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Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy by Mike Love 9780571324682 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.65Mike Love is a founding member, lyricist and vocalist of The Beach Boys, considered to be the most popular American band in history, with 13 Gold Albums, 55 top-100 singles, and four number 1 hits. Love has been the lead singer of the group one of its... -
You Can't Say That: Memoirs by Ken Livingstone 9780571280384 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.80This is a frank, gripping and moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic and effective politicians of the last fifty years. His political convictions, his distance from New Labour, and his direct, plain-speaking style... -
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes 9780571275823 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed.' Growing up in a tranquil English village, Emma knew very little of her mother's life before her. She knew Paula had grown up in... -
Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell by Tom Bower 9780571278350 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.29"Sweet Revenge" offers a detailed insider's account of entertainment mogul Simon Cowell's rise to meteoric fame and all of the controversial highs and lows along the way as he settles scores with rivals. The book will be packed with juicy... -
Prince: A Celebration by Matt Thorne 9780571273492 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65Legendarily reticent, perverse and misleading, Prince is one of the few remaining 80s superstars who still, perhaps, remains unexplained. Now a firm fixture in the pop canon, where such classics as "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times"... -
No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone by Tom Bower 9780571269358 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29'I'm no angel.' Bernie Ecclestone. Born into poverty, Bernie Ecclestone has made himself a billionaire by developing the world's second most popular sport - Formula One racing. Private, mysterious and some say sinister, the eighty-year-old criss-crosses... -
Best and Edwards: Football, Fame and Oblivion by Gordon Burn 9780571215805 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29'For those old enough to remember Duncan Edwards, watching Professor Williams, Best's doctor, was to be reminded of the slower, grainier days of 1958 when, in the words of Don DeLillo, "things were not replayed and worn out and run down and used up... -
Sold: A young girl betrayed by her mother into a life of vice by Tess Stevens 9780340960851 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29What kind of a woman would sell her own child? A monster. Tess was just eleven years old when her mother sold her to a rich elderly man. Grace ran a brothel in Croydon and she plunged her young daughter into a terrifying world of sex and depravity. Grace... -
Mauve by Simon Garfield 9780571209170 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.78Mauve is the beguiling story of a man who invented a colour, and in the process transformed the world around him. Before 1856, artificial colour was derived with difficulty and at enormous expense from animals, minerals or plants. But in 1856 a chemist... -
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures by Wilbur Smith 9781785765308 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot, but lucky... -
Queen Victoria by Michael St. John Parker 9780853725558 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.00£2.13Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years. When she came to the throne, the royal family was in disrepute; when she died it was held in great respect at home and abroad. This guide looks at this extraordinary woman as a girl, wife, mother and queen. Look out... -
How to Be a Footballer by Peter Crouch 9781785039775 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29'The funniest man in British sport' - Metro Featured on BBC Radio 2 with Chris Evans You become a footballer because you love football. And then you are a footballer, and you're suddenly in the strangest, most baffling world of all. A world where one... -
Jurgen Klopp by Elmar Neveling 9781785033629 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.26"It is the intensity of the football, of how the people live football in Liverpool, all the Liverpool fans around the world. It is not a normal club, it is a special club." (Jurgen Klopp). As innovative as Arsene Wenger and as crowd-pleasing as... -
Amber's Donkey by Julian Austwick 9781785031687 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29'The first time Shocks saw Amber coming, he lowered his head so she could wrap her arms around his nose. It was as if they understood each other's pain. Like two broken beings, helping each other.' When Shocks the donkey was left for dead on a farm in... -
The Last Great Edwardian Lady by Ingrid Seward 9780712675611 [USED COPY]
£2.80A biography of the Queen Mother which also provides an account of the twentieth century. The Queen Mother has lived through the years of the most rapid progress in mankind's history and two world wars yet retains the charm, elegance and dignity that... -
The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley 9780712666138 [USED COPY]
£17.10In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers among the Kikuyu people, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases and discovered - the hard way - the world... -
Outsider: Always Almost: Never Quite by Brian Sewell 9780704372672 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.00£2.29Listed in the Sunday Times 'Books of the Year' and Daily Mail 'Biographies for Christmas 2011', Outsider is the life of a child, boy, adolescent, student and young man in London between the Great Depression of the 30s and the sudden prosperity and social... -
Rebel for the Hell of it: Life of Tupac Shakur by Armond White 9780704380493 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00£2.26This first full length biography of Tupac Shakur details each step in Shakur's development, from his early exposure to racism and political activism to his studies of drama to his move from New York to the West Coast and his innovative work with early... -
Kilvert's Diary, 1870-79: Selections from the Diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, 1870-79 by Francis Kilvert 9780712665537 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.50£2.29Kilvert's classic diary, which paints a picture of mid-Victorian English country life. Closely-written in 22 notebooks, the notes of the vicar of Langley Burrell, Wiltshire, cover a span of nine years (1870-9). This is an abridged, one-volume edition... -
Songs My Mother Taught Me by Marlon Brando 9780712660129 [USED COPY]
