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An American Story: Everyone’s Invited Wilmer Valderrama 9781400336579
RRP: £20.00£13.34The remarkable true story of a young immigrant from Venezuela who had a dream to change the world, a talent for entertaining, and a determined spirit to build a new life, taking as many as possible with him on the journey.An American Story is the... -
My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation Joanie Holzer Schirm 9781640126299
RRP: £20.99£16.70After the death of Joanie Holzer Schirm’s parents in 2000, she found hundreds of letters, held together by rusted paperclips and stamped with censor marks, sent from Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, China, and South and North America, along with journals,... -
Through Jamaican Lenses: A Memoir Fern June Khan 9781496852946
RRP: £27.95£16.66Born and raised on the island of Jamaica, Fern June Khan has valued and embraced Jamaica in each stage of her life. Despite the island’s economic and educational challenges during her youth, Khan’s childhood was a colorful one, replete with the vibrant... -
The Little Book of LeBron James Orange Hippo! 9781800696310
RRP: £6.99£5.00King James, the greatest of all time.Named 'The Chosen One' at just age 17, and with the iconic number 23 set to retire with him at the end of his career, LeBron fulfilled his destiny of surpassing scoring records and becoming one of basketball's most... -
Remember, You Are a Wiley: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote Maya Wiley 9781538739938
RRP: £28.00£18.41A moving, politically-charged memoir of surviving trauma and the power of activism from MSNBC legal analyst, professor, civil rights lawyer and former New York City Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley.Born in a country that has repeatedly traumatized her and... -
The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things: A Year of Salvage Suzanne Joinson 9781911648680
RRP: £13.99£9.20Suzanne Joinson grew up in a 1980s council estate in Crewe, where her parents were followers of The Divine Light Mission cult. This clash of class and counterculture destroyed her family, leaving a legacy of turmoil and poverty. Years later, she... -
All the Things We Didn't Say: Two Memoirs Marion Garrard Barnwell 9781496854117
RRP: £24.95£16.25In this poignant and introspective dual memoir, Marion Garrard Barnwell embarks on a deeply personal journey. Inspired by the memoir of her maternal grandmother, Mary DuBose Trice Clark, affectionately known as ""Ganny,"" the narratives, though separated... -
Harry Styles: A Sign of the Times Annie Zaleski 9781786751577
RRP: £25.00£16.38One of the most streamed and most followed celebrities of the twenty-first century, Harry Styles is undoubtedly the breakout pop star of our times. After finding global fame as part of boyband phenomenon One Direction, Styles left to pursue a solo career... -
The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home Charles Strobel 9780826507365
RRP: £25.95£18.47As Charles Strobel, beloved Nashville priest and champion of the unhoused, reached the end of his life in 2023, he began to contemplate the last message he wanted to leave his family, friends, and community. With the help of his niece, Katie... -
Portraits in Life and Death Peter Hujar 9781324092179
RRP: £55.00£42.33The 1976 publication of Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life and Death, with an introduction by Susan Sontag, “was and remains one of the most somberly beautiful and influential photography collections of its era” (Holland Cotter, senior art critic of The New... -
Before The Night Comes Matt Roper 9781915306784
RRP: £9.99£7.11"My eyes are filling with tears. I'm transported back - as I often am - nearly thirteen years, to a very different place, to the lonely side of a remote Brazilian highway, to a night so dark it felt like it would swallow us, to the very first girl..." In... -
Story of John Wayne: The Ultimate Collector's Guide Neil Crossley 9781497104358
RRP: £16.99£11.16Peek inside the life and career of John Wayne, "The Duke," in this amazingly detailed book. Read about his humble beginnings, his desire to join the military, to be a football pro, and ultimately his rise to stardom in the Wild West movies of the 1940s,... -
Music Mavens: 15 Women of Note in the Industry Ashley Walker 9798890680082
RRP: £11.95£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890680082Author Ashley WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 358g -
Phocion: Good Citizen in a Divided Democracy Thomas R. Martin 9780300256635
RRP: £18.99£17.28Thomas R. Martin recounts the unmatched political and military career of Phocion of Athens, and his tragic downfall Phocion (402–318 BCE) won Athens’s highest public office by direct democratic election an unmatched forty-five times and was officially... -
Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics Simin Fadaee 9781526177988
RRP: £19.99£14.52A cutting-edge exploration of how Marx’s ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South. For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl Marx provided the backbone for social justice around the world. But today the... -
Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist Sherrie Flick 9781496238542
RRP: £15.99£13.13Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist traces the creative coming of age of a mill-town feminist. Sherrie Flick, whose childhood spanned the 1970s rise and 1980s collapse of the steel industry, returned to Pittsburgh in the late 1990s, witnessing the... -
Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir Paul Rousseau 9781400247950
RRP: £20.00£18.51One month before his college graduation, Paul Rousseau is accidentally shot in the head by his roommate and best friend. At some point in the course of Paul and Mark’s friendship, Mark acquired—legally and with required permits—five firearms. Those... -
Finding Rebecca Shani Mahiri King 9781958394083
RRP: £15.99£13.14Finding Rebecca examines the casual disappearance of America's first Black female doctor from records and memory. But the search for her story and her final resting place, more than one hundred years after her death, turned up a few murky details that... -
Getting Away With Murder: My unexpected life on page, stage and screen Lynda La Plante 9781804183854
RRP: £22.00£14.05Lynda La Plante has lived an illustrious life and has the stories to prove it. From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RADA, joining peers Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt and Ian McShane; from beginning her scriptwriting career with... -
The Use of Photography Annie Ernaux 9781804271148
RRP: £12.99£8.56First published in France in 2005, The Use of Photography recounts a passionate love affair between Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo for breast cancer during the... -
Cristiano Ronaldo George Maudsley 9780702338861
RRP: £5.99£4.05Be inspired by Football Legend, Cristiano Ronaldo! From goal scoring records, and iconic celebrations to bicycle kicks, Ballon d'Or and beyond, discover how this sporting hero rose from humble beginnings to become one of the greatest football players... -
Mucky Boots: Triumphs, Trials and Tragedies of a Football Club Owner Kevin McCabe 9781801504256
RRP: £25.00£17.62Mucky Boots is the warts-and-all story of Kevin McCabe's two decades as Sheffield United's owner-chairman. McCabe grew up yards from Bramall Lane, where he watched Sheffield United FC and Yorkshire County Cricket Club play. He left school aged 16 and... -
The Biggar Picture: My Life in Rugby Dan Biggar 9781035028054
RRP: £22.00£15.10After fifteen years at the very pinnacle of test rugby, leading the most successful squad in Welsh history, Dan Biggar tells his story. ‘When I reflect on it all, I can say without any doubt that I gave it everything.’Dan Biggar has never fitted the... -
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book of the Year Sly Stone 9781399601580
RRP: £10.99£7.40SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023A VARIETY MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a trailblazer who... -
Diagnosed: An Insider's Guide For Your Healthcare Journey Cris Ross 9798887700342
RRP: £25.99£15.69Foreword by Tia Newcomer, CEO of CaringBridge When Cris Ross and Ed Marx were diagnosed with cancer, they thought they knew what to do next. They were, after all, executives at two of the premiere hospitals in the United States—Mayo Clinic and Cleveland... -
Sidney Poitier: The Great Speeches of an Icon Who Moved Us Forward Sidney Poitier 9780762487172
RRP: £25.00£16.96The speeches of film legend Sidney Poitier-given at commencement addresses, awards shows, memorials, and more, on topics ranging from entertainment history to filmmaking, civil rights, and parenthood-come to vibrant life in this inspirational and... -
Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger Frankie McIntosh 9781496854001
