been given the Last Rites.'John O'Donoghue was first admitted to Claybury... -
The Secret Doctor by Dr Max Skittle
RRP: £9.99£6.85Welcome to the life of Dr Max Skittle. Therapist, relationship counsellor, social worker, friend, parent-figure - and, yes: doctor.Join Max - and his patients - as he takes us on a rollercoaster journey through a year in the life of a doctor: from... -
Blacklisted By History by M. Stanton Evans
RRP: £18.99£14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400081066Author M. Stanton EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 737gDimensions(mm)... -
Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World by Rosemary J Brown 9781399000529
RRP: £14.99£10.95Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a man's world' alone and literally with just the clothes on her back to beat the fictional record set by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days. She won the race on 25 January 1890,... -
The Ghost of Johnny Tapia by Paul Zanon
RRP: £7.99£5.50"A gritty, engrossing, and concise account of a boxer's meteoric career and tortured personal life."-Kirkus Reviews "If I wake up, I know I'm a success. The day I don't wake up, I know I'll be home. I have one foot on this earth and one foot has... -
Flying Fortress Gunner: B-17 Ball Turret Gunner Bob Harper's 35 Combat Missions over Germany by Bill Cullen
RRP: £22.99£15.05At 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighing just 110 pounds, Bob Harper was below the minimum size requirements for US military service. As the demand for manpower increased, rules were bent, Harper's deferment was retracted, and he was drafted into the Army... -
Call Me Sister: District Nursing Tales from the Swinging Sixties by Jane Yeadon
RRP: £7.99£6.15Who'd have thought a missing bacon rasher and a teaspoon would play a part in advancing someone's career? It's the late '60s and Jane Yeadon has always wanted to be a district nurse. Staff nursing in a ward where she's challenged by an inventorydriven... -
Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff by Michael Nesmith 9781101907511
RRP: £16.99£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101907511Author Michael NesmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson 9781472929143
RRP: £25.00£18.02Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete. The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he... -
An Education by Lynn Barber
RRP: £15.99£11.61When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course to go to Oxford, she began a relationship which,... -
The Little Guide to Bob Dylan: How Does it Feel? Orange Hippo! 9781800691728
RRP: £5.99£4.40'All I can do is be me, whoever that is.' The many ides of Bob Dylan are revealed in this collection of the artist's words and lyrics.Having celebrated his 80th birthday in May 2021, with plaudits given around the globe, this influential and enigmatic... -
Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn by R. Larry Todd 9780199366392
RRP: £43.49£30.55Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their... -
Defenders of the Faith: King Charles III's coronation will see Christianity take centre stage Catherine Pepinster 9781399800068
RRP: £25.00£14.26During the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, the Christian Church will take centre stage once again, as the established religion in England. But why does the Church have such prominence in state affairs, and should it keep this privileged... -
Smash!: Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion by Ian Winwood
RRP: £25.00£17.53Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and changed the genre forever. While the punk originators remained underground favorites and were slow burns commercially,... -
Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £12.99£9.09"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of... -
Share My Life: A Journey of Love, Faith and Redemption by Kem
RRP: £18.99£12.27Grammy Award-nominated artist Kem shares his life in this revealing and remarkable memoir tracing his transformative journey from homelessness to gold-selling artist. Known for his smooth affecting crooning and dapper style, Kem's journey to the stage is... -
My Own Worst Enemy: Scenes of a Childhood by Robert Edric
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750838Author Robert EdricFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Dead on Time: The Memoir of an SOE and OSS Agent in Occupied France by Jean Claude Guiet 9780750965262
RRP: £20.00£15.04Jean Claude Guiet, born in France and raised in the US, attended Harvard aged 18 until, as a 'naive' 19-year-old, he entered the US Army in 1943. As a native French speaker he was quickly assigned to SOE and the OSS (the precursor of the CIA) and... -
Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell 9780691154695
RRP: £30.00£23.69A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest... -
Choosing to Run: A Memoir by Des Linden
RRP: £25.99£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593186640Author Des LindenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Afghan Napoleon - The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud by Sandy Gall
RRP: £12.99£8.99When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighting each other and competing for Western arms as opposing the Russians. The exception was Ahmed Shah Massoud, the... -
Best Foot Forward by Adam Hills
RRP: £12.99£8.60*The Sunday Times Bestseller*Adam Hills is one the UK's best-loved comedians. For thirty years he has been performing stand-up, hosting TV shows and winning the hearts of a nation.Taking us from the early days of the Sydney Stand Up scene to hosting his... -
Speaking East: The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou by Andrew Hussey
RRP: £25.00£18.02A vibrant account of both the sensuous cultural scene of postwar Paris and the life of an alluring icon of modern art. Isidore Isou was a young Jew in wartime Bucharest who barely survived the Romanian Holocaust. He made his way to Paris, where, in... -
Mary Seacole: The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea Jane Robinson 9781845294977
£10.47The 'Greatest Black Briton in History' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. "The Times" called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria's nephew called her, simply, 'Mammy' - Mary Seacole was... -
Stolen: A Memoir by Elizabeth Gilpin
RRP: £14.99£10.11A gripping chronicle of psychological manipulation and abuse at a "therapeutic" boarding school for troubled teens, and how one young woman fought to heal in the aftermath.At fifteen, Elizabeth Gilpin was an honor student, a state-ranked swimmer and a... -
Women Of Wisdom by Tsultrim Allione
RRP: £26.00£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559391412Author Tsultrim AllioneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Skipper's Diary: The Story of the "Forty-Niners"- The New Zealand Cricket Team Tour of England in 1949 by Sir Richard Hadlee 9780957808980
£15.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957808980Author Sir Richard HadleeFormat HardbackPage Count 514Imprint The Cricket Publishing CompanyPublisher The Cricket Publishing... -
Into the Tangled Bank: In Which Our Author Ventures Outdoors to Consider the British in Nature by Lev Parikian 9781783965069
RRP: £14.99£11.35‘Funny, accessible and full of wonders – a genuine breath of fresh air.’ – Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley; Lev Parikian is on a journey to discover the quirks, habits and foibles of how the British experience nature. Open a window, hear... -
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul 9780231164689
RRP: £22.00£15.42Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all-his fortune, his reputation, and his job-in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank... -
After They Killed Our Father: A Refugee from the Killing Fields Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind by Loung Ung
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately heart-wrenching and... -
Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson by Sally H Jacobs
RRP: £25.99£18.28In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the lily white, upper-crust National Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive the powerhouse player who would integrate 'the game of kings':... -
Solitude: Memories, People, Places by Terry Waite
RRP: £10.99£7.77Some people long to find it, others long to escape it. But, whether we welcome or dread it, solitude is something we all experience in different forms at different points in our lives After enduring nearly five years of solitary confinement, in cruel... -
One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina 9781847083326
RRP: £9.99£6.70Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him.This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells,...