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My Turn: An Autobiography by Norman Wisdom
RRP: £15.99£12.23Norman Wisdom's early years could easily have come straight from the pages of a Dickens novel. Left by their frightened mother, ill-treated by a brutal father, Norman and his brother were forced to fend for themselves, sleeping rough in London and... -
Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet by Heather Poole
RRP: £9.99£6.64In the spirit of books like "Waiter Rant" and "Kitchen Confidential", blogger and flight attendant Heather Poole gives the inside scoop on how to be the most hated passenger on the plane, whether passionate affairs with pilots are... -
Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography By Dave Gibbons by Dave Gibbons
RRP: £47.99£32.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506729053Author Dave GibbonsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S. -
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity Andrew Gailey 9781444792454
RRP: £14.99£9.80Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering career which few could equal. As Viceroy of India and Governor-General of Canada, he held the... -
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French
RRP: £27.99£23.13In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the... -
The Clearing: A memoir of art, family and mental health by Samantha Clark 9780349143729
RRP: £8.99£6.20This house has been a regular presence in my life for as long as I can remember. My heart has sunk a little every time I walk in . . .Samantha Clark enjoyed a busy career as an artist before returning home to Glasgow to take care of the house that her... -
Peter Shore: Labour's Forgotten Patriot - Reappraising Peter Shore by Kevin Hickson 9781785904738
RRP: £25.00£18.24Peter Shore worked under Hugh Gaitskell, serving in successive Labour Cabinets under first Harold Wilson and subsequently James Callaghan. He wrote the 1964, 1966 and 1970 general election manifestos for the party and stood in both the 1980 and the 1983... -
A Tale of Two Monkeys: Adventures in the Art World by Anthony Speelman
RRP: £30.00£20.95Anthony Speelman is the doyen of English art dealers specializing in Dutch Golden Age art. Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, his memoirs offer fascinating insight into the sometimes secretive world of Old Masters. This book will appeal not only... -
Birdseye by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £15.99£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767930307Author Mark KurlanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Holly Hagan: Not Quite a Geordie by Holly Hagan 9781784183363
RRP: £7.99£5.60Busty babe Holly Hagan has had viewers of Geordie Shore glued to their screens ever since her arrival in the first series. Fed up with her dead end job at a call centre, and with dreams of being a star one day, Holly applied for a new reality TV show... -
Roaring Girls: The forgotten feminists of British history by Holly Kyte
RRP: £10.99£6.35'Extraordinary' Woman&Home A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, 'masculine' when she should be 'feminine'. ... -
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal 9780393239348
RRP: £21.99£18.95In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she... -
Ann Walker: The Life and Death of Gentleman Jack's Wife by Rebecca Batley
RRP: £20.00£14.29Lesbian. Lover. Lunatic. These are just some of the words usually used to describe Ann Walker, the oft overlooked wife of Anne Lister, better known by some as Gentleman Jack. Ann was one half of England's first same-sex marriage and yet the rainbow... -
Twice: The Story of K-Pop's Greatest Girl Group by Jamie Heal
RRP: £14.99£9.90In the space of just five years, Twice have taken the K-Pop world by storm. With hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, a sell-out world tour and record-breaking album sales under their belts, Twice have well and truly earned their place in... -
Richard I by John Gillingham 9780300094046
RRP: £25.00£21.32Neither a feckless knight-errant nor a king who neglected his kingdom, Richard I was in reality a masterful and businesslike ruler. In this wholly rewritten version of a classic account of the reign of Richard The Lionheart, John Gillingham scrutinizes... -
Rigged Ben Mezrich 9780747596356
RRP: £12.99£9.09A gripping, real-life thriller set in the world of the most important tradeable commodity on earth: oil ________________________ 'A taut thriller ... fast, funny and mean' - Bloomberg 'Glamorous, exciting and true, it's a tale to send the... -
The Real Diana Dors by Anna Cale 9781526782151
RRP: £19.99£14.28The story of Swindon-born film star Diana Dors is one of fame, glamour and intrigue. From the moment she came into the world, her life was full of drama. Her acting career began in the shadow of the Second World War, entering the film world as a... -
Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood by Siri Helle
RRP: £12.99£8.32Humans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producers to consumers. What happens to our society when we are so divorced from the act of making? What... -
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
RRP: £10.99£7.93Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksYou think adoption is a story which has an end. But the point about it is that it has no end. It keeps changing its ending.From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour... -
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan
RRP: £19.00£11.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114741Author Michael PollanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm... -
Act Like You Got Some Sense Jamie Foxx 9781408716168
