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The Tales and Tails of a Yorkshire Vet: All in a Day's Work by Peter Wright
RRP: £20.00£12.63"My mentor and former boss Alf Wight said that the life of a vet is never dull and how true he was. It is funny looking back that he found fame through his James Herriot books, and now his former surgery and myself have been taken to the nation's heart... -
To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in by Philippe Petit
RRP: £8.99£2.91One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time, making eight crossings over the course of an hour, 110... -
The Dreamer: An Autobiography by Cliff Richard
RRP: £20.00£6.81SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEREarly evening on Saturday 13th September, 1958, Cliff Richard and The Drifters appeared on ITV's pop show Oh Boy!, electrifying living rooms across the nation with their now legendary performance of 'Move It'. Overnight, the... -
Elizabeth and Monty: The Untold Story of Their Intimate Friendship by Charles Casillo
RRP: £27.00£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496724793Author Charles CasilloFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)... -
Garbo by Robert Gottlieb
RRP: £32.00£21.61"Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941," Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, "Greta Garbo is in people's minds, hearts, and dreams." Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in this short time, to infiltrate the world's... -
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J Fox 9781472278463
RRP: £20.00£9.23'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in... -
Things The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
RRP: £12.99£8.60How does one young man survive the deaths of his entire family and manage to make something worthwhile of his life? In Things The Grandchildren Should Know Mark Oliver Everett tells the story of what it's like to grow up the insecure son of a genius in a... -
Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by war, saved by ballet: an extraordinary true story by Michaela DePrince
RRP: £8.99£6.08Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should. Her father was killed by rebels and her mother died of famine. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela was... -
Free Spirit: A Memoir of an Extraordinary Life by Tanya Sarne
RRP: £20.00£13.75"I read Free Spirit all in one go as I literally couldn't put it down.Tanya Sarne's courage and resilience are utterly awe-inspiring.You could read no better book than this on the zeitgeist of London and Hollywood in the Sixties and Seventies and the... -
James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media by James Acaster 9781472288578
RRP: £10.99£6.83THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis is a self-help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.In 2019, James quit all forms of social media - covering his phone in tar and driving it to a lock-up in Rhyl, before... -
Brung Up Proper: My Autobiography by Jason Manford
RRP: £19.99£14.28The is the tale of a cheeky little sod from Salford called Jason growing up surrounded by his properly funny and most definitely shameless family and his discovery that being funny might actually get him somewhere. Other than detention, mugged, dumped or... -
Too Much by Tom Allen
RRP: £20.00£13.35'An extraordinary portrait of a son navigating his way through grief and loss in real time. Funny, candid, and measured' GRAHAM NORTONHappily settled in a new relationship and with a dream house of his own, comedian Tom Allen had finally moved on from... -
Hollywood: The Oral History by Sam Wasson 9780571366958
RRP: £18.99£13.83'Essential . . . thrilling . . . invaluable.' Irish Times'Absorbing . . . rippling with fun and atmosphere.' Sight & Sound'Hollywood's ultimate oral history.' New YorkerThe greatest conversation in the history of Hollywood.From the archives of the... -
Sir Sean Connery - The Definitive Biography: 1930 - 2020 by John Parker
RRP: £10.99£9.40He was one of the world's true superstars, and the silver screen's most beloved James Bond. Sir Sean Connery - a proud Scotsman born in 1930 to a working-class family - died at home in the Bahamas on 31 October 2020. He left behind him a legacy to rival... -
Soft Lad by Nick Grimshaw
RRP: £20.00£11.65Coming-of-age stories from much loved radio royalty, DJ and TV personality Nick Grimshaw.'Hilarious and quintessentially Nick. Unapologetically himself always, and that's what I love the most' Dua Lipa'Very funny, very sweet and full of charm -- a bit... -
Moonwalk by Michael Jackson
RRP: £10.99£7.77The only book Michael Jackson ever wrote about his lifeIt chronicles his humble beginnings in the Midwest, his early days with the Jackson 5, and his unprecedented solo success. Giving unrivalled insight into the King of Pop's life, it details his... -
When the Dogs Don't Bark: A Forensic Scientist's Search for the Truth by Professor Angela Gallop
RRP: £10.99£7.40*As seen on ITV's The Pembrokeshire Murders*'Fascinating. A book that will be essential reading for every aspiring crime writer' Guardian'Offers a chilling glimpse into her life's work. Fascinating stuff.' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily... -
As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult by Romesh Ranganathan
RRP: £10.99£7.77Confronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable truth: this is not quite how he imagined it.Watching his friends descend into middle age, his waist thicken with every meal and his finances dwindle to fund his... -
Gerald: A Portrait by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99£7.12FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'A remarkable book . . . brilliant comic writing' THE TIMES'An enthralling picture of family life . . . devotion to Gerald, the man' KIRKUS REVIEWS'Du Maurier has no equal' DAILY TELEGRAPH Sir Gerald du Maurier was... -
Ramble Book: Musings on Childhood, Friendship, Family and 80s Pop Culture by Adam Buxton
RRP: £9.99£7.19A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'An affectionate and revealing account ... Funny, sad, real, rueful.' The Times 'Warm, rambling and self-aware' Guardian ... -
Green Darkness by Anya Seton 9780340921098
