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A Thousand Laurie Lees: The Centenary Celebration of a Man and a Valley by Adam Horovitz
RRP: £12.99£9.62This is not a book about Laurie Lee, still less a biography. It is about the spirit of the man and the spirit of a place. A Thousand Laurie Lees is a poetic reassessment of the Slad Valley, a memoir from a different age rooted in the same idyllic... -
Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death and Marriage by James Runcie 9781526667779
RRP: £9.99£6.87'A tender memoir of the challenges of bereavement ... I closed this book wishing I'd met her - but feeling that I almost had' Daily Telegraph _______________ A memoir of a husband's grief, and an unforgettable portrait of a marriage; a profound... -
Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel 9780747596660
RRP: £16.99£12.28In December 1795, seventeen-year-old Marie-Therese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris's notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents' brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware... -
(Out)Law: From Teenage Mum to Legal Trailblazer Alice Stephenson 9781914066382
RRP: £14.99£12.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914066382Author Alice StephensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Hawksmoor PublishingPublisher Hawksmoor Publishing -
Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft by G. Pascal Zachary
RRP: £20.99£15.58This "inside account captures the energy-and the madness-of the software giant's race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping" (Fortune Magazine).Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street... -
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis 9780812986631
RRP: £16.99£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986631Author Jim MattisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Travels Through Blood and Honey: Becoming a Beekeeper in Kosovo by Elizabeth Gowing 9781904955900
RRP: £14.99£13.64Kosovo: the name conjures up blood: ethnic cleansing and war. This book reveals another side to the newest country in the world a land of generous families, strong tastes and lush landscapes: a land of honey. Elizabeth Gowing is rushed to Kosovo, on a... -
Beauty Queens, Frogs and Princes by Mandy Shires
RRP: £9.99£9.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398456945Author Mandy ShiresFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Mendelssohn: A Life in Music by R. Larry Todd 9780195179880
RRP: £31.49£27.30An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today... -
Before Night Falls Reinaldo Arenas 9781781258682
RRP: £12.99£9.09Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of... -
Iceman Chuck Liddell 9781903854839
RRP: £7.99£5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903854839Author Chuck LiddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo BooksWeight(grams) 279g -
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green
RRP: £13.99£10.34The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable. ... -
Reagan: An American Icon by Iwan Morgan
RRP: £15.99£12.86Ronald Reagan is arguably the most successful post-war American president. A transformational leader, he is broadly credited with renewing American prosperity after the stagflation-hit 1970s, laying the foundations for Cold War victory and bringing about... -
Holding Tight, Letting Go: My Life, Death and All the Madness In Between by Sarah Hughes
RRP: £16.99£11.76'Too often we minimise the reality of terminal cancer, concentrating instead on survival records and talking only in positive pink ribbon terms. But what of those who live daily with the shadow of the disease? This is a book about how that feels. It is... -
I Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee by Tom Scioli 9781984862020
RRP: £24.00£15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984862020Author Tom ScioliFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It Greg Marshall 9781398716346
RRP: £18.99£12.75* A MOST-ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ SELECTED BY * Washington Post *Buzzfeed * Bustle * The Advocate * LitHub * Bookriot * Electric Literature * and more!*A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets-as... -
Living with Hitler: Accounts of Hitler's Household Staff by Krause Karl Wilhelm 9781784382971
RRP: £19.99£14.68This collection paints a picture of Hitler from members of his household in the unique position of being seemingly ever-present, yet totally unconnected to events. The reader is introduced to Hitler's Bodyguard Karl Krause (1934-39), his house... -
The Man Within: Winston Churchill an Intimate Portrait by Alison Carlson
RRP: £35.99£25.26Fifty years after his passing, The Man Within is meant to reinvigorate the spirit of Winston Churchill-approachable rather than academic, lively rather than staid. This collection features exceptional black-and-white photos, many of which are... -
Joan Didion: What She Means by Joan Didion
RRP: £39.00£27.28An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics-including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Betye Saar to Maren Hassinger, Vija Celmins and Andy... -
Unbeaten: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Rocky Marciano by Mike Stanton 9781509822461
RRP: £20.00£14.69'Unbeaten is one of the best sports books I've read in years' Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A LifeRocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary champions like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson: he never lost a professional... -
Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite A Gentleman by Charles Williams 9781849547468
RRP: £25.00£18.24Financial magician, flamboyant politician, minister in both world wars, press baron, serial philanderer, Winston Churchill's boon companion in the dark days of 1940-41 and in his later years, Max Beaverbrook was without a doubt one of the most colourful... -
How I Rescued My Brain: a psychologist's remarkable recovery from stroke and trauma by David Roland 9781922247421
RRP: £14.99£10.20As a psychologist specialising in court assessments, David Roland often saw the toughest, most heartbreaking cases. The emotional trauma had begun to take its toll - and then the global financial crisis hit, leaving his family facing financial ruin. So... -
Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist James Lovelock 9781788164603
RRP: £10.99£7.77With over fifty patents to his name and innumerable awards and accolades, James Lovelock was a distinguished and original thinker, widely recognized by the international scientific community. In this inspiring book, republished in the year of his... -
The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain by Allan Massie 9781250024923
RRP: £17.99£13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250024923Author Allan MassieFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm)... -
Deep Singh Shaheed: The man in the Legend by Harsimran Singh
£24.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354472367Author Harsimran SinghFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private LimitedPublisher Speaking Tiger Publishing Private... -
The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Sarah M. Broom 9781472155573
RRP: £16.99£11.54A 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... -
God Speed The Plough: A Story of Unpredictable Adventure by Wesley Wyatt 9781739929329
RRP: £12.00£9.72The autobiography of the West Country farmer Wesley Wyatt. Born in 1932, he looks back on the changing trends in farming during his lifetime.About the AuthorWesley Wyatt was born in 1932. He has been farming near Wiveliscombe for close to 70 years.Book... -
Still Too Sexy: Surviving Right Said Fred by Fred Fairbrass
RRP: £16.99£12.28Richard and Fred Fairbrass, better known as Right Said Fred, scored a global Number 1 hit in 1991 with their debut single 'I'm Too Sexy', selling 30 million albums, being showered with industry awards, and earning plaudits from admirers such as Madonna... -
Breaking Vegas by Ben Mezrich
RRP: £10.99£7.77For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; the biggest high roller to hit Sin City in decades, a hotshot, twenty one year-old kid with a seemingly unlimited bankroll and an even more unlimited lust for big money action. His name... -
My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest
RRP: £10.99£7.77In 1981 Tim Guest was taken by his mother to a commune in a small village in Suffolk. It was modelled on the teachings of the famous Indian "guru", Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, chaotic therapy and sexual... -
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo 9781324022015
RRP: £12.99£10.21Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realisations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave (ISBN 978 0 393 34543 8),... -
The Life of Lee by Lee Evans 9780718156190
RRP: £10.99£8.43Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family by Jackie Kohnstamm
RRP: £18.99£12.83Jackie Kohnstamm's mother rarely talked about what had happened during the war and had kept little evidence of her early life. It was only after her uncle and aunt had died that Jackie inherited an archive of material relating to the family back in... -
Ma, Jackser's Dyin Alone Martha Long 9781780576770
RRP: £10.99£7.77On hearing that Jackser, her childhood abuser, is seriously ill, Martha is elated, thinking that finally she will be able to watch him suffer. But in the hospital she sees a frightened, lonely old man and realises with a shock that he seems to regret his... -
A Life of Emily Bronte by Edward Chitham 9781848684065
RRP: £21.99£16.01Biographical material on Emily Bronte is scarce. In the past, biographers have taken this as an excuse to portray intuition as fact, creating a confused and inaccurate image of the author of Wuthering Heights. In A Life of Emily Bronte, Edward Chitham... -
A Winter on the Nile by Anthony Sattin
RRP: £15.99£11.61In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her parents over her refusal to marry, she had been offered a lifeline by family friends who suggested a trip to Egypt,... -
The Allure of the Archives by Arlette Farge
RRP: £16.99£15.83An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge's Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a... -
Southampton Memories: People and Places by Peter Wardall
RRP: £15.99£10.85Southampton is now part of a huge metropolitan area running along the south coast in Hampshire. The city has seen massive changes over the years and although its history goes back many centuries, it saw particularly rapid growth in Victorian times with... -
I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi by Gina Siciliano
RRP: £33.99£22.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683962113Author Gina SicilianoFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Tracey Emin by Jonathan Jones
RRP: £14.99£9.80This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the work of one of the most important and respected artists working today.From some of her previously unpublished early works from...