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Stephen Hawking: Friendship and Physics by Leonard Mlodinow
RRP: £9.99£7.11CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND BBC SCIENCE FOCUS'An intimate, unique, and inspiring perspective on the life and work of one of the greatest minds of our time. Filled with insight, humour, and... -
His Master's Voice by Brian McLaughlin 9781915635198
RRP: £19.99£16.42His Master's Voice is the inspiring true story of Brian McLaughlin's 38-year career rising through the ranks at iconic record store HMV, and the personal journey that saw him become one of the most successful business leaders in the UK. With no topic... -
Not Without a Fight: Ten Steps to Becoming Your Own Champion by Ramla Ali
RRP: £16.99£11.27___________________Ramla Ali is a triple threat - humanitarian, model and boxer. Her life inside and outside the ring represents her ruthless refusal to quit and passion to fight for what she believes in.In her first book, Ramla details ten key fights -... -
Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog James Grissom 9781101972779
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101972779Author James GrissomFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett 9780393354928
RRP: £13.99£11.63In Paris in 1902, Auguste Rodin had just completed The Thinker; visiting from Prague was Rainer Maria Rilke, broke and with writer's block. When Rilke was commissioned to write a book about Rodin, everything changed. You Must Change Your Life tells one... -
David Shepherd: Artist and Conservationist by J. C. Jeremy Hobson
RRP: £20.00£12.86In 1975, David Shepherd wrote The Man Who Loves Giants - an autobiography. Even though he was only forty-four, he had already achieved more than most could have in three lifetimes. In the intervening years, until his death in 2017, he painted a huge... -
Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs): The Steadfast by Douglas Hurd
RRP: £7.99£5.79The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackElizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This... -
Hakim's Odyssey: Book 3: From Macedonia to France by Fabien Toulme
RRP: £24.95£19.76The end of a journey, the beginning of a new life.-I'm Syrian, and I got here from Turkey.-Whoaaa! That's a hell of a trip!-You could say that . . . I left home almost three years ago.After being rescued from the Mediterranean, Hakim and his son reach... -
The Secret GP by The Secret GP
RRP: £16.99£11.76If you thought you knew about the life of a GP, think again.Let me take you on an unbelievable journey to the truth, through spilt urine bottles, the patients who should have been in hospital months ago, existential crises, utterly unexplainable health... -
West End Girls Barbara Tate 9781409120230
RRP: £9.99£6.80A vivid and compelling memoir recounting the real lives, loves and friendship of 1940s Soho and its working girls.Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her... -
The Last Gentleman of the SAS: A Moving Testimony from the First Allied Officer to Enter Belsen at the End of the Second World War by John Randall
RRP: £9.99£7.11In 1945, John Randall was the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen - the concentration camp that would reveal the horrors of the Holocaust to the world. Randall was one of that league of extraordinary gentlemen handpicked for suicidally dangerous... -
Long Live the King: The Mysterious Fate of Edward II by Kathryn Warner
RRP: £12.99£9.62Edward II's murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327 is one of the most famous and lurid tales in all of English history. But is it true? For over five centuries, few people questioned it, but with the discovery in a Montpellier archive of a remarkable... -
The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life after Romeo and Juliet by Olivia Hussey
RRP: £14.99£13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496717085Author Olivia HusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing -
Remember Me?: Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory Shobna Gulati 9781914240584
RRP: £10.99£7.40Afterword by Alzheimer's Research UK. 'Shobna Gulati is the Northern heroine of a nation' - Lemn Sissay'Lucid and probing' - Guardian'Wonderful and emotional, a masterpiece of resilience.' - Emma Kennedy Remember Me? is a memoir about caring for a... -
Open Wide! Fifty Glorious Years as a Dentist Dr Bernard Lester BDS (U.Manc) MJDF RCS 9781800160231
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800160231Author Dr Bernard Lester BDS (U.Manc) MJDF RCSFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers -
A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee by Victor Grossman
RRP: £17.99£14.89Circumstances impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence: especially the icy pressures of the McCarthy Era. Grossman - a.k.a. Steve Wechsler, a committed leftist since his years at Harvard and,... -
Sog Kontum: Top Secret Missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1968–1969 by Joe Parnar
RRP: £32.95£22.38The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) was a highly classified, multi-service United States Special Forces unit which conducted covert unconventional warfare operations prior to and during the Vietnam War. The... -
Where There’s Muck, There’s Bras: True Stories of the Amazing Women of the North by Kate Fox
RRP: £9.99£6.64From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden. ... -
The Wild Track: adopting, mothering, belonging by Margaret Reynolds