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Seductive, atmospheric, intriguing, Green Darkness is one of those classic novels you come back to time and again' (Kate Mosse) The hugely popular historical novel from the author of Katherine.England, 1552. Protestant king Edward VI has been on the... -
The Guv'nor: The Autobiography of Lenny McLean by Lenny McLean
RRP: £9.99£6.65A victim of violent abuse at the hands of his stepfather, Lenny spent much of his teenage life in borstal as he began to follow a life of crime. However, it was his ability as a fighter that was to turn his life around. Lenny McLean inspired fear in... -
Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll by Priscilla Presley 9780593639566
RRP: £20.00£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593639566Author Priscilla PresleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
What Does This Button Do? by Bruce Dickinson
RRP: £10.99£7.25'I was spotty, wore an anorak, had biro-engraved flared blue jeans with "purple" and "Sabbath" written on the thighs, and rode an ear-splittingly uncool moped. Oh yes, and I wanted to be a drummer...' Bruce Dickinson... -
Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever by Nick de Semlyen
RRP: £9.99£7.63Wild and Crazy Guys is the larger-than-life story of the much-loved Hollywood comedy stars that ruled the 1980s. This paperback edition features never-seen-before bonus material. As well as delving behind the scenes of classic movies such as... -
A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock's Most Dangerous Man by Pete Way
RRP: £9.99£6.80'They call me a madman but compared to Pete Way, I'm out of my league.' - Ozzy OsbourneThere are rock memoirs and then there is this one. A Fast Ride Out of Here tells a story that is so shocking, so outrageous, so packed with excess and leading to such... -
Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read by Dawn French
RRP: £12.99£9.09A SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER___________________________The hilarious and heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and Women's Prize longlisted author, Dawn French.Dawn French is one of the greatest comedians of our time with... -
The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild by Hannah Rothschild
RRP: £10.99£7.40A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - seemed to have it all: children, a handsome husband and a trust fund. But in the early 1950s she heard a piece by the jazz legend Thelonious Monk. The music... -
The Trials of Annie Oakley by Chris Enss 9781493063772
RRP: £14.99£11.26Long before the screen placed the face of Mary Pickford before the eyes of millions of Americans, this girl, born August 13, 1860 as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses, had won the right to the title of "America's Sweetheart." Having grown up learning to shoot... -
Turning Point: 1997-2008 by Hayao Miyazaki
RRP: £13.99£9.47The second volume of legendary animation director Hayao Miyazaki's career memoir continues with essays, interviews, and discussions about some of his most popular films, including Spirited Away and Ponyo.In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki moved... -
Bring on the Empty Horses by David Niven
RRP: £12.99£8.60Here is Niven at his best. He and Errol Flynn were filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for a director, Michael Curtiz, 'whose Hungarian-orientated English was a joy to us all'. High on the rostrum he decided the moment had come to order the arrival... -
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp 9780060005771
RRP: £9.99£6.64With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family... -
The Fresh Prince Project: How the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Remixed America by Chris Palmer 9781982185183
RRP: £10.99£7.00This "one-of-a-kind" (Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author) cultural history of the beloved nineties sitcom that launched Will Smith to superstardom-The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air-is perfect for fans of Seinfeldia and Best Wishes, Warmest... -
Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman
RRP: £12.99£8.58Film historian and acclaimed New York Times bestselling biographer Scott Eyman has written the definitive, "captivating" (Associated Press) biography of Hollywood legend Cary Grant, one of the most accomplished-and beloved-actors of his generation, who... -
Still Me by Christopher Reeve
RRP: £10.99£7.77Through his leading role in the three Superman films, Christopher Reeve became so closely identified with the superhero that he wasn't just seen as the actor who played Superman, he was Superman. Which is why the tragic riding accident which left him... -
When Harry Met Sandra: Harry & Sandra Redknapp - Our Love Story: More than 50 years of marriage, love, life and strife by Harry Redknapp 9781915306029
RRP: £20.00£14.29Harry Redknapp is a well known and highly respected face in the world of football. But it wasn't until his stint in the I'm A Celebrity Jungle in 2018 that he was propelled into a whole new audience along with his loyal wife of 55 years, Sandra. ... -
Apropos of Nothing: Autobiography by Woody Allen
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Enormously Entertaining Memoir by One of the Great Artists of Our Time-Now a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller. In this candid and often hilarious memoir, the celebrated director, comedian, writer, and... -
Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino by Emily Wortis Leider
RRP: £12.99£9.24Rudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America's idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cinematic sex-god of his day. In this definitive retelling of Valentino's short and tragic life - the first... -
David Mitchell: Back Story by David Mitchell
RRP: £10.99£7.25David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on... -
Chroma: A Book of Colour - June '93 by Derek Jarman
RRP: £9.99£7.11A poetic, passionate and intensely personal exploration of colour written during the final year of Derek Jarman's life -- with a new introduction by Ali Smith.In Chroma, his most poetic and lyrical book, Derek Jarman explores the uses of colour. Shifting...