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A Life by Simone Veil
RRP: £12.99£8.99Veil, the former French politician who became first President of the European Union, was born Simone Jacob in 1927. In her long-awaited memoir, she describes in vivid detail a time of happiness and innocence spent in Nice where she grew up. This happy... -
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman
RRP: £25.00£17.62The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon.In 2008, Paul Newman tasked his best friend with interviewing the people who had shaped his life, in order to create an oral history of it. After hearing and reading what they had to say, Newman... -
Jack's Country by Paul Peacock 9780992722043
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992722043Author Paul PeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Little Knoll PressPublisher Little Knoll PressWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 246mm *... -
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French... -
Soft Lad by Nick Grimshaw
RRP: £20.00£11.65Coming-of-age stories from much loved radio royalty, DJ and TV personality Nick Grimshaw.'Hilarious and quintessentially Nick. Unapologetically himself always, and that's what I love the most' Dua Lipa'Very funny, very sweet and full of charm -- a bit... -
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days by Bill Clegg
RRP: £9.99£7.11What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life? In his utterly... -
Trader Vic II: Principles of Professional Speculation by Victor Sperandeo
RRP: £39.00£24.85The man Barron's dubbed "the ultimate Wall Street pro" returns witha stunning follow-up to his bestselling Trader Vic--Methods of aWall Street Master ("The best investment book of 1992"--The StockTrader's Almanac). Take an advanced class in his patented... -
Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner
RRP: £20.00£15.89An acclaimed biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English writersGeoffrey Chaucer is often called the father of English literature, but this acclaimed biography reveals... -
Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush by Tom Doyle 9781788707824
RRP: £10.99£7.47A Times Book of the Year An Uncut Magazine Book of the Year A Waterstones Music Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the Year A Louder Book of the Year 'Probably the best Bush book to date.' - Record CollectorKate Bush: the subject of murmured legend... -
Nobody's Child by Kate Adie
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Witty, compelling and never mawkish' Observer'Written with a sure touch . . . Adie has a natural understanding of what it is like to be unsure of your origins' Sunday Telegraph'A cracker of a subject . . . (Adie) writes with an engaging, forthright... -
Sharon And My Mother-In-Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry 9781862078116
RRP: £10.99£7.32A blackly funny account of everyday life in Ramallah and refreshingly different from most writing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law describes Suad Amiry's life on the West Bank from the early 1980s to the first decade of... -
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen by Alison Weir
RRP: £12.99£9.49'Weir perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical novelist with the truth to fact of a scrupulous historian' The TimesBritain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the... -
Elizabeth by David Starkey
RRP: £14.99£10.95'The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth' Evening Standard A woman in a man's world, Queen Elizabeth I was to become England's most successful ruler. Confident in her destiny, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said)... -
I Survived: I married a charming man. Then he tried to kill me. A true story. by Victoria Cilliers
RRP: £8.99£6.60I Survived is Victoria Cillier's chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case that made headlines around the world. Soon to be the subject of a major TV documentary.On Easter Sunday 2015, experienced... -
Abandoned Child: From the No.1 bestselling author, a new true story of abuse and survival for fans of Cathy Glass by Toni Maguire 9781789465938
RRP: £8.99£6.22From the million-copy bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of neglect, abuse and survival. Amy had a happy childhood until the sudden death of her mother when she was ten years old. Eventually abandoned by her father, she found herself... -
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Timely and beautifully written' Sunday Times'Phenomenal. An extraordinary insight into a country barely known - an often feared - by the West' Vogue'Utterly compelling' Daily Mail'Gripping, a dark, delicious unveiling . . . Deeply researched yet as... -
Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera Deborah Hopkinson 9780593426814
RRP: £14.99£10.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593426814Author Deborah HopkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
RRP: £10.99£7.25An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last 'grain race' of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby. In 1939, a young Eric Newby - later renowned as a travel writer of exceptional talent - set sail aboard... -
The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains by Choo Waihong
RRP: £14.99£10.26In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women'. A small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal... -
Part of the Family: A journey through fostering by Jan Garsden
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398449664Author Jan GarsdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
A Search In Secret India: The classic work on seeking a guru by Paul Brunton 9781844130436
RRP: £12.99£9.09'He found many marvelous things...But now and then a man of real spirituality set his feet on the way that finally led him to what he had looked and hoped for.' New York Times Book Review The late Paul Brunton was one of the twentieth century's... -
Roman Kemp: Are You Really OK? by Roman Kemp 9781915306531
