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Maybe The People Would Be The Times by Lucy Sante
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241574Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications -
John Knox: Fearless Faith by Steven J. Lawson
RRP: £7.99£5.13John Knox is one of the most colourful figures in church history and his impact is still felt around the world. The real story of Knox surpasses the best fiction novels. Five hundred years after his death, Steven Lawson seeks in this book to ignite our... -
Eastern Front Sniper by Roland Kaltenegger 9781784382162
RRP: £19.99£14.28Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II s most accomplished snipers. Math us Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924/. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve... -
The Vicar of Baghdad - My Journey So Far: An autobiography by Reverend Canon Andrew White
RRP: £16.99£12.28The remarkable story of Canon Andrew White, a man of great charm and energy and one of the world's most trusted mediators and reconcilers. Combined in a single volume for the first time, The Vicar of Baghdad and My Journey So Far tell the story of how... -
CROSSING THE BAR: The Memoir of Bob Alexander QC by Bob Alexander QC
RRP: £25.00£20.30To rise from humble beginnings in the Potteries to become a hugely successful barrister involved in many high profile cases would be enough to satisfy the ambitions of many. But Bob Alexander's life took him from the law to be chairman of the Takeover... -
John Bercow: Call To Order by Sebastian Whale 9781785905582
RRP: £20.00£14.88Polarising, combative, unconventional: few embody the fraught nature of British politics today quite like John Bercow. A man who is revered by his one-time opponents and condemned by his former bedfellows, he has traversed the deep chasm between the... -
War Paint: Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein: Their Lives, their Times, their Rivalry Lindy Woodhead 9781474606493
RRP: £12.99£9.00War Paint is the story of two extraordinary women, Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein, and the legacy they left: a story of feminine vanity and marketing genius. Behind the gloss and glamour lay obsession with business and rivalry with... -
Sigmund Freud: pocket GIANTS by Alastair Ross 9780750962636
RRP: £6.99£5.47'This is a very, very smart book. It makes Freud accessible, interesting and relevant.' - Ruby WaxSigmund Freud is rightly called the godfather of psychoanalysis. He forever changed the way we view ourselves and developed our understanding of human... -
Blues with a Feeling: The Little Walter Story by Tony Glover 9780415937115
RRP: £39.99£35.06Whenever you hear the prevalent wailing blues harmonica in commercials, film soundtracks or at a blues club, you are experiencing the legacy of the master harmonica player, Little Walter. Immensely popular in his lifetime, Little Walter had fourteen Top... -
My Life with Boris by Naina Yeltsin
RRP: £25.00£17.86In this poignant memoir, Naina Yeltsina, the wife of the first president of Russia, recounts the compelling story of her life, from her earliest childhood memories and the time when she met and became engaged to Boris Yeltsin, her companion of over fifty... -
A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands Lorne Rubenstein 9781840187052
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 1977, Lorne Rubenstein, an avid golfer, travelled to Dornoch in the Scottish Highlands. Young and adrift in life, he was profoundly affected by the experience. As he writes, 'My week in Dornoch introduced me to a place with which I felt a connection... -
Gareth Malone's Guide to Classical Music: The Perfect Introduction to Classical Music by Gareth Malone
RRP: £10.99£7.25Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? In this funny, evocative, personal book, previously published as 'Music for the People: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music', Gareth takes us on a journey of musical discovery that... -
The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality by Mike Sielski 9781529096064
RRP: £10.99£7.93Kobe Bryant is a legend - The Rise is a fascinating look at his early life and how he became regarded as one of basketball's greatest-ever players.Kobe Bryant's death in January 2020 did more than rattle the worlds of sports and celebrity. It took the... -
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins
RRP: £13.99£10.32Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture's impact on her life, Nichole... -
Broken: in the Best Possible Way by Jenny Lawson 9781529066814
RRP: £9.99£7.27The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of Furiously Happy and Let's Pretend This Never Happened. Now with a new bonus chapter.'Broken is the party of the year . . . I loved it' - Sarah Knight, bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic... -
No Way But Gentlenesse by Richard Hines
RRP: £12.99£9.09Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common, Richard Hines remembers heaps of coal dust, listening out for the colliery siren at the end of shifts and praying for his father's safe return. When he failed his eleven-plus it... -
Eleanor Roosevelt: In Her Words: On Women, Politics, Leadership, and Lessons from Life by Eleanor Roosevelt
RRP: £14.99£10.20Eleanor Roosevelt is considered by many to be the most fascinating, accomplished, and admired woman in American history. While she is best known as a politician, diplomat, humanitarian, UN delegate, activist, feminist, and First Lady she was also a... -
Travelling with Pomegranates Ann Kidd Taylor 9780755384631
RRP: £10.99£7.40From the New York Times bestselling author of THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES and THE INVENTION OF WINGS and her daughter comes a touching and perceptive memoir about mothers and daughters that will resonate with women of all ages.Sue Monk Kidd and her daughter... -
10 Women Who Overcame Their Past by Dayspring MacLeod
RRP: £8.99£6.45This book contains the stories of ten women whose circumstances and choices led them to a place that seemed far removed from the fruitful, joy-filled life we are called to live in Christ. But each of their stories is a testament to the work God does... -
The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated by Gautam Baid
RRP: £22.00£17.22Value investing is not just a system for success in the market. It is also an intellectual toolkit for achieving a deeper understanding of the world. In The Joys of Compounding, the value investor Gautam Baid builds a holistic approach to value investing... -
Small Man in a Book by Rob Brydon
RRP: £12.99£9.80Rob Brydon tells story of his slow ascent to fame and fortune in Small Man in a Book. A multi-award-winning actor, writer, comedian and presenter known for his warmth, humour and inspired impressions, Rob Brydon has quickly become one of our very... -
Luis Suarez: Crossing the Line - My Story Luis Suarez 9781472224279
RRP: £10.99£7.40Luis Suarez was a young boy already in love with football by the time his family moved from the countryside to Uruguay's capital, Montevideo. The guile and trickery of the street kid made an impact with the country's biggest club, Nacional, before he was... -
An Abbreviated Life: A Memoir by Ariel Leve
RRP: £9.99£6.64A beautiful, startling, and candid memoir about growing up without boundaries, in which Ariel Leve recalls with candor and sensitivity the turbulent time she endured as the only child of an unstable poet for a mother and a beloved but largely absent... -
Around the World in Eighty Days (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne
RRP: £6.99£5.37HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematically exact people, who, never hurried and always ready, are economical of their steps and their motions. He... -
Into the Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg 9781903155967
RRP: £16.00£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155967Author Eugenia GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd -
The Boy With No Shoes: A Memoir by William Horwood
RRP: £10.99£7.40Five-year-old Jimmy Rova is the unwanted child of a mother who rejects him, and whose other children bully him. The one thing he can call his own is a pair of shoes, a present from the only person he feels has ever loved him. When they are cruelly taken... -
All the Days of My Life by Russell J Wyatt 9781944878627
RRP: £14.99£11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944878627Author Russell J WyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint R. J. WyattPublisher R. J. WyattWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Thinking Again by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99£7.32Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such...Following the publication In My Mind's Eye, her acclaimed first volume of diaries, a Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2018, Jan Morris continued to write her daily... -
But Enough About Me by Burt Reynolds
RRP: £8.99£6.22In But Enough About Me, legendary film actor and Hollywood superstar Burt Reynolds recalls the people who shaped his life and career, for better or for worse. From Robert Altman, Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood and Robert Mitchum to Bette Davis, Marlon... -
Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma Matthew Parris 9781781257234
RRP: £16.99£15.51A Times Biography of the Year Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that still influence our lives today. And all men and women who experienced,... -
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin
RRP: £9.99£6.80In The Happiness Project, she worked out general theories of happiness. Here she goes deeper on factors that matter for home, such as possessions, marriage, time and parenthood. How can she control the cubicle in her pocket? How might she spotlight her... -
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow 9780007445318
RRP: £11.99£7.86An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Simon Callow's sparkling biography explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the... -
Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues by Matt Jackson
RRP: £12.99£8.48The electric and daring independent wrestling tag team share their inspiring story of how two undersized, ambitious athletes from Southern California became the idols of millions of popular sports fans, coveted among the ranks of AEW's elite wrestling... -
Morgue: A Life in Death by DiMaio, Vincent,Franscell, Ron
RRP: £12.99£11.75In this clear eyed, gritty, and enthralling narrative, Dr. Vincent Di Maio and veteran crime writer Ron Franscell guide us behind the morgue doors to tell a fascinating life story through the cases that have made Di Maio famous-from the exhumation of... -
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris Mark Braude 9781529300482
RRP: £20.00£13.35***One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022******One of The New York Time's 100 Notable Books of 2022***'Exuberantly entertaining' NYT Book Review'Mark Braude's writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim Jarmusch'A... -
Guy Griffiths: The Life & Times of an Australian Admiral by Peter Jones
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922454683Author Peter JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint ArcadiaPublisher Australian Scholarly Publishing -
The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir by E J Koh 9781947793385
RRP: £22.95£14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947793385Author E J KohFormat HardbackPage Count 203Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm * 23mm -
Stephen Hawking: A Life Well Lived by Kitty Ferguson
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. Defying all the odds, he died in March 2018 at age seventy-six as the most celebrated scientist in the world. This carefully researched and updated biography and tribute gives a rich picture of... -
Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £12.99£8.60Born in 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, the eighty-five years of Eric Hobsbawm's life are backdropped by an endless litany of wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. He has led a remarkably fulfilling and long life; historian and... -
A Tuscan Childhood Kinta Beevor 9781780228648
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Wonderful ... I fell immediately into her world' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan SunKinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents' castle facing the Carrara mountains. She and her brother ran barefoot, exploring an...