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The Power of the Outsider: A Journey of Discovery Samuel Kasumu 9781529396911
RRP: $39.00$26.03'Samuel Kasumu has written an important - and very moving - book about the outsider phenomenon.' - Robert Peston' I loved reading about your childhood and your anxieties as a father. The personal is so well mixed with the analytical. Thank you for... -
Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland by Lavinia Greenlaw 9781910749562
RRP: $19.48$15.93Morris's intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place you've never been to or to encounter the actuality of... -
The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor Elizabeth Norton 9781784081737
RRP: $17.53$12.58England, late 1547. Henry VIII is dead. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king's widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour. Ambitious, charming and dangerous, Seymour begins an overt flirtation with Elizabeth that... -
Gather Together In My Name Dr Maya Angelou 9781844085026
RRP: $19.48$13.26The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' Barack ObamaMaya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the... -
My James: The Heart-rending Story of James Bulger by His Father Ralph Bulger 9781447218746
RRP: $19.48$14.18This Sunday Times top ten bestseller is a heartfelt account of his son's murder and his fight for justice by Ralph Bulger.James Bulger was just a few weeks shy of his third birthday when, on 12 February 1993, he wandered away from his mum Denise in a... -
Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus: the long-awaited memoir from the star of QI and The Great British Bake Off by Sandi Toksvig 9780349006406
RRP: $25.33$16.77Pre-order Sandi Toksvig's new novel FRIENDS OF DOROTHY now - coming in September 2024The long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved characters - presenter of QI, former host of The Great British Bake Off'Wise and kind... part celebration, part... -
Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story - From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist by Dame Stephanie Shirley
RRP: $21.43$15.15A moving memoir from a woman who made a fortune in a man's world and then gave it all away...soon to be turned into a filmIn 1962, Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley created a software company when the concept of software barely existed. Freelance Programmers... -
Tutankhamun Gill Harvey 9780746060179
RRP: $11.68$7.22The story of the boy pharaoh and the discovery of his tomb and treasures vividly retold for young readers. Illustrations and hand-coloured photographs of real-life places, people and objects bring the story to life. Part of Young Reading Level 3, created... -
Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero Richard Bath 9781845967086
RRP: $21.43$15.15With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Legion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlander's... -
Forever Today: A Memoir Of Love And Amnesia by Deborah Wearing
RRP: $21.43$15.15Clive Wearing has one of the most extreme cases of amnesia ever known. In 1985, a virus completely destroyed a part of his brain essential for memory, leaving him trapped in a limbo of the constant present. Every conscious moment is for him as if he has... -
Climb Your Mountain: Everyday lessons from an extraordinary life Sir Ranulph Fiennes 9781529426335
RRP: $39.00$26.81'Life is too short to waste time on second-class ambitions. Go for the big ones.' Now in his late seventies, Sir Ranulph Fiennes looks back on a lifetime of exploration, and draws powerful, inspiring lessons that we can all use when faced by the... -
Maigret's Memoirs: Inspector Maigret #35 by Georges Simenon
RRP: $17.53$12.58'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if possible, than before, but nevertheless with a touch of anxiety in his eyes.'... -
Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorised!) Biography of Golf's Most Colourful Superstar by Alan Shipnuck 9781398521780
RRP: $19.48$12.50'Terrific fun' David Walsh, Sunday Times * * 'Thoroughly engaging' Washington Post A frank and revealing biography of legendary golf champion Phil Mickelson - who has led a big, controversial life - as reported by longtime Sports Illustrated writer... -
When Harry Met Sandra: Harry & Sandra Redknapp - Our Love Story: More than 50 years of marriage, love, life and strife by Harry Redknapp 9781915306548
RRP: $19.48$13.86It all started with a date in the Two Puddings pub in East London in 1963 and nearly 60 years on, Harry and Sandra Redknapp are still in love. Already a well-known and respected face in the world of football, it wasn't until Harry's stint in the I'm A... -
Watching the Wheels: My Autobiography by Damon Hill
RRP: $25.33$18.06The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller, shortlisted for the Cross Sports Book Award.In 1996, Damon Hill was crowned Formula One World Champion. For the first time ever he tells the story of his journey through the last golden era of the sport when he took on the... -
We Need to Weaken the Mixture Guy Martin 9780753545461
RRP: $29.23$21.35The million-copy selling truck fitter returns***Featured on Channel 4***'I can't stop biting off more than I can chew. Maybe I'm wearing everything out, but I believe the body is a fantastic thing and it will repair itself and I'll go again. If it's... -
Managing Expectations: a dazzling, tell-most memoir by Minnie Driver
RRP: $39.00$26.62'A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving' - Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt''Vital, heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with humour, style and intelligence.' - Graham Norton'A... -
Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution by Warren Roberts 9780807843505
RRP: $107.25$98.07The lifetime of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) coincides with the most tumultuous period in the history of France and much of the Western world. And David's life was closely bound up with the changes that were taking place in French politics, society,... -
The Tales and Tails of a Yorkshire Vet: All in a Day's Work by Peter Wright
RRP: $39.00$24.63"My mentor and former boss Alf Wight said that the life of a vet is never dull and how true he was. It is funny looking back that he found fame through his James Herriot books, and now his former surgery and myself have been taken to the nation's heart... -
One Man's Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition: An Alaskan Odyssey by Richard Louis Proenneke 9781513261805
RRP: $50.68$40.38Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of when Dick Proenneke first broke ground and made his mark in the Alaskan wilds in 1968, this bestselling memoir features an all-new foreword by Nick Offerman plus color... -
I Can't Stay Long by Laurie Lee
RRP: $19.48$13.86'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a... -
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 9780141995793
RRP: $21.43$15.15**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List**Winner of the Gordon Burn PrizeWinner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spievogel... -
There is No Map in Hell: The record-breaking run across the Lake District fells by Steve Birkinshaw 9781910240946
RRP: $25.33$18.06In 1986, the legendary fell runner Joss Naylor completed a continuous circuit of all 214 Wainwright fells in the Lake District, covering a staggering distance of over 300 miles - plus many thousands of metres of ascent - in only seven days and one hour... -
Untitled Jkl by To Be Confirmed Gallery
RRP: $39.00$25.08ARE YOU READY TO BELIEVE IN YOU? "Game-changing. Authentic. A must-read for every woman! Jamie is the real deal-and that's rare." -Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed "Raw. Real. Powerful. Filled with vulnerability and grit... -
The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton by The Secret Cyclist
RRP: $29.23$21.35He's ridden for World Tour teams for ten years. He's achieved top ten finishes in Grand Tours. But who is The Secret Cyclist and why all the secrecy?"Every public aspect of our lives is so tightly controlled that being truly honest is all but impossible... -
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley
RRP: $21.43$15.15She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three centuries. Highly educated (she was the only one of the Ptolemies to read and speak ancient Egyptian as well as the court Greek) and very clever (her famous... -
City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley by Phil Baker
RRP: $40.95$27.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689322Author Phil BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Matisse: The Life by Hilary Spurling
RRP: $29.23$21.35'Inspired, innovative, remarkable' Independent 'Spurling has done better than anyone else at uncovering intimate information about Matisse' GuardianThe abridged, one-volume edition of Hilary Spurling's critically acclaimed biography of Henri Matisse, one... -
Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci
RRP: $48.75$32.23NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILMIt was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains... -
Moments Of Being Virginia Woolf 9780712646185
RRP: $25.33$17.73Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's comprehensive biography and numerous recent studies of her, the author's own account of her early life holds new... -
Sabine’s War: One woman. Three concentration camps. A remarkable true story of survival. by Eva Taylor
RRP: $19.48$12.95An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery 'A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.' Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz ... -
Conundrum Jan Morris 9780571341139
RRP: $21.43$14.27As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations and... -
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev
RRP: $29.23$22.13The definitive biography of Israel's founder by one of Israel's most celebrated historians. As the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion long ago secured his reputation as a leading figure of the twentieth century. Determined from an early age to create... -
Good for a Girl: My Life Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman
RRP: $39.00$26.03WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'Women's sports have needed a manifesto for a long time. With Good for a Girl we finally have one' Malcolm GladwellLauren... -
The Secret History of the Mongols by Christopher P. Atwood
RRP: $25.33$17.73A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan'Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed shoulders'Born poor into a world of dangers and hardships,... -
The Wilderness Family by Kobie Kruger 9780553813340
RRP: $31.18$22.64When Kobie Kruger, her game-ranger husband and their three young daughters moved to one of the most isolated corners of the world - a remote ranger station in the Mahlangeni region of South Africa's vast Kruger National Park - she might have worried that... -
Souvenir Michael Bracewell 9781474622301
RRP: $29.23$19.11'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me - a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time and poignant beauty and lived history that I have found myself looking for,... -
Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud by Sandy Gall
RRP: $48.75$33.75When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen groups, as interested in fighting each other and competing for Western arms as opposing the Russians. The exception was Ahmed Shah Massoud, the... -
6000 Days Jim McCann 9783939483588
RRP: $25.35$22.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783939483588Author Jim McCannFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Elsinor Verlag e.K.Publisher Elsinor Verlag e.K.Weight(grams) 372g -
The Illustrated Letters of the Brontes: The letters, diaries and writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: $35.00$25.35The story both of the real world of the Brontes at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and of the imaginary worlds they spun for themselves in their novels and poetry. Wherever possible, their story is told using...