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Breaking Down Barriers: George McLaurin and the Struggle to End Segregated Education by David W. Levy 9780806167220
RRP: £21.95£14.49For nearly sixty years, the University of Oklahoma, in obedience to state law, denied admission to African Americans. Only in October 1948 did this racial barrier start to break down, when an elderly teacher named George McLaurin became the first African... -
My Sporting Life: Memories, moments and declarations by Michael Parkinson 9781399711562
RRP: £10.99£6.47'Like my father before me, I believe that both the playing and watching of sport can teach us important lessons about ourselves by providing practical instruction in co-operation, tests of resolve and temper'Michael Parkinson was destined to spend his... -
Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £10.99£7.32Sylvia Plath was one of the defining voices of the twentieth century, and one of the most appealing: few other poets have introduced as many new readers to poetry. The poems in this fresh and inviting edition were chosen by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy... -
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan 9781908906298
RRP: £9.99£6.80Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic figures by examining Jesus within the context of the times in which he lived: the age of zealotry, an era awash in apocalyptic fervour... -
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 'A strange and mesmerising piece of work' Sunday Times 'An absolute masterpiece' Laura Cumming 'An uncommon delight' Observer Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum... -
Unbreakable by Tracy Swinson 9781035832002
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035832002Author Tracy SwinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Elvis by the Presleys by The Presleys
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Number One Sunday Times BestsellerForty years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the world's most beloved and iconic figures. There has been an impressive array of bestselling Elvis books over the years, but there has never been a book... -
Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb 9780861547333
RRP: £10.99£7.77Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals? 'Beautiful, difficult, and compelling.' VANITY FAIR 'Don't think, dear,' said Balanchine. 'Just do.' For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient... -
For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker by Victoria Coren
RRP: £10.99£7.32Miserable at an elegant day school for girls, Victoria Coren finds an escape in the mysterious world of poker. Twenty years later, she has won a million dollars and forgotten to have children. What price adventure? This is a true story of happiness and... -
The Gospel Of The Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels by Michael Hann
RRP: £40.00£27.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636140957Author Michael HannFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S. -
Old Rage by Sheila Hancock
RRP: £18.99£17.18**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER** _______________ 'I want to be Sheila Hancock when I grow up' Lorraine Kelly 'Wise, witty, kind and true' - Sunday Times 'A sparkling memoir as funny and insightful as it's moving' - Daily Mail 'A... -
We Were Young and Carefree: The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon by Laurent Fignon 9780224083195
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Ah, I remember you: you're the guy who lost the Tour de France by eight seconds!''No monsieur, I'm the guy who won the Tour twice.The international bestselling autobiography of the legendary French cyclist Laurent Fignon Two-time winner of the Tour de... -
Ariel by Sylvia Plath 9780571259311
RRP: £12.99£8.56The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are... -
This Boy by Alan Johnson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The best memoir by a politician you will ever read' Philip Collins, The TimesSchool on the Kings Road, Chelsea in the Swinging 60s, the rock-and-roll years, the race riots; this boy has seen it all. ________Alan Johnson's childhoodwas not so much... -
Earthed: A Memoir by Rebecca Schiller
RRP: £9.99£6.52____________ 'A beautiful memoir of one small plot of land and one complex human mind.' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun 'So many readers will find themselves in these pages.' Katherine May, author of Wintering 'A timely reflection on what it... -
The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
RRP: £10.99£7.32Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the overlapping work and lives of six... -
How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour de France by Ned Boulting 9780224083362
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Paris, 4 July 2003: My first Tour de France. I had never seen a bike race. I had only vaguely heard of Lance Armstrong. I had no idea what I was doing there. Yet, that day I was broadcasting live on television. I fumbled my way through a few platitudes,... -
Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir by Ken Clarke
RRP: £16.99£12.47Ken Clarke needs no introduction. One of the genuine 'Big Beasts' of the political scene, during his forty-six years as the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire he has been at the very heart of government under three prime ministers... -
The Past is Myself & The Road Ahead Omnibus: When I Was a German, 1934-1945 by Christabel Bielenberg
RRP: £18.99£13.61Brought together for the first time in one edition, both of Christabel Bielenberg's bestselling memoirs give an incredibly moving, emotionally charged and compelling insight into life in Nazi Germany during The Third Reich and during the aftermath of... -
William Wallace by A.R. Morison 9780486431826
RRP: £10.99£8.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431826Author A.R. MorisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson 9781529115673
RRP: £10.99£7.77'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph'Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Simon SchamaHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer.Howard... -
The Power of the Outsider: A Journey of Discovery by Samuel Kasumu
RRP: £20.00£13.35'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: £9.99£8.92Morris'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 by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: £8.99£6.45England, 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... -
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz 9780349015880
RRP: £18.99£13.15Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour... -
Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II, 1926-2022 by Robert Hardman 9781529063455
RRP: £10.99£7.51A Sunday Times Book of the YearQueen Of Our Times is the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II by one of Britain's leading royal authorities, Robert Hardman. This commemorative edition includes an epilogue reflecting upon Her Majesty's Platinum... -
Gather Together In My Name by Maya Angelou
RRP: £9.99£6.80The 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... -
The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013'Completely absorbing' Amanda Foreman'Enthralling' Guardian'The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of courseare fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration... -
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: £12.99£8.60Pre-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: £10.99£7.77A 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... -
Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero by Sir Tommy MacPherson
RRP: £10.99£7.77With 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... -
Climb Your Mountain: Everyday lessons from an extraordinary life by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: £20.00£13.75'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: £8.99£6.45'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.'... -
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
RRP: £9.99£7.67'So compellingly personal you feel you're looking over her shoulder as she sits down to write' New York Times 'Electrically entertaining ... Funny, generous, spirited and kind' The Times This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is an irresistible... -
All That We Are: Uncovering the Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour at Work by Gabriella Braun
RRP: £10.99£7.40Longlisted for the 2022 CMI Management Book of the Year AwardWho do you bring with you to work?Try as we might, we cannot leave part of ourselves under the pillow with our pyjamas when we go to work. We bring all that we are.In this collection of... -
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: £9.99£7.11It 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... -
Prince by Matt Thorne
RRP: £18.99£13.33Legendarily reticent, perverse and misleading, Prince is one of the few remaining 80s superstars who still, perhaps, remains unexplained. Now a firm fixture in the pop canon, where such classics as 'Purple Rain', 'Sign o' the Times' and 'Parade'... -
Thierry Henry: Lonely at the Top by Philippe Auclair
RRP: £9.99£7.27'Illuminated by finely turned phrases and vivid insights' - Richard Williams, Guardian Sports Books of the Year. Thierry Henry - gifted, charismatic and a genuinely world-class footballer - has passed into Arsenal legend as the hero of a team that... -
Watching the Wheels: My Autobiography by Damon Hill
RRP: £12.99£9.26The 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... -
Behind these Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival by Alex South
RRP: £16.99£11.54*As heard on Radio 4's Book of the Week*'A true, compassionate and honest account of what it is to work in our prisons.' Dr Gwen Adshead, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Devil You Know'A vivid, unsentimental insight into a world that needs to be...