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The White Album by Joan Didion
RRP: £9.99£6.89Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in... -
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
RRP: £10.99£8.02TIKTOK BOOK AWARDS WINNER 2023Read and loved it? Gift it to a friend this festive season!"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the... -
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life by Catherine Gray
RRP: £9.99£6.73THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Many people wonder if they can still have fun without alcohol... Gray tackles this misconception.' - The New York Times 'Gray's tale of going sober is uplifting and inspiring' - The Evening Standard 'An icon of the Quit... -
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death by Laura Cumming
RRP: £25.00£16.53**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'A wonderful read (or a great present) for anyone who loves stories and art' Nina Stibbe, author of Love, NinaA beautifully illustrated... -
Politics: A Survivor’s Guide: How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged by Rafael Behr
RRP: £20.00£14.69NAMED A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2023 'Passionate, clever, and often very funny' Marina Hyde'A wonderful meditation on populism, nationalism, politics and truth' Rory Stewart***Chosen as a 2023 Non-Fiction highlight in the Guardian, New... -
Pour Me: A Life by Adrian Gill
RRP: £9.99£6.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE'An intense, succulent read that's intermittently dazzling' THE TIMES'Chilling, exquisitely moving' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A superb memoir - and one of the best books on addiction I have ever read' EVENING STANDARDA. A... -
Manchester Unspun: Pop, Property and Power in the Original Modern City by Andy Spinoza 9781526168450
RRP: £20.00£14.93At the end of the 1970s, Manchester seemed to be sliding into the dustbin of history. Today the city is an international destination for culture and sport, and one of the fastest-growing urban regions in Europe. This book offers a first-hand account of... -
Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the Greatest Food Writers of All Time by Grace Dent
RRP: £9.99£6.89WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2021 WINNER OF 2021 LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Extraordinary. Vivid, irreverent, heartbreaking.' NIGEL SLATER ... -
A Pebble In The Throat: Growing Up Between Two Continents by Aasmah Mir
RRP: £20.00£14.69SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'I loved this book ... incredibly moving' Reverend Richard Coles'A treasure of a book' Fern BrittonThe heart-warming memoir from the much-loved broadcasterA Pebble in the Throat is the coming... -
The Most of Nora Ephron: with a new introduction from Candice Carty-Williams by Nora Ephron
RRP: £10.99£8.02A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF THE ULTIMATE NORA EPHRON COLLECTION, PACKED WITH WIT, WISDOM AND COMFORT, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'The perfect introduction to the iconic writer' STYLISTINCLUDING:* Nora's much-loved essays on everything... -
Where Memories Go: Why dementia changes everything - as heard on BBC R4 Book of the Week by Sally Magnusson
RRP: £10.99£7.30'A fine book' The Sunday Times 'Powerful' Guardian 'Wonderful' The Telegraph'Moving, funny, warm' Mail on Sunday'Brave, compassionate, tender and honest' Metro'This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99£8.02A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of a wartime childhood, Cambridge friendships and an early... -
Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris
RRP: £25.00£16.83'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet... -
Keep Talking: A Broadcasting Life by David Dimbleby
RRP: £25.00£15.95'Thoughtful, very readable ... We have been lucky, lucky, lucky to have him' - The Times'Pithy and amusing' - Sunday TimesDavid Dimbleby has interviewed prime ministers and presidents, made award-winning documentaries, chaired Question Time for 25 years,... -
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
RRP: £10.99£7.30THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Riveting and often shocking' Sunday Times 'Dripping with jaw-dropping revelations' Telegraph'Absorbing' New York Times In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan... -
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £10.99£7.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times 'Spellbinding and intelligent' Financial Times ... -
I Feel Bad About My Neck: Dolly Alderton introduction by Nora Ephron
RRP: £9.99£7.36'So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it' - Phoebe Waller-BridgeNow with an introduction from Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love, revealing how a new generation of women can take inspiration from Nora's... -
The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 by Florence de Changy
RRP: £9.99£6.89'People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does... This is a splendid book - and highly recommended.' Daily Mail A remarkable piece of investigative... -
Theroux The Keyhole: Dispatches from a grounded documentary maker by Louis Theroux
RRP: £20.00£14.29Come round to Louis Theroux's house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestselling author of Gotta Get Theroux This finds himself in unexpected danger . . . Like millions of others, Louis' plans were mothballed by the onset of Covid... -
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel 9781399813884
RRP: £25.00£15.95'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of the Year'Magical . . ... -
