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Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A wonderfully fresh, vivid and engaging portrait.' Jane Ridley, author of Bertie: A Life of Edward VII'Has much of the abundant charm of its author.' Spectator'The glory of this book is in the details.' The Times'Worsley's command of the material and... -
100 Women Who Made History: Remarkable Women Who Shaped Our World by DK
RRP: £14.99£11.35If you thought that it was a man's world, think again! 100 Women Who Made History is the exciting story of the women who changed the world.Get ready to meet some of history's wonder women. From super scientists like Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin to... -
A Championship Year by Jenson Button
RRP: £12.99£8.60From nowhere to the winner's podium: the story of Jenson Button's astonishing domination of the F1 world championship.On 4 December 2008, just a few months before the new season was due to start, the Honda Racing F1 team, which Jenson Button had been... -
Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War by David Boyd Haycock 9781906964320
RRP: £9.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906964320Author David HaycockFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Primitive Technology: A Survivalist's Guide to Building Tools, Shelters & More in the Wild by John Plant
RRP: £22.00£16.02THE PERFECT GIFT FOR SURVIVALISTS, OUTDOOR LOVERS AND ARMCHAIR ADMIRERS OF PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGY.Disconnect from digital and reconnect with your inner caveman.BUILD. COOK. HUNT. HEAT. SURVIVE.COULD YOU THRIVE IN THE WILDERNESS?The most primitive human... -
A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a group of women set out to change the world by Jane Cholmeley 9780008651046
RRP: £16.99£11.47The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain - from a woman at the heart of the women's liberation movement. An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book... -
Alastair Campbell Diaries: Volume 7: From Crash to Defeat, 2007-2010 by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £25.00£18.84Caught in the no man's land between being a key figure in Downing Street and the relative anonymity of the world outside politics, Alastair Campbell finds himself being torn in several directions. Having succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Gordon... -
Like Farmer, Like Son by Adam Henson
RRP: £14.99£8.32'People say "Like father, like son", and the story of my life has mirrored my father's to a quite uncanny degree. Right from when I was a little boy, he was my rock; my mentor; my hero. It is no exaggeration to say that he taught me virtually everything... -
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
RRP: £18.99£11.13'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times'David Sedaris is funny - invariably. That's his gift' Los Angeles TimesBack when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or... -
Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin 9781801102605
RRP: £10.99£7.51This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. According to the Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius, the Empress Messalina was a sexually insatiable schemer... -
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
RRP: £12.99£10.78Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese... -
The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020WINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2020FINALIST FOR THE PEN / JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD 2020'Profound and unforgettable' Sally Rooney'A classic . . . I have long thought of Boyer as a genius'... -
Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati
RRP: £9.99£6.99A 2019 Poetry Book Society Winter Wild Card. A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2019. Ever since her first Carcanet book, In White Ink (1991), Mimi Khalvati has been drawn to the sonnet form. In Afterwardness its pull became irresistible. She has... -
The Bells of Old Tokyo: Travels in Japanese Time by Anna Sherman 9781529000450
RRP: £14.99£10.95As read on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year AwardLonglisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize'Sherman's is a special book. Every sentence, every thought she has, every question she asks, every detail she... -
The Good Sister: The gripping domestic page-turner perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty by Sally Hepworth
RRP: £9.99£6.80'There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.'Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week... -
George Muller: Delighted in God by Roger Steer
RRP: £9.99£6.45George Muller's life is a powerful answer to modern scepticism. His name has become a by-word for faith throughout the world. In the early 1830s he embarked upon an extraordinary adventure. Disturbed by the faithlessness of the Church in general, he... -
Mary Queen of Scots: And the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Found naked amongst the destruction, the bodies of Darnley and his valet bore marks of strangulation... -
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman 9780008470180
RRP: £25.00£18.03*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic' - Guardian ... -
Where There's a Hill: One woman, 214 Lake District fells, four attempts, one record-breaking Wainwrights run by Sabrina Verjee
RRP: £12.99£9.26'The greater the challenge, the sweeter the reward, but also the greater the risk of failure. And fear of failure is the greatest barrier to success.'Sabrina Verjee is an ultrarunning phenomenon. In June 2021, on her fourth attempt, she became the first... -
Breaking & Mending: A junior doctor's stories of compassion & burnout by Joanna Cannon
RRP: £8.99£6.45'One of the most beautiful books you will ever read' Kate Mosse In this powerful memoir, Joanna Cannon tells her story as a junior doctor in visceral, heart-rending snapshots. We walk with her through the wards, facing extraordinary and daunting... -
Joey Dunlop: The Definitive Biography by Stuart Barker 9781789465082
RRP: £9.99£6.85With a foreword by Carl Fogarty'A worthy and fitting tribute to the King of the Roads' - Irish News Joey Dunlop's story is one of towering triumphs and desperate tragedies in almost equal measure. Born poor - dirt poor - with no running water, no... -
Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard
RRP: £12.99£8.60Alfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political supporters, not the sycophantic gift of an official biographer, nor a self-styled title. It was the gift of history. Justin Pollard's enthralling,... -
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
RRP: £30.00£22.55'An absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday There was an epic sweep to Michelangelo's life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world;... -
Skint Estate: A memoir of poverty, motherhood and survival by Cash Carraway
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Brilliant, horrifying and really f***ing funny' KATHY BURKE'Give[s] powerful voice to the often silent story that explains so much of Britain's current fracturing' OBSERVERI'm a scrounger, a liar, a hypocrite, a stain on society with no basic morals -... -
Driven: Rush in the '90s and "In the End" by Martin Popoff
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415706Author Martin PopoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder by Christian Parenti
RRP: £20.00£16.43In retelling the story of the radical Alexander Hamilton, Parenti rewrites the history of early America and the global economy. For much of the twentieth century, Hamilton-sometimes seen as the bad boy of the founding fathers or portrayed as the patron... -
Between the Covers: Jilly Cooper on sex, socialising and survival by Jilly Cooper
RRP: £8.99£5.92'No one else can make me laugh and cry quite like Jilly Cooper.' Gill Sims'Jilly Cooper's non-fiction is just as entertaining as her novels.' Pandora Sykes____________________'One truth I have learnt, as middle age enmeshes me like Virginia creeper, is... -
The Way It Was by Stanley Matthews
RRP: £10.99£6.47Stanley Matthews was the most popular footballer of his era, the man who epitomised a generation of legendary players: Tom Finney, Nat Lofthouse, Billy Wright and many more. He was the first footballer ever to be knighted, the first European Footballer... -
Testimony by Robbie Robertson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. With songs like 'The Weight', 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' and 'Up on Cripple Creek', he and his partners in... -
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth 9780711279858
RRP: £16.99£13.75"Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life."The Times A lavishly illustrated... -
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: £25.00£18.02***A Best Book of 2022, The Times******Book of the Year, Spectator***A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveHenrietta Maria, Charles I's queen, is the most... -
The Twelve Caesars by Robert Graves
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within' GORE VIDALAs private secretary to the... -
And Another Thing: The World According to Clarkson Volume 2 by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Everyone knows that Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place - after all, he wrote a bestselling book about it. Yet despite the appearance of The World According To Clarkson, things don't seem to have improved much. However, Jeremy is not... -
Mr. New Orleans: The Life of a Big Easy Underworld Legend by Frenchy Brouillette 9780692237489
RRP: £22.00£18.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692237489Author Frenchy BrouilletteFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Mrv Entertainment LLCPublisher Mrv Entertainment LLCWeight(grams)... -
Popski's Private Army by Vladimir Peniakoff
RRP: £12.99£8.60In October 1942, with the sanction of the army, Vladimir Peniakoff (nicknamed Popski) formed his own elite fighting force. By befriending and enlisting desert Arabs, he was able to penetrate deep into German territory without being detected - over the... -
Inside F1 by Lee McKenzie
RRP: £20.00£14.29From an early age, Lee McKenzie had access to a motorsport world that most are rarely allowed into. From spending time in the paddock as a teen to becoming a highly respected Formula One journalist and presenter, Lee has been at the heart of motorsport... -
Everest the Cruel Way: The audacious winter attempt of the West Ridge by Joe Tasker
RRP: £9.99£7.27On 30 January 1981 Joe Tasker and Ade Burgess stood at 24,000 feet on the West Ridge of Mount Everest. Below them were their companions, some exhausted, some crippled by illness, all virtually incapacitated. Further progress seemed impossible.Everest the... -
Hazard (Ultimate Football Heroes) - Collect Them All! by Matt Oldfield
RRP: £6.99£4.98The No.1 football series - over 1 million copies sold! 'Eden slid on his knees towards the fans with his arms out wide. He was the hero again - there was just no stopping him now.' Hazard is the thrilling tale of how the wing wizard went from local... -
The Music Room by William Fiennes
RRP: £9.99£7.27'Fiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory' Sunday Telegraph William Fiennes' childhood was one of imagination and curiosity, bounded only by the horizon he saw from the... -
Mentors: How to Help and be Helped by Russell Brand
RRP: £12.99£9.09Could happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself?Mentors - Russell Brand's follow up to Sunday Times number one bestseller, Recovery - describes the benefits of seeking and offering help.'I have mentors in every area of my...