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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
RRP: $23.08$14.81THE 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 Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag
RRP: $23.08$16.32The 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... -
North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: $20.98$14.83From Fleet Street to the television, North Face of Soho is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James.'[James] delivers his gags with honed elegance' - Sunday TimesIt is 1968. Newly... -
Between the Covers: Jilly Cooper on sex, socialising and survival by Jilly Cooper
RRP: $18.88$12.43'No one else can make me laugh and cry quite like Jilly Cooper.' Gill Sims'Jilly Cooper's non-fiction is just as entertaining as her novels.' Pandora Sykes____________________'One truth I have learnt, as middle age enmeshes me like Virginia creeper, is... -
Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo by Peter Richardson
RRP: $50.40$38.72A superbly crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation, achievement, and continuing relevance. Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's... -
Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the Greatest Food Writers of All Time by Grace Dent
RRP: $20.98$13.94WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2021 WINNER OF 2021 LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Extraordinary. Vivid, irreverent, heartbreaking.' NIGEL SLATER ... -
The Story of a Life: ‘A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement’ Telegraph by Konstantin Paustovsky
RRP: $31.48$23.84Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarkable new translation.'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph'One of the great Russian autobiographies, as fresh now as the day it... -
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
RRP: $27.28$17.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171479Author Curzio MalaparteFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov 9781800699090
RRP: $20.98$13.61'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 Times'At first we did not understand what war was. You can't understand... -
The Pedant In The Kitchen by Julian Barnes
RRP: $18.88$12.77The Pedant's ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic of himself and others, he knows he is never going to... -
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume One by Clive James
RRP: $31.48$22.81Clive James, a true polymath, became a generation-defining voice as a broadcaster, a critic, a poet and an author. Among his greatest achievements, his five hilarious, heartwarming books of autobiography are collected now in two volumes: his Complete... -
Strange Places, Questionable People by John Simpson
RRP: $35.68$25.58For over thirty years, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. From being punched in the stomach by Harold Wilson on one of his first days as a reporter, to escaping summary execution in Beirut, flying... -
The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy by Susan Clare Zalkind 9781503903708
RRP: $18.88$12.87A crusade to find a killer becomes a gripping, intensely personal investigation into a shocking cold case and the radicalization of a terrorist. In September 2011, Erik Weissman and two friends were murdered in a brutal triple homicide in Waltham,... -
Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories by Allan Jones
RRP: $27.28$19.09The Sunday Times' Music Book of the Year 2017 Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15 years wrote a popular monthly column called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, based on his experiences as a music journalist in the 70s and... -
The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski 9781862079595
RRP: $20.98$14.07In 1964 Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice... -
Manchester Unspun: Pop, Property and Power in the Original Modern City by Andy Spinoza 9781526168450
RRP: $42.00$31.35At 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... -
The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD by Fergal Keane
RRP: $23.08$15.23An Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda,... -
Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic by Mike Chinoy
RRP: $63.00$48.76Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Foreign correspondents have confronted war, revolution, isolation, internal upheaval, and onerous government restrictions as well as barriers of... -
Where Memories Go: Why dementia changes everything - as heard on BBC R4 Book of the Week by Sally Magnusson
RRP: $23.08$14.81'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... -
Nobody's Child by Kate Adie
RRP: $27.28$17.18'Witty, compelling and never mawkish' Observer'Written with a sure touch . . . Adie has a natural understanding of what it is like to be unsure of your origins' Sunday Telegraph'A cracker of a subject . . . (Adie) writes with an engaging, forthright... -
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
RRP: $35.68$24.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307592439Author David LipskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 504g -
Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin
RRP: $39.88$27.78Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while... -
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War by Deborah Cohen
RRP: $23.08$15.23'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the... -
Equal: How we fix the gender pay gap by Carrie Gracie 9780349012254
RRP: $20.98$7.37'Gracie tells the story of her struggle and eventual triumph as a way of encouraging us, of changing our society, of giving us all courage . . . Equal is a very important book' Sandi ToksvigEqual pay has been the law for half a century. But women often... -
I Never Said I Loved You: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Rhik Samadder
RRP: $27.28$17.18'I Never Said I Love You is one of the most electric, enchanting, engrossing and energising memoirs of self-harm, self-loathing, grief, eating disorders, suicide - and sex - that you will read.' The Sunday Times'Indecently entertaining... one of the most... -
Killing My Own Snakes: A Memoir by Ann Leslie
RRP: $39.88$29.42'Gloriously funny . . . unfailingly entertaining' - Mail on Sunday'What worlds she's seen, what a life she's had - at long last, the memoirs of the fearless, witty, indomitable Ann Leslie' - Deborah MoggachShe has been shot at by Bosnian snipers, been... -
House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family by Hadley Freeman 9780008322663
RRP: $20.98$13.94The Sunday Times bestseller 'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson 'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of... -
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
RRP: $23.08$14.81'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris'I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful... -
Always Unreliable: Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: $35.68$25.58Always Unreliable is the collected first three volumes of Clive James's eloquently witty autobiographies, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week Was in June.In Unreliable Memoirs we meet the young Clive James - dressed in shorts and... -
Table Talk: Sweet And Sour, Salt and Bitter by Adrian Gill
RRP: $20.98$13.61The first collection of food writing by Britain's funniest and most feared criticA.A. Gill knows food, and loves food. A meal is never just a meal. It has a past, a history, connotations. It is a metaphor for life. A.A. Gill delights in decoding what... -
Waugh in Abyssinia by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: $23.08$16.32A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondentIn 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the... -
The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence
$59.64John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from 1965 to 1970 and was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war. His documentary about a squad of U.S. troops, "The World of Charlie Company," received every major award... -
Theroux The Keyhole: Diaries of a grounded documentary maker by Louis Theroux
RRP: $20.98$14.43Come round to Louis Theroux's house, where the much-loved documentary-maker finds himself in unexpected danger . . .Louis's latest TV series about weirdness - the one involving the American far right, home-grown jihadis, and SoundCloud rappers - has been... -
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A Caro
RRP: $23.08$16.32Robert A. Caro is one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation, whose landmark biographies are widely hailed as masterpieces.This is the captivating account of his life as a writer, describing the sometimes staggering lengths to which he has gone... -
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $23.08$15.23SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times 'Spellbinding and intelligent' Financial Times ... -
Sunshine Warm Sober: The unexpected joy of being sober – forever by Catherine Gray
RRP: $20.98$13.61The 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... -
The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood
RRP: $18.88$12.43'Deftly explores expectations of modern womanhood . . . Full of adventure and awe' Dolly AldertonPeople always said I'd find love where I least expected it. I always said they were idiots.I had no idea how to commit to another human being.I could barely... -
Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend by Christina De Stefano
RRP: $29.38$19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635420531Author Christina De StefanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb 9781250141057
$30.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250141057Author Robert GottliebFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 23mm -
A Factotum in the Book Trade by Marius Kociejowski
RRP: $29.38$19.45A memoir of life in the antiquarian book trade, in London, England, and, in keeping with Kociejowski's travel writing, a journey through people's lives. Beginning with his childhood in rural Ontario, where at the annual village jumble sale he would buy...