RRP: £9.99£6.52'A remarkable book...wise and arresting' Sarah Winman'Exquisite... a deeply insightful memoir which charts our fundamental longings for place and identity, and ultimately our yearnings for love.' Helena KennedySingle, in her mid-forties and having... -
Knuckle by James Quinn McDonagh
RRP: £9.99£7.11Irish travellers live in a closed community. What we think we know about them is based on hearsay, rumour and stereotype. But not any more. Knuckle is the true story of James Quinn McDonagh - clan head and champion bare-knuckle fighter. It's a... -
Guilty Thing by Frances Wilson
RRP: £16.99£13.16'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.' Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelganger - is embedded in our culture. Modelling his... -
The Good German Of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to evacuate. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named John Rabe who ran the local Siemens factory, refused on the grounds that it would show... -
Who am I, again? by Lenny Henry
RRP: £9.99£7.32** PRE ORDER LENNY HENRY'S NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY RISING TO THE SURFACE NOW **Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time.You might think you know... -
Me and Paul: Untold Stories of a Fabled Friendship by Willie Nelson 9780785245766
RRP: £12.99£11.61Discover the untold stories and unbreakable bond between country music icon Willie Nelson and his longtime drummer, Paul English.Immortalized in Willie Nelson's road song "Me and Paul," Paul English was the towering figure who for 70 years acted as... -
Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 by Hildi Kang
RRP: £19.99£17.54In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence... -
Murder on the Home Front: a gripping murder mystery set during the Blitz - now on Netflix! Molly Lefebure 9780751552041
RRP: £11.99£8.00The remarkable true story, as seen in the brilliant TV adaptation now showing on Netflix! Murder on the Home Front follows Molly Lefebure as she navigates working for the Home Office's chief forensic pathologist while living in a bomb-stricken London... -
If I Knew Then: Finding wisdom in failure and power in aging by Jann Arden
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735279971Author Jann ArdenFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Mr Pizza and All That Jazz by Johnson Luke (Foreward by) Boizot Peter 9780993011221
RRP: £11.99£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993011221Author Johnson Luke (Foreward by) Boizot PeterFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Large Things LtdPublisher Large Things Ltd -
Living and Loving in the Age of AIDS: A memoir Derek Frost 9781786784964
RRP: £12.99£8.13This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short - it's also a love story. Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of Heaven, the iconic gay dance club, met and fell in love more than 40... -
It Will Happen: A heart-breaking journey to motherhood through recurrent miscarriage and pregnancy loss by Laura Buckingham
RRP: £9.99£7.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398419650Author Laura BuckinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) Felicia Day 9780751562491
RRP: £8.99£6.20The Internet isn't all cat videos. There's also Felicia Day - violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world . . . or at least... -
Alexa Hampton: Design, Style, and Influence by Alexa Hampton 9780593578643
RRP: £50.00£32.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593578643Author Alexa HamptonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)... -
Victor Grayson: In Search of Britain's Lost Revolutionary Harry Taylor 9780745343983
RRP: £25.00£16.38Steeped in conspiracy, scandal and socialism - the disappearance of radical icon Victor Grayson is a puzzle that's never been solved. A firebrand and Labour politician who rose to prominence in the early twentieth century, Grayson was idolised by... -
Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis by Gabrielle Selz
RRP: £30.00£23.69The first in-depth biography of Sam Francis, the legendary American abstract painter who broke all the rules in his personal and artistic life.Light on Fire is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract... -
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
RRP: £12.99£8.56Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of... -
You Had Me at Pet-Nat: A Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir by Rachel Signer
RRP: £22.00£15.62It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of Beaujolais redolent of crushed roses with a... -
My Father's Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn
RRP: £11.99£7.93'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, My Father's Fortune sets out to rediscover that lost land before all trace of... -
Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba Stephen Purvis 9781474605069
RRP: £9.99£6.80WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters to make Hemingway proud' Daily TelegraphFor over a decade Stephen Purvis had... -
The Weight of Sand: My 450 Days Held Hostage in the Sahara by Edith Blais
RRP: £18.99£12.93A radiant, unforgettable memoir of one woman's 450 days spent in captivity, and her defiant refusal to have her humanity stripped away. When Edith meets Luca in a small Northern town, the two connect instantly. Under the Northern Lights, they develop... -
At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament by Derek Jarman
RRP: £10.99£8.43Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality.In At Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The...