RRP: £109.00£94.30Soca music, an offspring of older Trinidadian calypso, emerged in the late 1970s and is now recognized as one of the English-speaking Caribbean’s most distinctive styles of popular vocal music. Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger tells a... -
Encore: My journey back to centre stage Russell Watson 9781399738248
RRP: £22.00£14.56In the first years of the new millennium Russell Watson was at the peak of his success as a much loved classical singer. He had gone from humble beginnings, working in a factory making nuts and bolts in Salford to singing in working men's clubs to... -
The Dervish Bowl: The Many Lives of Arminius Vambery Anabel Loyd 9781913368975
RRP: £25.00£17.31Who was Arminius Vambery? A poverty-stricken, Jewish auto-didact; a linguist, traveller, and writer; or a sometime Zionist, inspiration for Dracula's nemesis, and British secret agent? Vambery wrote his own story many times over. And it was these often... -
Love and Loss: The Short Life of Ray Chapman Scott H. Longert 9780821425688
RRP: £27.99£24.14The son of a coal miner from a small Illinois town, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman lived the American dream until his untimely death at age twenty-nine. In his brief life, he reached the pinnacle of baseball success as the best shortstop in the... -
Mamie Takes a Stand: The True Story of Mamie Tape, a Chinese American Girl's Fight for School Rights Marie Chan 9780736987325
RRP: £16.50£13.03Middle-grade readers will learn the little-known story of Mamie Tape, an eight-year-old Chinese American girl whose desire for knowledge and belonging led her family to fight for her right to attend public school in San Francisco. In the fall of 1884... -
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial Viet Thanh Nguyen 9780802163769
RRP: £12.99£12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802163769Author Viet Thanh NguyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science Dava Sobel 9780802163820
RRP: £21.99£18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802163820Author Dava SobelFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
An Improbable Life: My Father's Escape from Soviet Russia Dr. Karine Rashkovsky 9798887195131
RRP: £14.99£11.66Just how improbable can one man's survival story be? From evading the KGB and disassembling a downed American plane to narrowly escaping a life sentence in Siberia, Reuven Rashkovsky’s story is a gripping tale of coming of age, searching for belonging,... -
Athletes Who Changed the Game James Buckley Jr. 9781728275062
RRP: £12.99£11.62Celebrate over 50 athletes who broke barriers, took risks, and changed the rules!While these athletes came from different backgrounds and overcame unique struggles, they had one thing in common: they would not take "You can't" for an answer. With a... -
A Happy Man: In Conversation with Rossano Brazzi Lynn Florkiewicz 9781835740460
RRP: £12.99£9.09In this fascinating biography, Lynn Florkiewicz brings Rossano Brazzi back to life, accompanying him through the streets of Italy as he reflects on his life. Beneath the serious Latin Lover image crafted by Hollywood, she discovers a mischievous and fun... -
Around the World in 80 Fights: A Lifetime’s Journey to the Heart of Boxing Steve Bunce 9781035413980
RRP: £22.00£14.56An autobiographical white-knuckle ride around the global fight game by the legendary Steve Bunce: the voice of the sport who is celebrating four decades of writing and talking about boxers and boxing.In Around the World in 80 Fights, let 'the Voice of... -
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power Sonia Purnell 9780349014739
RRP: £16.99£13.72An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players'Fascinating and revelatory, written with great aplomb, insight and shrewd analysis. A triumph' WILLIAM BOYD'A vivid, glittering, sexy, scintillating,... -
Only you know & I know Dave Mason 9798218380175
RRP: £20.00£14.29Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Dave Mason found early success with the band Traffic, establishing himself as a skilled guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter who penned the classic “Feelin’ Alright?”. Departing the band for a solo career, Mason earned three gold... -
Style and Substance: Why What We Wear Matters Bay Garnett 9781399812450
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A compelling new encyclopaedia of style' Harper's Bazaar'In a world of fleeting trends, Bay Garnett has created an accessory to treasure, earning Style and Substance an enduring place in the canon of fashion literature.' i-newsFor Bernardine Evaristo,...