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Katherine: The classic historical romance by Anya Seton
RRP: £9.99£5.75'A great adventure, powerfully told' (Philippa Gregory) A sumptuous tale of passion and danger in the medieval court, Anya Seton's Katherine is an all-time classic.Katherine comes to the court of Edward III at the age of fifteen. The naive... -
Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley
RRP: £10.99£6.56_____________________________'If you've ever wept, "Why Do I Want To Run?", your answer is here.' CAITLIN MORANAlexandra Heminsley had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms and bored of... -
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis 9780241651117
RRP: £25.00£15.01*INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'Extraordinary' The Observer'A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read' New Yorker'Lewis's storytelling is as good as ever' The EconomistFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and... -
Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton
RRP: £20.00£14.91PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created. The labels attached to Paris Hilton. Founder... -
Lawrence of Arabia: An in-depth glance at the life of a 20th Century legend by Ranulph Fiennes 9780241450611
RRP: £25.00£15.01The authoritative and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World's Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes.Thomas Edward Lawrence first set foot on the hot sands of Arabia in... -
The Heart is the Strongest Muscle: How to Get from Great to Unstoppable by Tia Toomey 9780349439891
RRP: £20.00£11.21The legendary six-time CrossFit Games champion and Olympic athlete shares lessons from her inspiring story of leveling up her performance, embracing failure, and fiercely taking on impossible goals.Tia Toomey, the world's fittest woman, has won the... -
You May Never See Us Again: The Barclay Dynasty: A Story of Survival, Secrecy and Succession by Jane Martinson 9780241660690
RRP: £25.00£15.01'A tour de force' - Guardian'Forensic ... Strong on financial detail' - Financial TimesA Financial Times Book of the Year 2023The untold story of post-war Britain. Told through the lives of the two men who helped shape it: Sir David Barclay and Sir... -
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon by Alan Partridge
RRP: £25.00£12.12"Not only has Alan Partridge created an entirely new storytelling structure, it's very funny indeed." Jon Ronson'Partridge... has become the man our time deserves. Aha!' The TimesIn Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan... -
Terrible Thames by Terry Deary
RRP: £7.99£4.32Keep your hands inside the boat at all times! Discover all the terrifying tales about the number one river in London with history's most horrible headlines: Terrible Thames edition. The master of making history fun,... -
Londongrad: From Russia with Cash;The Inside Story of the Oligarchs by Mark Hollingsworth
RRP: £12.99£7.19The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, mega-yachts, the world's best footballers - and chauffeur-driven Range Rovers with tinted... -
Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
RRP: £16.99£12.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060742768Author Danny MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Autists: women on the spectrum by Clara Törnvall
RRP: £12.99£7.26An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls... -
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: £14.99£4.39'Masterly' - Robert Harris, author of Imperium 'Essential reading for anyone interested in Ancient Rome' Independent*****Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before... -
Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces by John Sutherland
RRP: £9.99£6.80A Sunday Times top-five bestseller'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . . . It has as much to tell us about mental illness as it does about policing' Alastair StewartJohn Sutherland joined the Met in 1992, having dreamed of being... -
Gazza: My Story by Paul Gascoigne
RRP: £14.99£9.80Almost as soon as Gazza burst on to the scene at Newcastle United, the young Geordie was the centre of attention: Vinnie Jones's notorious ball-handling showed the lengths people would go to try to stop him. Then, with England on the verge of possibly... -
Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith 9780008614997
RRP: £25.00£16.13A gripping, painfully honest and ultimately inspirational, New York Times bestselling memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. 'It's a shame that Pinkett Smith's... -
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith 9781805302421
RRP: £18.99£10.69'Life, like a poem, is a series of choices' In her long-awaited debut memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, award-winning poet Maggie Smith explores in lyrical vignettes the end of her marriage and the beginning of a surprising new life. With the... -
Suggs and the City: Journeys through Disappearing London by Suggs
RRP: £10.99£7.40Revelling in the off-beat and eccentric, Londoner Suggs takes us on a nostalgic adventure to explore the disappearing history of his extraordinary home town: from the sharp tailors of Saville Row to the sex traders of Bohemian Soho, by way of quaint and... -
Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power: 'riotously candid' Sunday Times by Sasha Swire 9780349144405
RRP: £12.99£3.32SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'The wickedest political diaries since Alan Clark's' Daily Mail'Riotously candid' Decca Aitkenhead, Sunday Times'An acute political intelligence at work' Guardian'Glorious, compelling, jaw-dropping'... -
Escape or Die: True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £9.99£3.32Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... -
Maeve's Times by Maeve Binchy
RRP: £9.99£2.79'Maeve's Times is funny and clever and kind, which are excellent qualities in both books and people' Irish Times'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am... -
Being David Archer: And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living by Timothy Bentinck
RRP: £9.99£2.26'Hilarious' Mail on Sunday'Stylish, very funny memoir' Daily MailTimothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers since 1982. He is also the Earl of Portland and the voice of 'Mind The Gap' on the Piccadilly Line. Aimed... -
Tulisa - The Biography by Chas Newkey-Burden 9781857826708
RRP: £7.99£1.73Tulisa Contostavlos has one of the most fascinating and shocking life-stories in showbusiness. Her childhood included harrowing episodes of self-harm, bullying, witchcraft, drug abuse and suicide attempts. Then there has been the ever-present challenge... -
To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in by Philippe Petit
RRP: £8.99£2.26One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time, making eight crossings over the course of an hour, 110... -
Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation by Andrew D. Lambert
RRP: £14.99£5.99In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. Yet Franklin, his ships and his men were... -
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination by Amy Tan 9780007585571
RRP: £9.99£2.79From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The... -
If Not For You: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Georgina Lucas
RRP: £16.99£3.86'If I were to look closely at the jagged edges of my fragmented heart, I'm sure I'd see that some spaces now shine with gold. And that is what he left for me.'_______________________'An extraordinarily brave, honest and tender book' RACHEL CLARKE'Full of... -
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow 9780571269549
RRP: £25.00£6.31Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age.Edward Lear lived a vivid, fascinating, energetic life, but confessed, 'I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth... -
Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places by Alastair Sawday
RRP: £10.99£2.26A charming and beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel - for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron and Eric Newby.'Lawrence Sterne once suggested that we travel for one of just three reasons: imbecility of mind, infirmity of... -
Lucky Johnny: The Footballer who Survived the River Kwai Death Camps by Johnny Sherwood 9781444790337
RRP: £12.99£2.26In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians. By 1942 he was a soldier surrendering to the Japanese at the siege of Singapore. ... -
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves 9780241951415
RRP: £15.99£2.79'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is... -
Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
RRP: £14.99£5.46'The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away'Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier... -
The Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean by David Bodanis 9780349128214
RRP: £20.00£3.42'David Bodanis is an enthralling storyteller. Prepare to be taken on a surprising, wide-ranging and ultimately inspiring journey to explore what makes us human' Tim HarfordCan you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognising... -
The Girl from Nowhere: A Romani Ghetto Life by Eliska Tanzer 9781912624942
RRP: £8.99£2.79My mother was a prostitute. My grandmother and great-grandmother were prostitutes.Maybe I should have given the family business a chance...BBC RADIO 4 PICK OF THE WEEK, Katie Puckrik'Eliska's story is an extraordinary and powerful read. It's the ultimate... -
The Sisterhood: A Love Letter to the Women Who Have Shaped Us by Daisy Buchanan
RRP: £9.99£3.32For fans of Bryony Gordon and Dolly Alderton, The Sisterhood is an honest and hilarious book which celebrates the ways in which women connect with each other.'My five sisters are the only women I would ever kill for. And they are the only women I have... -
Moving Heaven and Earth (Icon Science): Copernicus and the Solar System by John Henry
RRP: £8.99£2.26When Nicolaus Copernicus claimed that the Earth was not stationary at the centre of the universe but circled the Sun, he brought about a total revolution in the sciences and consternation in the Church.Copernicus' theory demanded a new physics to explain... -
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist by Chris Paling
RRP: £16.99£2.79'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus GBP300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens. Then again it might not. But hope... -
Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary by Rebecca Front
RRP: £8.99£2.79'Hilarious' The Times'I was completely captivated' David SedarisPeople are odd. Even the most predictable of us sometimes defy expectations. Add to that the tricks that life plays on us and the world suddenly seems full of impossible things.As an... -
All the King's Men: The Truth Behind SOE's Greatest Wartime Disaster by Robert Marshall
RRP: £10.99£4.71The story of one of the most astonishing episodes of espionage and deception of World War Two.This is the tale of two men: Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6, and double agent Henri Dericourt, who was planted with the rival wartime secret service - SOE -... -
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks 9781848310605
RRP: £8.99£2.79Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim...