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A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £14.99£9.80Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old... -
Please, Nurse!: A Student Nurse in the 1950s by Joan Lock
RRP: £8.99£6.20Joan Lock's warm and nostalgic account of her three years of training as a young student nurse in the early 1950s. Perfect for fans of CALL THE MIDWIFE.When Joan Lock began her formal training as a young nurse in the 1950s, she was unprepared for the... -
F*ck Nailing It: How to ditch the job you hate and find work you love Anniki Sommerville 9781909770768
RRP: £8.99£6.20Are you fed up with your work/life balance? Do you feel burnt out and uninspired? Are you stuck in a job you hate and desperate for change but don't know where to start? Then you need this refreshingly honest book that will change your relationship with... -
Memoirs of a Kamikaze: A World War II Pilot's Inspiring Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation by Kazuo Odachi
RRP: £14.99£9.80**Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Winner**An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history.This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who-in 1943, when he was just 16... -
We Need to Talk About . . . Kevin Bridges by Kevin Bridges
RRP: £12.99£9.80The comic autobiography of 2014 A comedian's autobiography? I wonder if he's ever used humour to deflect from his insecurities? To avoid being bullied? Is there heartache behind the humour? I wonder if he's a manic-depressive? Tears of a clown? ... -
Meghan and Harry: The Real Story by Lady Colin Campbell
RRP: £27.95£16.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643136745Author Lady Colin CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Drawing Boards to Docking Stations Mitch Jago 9781804393123
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804393123Author Mitch JagoFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History by Carmel Mc Mahon
RRP: £16.99£12.23In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present. Candid yet... -
Ayrton Senna: The Messiah of Motor Racing by Richard Craig
RRP: £8.99£6.45Ayrton Senna is arguably the most famous racing driver there has ever been. All over the world, he is revered as a saint and as the greatest driver the sport has ever seen. Indeed, the 2010 film of his life verged on the hagiographic, painting him as a... -
Anglo-Indians Abroad: Dreams Built on the Clash of Cultures by Andrea Malam BEM
RRP: £10.99£7.90Curious to find out what it means to be an Anglo-Indian? Join Andrea Malam BEM as she shares the story of her journey from Bombay to London, and the search for her ancestry and identity. Along with her contributors, Andrea reveals the... -
The Singer Patrick Duff 9781914345258
RRP: £30.00£20.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914345258Author Patrick DuffFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 1500gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Geometry of Grief: Reflections on Mathematics, Loss, and Life by Michael Frame 9780226826486
RRP: £9.99£8.59In this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may help all of us-even the math-averse-to understand and cope with grief. We all know the euphoria of intellectual epiphany-the thrill of sudden... -
High School: A Memoir: The New York Times Bestseller and now a major TV series by Tegan Quin
RRP: £10.99£7.40From iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a nostalgic memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their origin story. 'Genius' Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors'A gift' Elliot... -
Ariel's Gift by Erica Wagner
RRP: £10.99£7.32Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the last century. When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters was published in 1998, it was greeted with astonishment and... -
Unravelled: A Family Lost and Found by Fanny Mills 9781911397724
RRP: £25.00£17.30In Unravelled the author unpicks the threads of her comically nuclear family with its deep silences to find what lay hidden, never to be spoken of. Beneath the carefully woven fabric of her family life, she finds clash of cultures - on one side Jews... -
Faber & Faber: The Untold Story by Toby Faber
RRP: £10.99£7.32First published to celebrate Faber's 90th anniversary, this is the story of one of the world's greatest publishing houses - a delight for all readers who are curious about the business of writing.'A striking drama.'SUNDAY TIMES'Never less than... -
DC Confidential by Christopher Meyer
RRP: £9.99£7.40Riveting and candid memoir of life behind the scenes as US Ambassador and Prime Minister's Press Secretary - a Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Meyer was Ambassador to the United States from 1997 to 2003, during which time he was an eyewitness to and... -
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson 9780743286978
RRP: £25.00£17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743286978Author Walter IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed 9780307592736
RRP: £35.00£26.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 2013 and Oregon Book Awards (Readers' Choice) 2013 and Discover Great New Writers (Nonfiction)... -
Sixty Years a Nurse by Mary Hazard
RRP: £9.99£6.64When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later - one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses. ... -
Nii Lamptey: The Curse of Pelé by Joris Kaper
RRP: £19.99£14.28Nii Lamptey: The Curse of Pele is the authorised biography of Ghanaian footballer Nii Lamptey, a one-time bright young talent who was hailed as 'the next Pele' by Pele himself. By age 16, Lamptey had won the Belgian title with RSC Anderlecht and the... -
