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A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World by González Macías 9781529087147
RRP: £20.00£14.21A beautifully illustrated selection of stories about the lighthouses and their guardians found in some of the most remote places on earth.A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2023'Illuminating' - The ObserverThere is something beautiful and wild in... -
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe by Carl Safina 9781324065463
RRP: £19.99£17.37When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they'd rescued, she'd be a temporary presence. But Alfie's feathers were not growing correctly, requiring prolonged care. And... -
No Picnic on Mount Kenya by Felice Benuzzi
RRP: £12.99£8.60A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war.When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, prisoner of war... -
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
RRP: £9.99£7.11Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of classical Athens. In tracing these... -
Staying Power: A Year In My Life by Phil Taylor
RRP: £12.99£8.60Phil 'The Power' Taylor is the uncontested king of darts, his sixteen world championship titles between 1990 and 2013 far outclassing anything else the game has seen.He started out as a protege of Eric Bristow, the Crafty Cockney, having wandered into... -
Catherine Exley's Diary: The Life and Times of an Army Wife in the Peninsular War by Rebecca Probert 9780956384799
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956384799Author Rebecca ProbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Takeaway (Publishing)Publisher Takeaway (Publishing) -
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie 9780007318995
RRP: £27.00£20.57Justine Picardie spent years puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, peeling away the accretions of romance and lies. Since its publication in 2010, hers has become the definitive Chanel biography. With a new foreword and previously unseen images,... -
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys by Michael Collins
RRP: £14.99£11.13'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of... -
The Travels by Marco Polo
RRP: £18.99£14.01A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271... -
Dispatches by Michael Herr 9781447275060
RRP: £10.99£7.51With an introduction by Kevin Powers.A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine... -
Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar by Ciara Meehan
RRP: £26.99£19.34When Fine Gael entered a coalition government with Fianna Fail in 2020 the party did what would have been unthinkable for its forefathers who fought and won a bitter civil war to establish the institutions of an independent Irish state almost a century... -
So, Anyway...: The Autobiography by John Cleese
RRP: £10.99£7.77A candid and brilliantly funny memoir......of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed comedy legend.En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-wracking first public appearance at St Peter's Preparatory School at the... -
Soldier: Respect Is Earned by Jay Morton 9780008418182
RRP: £9.99£2.79With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the best of the best. Soldier is Jay Morton's masterclass in... -
Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors: 50 Places That Changed British Politics by Matt Chorley 9780008622060
RRP: £25.00£16.83''F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts - moreish and fabulously salty' JOE LYCETT A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Forget Westminster bust-ups and PMQs, some of the key events... -
27 by Howard Sounes
RRP: £18.99£12.92When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club," she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of... -
The Flame of Love by Elizabeth Kindelmann 9781947701106
RRP: £7.95£6.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947701106Author Elizabeth KindelmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Queen of Peace MediaPublisher Queen of Peace MediaWeight(grams)... -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser 9780241586457
RRP: £30.00£21.35The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch... -
Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen
RRP: £12.99£9.09For everyone who loves watching Amanda Owen and her family on Our Yorkshire Farm, or enjoys reading her bestselling books, comes this delightful and uplifting collection of her monthly Dalesman columns. In Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess... -
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea by Hyeonseo Lee
RRP: £9.99£6.64NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. ... -
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree: A Sequel to Driving over Lemons by Chris Stewart
RRP: £9.99£6.85Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller. A Parrot in the Pepper... -
Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa by Pauline Butcher
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655705Author Pauline ButcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah 'A charming diary of life with a tame magpie - despite George's bad behaviour, it will render corvid lovers (like me) green with envy!' Katherine May, author of Wintering A... -
Common Ground: One of Britain's Favourite Nature Books as featured on BBC's Winterwatch by Rob Cowen