£2.80In this memoir, Marlon Brando talks of his struggle to become an actor, of his remarkable career first on the stage and then in film, and of his on- and off-screen relationships with a host of actors, producers and directors. He talks candidly of a... -
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee 9780701184957 [USED COPY]
£2.65Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in... -
Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley by Patrick Marnham 9780701179915 [USED COPY]
£2.65Mary Wesley published her first novel when she was 70 - and went on to write 9 more bestsellers before her death in 2002 at the age of 89. Wesley was a pen-name, derived from the family name of Wellesley. She was born Mary Farmar, descended from the Duke... -
Raymond Chandler: A Biography by Tom Hiney 9780701163105 [USED COPY]
£2.65For this biography of Raymond Chandler, Hiney had access to previously unseen personal papers and also to unrecorded reminiscences by those who knew the writer well. In the light of new discoveries, a more raw, complex, twisted and brilliant Chandler... -
Immediate Action by Andy McNab 9780593037829 [USED COPY]
£2.29In "Bravo Two Zero", Andy McNab gave an account of his experiences as commander of an SAS patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq. Now he tells the story of his life, from the day he was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the... -
Yes!: My Improbable Journey to the Main Event of Wrestlemania by Daniel Bryan 9781785030437 [USED COPY]
£2.29YES! YES! YES! Daniel Bryan is the real deal. Everyone's favourite underdog, he's proven to the world and to all of WWE that looks can be deceiving. Just ask everyone who's ever underestimated him...right before he went out and whipped the WWE Universe... -
A Doctor's Occupation by John Lewis 9780450056765 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.50£2.29A Doctors Occupation is the story of Dr John Lewis running his general practice in Jersey during 1940-1945. The Channel Isles were the only part of Britain to be occupied by German forces during the Second World War. This book gives a first hand account... -
Spirited Oasis: Tales from a Tanzanian Village by Jeannette Hanby 9781525576287 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.49£14.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525576287Author Jeannette HanbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 152g -
A View from A Broad by Bette Midler 9781476773551 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£11.30With her brassy voice and bold performances making the world finally pay attention, Sophie Von Haselberg, the ambitious Jewish girl from Hawaii, embarked on her first world tour, and the force of nature known as Bette Midler was born. In A View from A... -
Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander by Phil Robertson 9781476726090 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Life was always getting in the way of Phil Robertson's passion for duck hunting. He grew up with the dream of living the simple life off the land like his forebears, but he soon found himself on a path to self-destruction; leasing a bar, drinking all the... -
Jacky Daydream by Jacqueline Wilson 9780385610155 [USED COPY]
£2.29Everybody knows Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson's best-loved character. But what do they know about Jacqueline herself? In this fascinating book, discover: how Jacky played with paper dolls like April in "Dustbin Baby"; how she dealt with an... -
In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy by Ken Wiwa 9780385601856 [USED COPY]
£2.15Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed in 1995. One of Nigeria's best-loved writers and critics of military rule, he was a mover in bringing the human rights abuses of Shell Oil and the Nigerian military to the world's attention. This work tells of Ken Wiwa's... -
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein 9780349007922 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.65Emma Watson's Book Club pick for July and August 2016 Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one of the most important movements in rock history... -
Making Waves: The Autobiography by David Hasselhoff 9780340909300 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.64Now available in paperback, with a new chapter and photographs. Making Waves follows Hasselhoff's acting career from his early childhood role in Peter Pan to his highly acclaimed performance in Chicago in London's West End, and his new TV triumph in... -
The Duck Commander Family: How Faith, Family, and Ducks Built a Dynasty by Willie Robertson 9781476703541 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.65Faith. Family. Ducks - in that order. The Duck Commander Family gives readers an up-close and personal, behind-the-scenes look at the family in the exploding History Channel show: Duck Dynasty. This Louisiana bayou family operates Duck Commander, a... -
A Spoonful of Sugar by Brenda Ashford 9781444739824 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29'They say you can never truly love a child that is not your own, but that goes against every instinct that runs through me. For I have loved children born to other women all my life and every child that I have ever cared for, I've adored with all my... -
Knave of Spades: Growing Pains of a Gardener by Alan Titchmarsh 9780340953051 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99£2.65When Alan left school at fifteen little was expected of him. An 'O' level in art is not the most obvious passport to success, but in the ancient greenhouses of the local nursery Mrs T's little lad found his spiritual home, learning his trade and the... -
Silent Sisters by Jenny Tomlin 9780340898840 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29For years, Jenny and sister Kim suffered horrendous physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their father. They survived in part because of their closeness and their determination to be there for each other. Both sisters left home at the earliest... -
Ugly by Constance Briscoe 9780340895993 [USED COPY]
£2.29Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the girl was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When that... -
Managing My Life: My Autobiography: The first memoir from the legendary Manchester United manager by Alex Ferguson 9780340728567 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29This book is about the beginning of Sir Alex's football career, until the year 2000. 1999 was an outstanding year for Alex Ferguson - not only did he lead Manchester United, the most glamorous club in the world, to a unique and outstanding treble... -
The Last Tsar: Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinskii 9780340569955 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29Edvard Radzinki, the leading Russian playwright, offers a portrait of Nicholas and Alexandra's marriage and an account of the final days of the Russian royal family's arrest, imprisonment and regicide. The opening of long-closed archives has allowed the...