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Chanel: Her life, her world, and the woman behind the legend she herself created by Edmonde Charles-Roux
RRP: £16.99£11.54***Now the subject of a major sell-out exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum***She revolutionized how women looked. She banned corsets, shortened skirts and scented the world with Chanel No.5. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was an icon. But how... -
Dearest Father by Franz Kafka 9781847497048
RRP: £7.99£5.79Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as... -
The Lady Di Look Book: What Diana Was Trying to Tell Us Through Her Clothes by Eloise Moran
RRP: £25.00£18.62***Fashion writer Eloise Moran has studied thousands of pictures of Princess Diana over the past few years. Looking carefully at Diana's clothes, she discovered that behind each outfit lies a carefully crafted strategy. What Lady Di couldn't express... -
Swimming with Seals by Victoria Whitworth
RRP: £8.99£6.45A book about intense physical and personal experience, narrating how Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of escaping a failing marriage. This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how... -
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
RRP: £10.99£7.25A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby's iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth. It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the... -
The Flying Prince: Alexander Obolensky: The Sporting Hero Who Died Too Young by Hugh Godwin
RRP: £20.00£13.35**Winner of the Rugby Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards 2022**Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky made his name on a cold January day at Twickenham in 1936, his achievements captured for posterity by the newsreels of the time. On his England... -
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis 9780571297221
RRP: £12.99£8.32** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.'A rattling good story' Sunday Telegraph'A work of art' Times... -
Captain Tom Moore: Volume 47 by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
RRP: £9.99£6.80In this book from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Captain Tom Moore, the veteran who raised over GBP30 million for the NHS during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. By buying a copy of this book, you are making... -
The Politics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99£15.28Learn about how the world of government and power works in The Politics Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Politics in this overview guide to the... -
Manet: His Life and Work in 500 Images by Nigel Rodgers 9780754828945
RRP: £16.99£13.28This is an illustrated exploration of the artist, his life and context, with a gallery of 300 of his greatest works. It is a lively but expert account of Edouard Manet, one of the greatest French artists, whose striking realism has led to him being... -
The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' Brian Eno'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' John Higgs'A perfect example of the power and beauty of... -
The Boy from Block 66: The Children Saved from the Death March by the Buchenwald Camp Resistance by Limor Regev 9781802472509
RRP: £9.99£6.80January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the death march in the freezing European winter, he has seen... -
Regrets of the Dying: Stories and Wisdom That Remind Us How to Live by Georgina Scull 9781802790726
RRP: £8.99£5.45'A beautiful and moving reminder to appreciate life' Roxie Nafousi, author of Manifest'This book may on first glance appear to be about death and regrets, but is in reality about life and choices. It is warmly life-affirming ... A magnificent read that... -
Blackout: Remembering the things I drank to forget by Sarah Hepola
RRP: £9.99£6.80'SIMPLY EXTRAORDINARY' New York Times'It's such a savage thing to lose your memory, but the crazy thing is, it doesn't hurt one bit. A blackout doesn't sting, or stab, or leave a scar when it robs you. Close your eyes and open them again. That's what a... -
Occupational Hazards by Rory Stewart
RRP: £12.99£8.78A fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq from Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq,... -
Straight Jacket by Matthew Todd
RRP: £10.99£7.77'This is an essential read for every gay person on the planet' - Elton John'A really brilliant and moving read for everybody, especially LGBTQI+ people' - Olly Alexander, star of It's A SinStraight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the... -
The Cold Fix: Drawing strength from cold water swimming and immersion by Sara Barnes
RRP: £14.95£11.11'The cold water has given me the key to unlock myself within a place I didn't know existed: the community of cold-water swimmers right around the world. What binds us all together is the cold and how it makes us feel: brave enough to tackle even the... -
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen 9781471157820
RRP: £12.99£7.11The international Number One bestseller. Over a million copies sold in the English language. Published in 23 foreign languages. 'A heartfelt memoir . . . there is a fearlessness to his prose, a willingness to engage with his past, that chimes with his... -
Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Ruled the Movies by Mark Vieira
RRP: £25.00£21.25It's classic Hollywood -- uncensored. Filled with rare images and untold stories from producers, censors, stars, exhibitors, and the movie-going public, Forbidden Hollywood is the ultimate guide to a gloriously entertaining and strikingly modern time in... -
The Way of the Fight by Georges St-Pierre
RRP: £9.99£6.64UFC fighter, Georges "Rush" St. Pierre, shares the lessons he learned on his way to the top, in The Way of the Fight, revealing how he overcame bullying and injury to become an internationally celebrated athlete and champion. The reigning UFC... -
Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age by Katherine May
RRP: £16.99£11.58THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'It will do your soul good to read this.' NIGELLA LAWSONA balm for our times from the internationally bestselling author of Wintering.Our sense of enchantment is not only sparked by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the... -
Fletchers on the Farm: Mishaps, lessons and adventures. Our life. by Kelvin Fletcher
RRP: £20.00£13.10'We jumped in at the deep end and bought a farm! A reluctant wife, a couple of crazy kids and a husband whose knowledge of farming you could write on the back of a stamp... What could go wrong?!' - Kelvin 'Exactly! And the journey has only... -
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
RRP: £10.99£7.77The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician.This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. As idiosyncratic as its author, Barthes plays both commentator and subject... -
Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us The Best We Can Be: The New Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick
RRP: £8.99£6.20In this inspiring, uplifting and heart-warming memoir, world-renowned veterinary surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick shares some of the most personal and powerful tales ever from his life as The Supervet. Picking up from where the Sunday Times bestselling... -
Shame – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270561
RRP: £9.99£6.75‘My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.’ Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life... -
Coming to Faith Through Dawkins: 12 Essays on the Pathway from New Atheism to Christianity by Denis Alexander 9780825448225
RRP: £17.99£13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825448225Format PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S. -
The Flying Prince: Alexander Obolensky: The Rugby Hero Who Died Too Young: The Sunday Times Rugby Book of the Year Winner 2022 by Hugh Godwin
RRP: £10.99£6.47**Winner of the Rugby Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards 2022**Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky made his name on a cold January day at Twickenham in 1936, his achievements captured for posterity by the newsreels of the time. On his England... -
...And What Do You Do?: What the royal family don't want you to know by Norman Baker
RRP: £10.99£7.93The royal family is the original Coronation Street - a long-running soap opera with the occasional real coronation thrown in. Its members have become celebrities, like upmarket versions of film stars and footballers. But they have also become a byword... -
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
RRP: £10.99£7.77FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings' Zadie Smith, Wall... -
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat by Oliver Soden
RRP: £12.99£9.62Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written... -
Joe Jackson On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Richard James 9781789521894
RRP: £15.99£11.61Joe Jackson is a singer, songwriter, composer, and performer who has twisted and turned his career through numerous genres, and continues to release excellent albums forty years after his initial breakthrough success. For some he's the 'Angsty Young... -
War Journal: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine by Andrey Kurkov
RRP: £16.99£9.58'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary' Helen Davies, The TimesThis journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's... -
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir by Chris Packham
RRP: £12.99£9.09Voted the UK's Favourite Nature BookThe memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger's and MeEvery minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with... -
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 4: 1931-1935 by Virginia Woolf 9781783788750
RRP: £30.00£19.70With an introduction by Margo Jefferson Thursday 28 May 1931. On Whit Monday the sun blazed, making the grass semi-transparent. And space & leisure seemed to lie all about; & I said, not once in an exstasy, but frequently & soberly, This is happiness... -
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
RRP: £20.00£13.75SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WINGATE LITERARY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA MAIL ON SUNDAY, THE TIMES, THE... -
Forever Young: The Story of Adrian Doherty, Football's Lost Genius by Oliver Kay
RRP: £12.99£8.60WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'This football book is about something even more important than the "beautiful game"; it is a story of the human spirit... -
When I Were A Lad...: Snapshots From A Time That Health & Safety Forgot by Andrew Davies
RRP: £9.99£6.64When I Were a Lad... looks at the glorious-yet-risky childhoods of yesteryear before the Health and Safety officers told us we couldn't do everything because it was too dangerous. The sleeper hit of Christmas 2009 - more than 4,000 copies sold... -
The Witness by Nicola Tallant
RRP: £8.99£6.45'A superb book... Joey's story is extraordinary and its authenticity and relevance to the times we're living in is stunning' Eamon Dunphy'Gritty, terrifying and the most incredible true gangland story you will ever read. The Witness is hard to put down... -
Fidel: a Critical Portrait by Tad Szulc 9780380808885
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380808885Author Tad SzulcFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476g -
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography by Martyn Ware
RRP: £20.00£14.69This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were among some of the most pioneering bands of the 1980s, with Ware having played an integral role in each of their numerous successes. A young...