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We All Live in a Perry Groves World by Perry Groves 9781844544523
$18.70Perry Groves spent over a decade in the footballing spotlight. Sometimes he was at the top, often he was at the bottom and that's half the reasons the fans loved him so much - and still do. This is the most truthful and hilarious book about professional... -
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey Monmouth
RRP: $25.33$16.22Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear,... -
Fall Off, Get Back On, Keep Going: 10 ways to be at the top of your game! Clare Balding 9781526363411
RRP: $19.48$13.26*Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Children's Sports Book of the Year, 2022*'Falling off' is all part of life. The trick is to know how to dust yourself off, get back on, learn from your mistakes - and keep going!Clare Balding, TV presenter, sportswoman... -
Farm to Fork: The Challenge of Sustainable Farming in 21st Century Britain by Joe Stanley 9781846893926
RRP: $21.43$13.65Food is our most intimate and vital commodity, yet too many of us have lost touch with the reality of where it comes from and how it is produced. Farm to Fork: The Challenge of Sustainable Farming in 21st Century Britain attempts to address this... -
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival by Thomas Geve
RRP: $17.53$11.74'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis' evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our... -
The Widow Spy by Martha D Peterson 9780983878124
RRP: $23.58$16.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983878124Author Martha D PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Red Canary PressPublisher Red Canary PressWeight(grams) 390g -
Turning Over the Pebbles: A Life in Cricket and in the Mind by Mike Brearley
RRP: $42.90$25.55'If you carry on like this, you'll do nothing but play football and cricket all your life.'These were the exasperated words of Mike Brearley's mother, as he once again trod mud into the family home after a long day playing outdoors. They were also an... -
A Dutiful Boy: A memoir of secrets, lies and family love by Mohsin Zaidi
RRP: $21.43$15.15WINNER of the Polari First Book Prize 2021WINNER of the LAMBDA 2021 Literary Award for Best Gay Memoir/BiographyA Dutiful Boy is Mohsin's personal journey from denial to acceptance: a revelatory memoir about the power of love, belonging, and living every... -
The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten
RRP: $58.50$42.80The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for... -
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products by Leander Kahney
RRP: $25.33$17.73An intimate look at the legendary British designer behind Apple's most iconic products - including the Apple WatchWith the death of Steve Jobs in 2011, JONY IVE has become the most important person at Apple. Some would argue he always was.Steve Jobs... -
Reckless by Chrissie Hynde
RRP: $29.23$21.35By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Her perfect '50s American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock 'n' roll, motorbikes and the 'get down boys' seen at gigs in and around Cleveland - Mitch... -
A Chip Shop in Poznan: My Unlikely Year in Poland by Ben Aitken
RRP: $21.43$14.27A TIMES BESTSELLER'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, talkRADIOWARNING: CONTAINS AN UNLIKELY IMMIGRANT, AN UNSUNG COUNTRY, A BUMPY ROMANCE, SEVERAL SHATTERED PRECONCEPTIONS, TRACES OF INSIGHT, A DOZEN NUNS AND A REFERENDUM.Not many Brits... -
Wine and War by Don Kladstrup
RRP: $25.33$16.77In the vineyards, wine caves, and cellars of France as war and occupation came to the country winemakers acted heroically not only to save the best wines but to defend their way of life. These are the true stories of vignerons who sheltered Jewish... -
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art by Michael Shnayerson 9781541758728
RRP: $37.03$24.75Before Damien Hirst stuffed a shark, before Basquiat picked up a spray can, before Andy Warhol started The Factory, a pile of unwanted Jackson Pollocks changed everything. From them emerged the first major modern art dealer. It was 1947, and the art... -
The Traitor by Andre Gorz
RRP: $40.93$40.21Autobiography, philosophical inquiry, confession-The Traitor is an unclassifiable and unforgettable book from one of France's most inspiring social critics. Written when Andre Gorz was 32 and rising to prominence in the Parisian existentialist milieu,... -
Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two) Michael Palin 9781780229027
RRP: $29.23$19.11Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s.After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEANING OF LIFE. Writing and acting in films and television... -
The Rise of the Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance by Adharanand Finn
RRP: $21.43$14.27'Finn has written the definitive book on ultra running today. I couldn't put it down.' - Dean Karnazes***Marathons are no longer enough. Pain is to be relished, not avoided. Hallucinations are normal.Ultra running defies conventional logic. Yet this most... -
Punkzines by Eddie Piller
RRP: $33.13$23.95Along with its long-lasting influence on music, art, fashion and culture, the punk explosion in the late 1970s also fuelled a thriving underground press. A physical representation of punk's DIY attitude, fanzines rebelled against established forms of... -
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 9780349017907
RRP: $19.48$13.2630TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story... -
Sold: One woman's true account of modern slavery Zana Muhsen 9780751543988
RRP: $23.38$15.60Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin. When her father told her she was to spend a holiday with relatives in North Yemen, she jumped at the chance. Aged 15 and 13 respectively, Zana and her sister discovered that they had been... -
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
RRP: $25.33$17.73'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account' Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and Hitler: Nemesis'In this... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $21.43$15.15A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of a wartime childhood, Cambridge friendships and an early... -
How the Girl Guides Won the War Janie Hampton 9780007356324
RRP: $25.33$16.54A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world - the Girl Guides - and how they helped win the war. Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the reaction will be strong. They either loved them or hated them;... -
Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch by Nicola Tallis
RRP: $19.48$12.7128 January 1457. England is in the grip of the Wars of the Roses. Inside the walls of Pembroke Castle a thirteen-year-old girl gives birth to a boy. The ordeal nearly kills them both, forging a powerful bond that will see mother and son work together to... -
Doctor Socrates: Footballer, Philosopher, Legend by Andrew Downie 9781471154089
RRP: $19.48$12.50'Compelling from start to finish...Downie does full justice to an extraordinary life' Pete Davies, author of All Played Out. A stunning new biography of Socrates, the iconic captain of the greatest Brazil side never to win the World Cup. Socrates was... -
Get It On: How the '70s Rocked Football Jon Spurling 9781785906510
RRP: $39.00$28.65Four years after the crowning glory of 1966 and a decade after the abolition of the maximum wage, a brash new era dawned in English football. As the 1970s took hold, a new generation of larger-than-life footballers and managers came to dominate the... -
The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by Leta McCollough Seletzky
RRP: $42.90$38.06In the famous photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, one man kneels beside him, trying to staunch the blood. He was an undercover Memphis police officer who had infiltrated the Invaders, a potentially violent Black activist group then in... -
Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks
RRP: $29.23$19.11Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her cloistered life she had strong, often controversial... -
Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored by John Lydon 9781471137211
RRP: $21.43$13.65This is the definitive autobiography of John Lydon, one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols - the world's most notorious band, who shot to fame in the mid-1970s with... -
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby 9780241996478
RRP: $19.48$13.86'A joyful examination of two artists from different centuries and the unlikely parallels in their life and work' Guardian'An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to reread Great Expectations whilst listening to Sign o'the Times'... -
BANKING ON IT: How I Disrupted an Industry and Changed the Way We Manage our Money Forever by Anne Boden
RRP: $21.43$15.15ONE WOMAN'S QUEST TO REBUILD BRITAIN'S BROKEN BANKING SYSTEM'If there was ever a business book suitable for TV adaptation, this is it' FTIn the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, the British banking industry had come to a standstill. Trust in the... -
The Skeleton Cupboard: The making of a clinical psychologist by Tanya Byron
RRP: $21.43$15.46The Skeleton Cupboard is Professor Tanya Byron's account of her years of training as a clinical psychologist, when trainees find themselves in the toughest placements of their careers. Through the eyes of her naive and inexperienced younger self, Tanya... -
Chased by Pandas: My life in the mysterious world of cycling Dan Martin 9781529427608
RRP: $21.43$14.43'This is Dan Martin's long-awaited autobiography, full of 'the warmth, sharp insights and vivid colour of his 14-year career' GuardianKnown, thanks to his racing style and attitude, for being one of road cycling's last romantics, Dan has always shied... -
Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition by Cathy Park Hong
RRP: $19.48$13.86WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION 2021 A New York Times Top Book of 2020 Chosen as a Guardian Book of 2020 A BBC Culture Best Books of 2020 Nominated... -
Marlborough: Britain's Greatest General by Richard Holmes
RRP: $33.13$22.37Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain's finest soldier, who rose from genteel poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing... -
Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography by Usain Bolt
RRP: $25.33$16.54The autobiography of the fastest man of all time and a superstar whose talent and charisma have made him one of the most famous people on the planet. Whether you know Athletics or not, and even whether you know sport or not, chances are you... -
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
RRP: $29.23$19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198144Author Christina SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain by Sayeeda Warsi
RRP: $25.33$17.73Now with a new paperback introduction'Vital reading' Daily Telegraph'It turns conventional wisdom on its head' Peter Oborne'Uniquely insightful' Sunday Times'Eloquent, calm and clever' Andrew MarrBritain has often found groups within its borders whom it... -
Midnight Express by Billy Hayes
RRP: $21.43$14.43For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul airport, tried, and sentenced to 30 years in a Turkish jail... -
The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking Adam Sisman 9781788162128
RRP: $17.53$12.58Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws ... This is a truly wonderful story' A. N. Wilson, Spectator 'A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of fibs and frauds' Sunday Telegraph 'An utterly...