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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner) T.J. Stiles 9781400031740
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 2009 and Pulitzer Prize 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781400031740Author T.J. StilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher... -
The Self-Improver: A Pilot's Journey by Nick Eades
£12.65'I was on the last leg of my first cross country flight. My next radio call would be to ask permission to land. I began to relax. I was nearly home. That's when the aircraft's engine stopped.' The Self-Improver is an autobiographical account about how a... -
Larger than an Orange by Lucy Burns
RRP: £10.99£7.12*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*'Raw, tender and urgent' Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater'Irreducible. Once read, it will never be forgotten' Helen Mort, author of Division StreetThis is the story of an abortion. The days and hours before the... -
Caves, Coprolites and Catastrophes: The Story of Pioneering Geologist and Fossil-Hunter William Buckland by Dr Allan Chapman
RRP: £19.99£14.28'An irresistible biography of one of Oxford's most colourful characters.' John Hedley Brooke In 1824, William Buckland stood in front of the Royal Geological Society and told them about the bones he had been studying - the bones of an enormous,... -
Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon by Robert Alter 9780300250176
RRP: £16.99£14.61An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist "Concise and compelling."-Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Amos Oz (1939-2018) was one of Israel's most prolific and prominent writers,... -
Little Richard: Send Me Some Lovin' by Spencer Leigh 9780857162441
RRP: £18.99£13.61Born Richard Wayne Penniman, Little Richard said he invented rock 'n' roll. He didn't, but the world would have been very different without 'Tutti Frutti', two minutes of wild exhibitionism, recorded in 1955. It transformed American music and world... -
Growing Up Getty: The Story of America's Most Unconventional Dynasty by James Reginato
RRP: £8.99£5.82An enthralling and comprehensive look into the contemporary state of one of the wealthiest-and most misunderstood-family dynasties in the world, perfect for fans of Succession and House of Gucci. The Gettys are one of the wealthiest-and most... -
A Likely Tale, Lad: Laughs & Larks Growing Up in the 1970s Mike Pannett 9781855683440
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855683440Author Mike PannettFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Dalesman Publishing Co LtdPublisher Dalesman Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Short Brothers The Rochester Years by P. MacDougall 9781781557303
RRP: £20.00£14.29Short Brothers was established in 1908, the first British aircraft manufacturer, with the company moving to Rochester during the early years of the First World War. At Rochester Shorts produced some of their most famous aircraft, beginning with a number... -
Patient 1 by Charlotte Raven
RRP: £14.99£9.53* Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize *Honest, intelligent and unsentimental, Patient 1 is a startling self-portrait written with wit and vulnerability, and a unique testament to the power of hope in the face of illness.Charlotte Raven had... -
I Think I Want To Be A Chef – The Stinky Chef Chronicles by James Gingell 9781800165380
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800165380Author James GingellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers -
The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck: An Inuk Hero in Rupert's Land, 1800â1834 by Renee Fossett
RRP: £27.95£26.63One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th Centuryseparated from his family, community, and languagefinding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the northwestern coast of... -
The Boxing Diaries: How I Got Hooked Marion Dunn 9781912235551
RRP: £9.99£6.80Aged fifty, on a whim, Marion Dunn joined a boxing gym. Training to improve fitness quickly became something of an addiction, and then a source of transformation. This is her myth-busting tale of four years of slogging in an amateur boxing gym in... -
What a Thing to Say to the Queen!: Charming anecdotes from the House of Windsor by Thomas Blaikie
RRP: £9.99£6.44This specially updated edition, released to mark the passing of the late and much-missed monarch, is a collection of warm, amusing recollections from the royal household celebrating the lighter side of palace life. 'What do you do?' a guest inquired of... -
Wilfred Owen by Guy Cuthbertson 9780300216158
RRP: £19.99£19.39One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's rationale and... -
The Long Walk Home: An Escape in Wartime Italy Peter Medd 9781900209236
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900209236Author Peter MeddFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Sickle Moon BooksPublisher Eland Publishing Ltd -
Motherland: A Memoir by Paula Ramón 9781542036917
RRP: £8.99£6.13From Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramon comes a powerful memoir about one woman's complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin. In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic... -
The Scent of Flowers at Night: a stunning new work of non-fiction from the bestselling author of Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
RRP: £14.99£13.45'A revelation' KATY HESSEL'Brilliant' OBSERVEROver one night, alone in the Punta della Dogana Museum in Venice, Leila Slimani grapples with the self as it is revealed in solitude. In a place of old and new, she confronts her past and her present, through... -
Survivor: From childhood abuse to a life of crime and prostitution by Tara O'Shaughnessey
RRP: £9.99£7.11Victim. Prostitute. Gangster's Wife. Survivor.Tara grew up in squalor on the island of Alderney. When she was only four, she was sexually abused by one of her mother's many lovers, a horror that continued for five long years. As a teenager, desperate to... -
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness Patrick Wright 9781912248605
RRP: £25.00£17.38The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. In 1974, a strange man called "Charles" arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of... -
The Elephant to Hollywood: Michael Caine's most up-to-date, definitive, bestselling autobiography by Michael Caine
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Uproarious and unflinching' Mail on Sunday'A truly incredible life story' The Sun'Most memorable . . . told in a voice as distinctive as his spoken one' Independent'Brims with his gift for genial anecdote' The Sunday TimesOne of 'the top 25 most... -
Evelyn Dunbar: A Life in Painting by Christopher Campbell-Howes
RRP: £30.00£21.95The importance of Evelyn Dunbar (1906-1960) in the history of British 20th century art is continually being reassessed and belatedly recognised. A gifted draughtswoman: youthful prodigy; brilliant student at the Royal College of Art under Sir William... -
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime by Debora Harding
RRP: £9.99£7.11*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION* 'Extraordinary' Kate Mosse 'Electric' Lemn Sissay 'Searing' Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van,... -
The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Sarah M. Broom 9781472155597
RRP: £9.99£6.80A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION'A major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade' New York Times Book ReviewIn 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae... -
Pacific Rift Michael Lewis 9781444738070
RRP: £10.99£7.40By the author of the #1 bestseller THE BIG SHORT and the original business classic LIAR'S POKER.In Pacific Rift, Lewis follows the fortunes of two cultural transplants - Bob Collins, a forthright American insurance executive who lives and works in Tokyo,... -
Gentle on My Mind: In Sickness and in Health with Glen Campbell by Kim Campbell 9781400217830
RRP: £20.00£18.60The page-turning, never-before-told story of Kim Campbell's roller-coaster thirty-four-year marriage to music legend Glen Campbell, including how Kim helped Glen finally conquer his addictions only to face their greatest challenge when he was diagnosed... -
A Fine Brush On Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen by Richard Jenkyns
£16.14What is it about Jane Austen's writing that brings such pleasure? There are good, even great novelists who are not good storytellers, and there are highly gifted storytellers who write thoroughly bad books. Jane Austen was both a very good storyteller... -
Victor Hugo Bradley Stephens 9781789140842
RRP: £12.99£9.09Victor Hugo (1802-85) is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to both houses of the French Parliament. Leading the Romantic campaign against artistic tradition and defying the... -
Imagine a City: A Pilot Sees the World by Mark Vanhoenacker 9781784743260
RRP: £14.99£13.29**A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2022**'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTON'A moving account of... -
Howard Stern Comes Again by Howard Stern 9781471186516
RRP: £20.00£13.86Rock stars and rap gods. Comedy legends and A-list actors. Supermodels and centerfolds. Moguls and mobsters. A president. Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities-discussing sex,... -
There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie 9781803511030
RRP: £16.99£11.58The three protagonists in this memoir are dead: a mother, a father, and a sister. A bookish and artistic family living in a beautiful old house in a pleasant part of Toronto. Two girls growing up in the 60s and 70s. All seems well until one of them... -
The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George by Georgette Jones 9781439198582
£11.61GEORGE & TAMMY IS SOON TO BE A LIMITED SERIES-STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN AND MICHAEL SHANNON!Georgette Jones-the only child of country music's "First Couple," George Jones and Tammy Wynette-pens a memoir about life with her parents and the journey back to... -
Our Super Adventure: Press Start to Begin by Sarah Graley 9781620105825
RRP: £14.99£11.72Fans of Kate Beaton and Sarah Andersen will love this collection of the hit webcomic OUR SUPER ADVENTURE by Sarah Graley (Rick and Morty, Kim Reaper)! Eating too much pizza together. Smelling your cats. Figuring out how to spend your evening when... -
The Scrapbook of My Life by Alfie Deyes
RRP: £14.99£9.98Hey guys, I'm Alfie and welcome to The Scrapbook of My Life! Inside this book you'll read all about the day I was born and what it was like growing up with my family in Brighton. Read stories from my childhood and teen years, right up until present day,... -
GROW: Motherhood, mental health & me Frankie Bridge 9781914240164
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Open, honest, straight talking on mental health and motherhood.' - Tik Tok's Dr Julie 'I absolutely love it - it doesn't matter who you are, what you've been through and how much you've changed - there is always room for growth'. - Ant Middleton ... -
This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story by Jackie Shannon Hollis 9781942436393
RRP: £12.99£11.95Knowing where your scars come from doesn't make them go away. When Jackie Shannon Hollis marries Bill, a man who does not want children, she joyfully commits to a childless life. But soon after the wedding, she returns to the family ranch in rural Oregon... -
A Woman's Work Is Never Done: Autobiographical and Political Writings by Elizabeth Andrews Elizabeth Andrews 9781870206785
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870206785Author Elizabeth AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 181g -
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady 9781541644502
RRP: £35.00£20.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541644502Author Martyn RadyFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 150mm * 38mm -
Xerxes: A Persian Life by Richard Stoneman
RRP: £25.00£21.32The first full-scale account of a Persian king vilified by history Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at... -
Letters To Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her...