RRP: £9.99£7.11Capital DJ Roman Kemp has achieved much success but he hasn't had an easy ride. He's battled depression since the age of 15, once contemplated suicide, and has bravely fought to smash the stigma still surrounding medication and mental health. The... -
Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo 9781982153748
RRP: £10.99£7.00This glittering, "wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told" (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman Capote, sweeping us to the upper echelons... -
The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich by Daniel Ammann
RRP: £16.99£12.64Billionaire oil trader Marc Rich for the first time talks at length about his private life (including his expensive divorce from wife Denise); his invention of the spot oil market, which made his fortune and changed the world economy; his lucrative and... -
The Listener: In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Irene Oore 9780889776531
RRP: £20.00£19.24In The Listener, a daughter receives a troubling gift: her mother's stories of surviving World War II in Poland. During the Holocaust, Irene Oore's mother escaped the death camps by concealing her Jewish identity. Those years found her constantly on the... -
Diaries, 1942-1954 by James Lees-Milne
RRP: £14.99£9.80James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best known for the remarkable diary he kept for most of his adult life, which has been compared with that of Samuel... -
The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks by Justin Webb
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Searingly honest... gripping... fascinating and hugely entertaining.'- Sunday Times'Moving and frank ... A story of a childhood defined by loneliness, the absence of a father and the grim experience of a Quaker boarding school. It is also one of the... -
The Sex Lives of English Women: Intimate Questions and Unexpected Answers by Wendy Jones
RRP: £10.99£8.08'There's a lot of stigma attached to sex. Particularly with women, you have a big dichotomy between: Do you have sex? Do you not? Do you be a slut? Do you be a virgin? Do you be a prude? Do you be a man-whore? You can't really win.' Women are always... -
The Pembrokeshire Murders: The dramatic true story of a 20-year hunt for a serial killer and the detectives who brought him to justice by Steve Wilkins
RRP: £8.99£5.82The dramatic, compelling bestselling true story of how a serial killer was finally unmasked after evading justice for more than twenty yearsNow a major TV series starring Luke Evans1980s. In the beautiful, unspoiled landscape of Pembrokeshire, a serial... -
Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters by Patricia Pierce
RRP: £12.99£9.62Spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed that she was exactly the right person in the right place and time to pioneer the emerging science of palaeontology, the study of fossils... -
The Last Corinthian: The Cricketing Life of MJK Smith by Mike Thompson 9781801506380
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Last Corinthian: The Cricketing Life of MJK Smith is the story of the illustrious cricketing career of Mike Smith, one of England's most popular captains. At Oxford he broke records by scoring centuries in each of his three Varsity matches and... -
Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish by Francesca Peacock 9781837930173
RRP: £27.99£19.61'Puts Cavendish back into the literary history books where she belongs' Kate Mosse 'Scholarly, articulate, and never less than fascinating' Alice Loxton A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret... -
The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth by The Secret Midwife
RRP: £9.99£6.85For fans of One Born Every Minute.The Secret Midwife is a heart-breaking, engrossing and important read. At once joyful and profoundly shocking, this is the story of birth, straight from the delivery room.Strongest supporter, best friend, expert,... -
Thief Prisoner Soldier Priest by Paul Cowley
RRP: £14.99£9.80Paul Cowley grew up in Manchester amid the chaotic world of his alcoholic parents. His early exposure to heavy drinking, explosive arguments and the unnerving aggression of his father led him into homelessness and crime. By seventeen he was behind bars... -
Audrey at Home: Memories of My Mother's Kitchen by Luca Dotti 9780062284709
RRP: £20.00£13.74New York Times Bestseller Enter Audrey Hepburn's private world in this unique New York Times bestselling biography compiled by her son that combines recollections, anecdotes, excerpts from her personal correspondence, drawings, and recipes for her... -
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, and Phoenix Queen – the true story of Charles I’s wife by Leanda de Lisle 9781529111040
RRP: £12.99£9.09A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZEHenrietta Maria, Charles I's queen, is the most... -
Serial Killers: Shocking, Gripping True Crime Stories of the Most Evil Murderers by Brian Innes
RRP: £9.99£5.96The Terrifying Story of the Most Monstrous Serial Killers through History.Serial Killers are the most notorious and disturbing of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity. Yet they endlessy fascinate and continue to capture the... -
Are You Experienced?: The Inside Story Of The Jimi Hendrix Experience by Carol Appleby 9780306806810
£18.09The Jimi Hendrix Experience had one of the most dazzling and sensational careers of any band. Their roller-coaster ride through a schedule of sell-out tours and frantic recording sessions left them crazed with sex, drugs, stardom, and exhaustion but at... -
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
RRP: £14.95£10.9216th-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder redefined how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye to mankind's labours and pleasures, its foibles and rituals of daily life. Portraying landscapes, peasant life and biblical... -
Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton by Joe Moshenska
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon...