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Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy J. Schoenberger 9780306811876
$38.66You 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... -
Write Lines: Adventures in Rap Journalism by Andrew Emery 9781913231507
RRP: $31.48$20.77Apologies 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
RRP: $26.25$18.42The 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: $42.00$30.85NAMED 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... -
She Said by Jodi Kantor
RRP: $20.98$16.46*NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN AND ZOE KAZAN* 'Explosive' Margaret Atwood 'Seismic' Observer 'Brilliant' Nigella Lawson 'Gripping' Jon Ronson A FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, METRO AND ELLE BOOK OF THE YEAR... -
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene by Anna Wiener
RRP: $20.98$13.94'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener... -
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch by Michael Wolff
RRP: $23.08$16.32From 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... -
An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee
RRP: $46.20$30.89'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... -
Women We Buried, Women We Burned: a memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder
RRP: $23.08$15.37Following the acclaimed No Visible Bruises, a piercing account of the author's childhood in an evangelical Christian community, her teenage escape, and her career as a reporter at the frontline of the global epidemic of violence against women. ... -
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn 9780907871774
RRP: $27.28$17.54Out 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... -
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
RRP: $31.48$19.57TWO 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... -
All About the Story: News, Power, Politics, and the Washington Post by Leonard Downie
RRP: $52.50$33.50In 1964, at age 22, Len Downie joined the Washington Post as an intern. He became a pioneering investigative reporter, news editor, foreign correspondent, and managing editor, before succeeding the legendary Ben Bradlee as executive editor.As Downie... -
Blood and Sand: 10th Anniversary Edition by Frank Gardner
RRP: $23.08$16.32On the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust, a figure... -
Untitled by John Stapleton
RRP: $20.98$13.94'The bombshell book everyone is talking about' DAILY MAIL 'A radio genius ... the maestro of the show' EVENING STANDARD As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular... -
The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years by Clive James
RRP: $20.98$14.83In the 1980s, Clive James found his way into full-time television. In The Blaze of Obscurity, his fifth book of memoir, he delivers the inside story. A hilarious, thoughtful, warts and all account of a life in the public eye.'Clive James is an... -
A Man Like Him: Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung by Ma Thanegi
RRP: $56.68$47.99The story of eight years in the brief life of Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung, a courageous Burmese journalist and editor. His political analyses helped guide the nation during a turbulent era marked by internal struggles to establish a democracy independent... -
My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making by Jay Rayner
RRP: $23.08$15.37'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... -
Broken: In the Best Possible Way by Jenny Lawson
RRP: $31.48$28.25'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: $27.28$17.98A 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... -
Falling Towards England: More Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: $20.98$14.83The second instalment of his famed unreliable memoirs, Falling Towards England sees Clive James set sail for London - a long way from the acclaimed author, poet and broadcaster he would one day become . . .'A comic triumph' - Ian Hamilton, London Review... -
Everything in Moderation by Daniel Finkelstein 9780008356613
RRP: $20.98$15.10'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,... -
Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 by Janet Somerville 9780228101864
RRP: $63.00$41.60'A titan of American letters. It's high time for Gellhorn to emerge from the shadows of twentieth-century literature into the bright light of mainstream recognition.' The Washington Post Book World. Before email, when long distance telephone calls... -
Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy by Batya Ungar-Sargon
RRP: $44.08$29.80Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the... -
Black Rainbow: How words healed me: my journey through depression by Rachel Kelly
RRP: $23.08$14.81Black Rainbow is the powerful first-person story of one woman's struggle with depression and how she managed to recover from it through the power of poetry.In 1997, Oxford graduate, working mother and Times journalist Rachel Kelly went from feeling... -
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume Two by Clive James
RRP: $31.48$28.25By turns hilarious, insightful and tender, the voice of Clive James defined a generation of writers. His memoirs, amongst the best-loved and acclaimed by any writer, are now collected in two volumes: his Complete Unreliable Memoirs. This is Volume Two... -
Life in Every Breath: Ester Blenda: Reporter, Adventurer, Pioneer by Fatima Bremmer
$21.48An award-winning biography of one of the first undercover journalists-a pioneering Swedish woman who lived a fascinating life of adventure and forbidden love and who changed journalism forever. Born in 1891 in Stockholm, Ester Blenda Nordstro m defied... -
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
RRP: $23.08$16.32An 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... -
A Pebble In The Throat: Growing Up Between Two Continents by Aasmah Mir
RRP: $42.00$30.85SHORTLISTED 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 Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion based on her Memoir by Joan Didion
RRP: $27.28$17.81'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... -
Here I Am: The story of Tim Hetherington, war photographer by Alan Huffman
RRP: $31.48$23.00Tim 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... -
Maeve's Times by Maeve Binchy
RRP: $20.98$7.37'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... -
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $18.88$12.64FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? ... -
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson
RRP: $23.08$15.37Mark 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... -
On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin by Marie Colvin
RRP: $41.98$28.83Veteran Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012 when covering the uprising in Syria. On the Front Line is an Orwell Special Prize winning journalism collection from veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin, who... -
The Insomnia Diaries by Miranda Levy
RRP: $27.28$17.18A 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' -... -
All Caps: Stories That Justify an Outrageous Hat Collection by Craig Colby 9781039148789
RRP: $60.88$43.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039148789Author Craig ColbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm -
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant: Modern Life as Interpreted By Someone Who Is Reasonably Bad at Living It by Joel Golby
RRP: $20.98$13.94'This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard.' RUSSELL BRAND 'A millennial's answer to David Sedaris. No writer is funnier than Joel Golby.' DOLLY ALDERTON A... -
Among The Thugs by Bill Buford
RRP: $23.08$16.32___________________________ 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... -
A Day Like Today: Memoirs by John Humphrys
RRP: $42.00$37.84'The bombshell book everyone is talking about' DAILY MAIL 'A radio genius ... the maestro of the show' EVENING STANDARD As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular... -
Eliot: After The Waste Land by Robert Crawford
RRP: $52.50$37.84The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most important poet,...