The Lady in the Van: The Complete Edition by Alan Bennett 9780571326204
RRP: £16.99£12.18Adapted for the screen by the author from his celebrated memoir, Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van, is directed by long-standing collaborator Nicholas Hytner.The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss... -
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
RRP: £18.99£13.61Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer - now in paperbackBenjamin Britten was Britain's greatest twentieth-century composer, who broke decisively with figures such... -
Confessions of a Bad Mother: The Teenage Years by Stephanie Calman 9781509882137
RRP: £8.99£6.60When you're pregnant you think: 'I'm having a baby', not a person who will eventually catch trains by themselves, share a fridge with ten strangers, go to a festival in Croatia without succumbing to a drug overdose, and one day, bring you a gin and tonic... -
Zeckendorf: The autobiograpy of the man who played a real-life game of Monopoly and won the largest real estate empire in history. by William Zeckendorf 9781684116942
RRP: £17.99£13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684116942Author William ZeckendorfFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Parker PublishingPublisher Parker PublishingWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm)... -
What the **** is Normal?! Francesca Martinez 9780753555354
RRP: £9.99£7.11If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you're, gasp ... DISABLED? Whatever body... -
How to Treat People: A Nurse at Work by Molly Case
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A hymn to the art and science of nursing itself' Guardian The hand of a stranger offered in solace. A flower placed on a dead body as a mark of respect. It is these moments of empathy that define us as people. Nobody knows this better than a nurse. In... -
Frank's for the Memory by Dave Wagstaffe 9780955058578
£15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955058578Author Dave WagstaffeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Thomas PublicationsPublisher Thomas Publications -
Beckham: The Making of a Megastar by Wayne Barton
RRP: £19.99£18.01Few footballers in history have commanded as much media attention as David Beckham. From the moment he announced himself to the world with a breathtaking goal from the halfway line against Wimbledon in 1996, he became public property. Over the next two... -
Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha by Jack Kerouac
RRP: £9.99£7.11Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, Jack Kerouac's Wake Up is a clear and powerful study of the life and works of Siddartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, from the author of On the Road. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an... -
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir by Katherine Johnson
RRP: £12.99£8.48The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of... -
Shape of a Boy: Family life lessons in far flung places by Kate Wickers
RRP: £9.99£6.80"Life-affirming and laugh-out-loud funny" - HELEN FIELDING, AUTHOR OF BRIDGET JONES'S DIARYShape of a Boy is a hilarious and eye-opening travel memoir by the mother of three boys as she documents her travels with her family around the world.'Have kids,... -
The No.9 Bus to Utopia: How one man's extraordinary journey led to a quiet revolution by David Bramwell
RRP: £9.99£6.85When David Bramwell's girlfriend left him for someone she described as 'younger, but more mature than you', he decided he had something to learn about giving. Taking a year off, he journeyed through Europe and America seeking out extraordinary... -
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II by Joanna Lumley
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph 'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good Housekeeping In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrated seventy years as Queen and Head of... -
The True History of Merlin the Magician by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
RRP: £12.99£11.46Who was the historical Merlin? Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century though the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of... -
The Amish Wife: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy That Let a Killer Go Free by Gregg Olsen 9781542016506
£11.36The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Amish and reveals the conspiracy to keep it a secret in a heartbreaking and horrifying true-crime story. In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant... -
Byrds Requiem For The Timeless Volume 2 Johnny Rogan 9789529540952
RRP: £30.00£23.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789529540952Author Johnny RoganFormat HardbackPage Count 1248Imprint Rogan HousePublisher Rogan House -
The Consolations of History: Themes of Progress and Potential in Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung Alexander Shapiro 9781032087993
RRP: £39.99£35.06In this book on Richard Wagner's compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Goetterdammerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H. Shapiro advances an ambitious new interpretation which uncovers intriguing new facets to the work's... -
Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue 9781838953720
RRP: £10.99£7.32An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which... -
The Voice of James M. Cain: A Biography David Madden 9781493048120
RRP: £19.99£17.37James M. Cain was among the prominent member of the "hard-boiled" school of writing that characterized the 1930s and 1940s, one of the masters of the genre that included Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. His novels became such popular film noir...