RRP: £10.99£7.77ONE OF BRITAIN'S FAVOURITE NATURE BOOKS AS FEATURED ON BBC's WINTERWATCHSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 'Bold and beautiful.' Robert Macfarlane'Sensitive, thoughtful and poetic ... leading us into a whole new way of looking at the world'... -
Devil's Child by Jerry A. Coyne
RRP: £10.99£6.47Deserted by his mother and abandoned by his father at just three months old, Jerry Coyne was sent to live in a Catholic children's home run by nuns of the order of the Sisters of Nazareth. Life soon settled into a rhythm and then, one day, the beatings... -
Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for the first time by Pamela Anderson
RRP: £20.00£14.57ACTRESS. ICON. ACTIVIST. Her story, in her voice, for the first time. In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks the mould of the celebrity memoir while taking back the... -
Too Scared To Cry: And other true stories from the nation's favourite foster carer by Maggie Hartley
RRP: £8.99£6.20A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering stories perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Rosie Lewis. Contains previously published stories Too Scared To Cry, The Girl No One Wanted and A Family For Christmas - brought together in this... -
Mind Games: The Ups and Downs of Life and Football by Neville Southall
RRP: £9.99£6.64In this unique book, one of football's greatest cult players reflects on the travails of the sport and draws upon his own experience to offer an honest assessment on one of its final remaining taboos: mental health. The most difficult position... -
It's in the Blood by Lawrence Dallaglio
RRP: £12.99£8.60As a Premiership, World Cup and Grand Slam winner, no one better embodies the charisma and the colour of English rugbys greatest era than Lawrence Dallaglio. He has some story to tell, not just of the formidable exploits on the field, but an... -
And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy by Baroness Catherine Ashton
RRP: £20.00£13.65Financial Times - BEST BOOKS OF 2023 'And Then What? is breathless and conversational - and all the more readable for that. But while her tone is down-to-earth, the events that Ashton played a part in were dramatic and often historic.' Gideon... -
The Stranger Beside Me: The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy (New Edition) by Ann Rule
RRP: £10.99£5.60THE NEW EDITION OF THE TRUE CRIME CLASSICThe Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted BundyAnn Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was... -
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication.' In December 1995, Jean-Dominique... -
Hear Me Out by Sarah Harding
RRP: £8.99£5.92Sunday Times Bestseller'I can't rewrite history; all I can do is be honest and wear my heart on my sleeve. It's really the only way I know. I want to show people the real me. Or perhaps remind them. Because, somewhere - amongst the nightclubs, the frocks... -
The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry by Sheridan Morley
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIANThe unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant characters of the 20th century - with a new introduction by Stephen Fry'Compulsive reading' SUNDAY TIMES'19th... -
The Beatles - All These Years - Extended Special Edition: Volume One: Tune In by Mark Lewisohn 9781408704783
RRP: £150.00£98.26'Mark Lewisohn knows the Fab Four better than they knew themselves' The GuardianThis extended special edition of Mark Lewisohn's magisterial book Tune In is a true collector's item, featuring hundreds of thousands of words of extra material, as well as... -
Limitless: The Autobiography: The bestselling story of Britain's inspirational astronaut by Tim Peake
RRP: £10.99£7.77The inspirational autobiography of Britain's beloved astronaut Tim Peake, the #1 bestselling author of Hello, is this Planet Earth? and Ask an AstronautAs heard on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs__________________'What surprised me was how entirely... -
To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles by Marc Eliot
RRP: £14.99£14.00The Eagles are the most popular, enduring rock band in America. With singles and albums hitting the top of the charts for a quarter century and a greatest hits collection that has sold more copies than any other recording in history, the Eagles have... -
Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden
RRP: £10.99£7.77In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme,... -
Never Had a Dad: Adventures in Fatherlessness by Georgie Codd 9780008603021
RRP: £16.99£11.47Fatherless, friendly 31yoF looking for intrepid M50s-70s who wants to try being a father figure (not sugar daddy). Georgie Codd never had a dad. And she didn’t think that would ever change – until a stranger’s practical joke made her wonder if she... -
People Hacker by Jenny Radcliffe
RRP: £16.99£15.11'This is a rip-roaring read, full of derring-do and sometimes comic, often foolhardy bravery. [Jenny] sounds an absolute hoot, and her book is never anything less' - Daily Mail'A fascinating and quirky take on how easily we can be hoodwinked and hacked... -
Strangeways Unlocked: The Shocking Truth about Life Behind Bars by Neil Samworth
RRP: £9.99£7.27A darkly funny, harrowing and heartbreaking look at the reality of prison life, with first-hand accounts from men who found themselves on the wrong side of the cell doors.Neil 'Sam' Samworth spent eleven years as a prison officer at HMP Manchester,...