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Frighten the Horses Oliver Radclyffe 9780802163158
RRP: £19.99£17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802163158Author Oliver RadclyffeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Bad Mormon: A Memoir Heather Gay 9781982199548
£11.79INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named one of Entertainment Tonight’s Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2023 As seen in The New York Times, People, The Cut, Vulture, The Daily Beast, Today, Bustle, Us Weekly, Life & Style, and Interview “No stone goes... -
The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Stories Osamu Dazai 9784805318348
RRP: £14.99£11.98"Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras." —Andrew Martin, The New York TimesBest-known for his novels No Longer Human and The Setting Sun,... -
The Criminal Mind Dr Duncan Harding 9780241446836
RRP: £25.00£18.02Pre-order this edge-of-your-seat journey into the darkest depths of the human mind from forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding- A likeable young girl who’s burnt her family home to the ground- A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife- A... -
God Calls Us to Do Hard Things: Lessons of Faith, Family, and Leading from the Heart Katie Boyd Britt 9781538756294
RRP: £16.99£13.56Through her life story, rising Republican star Senator Katie Britt shares some candid advice for how to overcome personal challenges, appreciate blessed moments, make our lives more fulfilling, and keep an unshakeable faith in God, family and our country... -
Flying from Shangri-La: What it was really like in the “Worst Place to be a Pilot” Matt Dearden 9781805145417
RRP: £22.00£14.05“Who knew paradise would be this dangerous?” Stuck in a boring office job, Matt wasn’t happy. Suffering with debilitating anxiety issues, he could feel his life wasting away. Something had to change. One flying lesson was all it took to set him on a... -
The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self Ellen Wayland-Smith 9781639550968
RRP: £12.99£12.13“Offering a deeply necessary, clear-eyed look at who we are as flesh-and-bone bodies during the climate crisis, this is a book that searches and finds meaning in both the hard truths and the value of wonder.”—Ada LimónIn this luminous collection of... -
Lady Anne Bacon: A woman of learning at the Tudor court Deborah Spring 9781912260669
RRP: £18.99£16.98Lady Anne Bacon (1528-1610) was a highly educated woman who lived through the great political and religious transitions of five reigns and was embedded in the network of power at the Tudor court. Her intelligence and education took her far beyond the... -
Wembanyama: The story of Wemby's meteoric rise from those who knew him best Yann Ohnona 9781788405485
RRP: £20.00£15.68This is the definitive account of how Victor Wembanyma became the best basketball prospect of his generation, told through immersive interviews with the star, stunning visuals, and behind-the-scenes stories from those who knew him best.June 22, 2023... -
Dancing in the Rain: My story of hope, courage and resilience Amy Dowden 9780349442044
RRP: £22.00£15.62Strictly Come Dancing professional and breast cancer and Crohn's awareness advocate Amy Dowden shares her journey from growing up in the Welsh Valleys to dancing on the glittering stage of prime-time television. Through her debilitating illness as a teen... -
Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir Kishore Mahbubani 9781541703049
RRP: £18.99£12.95In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouseGrowing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile... -
A Story of Stories: The Texas Border Barrio Life and Writings of Doña Ramona González Cristina Devereaux Ramírez 9781595349965
RRP: £19.99£16.55One afternoon in fall 2015 Cristina Devereaux Ramírez’s mother called and, with a tone of urgency in her voice, asked her to come to the house and take a look at something she had discovered when she was sorting through boxes in the attic. When Ramírez... -
Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture Neil Atkinson 9781837262922
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Does anyone in this room think that I can do wonders? I'm a normal guy from the Black Forest . . . I am the "normal one"' Jurgen Klopp, 9 October 2015Jürgen Klopp's announcement in January 2024 that he was to step down as Liverpool manager at the end of... -
Mozart in Italy: Coming of Age in the Land of Opera Jane Glover 9781529059908
RRP: £12.99£8.78'You don’t have to be able to hum Mozart to find this book utterly engrossing . . . I couldn’t put it down' - Joanna LumleyAt thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who had captured the hearts of northern Europe, but his father... -
Out of My Shell: Overcoming Social Anxiety from Childhood to Adulthood Natasha Daniels 9781805011972
RRP: £14.99£13.56Look around you at all the people connecting and socializing. And you are just standing here alone, like a social reject, again. Nobody likes you. Why would they want someone like you around?For years, social anxiety whispered its way into Natasha... -
Climbing the Vines in Burgundy: How an American Came to Own a Legendary Vineyard in France Alex Gambal 9781538196151
RRP: £14.99£13.13Named one of the New York Times Best Wine Books of 2023Named one of the Washington Post's Best Wine Books of 2023This is a unique tale about the first non-Frenchman to ever own one of the Montrachet Grand Cru vineyards in Burgundy, France. Weaved... -
Facing the Music: A searingly candid memoir from S Club 7 star, Hannah Spearritt Hannah Spearritt 9780349131030
RRP: £12.99£9.09'There has been a lot of fun and adventure in my five decades on earth. There are also things from my past that I've needed to deal with. This is my story, my truth, with no holds barred - and I deserve to be able to tell it the way that I choose.'It's... -
Fugitive Son: A Memoir Aramís Calderón 9781640126268
RRP: £19.99£15.69Aramís Calderón was eleven in 1992 when federal marshals conducted a nighttime raid at the Baton Rouge apartment where he lived with his mother and four siblings. They were searching for Aramís’s father, who had escaped from a nearby federal prison. Once... -
A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories Simon Russell Beale 9780316725323
RRP: £25.00£17.62Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain's most recognisable and well-loved actors. He has played many roles on stage, film, television and radio - ranging from Winston Churchill to Stalin, George Smiley to King Arthur. But ever since his appearance at... -
Father and Son: A memoir about family, the past and mortality Jonathan Raban 9780330418416
RRP: £10.99£7.51On 11 June 2011, three days short of his sixth-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban suffered a stroke which left him unable to use the right side of his body, wheelchair-bound in a rehab facility and endlessly frustrated by his newfound physical limitations... -
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood Bell Hooks 9780349704968
RRP: £10.99£7.40One of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time.'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth of experience, bell hooks weaves a girlhood memoir you won't be able to put down―or forget. Bone Black... -
Bumps In The Road: Life and adventure in bike-size chunks Maria McErlane 9781914227738
RRP: £10.99£7.77For Maria, navigating life in all its glory has been accompanied by a steady stream of bicycles.No rule book, just a love of the new and a passion for the open road.Maria details a warm and witty, sometimes difficult ride through childhood, friendships,... -
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm David Mas Masumoto 9781636281032
RRP: £13.99£10.95I discover a "lost" aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mental disability due to childhood meningitis. She was taken away in 1942 when all Japanese Americans were considered the enemy and... -
Once There Was Warsaw: A Memoir Gerald Marcus 9780815611707
RRP: £38.95£27.41As a young man in interwar Warsaw, newspaperman Ber Kutscher threw himself into the city’s vibrant Jewish arts and culture scene from the headquarters of the Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists at Tlomkatse 13. In Once There Was Warsaw,... -
The Road is Good: How a Mother’s Strength Became a Daughter’s Purpose Uzo Aduba 9781529382280
RRP: £22.00£14.56The actress Uzo Aduba came of age grappling with a master juggling act: as one of few Black families in their white Massachusetts suburb, she and her siblings were the unexpected presence in whatever school room or sports team they joined. But Aduba was... -
Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir Rodge Glass 9781739207793
RRP: £14.99£10.95Joshua dies on his birthday. Joshua dies the day he is born. Joshua lives for three hours. Joshua is alive.Rodge Glass's nephew Joshua died the same day he was born, from a blood condition they both share.This book charts the five years around Joshua's... -
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Maria Bamford 9781982168575
£11.27From “weird, scary, ingenious” (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and “laugh-out-loud funny” (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York Times bestselling author) memoir about show business,... -
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education Stephanie Land 9781982151409
RRP: £9.99£6.41NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A New York Times Most Anticipated Books of Fall From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a... -
Paris Lost and Found: A Memoir of Love Scott Dominic Carpenter 9781609522124
RRP: £12.99£9.70After his hilarious introduction to Paris in French Like Moi, Scott Dominic Carpenter returns to the scene of the crime with more tales of intrigue. This time, though, the story takes a surprising turn as his wife struggles with dementia. Humor may be... -
Ralph Metzner, Explorer of Consciousness: The Life and Legacy of a Psychedelic Pioneer Cathy Coleman 9798888500507
RRP: £25.00£16.86Reveals the vast impact of Ralph Metzner’s healing therapies and wisdom on colleagues, students, clients, and the fields in which he worked• Includes contributions from Rick Doblin, Charles S. Grob, Stan Grof, Stanley Krippner, Dennis McKenna, the late... -
An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work Charlotte Shane 9781982126865
RRP: £18.99£15.26Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tender reckoning of what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society.In her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women’s... -
LeBron James: A Little Golden Book Biography Shasta Clinch 9780593708309
RRP: £4.99£3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593708309Author Shasta ClinchFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
From the Reservation to Washington: The Rise of Charles Curtis Debra Goodrich 9781493075355
RRP: £25.00£18.24The first person of color to serve as vice president, Charles Curtis was once a household name but has become a footnote in American history. As a mixed-race person who became a public figure in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, his story is... -
The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos Mark Chiusano 9781668043684
£11.77From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turning, and frankly hysterical story of America’s most outrageous grifter—former US Representative George Santos.America is used to larger-than-life... -
Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape Arthur J. Magida 9781639367221
RRP: £22.00£17.59The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student who not just survived but resisted and saved hundred of lives—all while retaining his infectious zeal for life.Though Cioma Schonhaus was only 11 years old when the Nazis first came to power, his... -
Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana Marc C. Johnson 9780806194868
RRP: £21.95£15.69Burton K. Wheeler (1882–1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential—and controversial—members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A... -
The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age Karl Z. Morgan 9780806194882
£19.16Karl Z. Morgan was a physicist at the Manhattan Project and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he was director of health physics from the late 1940s until his retirement in 1972. He collaborated with leading trial lawyer Ken M. Peterson to write this... -
Beyonce Is Life: A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Beyonce Kathleen Perricone 9780760393130
RRP: £14.99£12.49Confirm your Beyhive superfan status with this gorgeously illustrated, all-encompassing guide to all things Beyoncé.All hail the queen! From her first solo at St. John’s United Methodist Church to becoming a part of Destiny’s Child, shaping the R&B... -
Rory Gallagher - The Later Years Lauren Alex O'Hagan 9781915246608
RRP: £19.99£18.93Rather than a traditional biography, Rory Gallagher - The Later Years takes the format of a series of essays. It consists of six core sections (‘In the Studio’, ‘On the Stage 1985-1991’, ‘Introducing the New Rory Gallagher Band’, ‘On the Stage... -
The Conductor: The Story of Rev. John Rankin, Abolitionism's Essential Founding Father Caleb Franz 9781637589892
RRP: £12.99£11.32Known in his day as the “Father of Abolitionism,” Reverend John Rankin is one of the greatest heroes previously lost to history.Sitting high above the small community of Ripley, Ohio, a lantern shone in the front window of a small, red brick home at...