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Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris
RRP: $48.75$32.82'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... -
Table Talk: Sweet And Sour, Salt and Bitter by Adrian Gill
RRP: $19.48$13.26The 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... -
Write Lines: Adventures in Rap Journalism by Andrew Emery 9781913231507
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231507Author Andrew EmeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press -
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum 9781784703950 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$5.17The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friendsSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a... -
In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
RRP: $25.33$17.73The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friendsSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a... -
Politics: A Survivor’s Guide: How to Stay Engaged without Getting Enraged by Rafael Behr
RRP: $39.00$28.65NAMED 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... -
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley 9780679741541
RRP: $33.13$25.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679741541Author Alan BrinkleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465g -
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
RRP: $29.23$19.11TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to... -
An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee
RRP: $42.90$28.68'Fascinating' Spectator'Entertaining' Sunday Times'Enthralling' Guardian'Beautiful, funny and moving' Daily Mail'Compelling and moving' Observer'Replete with vivid - often hilarious, often shocking - anecdotes' Financial TimesWhile for generations Polly... -
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch by Michael Wolff
RRP: $21.43$15.15From the author of the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White HouseRupert Murdoch is one of the greatest deal-makers alive. His companies possess extraordinary political and cultural power. Whether it is the Sun and the... -
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra 9780099628712 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$4.47An 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... -
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
RRP: $21.43$15.15An 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... -
Maeve's Times by Maeve Binchy
RRP: $19.48$6.84'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... -
Travels with Myself and Another Martha Gellhorn 9780907871774
RRP: $25.33$16.77Out 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... -
Manchester Unspun: Pop, Property and Power in the Original Modern City by Andy Spinoza 9781526168450
RRP: $39.00$29.11At 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... -
Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris 9780008238414
RRP: $25.33$16.54‘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 compulsively readable. It's a book for our times,... -
Time and Tide by Charlie Bird 9780008546786
RRP: $19.48$12.95A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird. In 2021, Charlie Bird was diagnosed with motor neurone disease - a man whose voice was so synonymous with his career faced losing it completely. Yet... -
The Closet: A coming-of-age story of love, awakenings and the clothes that made (and saved) me by Teo van den Broeke 9780008501532
RRP: $37.03$24.78Throughout his life, clothes have provided an outlet through which journalist Teo van den Broeke understands both himself and the world around him. From the blue princess dress he coveted as a child, that first led... -
Theroux The Keyhole: Diaries of a grounded documentary maker by Louis Theroux
RRP: $19.48$13.40Come 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... -
North Face of Soho: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: $19.48$14.18From 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... -
Strange Places, Questionable People by John Simpson
RRP: $33.13$24.32For 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... -
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson
RRP: $21.43$14.27Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now surrounded by 3,500 titles, at the last count.No One Round Here Reads... -
Stanley: Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
RRP: $29.23$19.11Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of... -
My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making Jay Rayner 9781783351473
RRP: $21.43$14.27'Hilarious, informative, enlightening, instructive ... It's the funniest book I've read all year' - Chris EvansYou're About to Die. What Would Your Final Meal Be?This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. But why wait for death? Why not eat your 'last... -
Everything in Moderation by Daniel Finkelstein 9780008356613
RRP: $19.48$14.16'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book is such good company - sane, intelligent and witty. He deals with serious subjects in an immensely readable way ... If I'm asked to nominate my book of the year,... -
All of These People: A Memoir by Fergal Keane 9780007176939 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.38$4.47In a memoir of staggering power and candour, award-winning journalist Fergal Keane addresses his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public and others acutely personal. During his years of reporting from the world's most savage... -
Dad You Suck: And other things my children tell me by Tim Dowling
RRP: $17.53$12.58Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, comes a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists. For Tim Dowling, fatherhood has sometimes felt like two decades of lessons learned... -
Keep Talking: A Broadcasting Life David Dimbleby 9781399702423
RRP: $48.75$32.72'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,... -
Broken: in the Best Possible Way Jenny Lawson 9781529066784
RRP: $29.23$26.23'A new book from Jenny Lawson is always cause for celebration, and Broken is the party of the year . . . I loved it' - Sarah Knight, bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ckHilarious, heart-warming and honest, Broken (in the... -
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
RRP: $25.33$16.69A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKA dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries.After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has... -
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion based on her Memoir by Joan Didion
RRP: $25.33$17.73'This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...' In this adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her... -
The Vanity Fair Diaries: Power, Wealth, Celebrity, and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decade by Tina Brown 9781250191250
RRP: $39.00$33.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250191250Author Tina BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 20mm -
Always Unreliable: Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: $33.13$24.32Always 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... -
Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy J. Schoenberger 9780306811876
$34.24You can see her dark-eyed beauty in photos by Walker Evans, and her bewitching figure in paintings by Lucian Freud. She is the mermaid of whom poet Robert Lowell writes in The Dolphin (and he was clutching her portrait when he died). She was Lady... -
A Pebble In The Throat: Growing Up Between Two Continents by Aasmah Mir
RRP: $39.00$28.65SHORTLISTED 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... -
Man Bites Talking Dog by Colin Dunne 9780956368621
$20.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Here I Am: The story of Tim Hetherington, war photographer by Alan Huffman
RRP: $29.23$21.35Tim Hetherington (1970-2011) was one of the world's most distinguished and dedicated photojournalists, whose career was tragically cut short when he died in a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Civil War. Someone far less interested in professional... -
The Insomnia Diaries: How I learned to sleep again Miranda Levy 9781783254187
RRP: $25.33$16.77A Telegraph readers' best book of the yearA Financial Times readers' best 2021 summer book'A powerful new book' - The Daily Mail'Quite the story... fascinating' - Claire Byrne, RTE1'This memoir meets manual with expert tips is both honest and helpful' -... -
But You Don't Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging by Hala Gorani 9780306831645
RRP: $48.75$34.32Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting anchor and correspondent with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants.What is it like to have no clear identity in... -
Among The Thugs by Bill Buford
RRP: $21.43$15.15___________________________ THE BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCE Welcome to the world of football thuggery. They have names like Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager, football, the Queen, and themselves. They love...