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Jesse Owens David Lee Morgan Jr. 9798889982661
RRP: €13.08€9.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889982661Author David Lee Morgan Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Focus ReadersPublisher Focus Readers -
Face the Music: My Story Alfie Boe 9781529910353
RRP: €13.08€9.25THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER The intimate and uplifting memoir from one of Britain's most loved singers - this is Alfie, off stage.Bringing his characteristic sense of cheeky humour to the page, in this heartfelt book Alfie describes for the first time the... -
Giacometti in Paris Michael Peppiatt 9781526600998
RRP: €15.46€10.45THE TIMES AND WATERSTONES BEST ART BOOK OF 2023 'Marvellous . . . intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett’ Paul Theroux A portrait of one of the twentieth century’s greatest sculptors from one of our most eminent art... -
I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner Kanya D'Almeida 9781645030492
RRP: €33.32€22.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645030492Author Kanya D'AlmeidaFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type Books -
One Bad Mother: A Woman's Search for Meaning in Motherhood and the Philadelphia Police Academy Megan Williams 9781960573858
RRP: €15.46€14.35After her six-year-old daughter puts a hammer through a wall, Megan Williams decides to abandon a career as an academic and become a police officer. It’s not lost on her that she may have applied to the Police Academy to escape the realities of mothering... -
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide Tahir Hamut Izgil 9781529922752
RRP: €13.08€9.25A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history'Essential reading'AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows'Deserves to be read widely'FINANCIAL TIMESIf you took an Uber in Washington DC a few... -
A Kind Life: Eat Plants, Buy Less, Slow Down-and Save the Planet Carina Wohlleben 9781778400414
RRP: €15.46€13.51"A Kind Life takes readers on a personal journey, laying a pathway of how to live more kindly on the earth" —Keegan Kuhn, co-director of CowspiracyWhat does it mean to live a kind life? In this inspiring book, a mother-of-two provides a blueprint for how... -
Final Engagement: The Beginning of the End in Afghanistan Christopher L. Izant 9781635768725
RRP: €32.12€21.72Through his team’s deadly last showdown fighting alongside Afghan forces against the Taliban on the dangerous southern Helmand border, Marine Corps veteran Christopher Izant illustrates the impossible conditions and strategic blunders that disillusioned... -
Climate Champions: 15 Women Fighting for Your Future Rachel Sarah 9798890680099
RRP: €14.22€10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890680099Author Rachel SarahFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 363g -
Theodore Pratt: A Florida Writer's Life Taylor Hagood 9781683343622
RRP: €29.75€22.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683343622Author Taylor HagoodFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield -
The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing Claire Oppert 9781778400803
RRP: €20.22€18.43For readers of Oliver Sacks and Being Mortal by Atul Gawande.A celebrated art therapist plays the cello for patients with autism, neurodegenerative disease and terminal illness—and offers a moving reflection on the extraordinary power of music to enrich... -
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement Tanisha Ford 9780063115729
RRP: €14.27€13.57WINNER 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHYAn engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the... -
Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker Devra Lehmann 9781644212622
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644212622Author Devra LehmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
When the Band Played On: The Life of Randy Shilts, America's Trailblazing Gay Journalist Michael G. Lee 9780914090304
RRP: €32.07€21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914090304Author Michael G. LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review Press -
Whatever Happened to Slade?: When the Whole World Went Crazee Daryl Easlea 9781915841490
RRP: €15.46€10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915841490Author Daryl EasleaFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Omnibus PressPublisher Omnibus Press -
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai Matti Friedman 9781954118447
RRP: €20.23€15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954118447Author Matti FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia's Geechee Coast Neesha Powell-Ingabire 9798885740388
RRP: €15.46€13.67In this powerful debut memoir, Neesha Powell-Ingabire chips away at coastal Georgia’s facade of beaches and golden marshes to recover undertold Black history alongside personal and family stories. In May of 2020, Neesha Powell-Ingabire’s hometown became... -
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man Nicholas Shakespeare 9781529920604
RRP: €17.84€14.67A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our... -
Broken Open: What Painkillers Taught Me About Life and Recovery William Cope Moyers 9781616499976
RRP: €21.41€13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616499976Author William Cope MoyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Hazelden Information & Educational ServicesPublisher Hazelden Information &... -
Without Her: A Chronicle of Grief Rebecca Spiegel 9781571311962
RRP: €15.46€13.65A lucid memoir reckoning with grief and the search for understanding in the wake of a sister’s suicide.Rebecca Spiegel is working as a teacher in New Orleans when she learns of her sister Emily’s death by suicide. Shocked, she flies back to Philadelphia... -
What Happened Adrian Bean 9780995712751
RRP: €19.03€16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995712751Author Adrian BeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint Another Small PressPublisher Another Small Press -
Bootstrap Your Life: How to turn £500 into £350 million Oliver Cookson 9780349429205
RRP: €15.46€10.23An inspiring, rags-to-riches guide to achieving success in life and business by the founder of Myprotein®.How did a working-class 23-year-old, who left school with almost no qualifications, launch a business with just a £500 overdraft and turn it into... -
Running Through the Dark: The rise and fall of an ultrarunner Jen Scotney 9781839810145
RRP: €17.79€13.22Ultrarunner Jen Scotney has achieved podium finishes in some of the UK’s toughest races and now has her sights firmly set on the Pennine Way. In Running Through the Dark, Jen talks about her ambitions, not just to run the 268-mile Pennine Way but to take... -
The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine Yousef Bashir 9781912208807
RRP: €14.27€9.94In the Gaza Strip, growing up on land owned by his family for centuries, eleven-year-old Yousef is preoccupied by video games, school pranks, and meeting his father's impossibly high standards. Everything changes when the Second Intifada erupts, and... -
Shining Bright, Shining Black: Meet 100 Inspiring Black Icons Jamia Wilson 9780711297159
RRP: €11.89€8.09Shining Bright, Shining Black! is a rebound treasury of the best-selling, genre-defining Young, Gifted and Black, and its follow-up Young, Gifted and Black Too. Meet 100 icons of colour from the past, including inspiring figures from as far back as the... -
Hokusai's Daughter: A Young Artist in Old Japan - Bilingual English and Japanese Text Sunny Seki 9784805318614
RRP: €17.84€14.97A girl with grit, determination, passion and a paintbrush—can achieve amazing things!Whether working in his studio or out in the field, Japanese artist Hokusai had a constant companion—his youngest daughter, Eijo. Wherever they went, Eijo brought along... -
A Work In Progress Sue Cleaver 9781526678706
RRP: €23.80€16.72'I'm not past my prime. And neither are you!' Engaging and wise, A Work in Progress will resonate with every middle-aged woman who feels newly invisible, silenced, underestimated or diminished. From knowing our worth, looking ahead with excitement and... -
An Architecture of Hope: reimagining the prison, restoring a house, rebuilding myself Yvonne Jewkes 9781914484780
RRP: €22.60€14.60Should architecture be used for punishment? How might the spaces we inhabit nurture or damage us? How can we begin to start over after the worst has happened? Criminologist Yvonne Jewkes grapples with these questions every day as the world’s leading... -
Manboobs: A very queer memoir Komail Aijazuddin 9781529929386
RRP: €23.80€17.01The hilarious and piercing memoir about growing up gay in a not-so-gay world.‘An important story, told with a sharp wit and disarming humour’ MOHSIN ZAIDI‘Vastly entertaining and wickedly funny’ GREG MARSHALL I’m just a man, standing in front of a salad,... -
The Wilderness Aysegl Savas 9798893389098
RRP: €15.46€14.89A deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşegül Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are... -
Jessica Huntley's Pan-African Life: The Decolonizing Work of a Radical Black Activist Claudia Tomlinson 9781501394560
€95.25A powerful biography that presents analysis of a black working-class woman who rose from a tenement slum in intensely racialized British Guiana to become a leading anti-colonialism, workers’ rights and women’s liberation activist in Britain. Jessica... -
Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King: The Hidden Truth About Bill Gates and His Power to Shape Our World Anupreeta Das 9781398536890
RRP: €20.22€14.76Bill Gates is one of the most powerful figures of the past four decades. But the world-famous public image he has so carefully crafted is not the whole truth. In this explosive new book, Anupreeta Das (finance editor of the New York Times) takes you... -
We Used to Dream of Freedom: A Memoir of Family, the Holocaust, and the Stories We Don't Tell Sam Chaiton 9781459754683
RRP: €21.41€16.55A child of Holocaust survivors grapples with his parents’ untold stories and their profound effect on the course of his extraordinary life.Growing up in Toronto, Sam Chaiton and his brothers knew their parents had been prisoners in Bergen-Belsen. But... -
The Adventures of Cancer Bitch S.L. Wisenberg 9781948954938
RRP: €15.46€11.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948954938Author S.L. WisenbergFormat PaperbackImprint Tortoise BooksPublisher Tortoise Books -
There Was Night and There Was Morning: A Memoir of Trauma and Redemption Sara Sherbill 9781454955313
RRP: €23.80€19.02A searing memoir about growing up in a fiercely loving, abusive rabbinical family in which the author’s father, the charismatic head of a splinter Orthodox religious community, demands unswerving loyalty—and a commitment to guarding terrible secrets... -
Becoming Little Shell: Returning Home to the Landless Indians of Montana Chris La Tray 9781571313980
RRP: €23.79€19.64“Nothing less than the history of a people in the form of an absorbing and emotionally searing memoir.”—David Treuer, author of The Heartbeat of Wounded KneeGrowing up in Montana, Chris La Tray always identified as Indian. While the representation of... -
My Beckett, My Howe, My Son: A Literary Memoir Michael Coffey 9781682196083
RRP: €20.22€17.93Beckett’s Children is a lyrical blend of personal memoir, father–son dialogue, and literary investigation that probes the works of Irish writer Samuel Beckett and American poet Susan Howe in search of traces of their long-rumored status as father and... -
My Battle of Hastings Xiaolu Guo 9781784745370
RRP: €22.60€16.20'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah LevyEmbodiment, assimilation, integration – these are big words, but they seem to name a stage or a state I ought to be able to achieve in my brief life.In winter 2021, Xiaolu Guo moved into a tiny... -
This Is Our Life The Tragically Hip 9781905662913
RRP: €59.50€39.73This Is Our Life is the story of The Tragically Hip – the definitive account of their incredible journey, as told in their own words. Drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews, Rob Baker, Gord Downie, Johnny Fay, Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair and the... -
Self-Portrait Jack Kerouac 9781644283790
RRP: €34.50€27.82A collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive Jack Kerouac’s archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work...