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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780285635463Author Julia ScullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Souvenir Press LtdPublisher Profile Books Ltd

Michael Owen's explosive and revealing autobiography Reboot is one of the most talked about football books in recent years. The legendary striker's career divides opinion among fans and his honest book set the record straight. This is his no-holds barred...

Kathy Pettingill is a name that's both respected and feared, not only by Australia's criminal underworld, but by many in the Victorian police force. As the matriarch at the head of the most notorious and violent family of habitual offenders in Australian...

A self-confessed non-conformist puritan, Kenneth Griffith's life and work as actor, writer and film-maker are testaments to the essential ambivalence of a complex and colourful character. His inherent anti-establishment mischievousness is coupled with a...

Fifteen years on from Anthony Holden's undisputed classic BIG DEAL, the poker world has changed beyond recognition. When Holden played in the 1988 World Series of Poker there were 167 entrants competing for a prize of $270,000. At the 2006 WSOP, where...

In this hilarious, frank and affecting autobiography Ned Sherrin looks back on his life and career with inimitable wit and a good deal of wisdom. In his long, successful and event-filled career Ned Sherrin has been an innovative satirist (That Was The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307346773Author Theo Pauline NestorFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780292702592Author H Joaquin JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas PressWeight(grams) 635g

Who made modern Britain? This book, drawn from the award-winning Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, tells the story of our recent past through the lives of those who shaped national life. Following on from the Oxford DNB's first supplement...

Argo by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio - the declassified CIA story behind the Oscar-winning film WINNER OF 'BEST PICTURE' AT THE ACADEMY AWARDS, THE BAFTAS AND THE GOLDEN GLOBES Tehran, November 1979. Militant students stormed the American embassy and...

Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and...

Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and...

Darwin's theory that men's ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906978129Author Barry WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Hobnob PressPublisher Hobnob PressWeight(grams) 375g

The gripping true story of a Royal Marine helicopter pilot at war in Afghanistan. Major Mark Hammond was awarded the DFC, which ranks third after the VC, for remarkable feats in Afghanistan in his Chinook helicopter. Like the other Chinook pilots and...

The story of one woman's struggle and refusal to succumb to adversity - the beatings of a violent husband, the crippling poverty of the age - to raise six children and devote a lifetime to charity and good works.Book InformationISBN 9781903402450Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142410691Author Carol Ann LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 200g

Maria is twenty-nine years old. She is a single mother and lives on a council estate in Manchester. She's also a chronic day-dreamer. One day she'd like to marry a beautiful man with a huge income to look after her and Jack, her nine-year-old son.The...

How far would you go to be the perfect mother? The hilarious Wife in the North by Judith O'Reilly, based on her enormously popular blog, recounts one woman's attempt to move her family and her life from cosmopolitan London to rural Northumberland.Maybe...

An extraordinary account of a nurse's life behind the locked doors of a secure psychiatric ward. Dennis O'Donnell started work as an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit of a large hospital in Scotland in 2000. In his daily life he encountered...

A few months after two of his parents had died, Martin Rowson had a dream about the house he grew up in which was crammed with tons and tons of stuff, both physical and emotional. In this book Rowson delves into all that 'stuff'; weaving together dreams,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062457523Author Hannah HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062355959Author Shep GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 484g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780063092792Author Ann PatchettFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062909114Author Laurie WooleverFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 221mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062328052Author Duncan BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062206121Author Professor Rosemary SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 590g

The moving and inspirational true story of one little girl's battle against the medical odds and a mother's unwavering love for her daughter. 'If I could have any wish it wouldn't be a part in High School Musical. I'd like to live just one day without...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061857805Author Russell BrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061337604Author Barbara LeamingFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 205mm...

Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud is a beautifully written account of Sun Shuyun’s journey to retrace the steps of one of the most popular figures in Chinese history – the monk Xuanzang, who travelled to India searching for true Buddhism. Xuanzang...

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Sara Davies' story is one of abuse, neglect, betrayal and, ultimately, survival. When Sara was only five years old, her violent father began to sexually abuse her. She suffered in silence for many years, as her father took advantage of her innocence and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375414572Author President Bill ClintonFormat HardbackPage Count 957Imprint Knopf Publishing GroupPublisher Knopf Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 1565g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992158309Author Laura BradburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Grape BooksPublisher Grape BooksWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

From the beloved and bestselling author of The Snowman comes his first book in ten years: a charming and beautifully illustrated work for adults. In Notes from the Sofa, Raymond Briggs traces the course of his life in a series of wonderfully observed...

Many people today know Leonard Woolf mainly through the surname of his wife, Virginia, or his role in supporting her through her mental illness, depicted in films like The Hours. Some critics see him as his wife's oppressor. In Victoria Glendinning's...

Paralympics champion and Dancing with the Stars contestant Victoria Arlen shares her courageous and miraculous story of recovery after falling into a mysterious vegetative state and how she broke free, overcoming the odds and never giving up hope,...

Ski-mountaineering in the Austrian Alps with only one working limb. Sailing above the Arctic Circle and west of Greenland. Walking around Annapurna. Working as a doctor in India. Exploring the tribal region of north Pakistan. These are only some of the...