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John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr
RRP: $27.28$19.09'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote.You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest... -
Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan by Jessica J. Lee
RRP: $23.08$14.81I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. For a... -
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs
RRP: $25.18$15.94When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his... -
Don't Look Back In Anger: The rise and fall of Cool Britannia, told by those who were there by Daniel Rachel
RRP: $42.00$30.85'A grade, A list oral history' The Sunday Times'Eminently, moreishly readable' The New Statesmen'A rollicking read' Mail on Sunday'Entertaining' Observer The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of... -
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
RRP: $20.98$14.93The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Chateau de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised... -
Love In A Torn Land by Jean Sasson
RRP: $18.88$13.55Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq.One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780198709879
RRP: $18.88$13.55'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published... -
The Factory of Facts by Luc Sante 9780679746508
RRP: $39.90$30.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746508Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 132mm... -
I'll Die After Bingo: My unlikely life as a care home assistant by Pope Lonergan
RRP: $27.28$19.09Nominated for the Chortle Comedy Book Award 2023'Blisteringly well written, deeply humane and very funny' Daily Telegraph'Enough to make you die laughing' Daily Mail'Funny and moving' Daily ExpressWhether he's initiating a coup d'etat against new... -
Mister Good Times by Norman Jay
RRP: $20.98$8.95THE LIFE STORY OF THE LEGENDARY BRITISH DJ, NORMAN JAY MBE 'Full of the heart and spirit Norman Jay brings to his music, but it also offers a salutary account of growing up as part of the Windrush generation in London's Notting Hill, the violence and... -
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
RRP: $20.98$13.46In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae waxes humorously on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool. I'm... -
Without Ever Reaching the Summit: A Himalayan Journey by Paolo Cognetti 9781787302273
RRP: $31.48$23.00An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains.Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan... -
The Race to the Top: Structural Racism and How to Fight It by Nazir Afzal
RRP: $20.98$13.94A New Statesman 'most anticipated title of the year' 'Compelling.' David Lammy MP 'Refreshing,' Pragya Agarwal A powerful intervention roundly debunking... -
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life by Marshall Frady 9780143036487
RRP: $50.40$34.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036487Author Marshall FradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 179mm * 129mm... -
Starchild: A Memoir of Adoption, Race, and Family by Michaela Foster Marsh
RRP: $27.20$22.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611883015Author Michaela Foster MarshPage Count 256Imprint The Story PlantPublisher The Story Plant -
Unstoppable [export Edition--Paperback]: Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend by Joshua Greene
RRP: $31.48$20.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647224363Author Joshua GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis by David Wills 9780062036193
$66.19There have been many Marilyn photo books - but nothing like this. Australian-born curator and preservationist David Wills has accrued one of the world's largest independent archives of original Marilyn Monroe photographs. Now, in "Marilyn Monroe:... -
The Berlin Shadow by Jonathan Lichtenstein
RRP: $20.98$13.46A formally audacious and deeply moving memoir in three timeframes that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son. In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein's father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child... -
Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection by Pauline Hopkins
RRP: $35.68$23.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743467698Author Pauline HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China by Xinran Xue
RRP: $20.98$15.65A spellbinding and magical narrative, this is the story of modern China through the women who lived through it. At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. They went on to... -
Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World by Christina Rickardsson 9781503901612
$21.69An extraordinary memoir of one woman's fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given. Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life... -
Passage Across the Mersey by Robert Bhatia
RRP: $20.98$13.94The remarkable story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned tragedy to triumph. When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in the 1930's, she and her six siblings fell from a comfortable middle-class... -
Muhammad by Maxime Rodinson
RRP: $35.68$25.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374925Author Maxime RodinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Renegade: The Life and Times of Darcus Howe by Robin Bunce
RRP: $27.28$19.09Explore the struggle for racial justice in Britain through the lens of one of Britain's most prominent and controversial Black journalists and campaigners. Born in Trinidad during the dying days of colonialism, Darcus Howe became an uncompromising... -
The Country Nurse Remembers: True Stories of a Troubled Childhood, War, and Becoming a Nurse (the Country Nurse Series, Book Three)Volume 3 by Mary J MacLeod
RRP: $52.48$32.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950691296Author Mary J MacLeodFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore 9780385528207
RRP: $35.68$22.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385528207Author Wes MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy by Damien Lewis 9781541700673
RRP: $46.18$31.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541700673Author Damien LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs -
Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop: As Portrayed on SMALL AXE, A Collection of Five Films by Dr Leroy Logan
RRP: $23.08$16.32'I was amazed and intrigued by the way Leroy had stood his ground and progressed within the Metropolitan Police against so many obstacles: hostility, outright racism and being repeatedly overlooked for promotion.' Steve McQueen, from the Foreword ... -
Smokin' Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier by Mark Kram 9780062654472
RRP: $27.28$17.81A gripping, all-access biography of Joe Frazier, whose rivalry with Muhammad Ali riveted boxing fans and whose legacy as a figure in American sports and society endures History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the... -
Love the Dark Days by Ira Mathur 9781845235352
RRP: $27.28$18.77A Guardian biography of the year 2022 Non-Fiction winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Literature 2023 This frank, fearless and multi-layered debut centres on a privileged but dysfunctional Indian family, with themes of empire, migration, race, and... -
Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
RRP: $18.88$16.23Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe-winner Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award-winners Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of... -
Under Our Skin by Jethro Soutar 9781951213527
RRP: $29.40$19.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951213527Author Jethro SoutarFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Unnamed PressPublisher Unnamed Press -
Inside Studio 54 by Mark Fleischman
RRP: $41.98$30.72In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up... -
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayetu Moore 9781644450314
RRP: $54.60$34.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644450314Author Wayetu MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 163mm *... -
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780198835325
RRP: $20.98$14.93'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life... -
On the Crofter's Trail by Craig David
RRP: $31.48$20.58In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by... -
Refugee Wales: Syrian Voices by Angham Abdullah 9781914595301
RRP: $42.00$30.01This book focuses on the stories of Syrians who have found refuge in Wales, based on their own oral testimonies. They were recorded as part of a research project undertaken by Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru- National Museum Wales. Moving away... -
Black and Blue: One Woman's Story of Policing and Prejudice by Parm Sandhu
RRP: $23.08$15.37'Inspiring... Important' Observer'A page-turner which everyone who cares about policing and justice in Britain should read.' Meera SyalAt the point of her retirement from the Metropolitan Police Service in 2019, Parm Sandhu was the most senior BAME woman... -
Personal Odyssey, A by Thomas Sowell 9780684864655
RRP: $35.68$34.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684864655Author SowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 475gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm -
Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty by Michele Fitoussi 9781908313461
RRP: $27.28$18.12She understood women. She understood beauty. And she started a revolution. Helena Rubinstein was born into a poor Polish family at the end of the nineteenth century; by the time of her death in 1965 she had built a cosmetics empire that spanned the...