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The Black Russian by Vladimir Alexandrov 9781781855195 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£2.65The extraordinary story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, the son of former slaves who fled America to build a life in Tsarist Russia. 'A fascinating tale' Anne Applebaum 'Thoroughly enjoyable' Spectator 'Extraordinary and gripping' Adam Hochschild ... -
Len Goodman's Lost London by Len Goodman 9781908695581 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.80I was almost born within the sound of Bow Bells, nearly born in Wales, but ended up being born in Kent. But never mind all that, I'm a Londoner, through and through. I spent my early childhood in Bethnal Green and even when we moved to live across the... -
Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war by Evelyn Shillington 9780751567021 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.Eve joined... -
Blood and Whiskey: The Life and Times of Jack Daniel by Peter Krass 9780471273929 [USED COPY]
RRP: £29.00£15.43The first-ever biography of the man who created America's most famous whiskey Born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 1850, Jack Daniel became a legendary moonshiner at age 15 before launching a legitimate distillery ten years later. By the time he died in... -
Nurse! Nurse!: A Student Nurse's Story by Jimmy Frazier 9781845293956 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.92'Engaging, compassionate and often very moving' Daily MailA student nurse's storyAs punishment for some youthful high jinks, 16-year-old Jimmy Frazier is made to volunteer in a London hospital. The experience shocks him, and he swears he will never set... -
Salaam Brick Lane by Tarquin Hall 9780719565564 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.13After ten years living abroad, Tarquin Hall wanted to return to his native London. Lured by his nostalgia for a leafy suburban childhood spent in south-west London, he returned with his Indian-born, American fiance in tow. But, priced out of the housing... -
Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry 9780143126287 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£6.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143126287Author Douglas PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 342g -
Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong by Georgina Lawton 9780751579376 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.65A GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD AND COSMOPOLITAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A jaw-dropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thought-provoking book' Sunday Times'A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family, secrets, lies and ultimately... -
The Midwife's Here!: The Enchanting True Story of One of Britain's Longest Serving Midwives by Linda Fairley 9780007446308 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29The Sunday Times bestseller 'Delivering my first baby is a memory that will stay with me forever. Just feeling the warmth of a newborn head in your hands, that new life, there's honestly nothing like it... I've since brought more than 2,200... -
Laid in Chelsea: My Life Uncovered by Ollie Locke 9780007513963 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.92The Sunday Times bestseller! Pour the champagne, light some candles, lay back and prepare to laugh, cry and gasp at the fully uncensored, Bridget-Jones-esque world of Ollie Locke, star of Made in Chelsea. Immaculately dressed,... -
One Leg Too Few by William Cook 9780099559924 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£8.69One Leg Too Few will feature an extensive range of fresh interviews, previously unpublished archive material and a wealth of information about the most creative (and explosive) double act that British comedy has ever produced.One Leg Too Few is a book... -
Keeper of Style: John Murray, the King of Lord's by Christopher Sandford 9781785314872 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£3.02The life and times of Middlesex and England wicketkeeper-batsman John 'JT' Murray, one of the acknowledged greats of English post-war cricket. Irresistibly cool, glamorous and apparently unapproachable, Murray was Christopher Sandford's consuming hero at... -
Collabro - Our Story by Collabro 9781905825790 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Michael Auger, Richard Hadfield, Jamie Lambert, Matt Pagan and Thomas J Redgrave had been singing together for just one month when they decided to enter Britain's Got Talent. But despite the judges' initial scepticism, Collabro received a standing... -
The Good Soldier: The Biography of Douglas Haig by Gary Mead 9781782392248 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander who sent his troops to slaughter in vast numbers at the... -
My Journey So Far by Andrew White 9780745970226 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.29Andrew White is something of a legend: a man of great charm and energy, whose personal suffering has not deflected him from his important ministry of reconciliation. Andrew grew up in London, the son of strongly religious parents: by the age of five he... -
One Chance: My Life and Rugby by Josh Lewsey 9780753515570 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.13Josh Lewsey is a household name in English rugby. He has been a Rugby World Cup winner, part of the prestigious British Lions squad and a crucial member of the Wasps team, one of the most successful UK premiership rugby sides of the last 10 years. Not... -
Restoration Heart: A Memoir by William Cash 9781472132185 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65'Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful' Mail on Sunday'I read most of it in one exciting sitting. It is brilliant, gripping and sad' Harry MountRestoration Heart is a story of love, double divorce and redemption. It is a biography of the... -
Surfboard: How Using My Hands Helped Unlock My Mind by Dan Kieran 9781783526383 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£4.69The Surfboard is Dan Kieran's account of a week he spent in Cornwall building a seven-foot surfboard, even though he had never surfed a day in his life. He did this at a time when he felt he had reached his personal and professional limits: he needed to... -
Cleo: How a small black cat helped heal a family by Helen Brown 9781444700145 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.78For all those people who say they aren't cat people, but deep down know they are.'Possibly the next Marley & Me' Red 'A reminder of the gratitude humans owe to our companion animals' Daily MailHelen Brown wasn't a cat person, but her nine-year-old son... -
Tabloid Girl by Sharon Marshall 9780751544008 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£1.78I didn't know I was starting a life where I'd be asked to do three impossible things before breakfast, and be sworn at by four celebrities by lunch. I just thought, hey, I've got a job on a tabloid.'Sharon Marshall was a tabloid reporter for ten years... -
Martin O'Neill: The Biography by Alex Montgomery 9780753512418 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.29Martin O'Neill is one of the most brilliant, successful and intriguing of the new manager/coaches to emerge from British football.Alex Montgomery's acclaimed biography brings O'Neill's story right up to date with an account of his first few months in... -
Lawrence: The Uncrowned King of Arabia by Michael Asher 9780140258547 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29'The best life of Lawrence yet published' - The Express Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist, rhetorician and manipulator, who deliberately turned his life into a conundrum. But who was the real man behind the masks? Lawrence began the GreatWar as a... -
The Pythons' Autobiography By The Pythons by Graham Chapman 9780752864259 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29This is the definitive, the official, the most lavish, the completely-different-to-anything-done-before Pythons' autobiography, reissued to coincide with the eagerly-anticipated live shows.Over forty years ago, a group of five Englishmen - and one... -
An Unconventional Love by Adeline Harris 9780007354252 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£2.29Adeline Harris grew up in surroundings steeped in religion, from the beloved ayah in India who told her stories of Jesus wrestling tigers, to the strict father in England who placed a stone under her knee when she said the Rosary. It was no wonder that... -
The Early Diaries: including An Unnatural Pursuit and How's That for Telling 'Em, Fat Lady? by Simon Gray 9780571254910 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£3.10'There are few things more enjoyable than reading the diaries of Simon Gray.' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday Simon Gray's witty, painful, and acutely observed Early Diaries chronicle the highs and lows of bringing two of his plays to the stage. An Unnatural... -
I Can Only Imagine: A Memoir by Bart Millard 9780785216735 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.13"The Story That Inspired the Major Motion Picture."The captivating story behind the bestselling single in the history of Christian music-and the man who wrote itMercyMe's crossover hit, "I Can Only Imagine," has touched millions of people around the... -
William Shakespeare: His Life and Work by Anthony Holden 9780349112404 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream... -
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France by Nicholas Shakespeare 9780099555667 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.29The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a... -
The Sandwich Years: How to survive when the people in your life need you most by Alana Kirk 9781473627505 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29The Sandwich Years is the heartfelt, inspirational story of the bond between mothers and daughters, and how one woman - through caring for the person she had relied on the most - finally found herself. Alana Kirk, married with two children and a third on... -
The Difficult Second Book by Chris Moyles 9780091922443 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£1.86Superman was a hero. Clark Kent was a geek.Spiderman saved lives. Peter Parker sold photographs to his local paper.Chris Moyles entertains 8 million people each week on BBC Radio 1. Then he goes home and plays Xbox on his sofa, while wearing only his... -
Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters by Jane Dunn 9780007347094 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99£2.65Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography. The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master... -
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes 9780571221387 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00£2.80At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was... -
Fresh Flowers for M'Lady: The Story of Craig-Y-Nos Castle and Dame Adelina Patti by Tony Hibbert 9781907741029 [USED COPY]
£10.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Transplant Triathlete: The Story of How One Man Went from Illness to Ironman by Diccon Driver 9781785311963 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.13An ironman triathlon is seen as the hardest one-day endurance event in the world. Consisting of a 3.8km swim, a 180km bike ride, followed by a full marathon, it is a huge undertaking for anyone, never mind a rookie with chronic kidney disease. Transplant... -
Reasons 2 Smile - My Battles on and off the Rugby Field by Matthew Rees 9781784615932 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784615932Author Matthew ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Dudley Moore: An Intimate Portrait by Rena Fruchter 9780091900809 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Rena Fruchter was Dudley's concert piano partner, and the friend who looked after him in the final years of his life until his death at the age of 66. This is her intimate portrait of the extraordinarily brilliant, complex character that was Dudley Moore... -
Higher Than The Eagle Soars: A Path to Everest by Stephen Venables 9780099505440 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.29High and wild places have dominated Stephen Venables' life and now he has written a full autobiography which explores how and - more importantly - why he became a mountaineer, and reveals a series of never-recorded adventures on four continents. At its... -
A Private War by Marie Brenner 9781471180705 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29Now a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan.The book that inspired the film A Private War, based on acclaimed journalist Marie Brenner's centrepiece profile of Sunday Times Foreign Affairs correspondent Marie... -
James Herbert - The Authorised True Story by Craig Cabell 9781782196709 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.13For almost 40 years, Herbert was Britain's most popular horror author. With sales f over 50 million copies, he carved a niche in quality bestselling fiction all of his own. Famous for his Rats trilogy and The Fog, he broke away from the cut-and-thrust... -
Pushkin by T. J. Binyon 9780006373384 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99£2.29A major biography of one of literature's most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback to great acclaim: 'one of the great biographies of recent times' (Sunday Telegraph). Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is indisputably Russia's...