RRP: £18.99£12.75From Academy Award-winning multi-talent Jamie Foxx, a hilariously candid look at the joys and pitfalls of being the father of two daughters. Jamie Foxx is not only an actor, comedian, and musician, he's also starring in his most humbling and long-running... -
Roy Strong: Self-Portrait as a Young Man Sir Roy Strong 9781851242825
RRP: £25.00£21.32For nearly half a century, Sir Roy Strong has enjoyed a high public profile in the arts world in Britain. Yet remarkably little is known about his life before the Swinging Sixties when he burst upon the scene as the revolutionary trendy young director of... -
Jacksons, Monk & Rowe and the Brodsky Quartet - the formative years by Jacqueline Thomas
RRP: £12.99£9.09How many ten-year-olds form a string quartet which goes on to world renown and lasts for half a century (and counting)? In the industrial heartland of the North East, Middlesbrough is frequently dubbed the arsehole of England, the least-desirable place... -
In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
RRP: £18.00£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525512547Author Yongey Mingyur RinpocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
A Song for Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival by John Lingan
RRP: £25.00£19.21From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than Creedence Clearwater Revival. They managed a two-year barrage of top-10 singles and LPs that doubled as an ubiquitous... -
Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin by Barney Hoskyns
RRP: £20.00£14.46A unique look at the history, adventures, myths and realities of this most legendary and powerful of bands, it is a labour of love based on hours of first-hand and original interviews. What emerges is a compelling portrait of the four musicians... -
Just as I Am by Cicely Tyson
RRP: £10.99£7.25"In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history." -President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony"Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished,... -
Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson
RRP: £14.99£11.83A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than... -
Aiming High: Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and Disrupting Silicon Valley Atsuo Inoue 9781529338577
RRP: £20.00£13.35__________*Picked by the Financial Times as a Best Read of 2021*'Impressive and inspiring' Financial Times 'I have no intention of making small bets' - Masayoshi SonIn order to understand what's happening in Silicon Valley, you just need to look at... -
Edward the Confessor: Last of the Royal Blood Tom Licence 9780300260823
RRP: £12.99£11.46An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066"In putting flesh back on Edward's bones Licence has brought a new succession story to popular attention."-Leanda de Lisle, The Times"This fine biography... -
William Chapman - Reminiscences by William Chapman 9781869191924
RRP: £31.00£25.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869191924Author William ChapmanFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 990g -
Starman by Jamie Doran
RRP: £10.99£7.77_______________ 'Starman takes us at breakneck speed through Gagarin's strange trajectory ... Without books like these to shelter it, history is eroded by propaganda and real heroes fall victim to spin' - New Scientist 'A riveting account of... -
What Regency Women Did For Us by Rachel Knowles 9781473882249
RRP: £12.99£9.09Regency women inhabited a very different world from the one in which we live today. Considered intellectually inferior to men, they received little education and had very few rights. This book tells the inspirational stories of twelve women, from very... -
Do Right and Fear No One by Leslie Thomas QC
RRP: £10.99£7.00'If deaths are not investigated, then the authorities cannot be held to account and democracy is threatened. And if deaths are not investigated, we are not a society that values human life' Inspired from a young age to help the marginalised and... -
The Colour of the Sky After Rain by Tessa Keswick
RRP: £30.00£21.35An extraordinary memoir of one woman's experiences in China. ******************************** Tessa Keswick first travelled to China in 1982 and immediately fell in love with its history, culture and landscape. Over the next thirty years, she... -
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray by James Renner
RRP: £17.00£11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250113818Author James RennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America's Leaders by Chesley B. Sullenberger 9780061924712
£12.40At a time of political polarization and economic turmoil, Americans yearn for superlative leadership. Few have demonstrated leadership better than Captain Sully Sullenberger, a man who embodies the core values that are the heart of America:... -
Flight to Heaven - A Plane Crash...A Lone Survivor...A Journey to Heaven--and Back Capt. Dale Black 9780764207945
RRP: £12.99£9.37Imagine getting a glimpse of heaven, a preview of life in God's presence. Could life here ever be the same? Capt. Dale Black has flown as a commercial pilot all over the world, but one flight changed his life forever--an amazing journey to heaven and... -
Buddha & The Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, & Online Dating by Kiera Van Gelder
RRP: £16.99£12.32Kiera Van Gelder's first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and chaotic romantic relationships-all of which eventually led to doctors' belated... -
A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy by Colin Grant
RRP: £10.99£7.77One day Colin Grant's teenage brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family broke down the door to find him unconscious on the floor. None of their lives were ever the same again. Christopher was diagnosed with epilepsy. In A Smell...