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The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song by Caroline Davison
RRP: £20.00£14.29***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4******WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE******LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA AWARDS***A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edwardian folk music, and its influence on the composer Ralph Vaughan WilliamsIn January... -
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano
RRP: £12.99£9.09An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, and a precursor to the famous nineteenth-century slave narratives, Equiano's The Interesting Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa aged ten, his service as a slave of an officer in the British Navy... -
The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey by Gillian Tindall
RRP: £12.99£9.09Newly opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself, discover the history and secret stories of the people who've lived above London's newest trainline.Crossrail, or the 'Elizabeth' line, is just the latest way of traversing the very old east-west route through... -
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa
RRP: £20.00£13.10A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday TimesMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental... -
Island Girl To Airline Pilot by Silva Mcleod
RRP: £14.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922539618Author Silva McLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle PublishingWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 230mm *... -
The Project by David Souden
RRP: £22.00£15.62An official BBC book that celebrates the life of Queen Elizabeth II through photographs, some rarely seen, drawn largely from archives of the BBC.The longest-reigning monarch in British history, Queen Elizabeth II has been at the centre of British life... -
The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki
RRP: £9.99£6.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632060525Author Ruth OzekiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless BooksWeight(grams) 115g -
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson 9781529115673
RRP: £10.99£7.77'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph'Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Simon SchamaHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer.Howard... -
City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai
RRP: £9.99£6.48'Timely and beautifully written' Sunday Times'Phenomenal. An extraordinary insight into a country barely known - an often feared - by the West' Vogue'Utterly compelling' Daily Mail'Gripping, a dark, delicious unveiling . . . Deeply researched yet as... -
Sixteenth Round by Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter 9781569765678
RRP: £14.95£11.20Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was riding a wave of success. The survivor of a difficult youth, he rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of... -
Lives: Buddha by Karen Armstrong
RRP: £9.99£6.48'Karen Armstrong has been one of the most persistent and powerful voices in the eminently respectable task of popularising religious scholarship in the anglophone world' GUARDIAN'Her work has a broad sweep and that is extremely important' TLSBuddhism is... -
My Mother's Rules: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Emotional Genius by Lynn Toler 9781932841220
RRP: £12.99£8.63In this unique, profoundly inspirational memoir, Divorce Court star Judge Lynn Toler shares her mother's wisdom for learning to conquer anger and become immune to insult.Toler credits her mother's "rules" for life a life that saw her grow up the... -
How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures by Huma Qureshi 9781783966110
RRP: £9.99£6.65'A Stylist pick for best new non-fiction for 2021' "A sweet, touching memoir about family, faith and love. There's a purity and simplicity to Huma's writing, as she attempts to reconcile the sprawling weight of expectation with her own desire for a... -
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
RRP: £17.95£11.63The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee or freeze and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this ground-breaking work, therapist, Menakem, examines the damage caused by racism in America from the... -
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
RRP: £14.99£10.95The definitive biography of an extraordinary novelist, by acclaimed literary biographer Claire Harman'There was no possibility of taking a walk that day . . .' With these words Charlotte Bronte began Jane Eyre and changed English literature irrevocably... -
Who Are We - And Should It Matter in the 21st Century? by Gary Younge
RRP: £10.99£7.77*WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION*'Deals intensely and critically with urgent questions facing a globalised world' The TimesThe way we think and live, who we vote for and who we fear, has become ever more dictated by our personal identity.In his ground-breaking... -
Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
RRP: £10.99£7.77NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Discover the... -
The Man Who Gave Away His Island: A Life of John Lorne Campbell of Canna by Ray Perman
RRP: £9.99£6.99In 1938 John Lorne Campbell bought the Hebridean isle of Canna. He wanted to prevent it becoming a rich man's playground (like so many other islands and Highland estates), to preserve a part of traditional Gaelic culture and show that efficient farming... -
My Life in Food: A Memoir by Albert Roux
RRP: £22.00£13.83In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we eat, cook and appreciate food in this country. It is no exaggeration to say that most of what makes our current culinary... -
The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee by Gulwali Passarlay
RRP: £10.99£7.32*NOW UPDATED WITH EXTRA MATERIAL*The boy who fled Afghanistan and endured a terrifying journey in the hands of people smugglers is now a young man intent on changing the world. His story is a deeply harrowing and incredibly inspiring tale of our times... -
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £12.99£9.09Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social... -
Dragged Up Proppa: Growing up in Britain’s Forgotten North by Pip Fallow
RRP: £18.99£13.61Dragged Up Proppa is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England.'Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever' - Sebastian Payne, author of Broken... -
Estuary: Out from London to the Sea by Rachel Lichtenstein
RRP: £10.99£7.77LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick LaneOut at the eastern edge of England, between land and ocean, you will find beautiful, haunted salt marshes, coastal... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £4.99£4.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644672Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
The Race to the Top: Structural Racism and How to Fight It by Nazir Afzal 9780008487690
RRP: £16.99£16.66A New Statesman 'most anticipated title of the year' 'Compelling.' David Lammy MP 'Refreshing,' Pragya Agarwal A powerful intervention roundly debunking... -
Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £20.00£14.69Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his work and his age.Shakespeare was a man of his time, constantly engaging with his audience's deepest desires... -
The Two Popes: Official Tie-in to Major New Film Starring Sir Anthony Hopkins by Anthony McCarten
RRP: £9.99£7.11From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything and Darkest Hour, The Two Popes is a fascinating, revealing and gripping tale of two very different men whose destinies converge with each other - they both live in the Vatican - and the... -
Under the Rock: Stories Carved From the Land by Benjamin Myers
RRP: £9.99£6.65**Shortlisted for the Portico Prize 2019**; The astonishing new work of non-fiction from the prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing.; Under the Rock is about badgers, balsam, history, nettles, mythology, moorlands, mosses, poetry, bats,... -
The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle /]crob Kenner by Rob Kenner
RRP: £10.99£7.00A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This "beautiful tribute to a legendary artist" (Quincy Jones) is the first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip-hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational... -
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
£6.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345350688Author MALCOLM XFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas
RRP: £9.99£7.11'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I belonged.'Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of her childhood in... -
Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2 by Jean Sasson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia.Here,... -
Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley, A by Vivian Jones
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784613754Author Vivian JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
RRP: £10.99£8.56*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French... -
12 Years a Slave: Memoir of a Free Man Kidnapped into Slavery in 1851 by Malcom Washington Jr 9781492933588
RRP: £7.97£7.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492933588Author Malcom Washington JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell
RRP: £12.99£7.12SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 'A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature' Philip Hoare 'An exciting new voice' Mark Cocker, author of Crow... -
Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience by Natasha Carthew
RRP: £16.99£10.03'At times roaring and visceral, in turn gentle and embracing, always driven by hope and determination' RAYNOR WINN 'Haunting and powerful' KATE MOSSE To grow up in rural poverty is to fight for life before you can walk.Natasha Carthew was born into a... -
Brazen: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR FROM THE STAR OF NETFLIX'S MY UNORTHODOX LIFE by Julia Haart
RRP: £10.99£7.05**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A riveting, inspiring memoir from the star of Netflix's My Unorthodox Life'Haart is a hustler, a born entrepreneur, charismatic enough to attract investment like a pop ingenue attracts talent scouts and a fighter.' POLLY... -
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
RRP: £9.99£7.11Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, Seacole set out independently to... -
Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou
RRP: £9.99£7.59Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,...