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Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine Frederick and the Rise of Household Efficiency by Janice Williams Rutherford 9780820324807
€36.69Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
From Where I Stand by Indarjit Singh 9781398432819
RRP: €10.70€7.68Apologies 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 -
Lunch with the FT: A Second Helping by Lionel Barber
€34.33Lunch with the Financial Times has been a permanent fixture in the Financial Times for almost 25 years, featuring presidents, film stars, musical icons and business leaders from around the world. The column is now as well-established institution which... -
The Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
RRP: €35.70€23.66Dame 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,... -
Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler
RRP: €21.41€11.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062206237Author Peter HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper Perennial -
Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir by Charles M. Blow
€13.52Charles M. Blow's mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their town in segregated Louisiana, where slavery's legacy felt close. When her philandering husband... -
And Thank You For Watching: Extraordinary Stories from a Veteran News Journalist by Mark Austin 9781786494504 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€3.01'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... -
And Thank You For Watching: Extraordinary Stories from a Veteran News Journalist Mark Austin 9781786494504
RRP: €10.70€7.24'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... -
Preso Sin Nombre, Celda Sin Numero by Jacobo Timerman 9780299200442
RRP: €23.74€16.33A classic of world literature back in print in a Spanish-language edition.Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.About the AuthorJacobo Timerman (1923-1999) was born in the Ukraine, moved with his family to Argentina in 1928, and was... -
Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant 9780393609196
RRP: €28.55€23.75During 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... -
Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher by John Sargent 9781956763850
RRP: €23.80€15.30Take a peak behind the curtain of some of the biggest publishing moments in the past several decades with forty-year industry veteran John Sargent.Turning Pages: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Publisher is the well-told story of forty years in the... -
Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview by Hunter S. Thompson
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies 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 -
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov 9781914495915
RRP: €15.46€11.64'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... -
Tasting Pleasure: Confessions of a Wine Lover by Jancis Robinson 9780140270013
RRP: €28.56€19.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140270013Author Jancis RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes 9780571221387
RRP: €35.70€24.63At 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... -
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
RRP: €26.18€19.84The 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... -
A Man Like Him: Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung by Ma Thanegi
RRP: €28.55€24.80The 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... -
Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia from Lenin to Putin by James Rodgers 9781350356108
RRP: €20.22€15.66The 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... -
An Open Book: Chapters fom a Reader's Life by Michael Dirda 9780393326147
RRP: €23.80€19.66"All that kid wants to do is stick his nose in a book," Michael Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, worried about his son's passion for reading. In An Open Book, one of the most delightful memoirs to emerge in years, the acclaimed literary... -
News from No Man's Land: Reporting the World by John Simpson 9780330487351
€22.66On 13 November 2001, John Simpson and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul and the liberation of the Afghan capital was broadcast to a waiting world. It was the end of a sustained campaign against the Taliban, a campaign that Simpson had covered from the... -
Reporting India: My Seventy-year Journey as a Journalist by Prem Prakash
€18.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093984Author Prem PrakashFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 240mm * 150mm * 30mm -
The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler by Kathryn S. Olmsted
RRP: €29.75€25.37How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II "A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today's right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are unavoidable."-Matthew Pressman, Washington Post "A... -
George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick 9781999439507
RRP: €26.17€18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999439507Author Bernard CrickFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
And Thank You For Watching: Extraordinary Stories from a Veteran News Journalist by Mark Austin 9781786494498 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€1.49For 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... -
And Thank You For Watching: Extraordinary Stories from a Veteran News Journalist by Mark Austin
RRP: €23.80€7.14For 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... -
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead 9781611856606
RRP: €17.84€11.34When 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... -
Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington
RRP: €53.55€32.12Apologies 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)... -
The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond by Paul Fitzgerald
RRP: €21.36€15.43Afghanistan 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... -
Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant
RRP: €20.22€16.62As 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... -
My Ideal Bookshelf by Thessaly La Force
RRP: €23.80€20.31The 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... -
Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime by David Pryce-Jones
RRP: €24.98€16.89David Pryce-Jones weaves a vivid life story through vignettes of the many famous authors-friends, acquaintances, interview subjects-who gave him personally inscribed books. In Signatures he offers a window onto the lives and work of these extraordinary... -
The Arab of Mesopotamia by Paul Rich 9781633913660
RRP: €17.26€13.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633913660Author Paul RichFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
A Long Lunch: My Stories and I'm Sticking to Them Simon Hoggart 9781848543980
RRP: €11.89€8.09Simon 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: €22.60€13.49Apologies 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... -
Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival by Jeffrey Gettleman 9780062284105
RRP: €13.08€8.63From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world.A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey... -
Kill the Messenger (Movie Tie-In Edition): How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Nick Schou 9781568584713
€16.65Now 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... -
Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker
RRP: €15.41€14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307477385Author Kim BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby
RRP: €20.23€11.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701214Author Jean-Dominique BaubyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)... -
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders by Billy Jensen
RRP: €15.46€13.83***With a brand new chapter, updates on the investigations, 8 pages of exclusive photos, and a behind-the-scenes conversation between Billy Jensen and retired detective Paul Holes on the Golden State Killer, their favorite cold cases, and more***The New... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929 by Valerie Eliot
RRP: €47.60€32.94Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and personal and spiritual consolidation. Following the withdrawal of...