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Francoise Hardy: A musical tale of love and loss by Andrew Norman 9781912587674
£17.13In the early 1960s a new 'Star' appeared on the pop music scene and burned brightly in the firmament. This was the enchantingly beautiful, French singer-songwriter ('chanteuse'), Francoise Madeleine Hardy. Today, thanks to the wonders of modern... -
His Name Is George Floyd: One man's life and the struggle for racial justice by Robert Samuels
RRP: £20.00£18.02*Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction*'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK... -
When the Dogs Don't Bark: A Forensic Scientist's Search for the Truth by Professor Angela Gallop
RRP: £10.99£7.40*As seen on ITV's The Pembrokeshire Murders*'Fascinating. A book that will be essential reading for every aspiring crime writer' Guardian'Offers a chilling glimpse into her life's work. Fascinating stuff.' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily... -
Raving Upon Thames: An Untold Story of Sixties London by Andrew Humphreys
RRP: £20.00£16.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993570230Author Andrew HumphreysFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Paradise RoadPublisher Paradise Road -
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific by Christina Thompson
RRP: £12.99£8.48Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history 'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan ... -
Amazing Women: 100 Lives to Inspire You by Lula Bridgeport 9781788956819
RRP: £12.99£8.73Discover the stories of 100 extraordinary women of our time. Featuring an international selection of female figures, this carefully curated collection highlights those who have achieved significantly in their fields, ranging from science and politics to... -
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa
RRP: £20.00£14.29A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental... -
Bloody Southerners: Clough and Taylor at Brighton by Spencer Vignes
RRP: £12.99£9.26Imagine Pep Guardiola quitting Manchester City to take over at Rochdale. Or Jose Mourinho walking out on United to join Southend. That sort of thing just wouldn't happen, would it? Except that in 1973, it did. At that time Brian Clough was... -
Body for Rent: The terrifying true story of two ordinary girls sold for sex against their will by Olivia Smit
RRP: £8.99£6.20Growing up in a quiet, middle-class suburb outside of Amsterdam, childhood best friends Anna and Olivia had their whole lives ahead of them. But every parent's worst nightmare came true when the teenagers fell in with the wrong crowd. Eleven years their... -
Down and Out in Paris and London: New Edition by George Orwell 9781846976582
RRP: £7.99£5.46George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his... -
The Beatles: The Authorised Biography by Hunter Davies
RRP: £16.99£12.28There's only one book that ever truly got inside the Beatles and this is it. The landmark, worldwide bestseller that has grown with the Beatles ever since. During 1967 and 1968 Hunter Davies spent eighteen months with the Beatles at the peak of their... -
Harold Larwood: the Ashes bowler who wiped out Australia by Duncan Hamilton
RRP: £14.99£9.80Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, this is the first ever biography of Harold Larwood. Larwood, one of the most talented, accurate and intimidating fast bowlers of all time is mainly remembered for his role in the infamous Bodyline... -
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton 9781471166969
RRP: £10.99£7.00The Sunday Times Number One BestsellerComplete with new afterword where she discusses the past eighteen months since President Donald Trump has been serving in office. 'A compelling read' - Financial Times 'A sporadically absorbing, pleasingly vengeful... -
Aquanaut: A Life Beneath The Surface - The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue by Rick Stanton
RRP: £9.99£7.11THE ENTHRALLING INSIDE STORY OF THE THAI CAVE RESCUE FROM THE MAN AT THE HEART OF THE MISSION, AS SEEN IN THE SUNDAY TIMES'The British divers are all heroes' Clive Cussler'A case study in courage' Ron Howard, Oscar-winning director of Apollo... -
Personal Writings by Albert Camus
RRP: £10.99£7.77'It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of Camus, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the sensual immediacy and clarity - that had been heaped on... -
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 9780486292496
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486292496Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm)... -
Boleyn Boy: My Autobiography by Mark Noble
RRP: £22.00£11.24*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became 'Mr West Ham': a one-club man who lived the dream. A... -
The Real Stanley Baxter by Brian Beacom
RRP: £9.99£7.27Stanley Baxter delighted over 20 million viewers at a time with his television specials. His pantos became legendary. His divas and dames were so good they were beyond description. Baxter was a most brilliant cowboy Coward, a smouldering Dietrich. He... -
Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography by Peter France
RRP: £35.00£34.99Why biography? This collection of essays on the problems and functions of biography, and particularly the biography of writers, thinkers and artists, investigates a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture and society. In the last... -
Deke!: Us Manned Space from Mercury to the Shuttle by Donald K. Slayton 9780312859183
RRP: £18.99£13.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312859183Author Donald K. SlaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 522g -
Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World by Jane Robinson 9780857527776
RRP: £25.00£18.02'What a lot we have to thank Barbara Bodichon and her circle for. She was a charismatic but self-effacing woman so she would at the very least have been perplexed by the idea of being a role model. But I can't think of a better one for today.' - Literary... -
Stalin, Vol. I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: £18.99£15.29In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and... -
Here Comes The Sun by Joshua M. Greene
RRP: £11.99£8.43'The soundtrack of [Harrison's] spiritual journey begins with the explosions of battle and ends, fifty-eight years later with the harmonies of eternal peace. And like all good stories, this one starts when the hero was just a child.'In Here Comes the Sun... -
No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses by Peter Piot
RRP: £13.99£12.25When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, "There's no future in infectious diseases. They've all been solved." Fortunately, Piot ignored him, and the result has been an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, as a young man,... -
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller by Kathleen Jones
RRP: £19.99£18.78The compelling and intimate story of one of the world's foremost short story writers Weaving together intimate details from Katherine Mansfield's letters and journals with the writings of her friends and acquaintances, Kathleen Jones creates a... -
Elizabeth's Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
RRP: £16.99£12.28'History as it should be written' Alison Weir, bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens seriesA groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her life.Elizabeth I is often portrayed as... -
The Borgias: Power and Fortune by Paul Strathern
RRP: £12.99£8.56* * A Daily Mail Book of the Week * *The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history.____________________ 'A wickedly entertaining read' The Times____________________The Borgias have become a byword for evil... -
The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson
RRP: £14.99£10.95Joe Simpson has experienced a life filled with adventure but marred by death. He has endured the painful attrition of climbing friends in accidents, calling into question the perilously exhilarating activity to which he has devoted his life. Probability... -
The Shapeless Unease: ‘A small miracle of a book’ – Nathan Flier by Samantha Harvey
RRP: £9.99£7.11**Featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read** 'A profound meditation on language and loss and time, and on how we construct ourselves through stories. And it's painful. And it's beautiful. And I love it.' NATHAN FLIER Samantha Harvey's insomnia arrived,... -
First Lady: Intrigue at the Court of Carrie and Boris Johnson by Michael Ashcroft 9781785907500
RRP: £20.00£14.48Carrie Johnson is not only the consort of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson; she is also considered by some to be the second most powerful unelected woman in Britain after the Queen. Since she moved into Downing Street in July 2019, questions have been... -
Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label by Simon Williams 9781788707312
RRP: £10.99£7.47'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Book of the Year It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death?As a one-time NME journalist, former Xfm radio presenter, toilet-circuit... -
The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell 9780241955840
RRP: £12.99£9.09'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with a gay wave of your hand.'Gerald Durrell and his wife... -
Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment by Vicki MacKenzie
RRP: £12.99£9.09The story of Tenzin Palmo, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End, who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas and became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve... -
The Village by Alice Taylor
£9.00The third volume of Alice Taylor's unique memoir of life in the Irish countryside. A massive bestseller with universal appeal.About the AuthorAlice Taylor lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket... -
My Life, Our Times by Gordon Brown
RRP: £14.99£10.95Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story.In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the... -
Walking with Sausage Dogs by Matt Whyman
RRP: £9.99£6.80Keeping pets is a lovely idea. When building a family, they complement the kids. But what happens when things get out of hand?For writer and house husband, Matt Whyman, it's a case of catastrophe management in coping with four children and all the... -
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781925240702
RRP: £10.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925240702Author Ta-Nehisi CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint The Text Publishing CompanyPublisher Text PublishingWeight(grams) 212g -
Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's War Graves by David Crane
RRP: £10.99£7.25Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. The extraordinary and forgotten story of the building of the World War One cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable man, Fabian Ware. ... -
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 9781035038619
RRP: £10.99£7.12The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman's cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne.'No dead woman has done more for the living . . ... -
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Sunday Times top ten bestseller.Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated...