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Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity Nadia Owusu 9781529342864
RRP: £16.99£11.54'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK TIMES'Brilliant and devastating...tender and lacerating' PANDORA SYKES'One of the literary world's most promising new voices' REDI have lived in disaster and... -
Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing by Charles Scribner III 9781493079971
RRP: £19.99£14.28Scribners tells the inside story of five generations--over 150 years--at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the... -
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest... -
Sean Yates: It's All About the Bike: My Autobiography by Sean Yates
RRP: £10.99£7.77Before Bradley Wiggins, there was Sean Yates. Behind Bradley Wiggins, there was Sean Yates.One of only five Britons to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, Sean Yates burst onto the cycling scene as the rawest pure talent this country has ever... -
Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr by Michael Deakin
RRP: £25.00£18.96In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or... -
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of the German High Command, 1938-1945 by Walter Gorlitz 9780815410720
RRP: £14.99£11.53These extraordinary memoirs-written by German Field-Marshal Wilhelm keitel (1882-1946) in the six weeks before he was hung in Nuremberg for war crimes-offers readers an unparalleled insider's view of the blitzkrieg against Poland, the conquest of... -
I Escaped from Auschwitz: The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews by Rudolf Vrba
RRP: £14.99£12.12The Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz Survivor April 7, 1944-This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf... -
All-American Murder James Patterson 9781787460669
RRP: £7.99£5.79_____________________________THE NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER on the murder behind the Netflix documentary Killer InsideHe had it all. A $40 million NFL contract. Fame. Adoration - until he was convicted of murder, and jailed for life without parole.A... -
Muhammad by Maxime Rodinson
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374925Author Maxime RodinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Johan Cruyff: Always on the Attack by Auke Kok
RRP: £25.00£16.24'This terrific biography...well-researched, well written' David Winner 'Deeply researched...nicely written, and manages to get inside Cruyff's very bizarre head' Simon Kuper Argumentative, brilliant, arrogant, visionary. Johan Cruyff was one of the... -
Exodus, Revisited: My Unorthodox Journey to Berlin by Deborah Feldman
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593185261Author Deborah FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Badger: Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling by William Fotheringham
RRP: £9.99£7.11Bernard Hinault is one of the greatest cyclists of all time. He is a five-time winner of the Tour de France and the only man to have won each of the Grand Tours on more than one occasion. Hinault is the last 'old-school' champion: a larger-than-life... -
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard by Christopher Wallace
RRP: £25.00£16.43An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and... -
The King's Only Champion: James Graham, First Marquess of Montrose by Dominic Pearce
RRP: £22.99£15.18James Graham was a Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier who joined the Covenanters but sided with Charles I as the English Civil War progressed. Through a string of brilliant military victories, Montrose won the civil war in Scotland until it was plain... -
My Stir-fried Life by Ken Hom 9781849549783
RRP: £20.00£14.88As a boy, Ken Hom lived hand-to-mouth in the slums of Chicago's Chinatown. Today, he is one of the most celebrated TV chefs of all time, the man who showed the British how to cook Asian food and introduced the nation to the wok.This is the story of that... -
Carolee Schneemann: From Then and Beyond by Carolee Schneemann
RRP: £38.00£29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903572966Author Carolee SchneemannFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Verlag fur Moderne KunstPublisher Verlag fur Moderne Kunst -
Constructing a Nervous System: Cultural Reckonings by Margo Jefferson
RRP: £16.99£12.28FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs... -
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey 9781408840207
RRP: £9.99£8.11'A meditation on race, and class, and grief ... Uplifting, but just wrenching' BARACK OBAMA ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD ... -
Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy Martha Long 9781845964498
RRP: £11.99£8.43Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, a judge rules that she is to be sent to a convent school with the instruction that... -
The Art of the Loophole: David Beckham's lawyer teaches you how to make the law work for you Nick Freeman 9781444734089
RRP: £10.99£7.40Celebrity lawyer Mr Loophole. Nick Freeman is Britain`s highest profile lawyer. He has won cases for David Beckham and many other celebrities, and attracts more media attention than any other lawyer in the country. Not just for the rich and famous, you... -
John Virgo: Say Goodnight, JV - My Autobiography by John Virgo
RRP: £8.99£6.22In this revelatory memoir, snooker player John Virgo turns the spotlight on himself, sharing secrets from his forty years at the top of one of the world's most popular sports.Famous for his hilarious impersonations of snooker's biggest stars, JV is a... -
Escape from the Taliban: One Woman's Experiences in Afghanistan by Bashir Sakhawarz 9781399042406
RRP: £25.00£17.62Deeba first left Afghanistan in 2002, fleeing a war torn country and an abusive husband shortly after she was captured by the Taliban and nearly sold to an Arab Shaikh narrowly escaping due to a small twist of fate. In June 2021 Deeba returned to visit... -
The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead 9781847085160
RRP: £9.99£6.70At the age of seventeen, Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch for the first time, and has read it again every five years since, each time interpreting and discovering it anew. In The Road to Middlemarch she writes passionately about her relationship to this... -
On the Road: Adventures from Nixon to Trump by James Naughtie
RRP: £9.99£6.41'Everything you would expect of a James Naughtie book - droll, absorbing and wonderfully perceptive.' Bill Bryson'A revealing and at times spellbinding tapestry of a nation...It is thought-provoking, constantly surprising and hugely entertaining. Sublime... -
George Clinton and the Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire by Kris Needs 9781783051540
RRP: £19.95£15.40The first in-depth biography of one of music's most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters. This book is the most comprehensive history yet of the life, music and cultural significance of the last of the great black music pioneers and the era... -
Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe by Alan Verskin
RRP: £21.99£19.19In 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. In this era of fierce rivalry between great powers, voyages of fantastic discovery, and brutal conquest of new... -
Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
RRP: £28.00£20.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982886Author Jean Edward SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
A School in South Uist: Reminiscences of a Hebridean Schoolmaster, 1890-1913 by Frederick Rea
RRP: £9.99£6.99In 1889 Frederick Rea arrived from the Midlands to teach in South Uist, at that time one of the poorest places in the Outer Hebrides. Roads were often no more than rough tracks across the mountain moorland or over the storm-swept machair, and his... -
Befriending My Brain: A Psychosis Story by James Lindsay 9781913615949
RRP: £11.99£8.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913615949Author James LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Cherish EditionsPublisher Trigger PublishingWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World by Christina Rickardsson 9781503901612
£9.91An extraordinary memoir of one woman's fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given. Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life... -
The Queen: 1926–2022 by Andrew Morton
RRP: £10.99£7.47Following her death in September 2022, the outpouring of affection and admiration for the Queen was as touching as it was remarkable. She had been a matriarch to the nation for over seven decades, and tens of millions of people - in Britain and across... -
The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: £25.99£23.58Explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923 69) arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time A social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th century ... -
Dying of Politeness: A Memoir by Geena Davis 9780008508159
RRP: £9.99£6.64'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson A Times Film and Theatre Book of the Year 2022 From two-time Academy Award winner and... -
Birth School Metallica Death: 1983-1991 by Paul Brannigan
RRP: £14.99£9.80Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven Grammys. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the world's biggest stadia has been an epic and often traumatic one, and one of the few truly great rock 'n' roll... -
I'm Only In It for the Parking: Life and laughter from the priority seats by Lost Voice Guy aka Lee Ridley
RRP: £9.99£6.52AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'S 'ABILITY''A truly eye-opening book from a fantastic comedian.' ADAM KAY'Comedy genius... The funniest book I've read in years.' DAVID WALLIAMS_______________Lee Ridley won the hearts and minds of the nation on Britain's Got Talent... -
Once a Pear: My Cricket Journey by Daryl Mitchell
RRP: £19.99£15.02Once A Pear... is the enthralling cricketing story of Daryl Mitchell - the ultimate 'one-club man'. Daryl graduated from the village game to become the first Worcestershire captain born in the county since 1925. He turned down offers from other, more... -
Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova
RRP: £8.99£6.55An epic tale of love and revenge set in a world inspired by Inquisition-era Spain pits the magical Moria against a terrifying royal authority bent on their destruction.'Epic and spellbinding' Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The... -
Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes. Geraint Jones 9781529000405
RRP: £18.99£14.01Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war - every scary, exciting moment - and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.'If you could choose... -
Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield
RRP: £17.99£12.95Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin... -
Guardian of the Streets: James Cook MBE, My Story by James Cook 9781785314919
RRP: £18.99£13.61James Cook's autobiography is a gripping account of his life told with the assistance of his friend and boxing author, Melanie Lloyd. Cook was raised by his grandparents in Jamaica until he was nine years old, when his mother arrived from London to...