How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong by Elizabeth Day
RRP: £9.99£6.89Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is a book for anyone who has ever failed... -
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn 9780907871774
RRP: £12.99£8.60Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her "best horror journeys". She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean and visits a dissident writer... -
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
RRP: £10.99£7.50From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Several days before... -
Gotta Get Theroux This: My life and strange times in television by Louis Theroux
RRP: £10.99£7.76From much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux comes a funny, heartfelt and entertaining account of his life and weird times in TV.The Sunday Times Bestseller.'Honest and soul-searching' - Sunday Express______________In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis... -
Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary: From the prize-winning author of Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe 9781035025299
RRP: £16.99£11.87Ten years after the publication of the prize-winning Love, Nina comes the author's diary of her return to London in her sixty-first year. 'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus, author of... -
Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC by Rory Cellan-Jones 9781914613432
RRP: £18.99£12.84Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the truth behind his isolated childhood and absent father. Rory... -
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
RRP: £10.99£8.02An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty, violence and revenge, set against the unmistakable backdrop of New York City. Now a major film starring Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt, Robert de Niro and Kevin Bacon.Four boys - lifelong friends who shared... -
War Journal: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine by Andrey Kurkov
RRP: £16.99£10.70'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary' Helen Davies, The TimesThis journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's... -
Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland by Deborah Orr
RRP: £9.99£6.73THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent' Observer'A masterpiece' Andrew O'Hagan, Guardian'Completely amazing' Lucy Mangan, Stylist'A modern classic' Daily... -
Things I Learned From Falling: The must-read true story of 2020 by Claire Nelson
RRP: £8.99£6.16'What a story - never heard a story like that before' - Chris Evans'Uplifting and brave' - Stylist'Claire Nelson relives a life-changing four days' - The Times'A riveting account of loneliness, anxiety and survival' - Cosmopolitan'An astonishing feat of... -
Sound Man: A Life Recording Hits with the Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Faces... by Glyn Johns
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147516572Author Glyn JohnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 246g -
Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country's Hidden Past by Giles Tremlett
RRP: £12.99£8.81Spaniards are reputed to be amongst Europe's most forthright people. So why have they kept silent about the terrors of their Civil War and the rule of General Franco? This apparent 'pact of forgetting' inspired writer Giles Tremlett to embark on a... -
American Mother by Colum McCann 9781526663481
RRP: £20.00£14.29'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMES AN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The English language has no specific word for the parent that has... -
Sunshine Warm Sober: The unexpected joy of being sober – forever by Catherine Gray
RRP: £9.99£6.73The long-awaited sequel to THE UNEXPECTED JOY OF BEING SOBER - the Sunday Times bestseller 'Exquisite' - Fearne Cotton, Happy Place'A paean to the longer-term pleasures of staying booze-free' - The Guardian'The kind of book that changes lives, and very... -
Assume Nothing: Encounters with Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe by Edward Jay Epstein
RRP: £26.99£18.38Curiosity led Edward Epstein to investigate some of the greatest political mysteries of our time, such as the JFK assassination in Dallas, the Vatican banking scandal in Rome, and the diamond cartel in South Africa. Seeking more information, he often... -
The Year of Magical Thinking (Collins Modern Classics) by Joan Didion
RRP: £9.99£7.55Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. ... -
Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News by Emily Maitlis
RRP: £9.99£7.36FEATURING EMILY MAITLIS' GROUNDBREAKING INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE ANDREWThe news has never been more prominent - but are we getting the full story? Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis gives us a behind-the-scenes look at some of the biggest news stories and... -
War Diary of the Ukrainian Resistance by The Kyiv Independent
RRP: £16.99£12.64'We must reveal the truth - it's our duty. The world must know what is going on here ... We have to carry on reporting. This is what keeps me going: reporting so that the world will never forget.' - Asami Terajima, reporter for The Kyiv IndependentHow... -
Allegorizings by Jan Morris
RRP: £9.99£6.95'Peerless.' Daily Telegraph 'Sprinkled with magic.' Observer'Full of mischief, romance, fun and kindness.' The TimesSoldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first... -
The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag
RRP: £9.99£7.36The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left? The...