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Tintin: Herge and His Creation Harry Thompson 9781848546721
RRP: £10.99£7.40The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Herge, worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Herge, of Tintin and his origins, and beyond to when President de Gaulle... -
I Was a Boy in Belsen by Tomi Reichental 9781847177933
RRP: £13.99£10.95'In the last couple of years I realised that, as one of the last witnesses, I must speak out.' Tomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust, gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp. He was... -
Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei 9781984862990
RRP: £20.00£13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984862990Author Ai WeiweiFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Tony Waddington: Director of a Working Man's Ballet by John Leonard
RRP: £16.99£7.55Waddington, Director of a Working Man's Ballet is a biography of the former Stoke City manager, Tony Waddington, one of the most underrated figures in 60s and 70s football. It charts how a man with the appearance of an urbane bank manager belied the... -
Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care by Lee Server
RRP: £14.99£10.89A bona fide tough guy with soulful eyes and a laconic style, Robert Mitchum was one of Hollywood's best-loved actors, star of such moody film noir favourites as Out of the Past, Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear, as well as enduring classics like Angel... -
The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family by Mai Elliott
RRP: £18.49£13.68A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural... -
Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . And You Too! by Chelsea Handler
RRP: £14.99£8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511793Author Chelsea HandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dial Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Antoni Gaudí by Michael Eaude 9781789148374
RRP: £12.99£9.09The celebrated art nouveau architect Antoni Gaudi was a contradictory figure: a deeply religious, politically right-wing man who nevertheless created revolutionary, lyrical buildings. This book explores Gaudi's life, work and influences, from Catalan... -
Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Nicholas Frankel
RRP: £35.95£29.36Nicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English prison for the crime of "gross indecency" between men. Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant... -
66 The House that Viewed the World by John D. O. Fulton
RRP: £9.99£6.99"[The book explores] how lives interconnect, how we are all creatures of our time, how rich and complex life is in this sometimes shy and reticent city. Not for a moment does our interest flag."-Alexander McCall Smith Set in 66 Queen Street, a... -
Magnaccioni: My Food... My Italy by Anne Pia 9781804250907
RRP: £9.99£7.27Magnaccioni (Roman dialect): people who live to eat well. I know no other word that captures that rare gift, that supremely basic human quality of eating with mind, eyes and heart and radiating uncontainable pleasure in so doing.Writing as a passionate... -
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown by Katie Nicholl 9780306827990
RRP: £16.99£13.09For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her... -
Life with a Sprinkle of Glitter by Louise Pentland 9781471149726
RRP: £12.99£3.78THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK BY LOUISE PENTLAND. Aloha Sprinklerinos! Imagine you are in one of those glorious vintage shops where every surface is laden with treasure. Cut glass, pill boxes, old cameras, pendants, chests of... -
The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion by Tim Crothers
RRP: £10.99£6.47One day in 2005 while searching for food, nine-year-old Ugandan Phiona Mutesi followed her brother to a dusty veranda where she met Robert Katende.Katende, a war refugee turned missionary, had an improbable dream: to empower kids in the Katwe slum... -
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan Arthur Waley 9784805314623
RRP: £8.99£6.20Take a firsthand journey into a time, society and world full of intrigue. In the tenth century, Japan stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Sei Shonagon-a young courtesan of the Heian period-kept a diary, which provides a... -
The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell 9780330481717
£17.13WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE 2006 Anthony Burgess has always attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is admired for his literary novels, but known to a wider audience as the author of the ultra-violent shocker, A Clockwork Orange... -
Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes by Colette Rossant
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 1937, five-year-old Colette Rossant arrived in Cairo from Paris with her Egyptian Jewish father and beautiful French mother. When her father dies Colette's flighty mother abandons the little girl to her wealthy grandparents. She soon settles into... -
Authentic: A Memoir by the Founder of Vans by Paul Van Doren
RRP: £26.95£19.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641120241Author Paul Van DorenFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Vertel PublishingPublisher Vertel PublishingWeight(grams) 6g -
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity by Micah Rajunov
RRP: £17.99£14.38What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book,... -
There was Once a Street in Bethnal Green by Derek Houghton 9781398440371
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398440371Author Derek HoughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: £16.99£12.28Bruce Chatwin's death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia.Chatwin himself was different things to different people: a journalist, a photographer, an art... -
Every Cripple a Superhero by Christoph Keller 9781802060997
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny' Sunday Times'A defiant call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its final page' Morning Star'A skilful act of literary witness, sharp, moving and funny' Joanne Limburg 'Christoph Keller .... -
I'll Drink to That: New York's Legendary Personal Shopper and Her Life in Style - With a Twist by Betty Halbreich
RRP: £14.99£9.80Betty Halbreich is a true original. Now in her eighties, she has spent nearly forty years at the luxury store Bergdorf Goodman, working with socialites, stars and ordinary women. She has led many to appreciate their real selves through clothes, frank... -
Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood by Maitland Ward
RRP: £20.00£12.86An empowering, sex-positive, behind-the-scenes look at both Hollywood and the porn industry in this celebrity memoir unlike any other. Perfect for fans of Pleasure Activism and How to Make Love Like a Porn Star.Maitland Ward got her start in acting as a... -
William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man by Duncan Wu
RRP: £16.99£13.28Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and philosophers. By interpreting it for his contemporaries, he... -
Out of Orange: A Memoir by Cleary Wolters 9780062376145
RRP: £10.99£7.25The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the first time-a powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life... -
The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn by Margaret Willes
RRP: £11.99£10.15An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This... -
FRONTLINE: How to Save Lives in War, Disaster and Disease by Dr Tony Redmond
RRP: £16.99£12.28A heroic doctor's unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. 'A brilliant insight into the forgotten heroes at the sharp end of humanitarian emergencies.' Jon Snow, Channel 4 News ... -
Trowel and Error by Alan Titchmarsh
RRP: £10.99£7.40Alan Titchmarsh has had a passion for gardening for as long as he can remember. Aged 8, he announced to friends that he was going to be the next Percy Thrower, although he thought it was no more than a dream.With the magic touch of a best-selling... -
Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book by Courtney Maum 9781948226400
RRP: £12.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226400Author Courtney MaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 25mm -
Integrity: My Slow and Painful Journey to Success by Glenn Stearns
RRP: £28.00£17.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637630433Author Glenn StearnsFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 602g -
While it is Yet Day: A Biography of Elizabeth Fry by Averil Douglas Opperman 9781903360149
RRP: £16.99£12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903360149Author Averil Douglas OppermanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Orphans PublishingPublisher Orphans Publishing -
Forgotten Heroes of Comedy: An Encyclopedia of the Comedy Underdog by Robert Ross
RRP: £35.00£26.42'The top chronicler of British comedy' Film Review'Robert's knowledge of English comedy is formidable' Phil CollinsIn this long overdue and affectionate salute, celebrated comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest, funniest and most... -
Easier Ways to Say I Love You by Lucy Fry
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408597Author Lucy FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
The Correspondence J. D. Daniels 9781910702369
RRP: £10.99£7.77'What a nutjob!' - Geoff Dyer'Questions that occurred to me as I read this brilliant, baffling book: What the hell is this? Who the hell is this? Is this poetry?' - Tom BissellCan civilization save us from ourselves? That is the question J. D. Daniels... -
Edward Burra by Jane Stevenson 9781848220904
RRP: £49.99£38.65Edward Burra (1905-76) was an English painter who is best known for his paintings of the seedy underworld of urban life. Yet, as this fascinating new monograph on his work reveals, his interests were much broader, incorporating landscape and still-life... -
Leaders Who Changed History DK 9780241363171
RRP: £18.99£14.61Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential leaders with this innovative, and boldly graphic biography-led book.Comprehensive in its scope and depth, and fully illustrated, Leaders profiles leaders... -
Dining with the Durrells: Stories and Recipes from the Cookery Archive of Mrs Louisa Durrell David Shimwell 9781529337556
RRP: £9.99£6.80'We lolled in the sea until it was time to return for tea, another of Mother's gastronomic triumphs. Tottering mounds of hot scones; crisp paper-thin biscuits; cakes like snowdrifts, oozing jam; cakes dark, rich and moist, crammed with fruit; brandy... -
Igor Stravinsky by Jonathan Cross 9781780234946
RRP: £12.99£9.09Igor Stravinsky lived the life of a celebrity composer in an increasingly celebrity-obsessed age. He was a true modern, a man of his time. In Paris he dined with Joyce, Picasso and Proust, and by the end of his life was being feted by both the White... -
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £12.99£9.09WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a...