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Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant 9780393609196
RRP: £23.99£20.51During the upheavals of 2007-9, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill and author of Lombard Street, Bagehot... -
Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity by Melanie Phillips
RRP: £11.99£9.53Once the darling of the Left, British journalist Melanie Phillips was "mugged by reality" to become a controversial champion of national and cultural identity. Guardian Angel is that rare memoir that grabs you by the shoulders with an urgency that... -
Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin 9781913183950
RRP: £9.99£6.80***"One of the marvels of this furious book is how insolent and funny Lavin is; she refuses to soft-pedal the monstrous views she encounters." - The New York Times"Shocking, angry, funny and wise... Talia Lavin takes no prisoners." - Danny Wallace,... -
Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over by Geraldine Brooks
RRP: £15.99£12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483735Author Geraldine BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Bootle Boy: an untidy life in news by Les Hinton 9781911617013
RRP: £20.00£14.29A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media. When Les Hinton first fulfils his schoolboy dream of working on Fleet Street, it is still a place awash in warm beer, black... -
American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone by D. D. Guttenplan 9780810128316
RRP: £26.95£22.21Popular Front columnist and New Deal propagandist, fearless opponent of McCarthyism and feared scourge of official liars, I. F. Stone (1907-1989)- magnetic, witty, indefatigable-left a permanent mark on our politics and culture. A college dropout, he was... -
This Really Isn't About You by Jean Hannah Edelstein
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A magnificent, beautifully written memoir. Unsentimental but heartbreaking, the voice - true and clear. Brilliant.' Nina StibbeIn 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was... -
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes 9780571221387
RRP: £30.00£20.70At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was... -
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents by Patrick Garrett
RRP: £12.99£8.60'The list of female war reporters is long and distinguished. But the great-grandmother of them all was Clare Hollingworth' Mail on Sunday 'She was a pioneer' Kate Adie OBE'Unputdownable' Alexander McCall Smith'One of the most unforgettable journalists... -
My Life And I: Confessions of an Unliberated Housewife, 1966-1980 by Betty Bendell
RRP: £12.99£8.63Betty Bendell was one of the top five British women's magazine columnists in the late 1960s and 1970s. She wrote continuously for a range of magazines, including Annabel, Woman, Homes and Gardens, The Lady and The Countryman, but she was most well-known... -
My Ideal Bookshelf by Thessaly La Force
RRP: £20.00£13.75The books that we choose to keep--let alone read--can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most-books that define their dreams and ambitions and... -
The Year of the End: A Memoir of Marriage, Truth and Fiction by Anne Theroux
RRP: £9.99£6.70'A moving and absorbing account' Adam Buxton'Scorching ... a brave book' Helen Brown, Telegraph'A wise and vivid memoir of a disintegrating marriage and a study of the role of the spouse in the life of a literary giant' Fiona Sturges, i Paper18TH JANUARY... -
Death of a Translator: A journalist's journey to the heart of Soviet Afghanistan by Ed Gorman
RRP: £10.99£7.40"I have never read anything that so fully and perfectly captured the personal experience and the personal aftermath of war" P. J. O'RourkeA young, devil-may-care Englishman reporting on the Soviet war makes a fateful commitment to a swashbuckling Afghan... -
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist by Chris Paling 9781472134882
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus GBP300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens. Then again it might not. But hope... -
From Where I Stand by Indarjit Singh 9781398432819
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398432819Author Indarjit SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant
RRP: £16.99£14.61As editor of The Economist, Walter Bagehot offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of this... -
And Thank You For Watching: Extraordinary Stories from a Veteran News Journalist by Mark Austin 9781786494504
RRP: £8.99£6.08'This insightful and superb book takes you to World Cups, to conflicts in war-torn countries, to division in Trump's America... A terrific read.' - Gary LinekerFor over thirty years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories in the world for ITN and... -
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
RRP: £9.99£3.51'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe... -
Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview by Hunter S. Thompson
RRP: £13.99£9.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612196930Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Diana Vreeland: The Modern Woman: The Bazaar Years 1936-1962 by Alexander Vreeland 9780847846085
RRP: £40.00£32.06The first Vreeland book to focus on her three decades at Harper's Bazaar, where the legendary editor honed her singular take on fashion. In 1936, Harper's Bazaar editor in chief Carmel Snow made a decision that changed fashion forever when she invited... -
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead 9781611856606
RRP: £14.99£9.53When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd... -
Never Better: My Life in Our Times by Tommie Gorman
RRP: £10.99£7.32The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love and warmth. From modest beginnings as a local reporter... -
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov 9781914495915
RRP: £12.99£9.62'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... -
James Warren: Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters by Bill Schelly
RRP: £24.99£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964179Author Bill SchellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
RRP: £22.00£14.56The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war. Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photographer, and Frances... -
Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin by James Rodgers 9781350356108
RRP: £16.99£12.86The story of western correspondents in Russia is the story of Russia's attitude to the west. Russia has at different times been alternately open to western ideas and contacts, cautious and distant or, for much of the twentieth century, all but closed off... -
Yours, For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 by Janet Somerville
RRP: £24.95£15.81"Passionate despatches from the front line, Martha Gellhorn's candid letters to her husband, family and friends underline her courage and fight for recognition. Carrying this big brick of a book on my travels while on assignment, I kept dipping into it... -
Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: £12.99£8.56On 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to submit their stories. But one journalist held back, and spent an extra day exploring the scene. His report pointed the finger at secret Nazi involvement in the... -
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene
£33.00One of the most celebrated British writers of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A journalist and MI6 officer, Greene sought out the inner... -
The Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
RRP: £30.00£19.88Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-year,... -
And Thank You For Watching: Extraordinary Stories from a Veteran News Journalist by Mark Austin
RRP: £20.00£6.00For over thirty years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories in the world for ITN and Sky News. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman he has witnessed first-hand some of the most significant events of our times, including the Iraq War, during... -
A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill
£12.06Twenty years after his last drink, Peter Hamill looks back on his early life. Growing up during the depression and World War II, he learnt that drinking was an essential part of being a man. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy the important... -
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid 9780544002197
RRP: £20.99£15.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544002197Author Anthony ShadidFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *... -
Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
RRP: £45.00£27.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812993356Author Grace CoddingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1276gDimensions(mm)... -
Viajes Con Herodoto by Ryszard Kapuascianski 9788433973306
RRP: £15.95£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433973306Author Ryszard KapuascianskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm * 15mm -
The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond by Paul Fitzgerald
RRP: £17.95£13.59Afghanistan was an American crusade to win the war against the "Evil Soviet Empire" and remake the world in its own image.This goes right to the heart of understanding the destiny of the Western Dream. Instead of a dream the US is caught in a nightmare... -
Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway by Timothy Christian
RRP: £25.00£16.24A stunning portrait of the complicated woman who becomes Ernest Hemingway's fourth wife, tracing her adventures before she meets Ernest, exploring the tumultuous years of their marriage, and evoking her merry widowhood as she shapes Hemingway's literary... -
A Long Lunch: My Stories and I'm Sticking to Them by Simon Hoggart
RRP: £9.99£6.80Simon Hoggart has long been admired as one of our leading commentators on modern life. His memoirs encompass his radio career, most notably as chair of the News Quiz, his life as a journalist and as an observer of the people he has met along the way.A... -
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
RRP: £18.99£11.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2006. Short-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Young Adult) 2010 and Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book... -
Kill the Messenger (Movie Tie-In Edition): How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Nick Schou 9781568584713
£14.47Now a major motion picture starring Jeremy Renner! Kill the Messenger tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose...