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Edward Seago by James Russell 9781848221475
RRP: £45.00£35.00This is the definitive account of the life and work of Edward Seago (1910-1974), the highly popular, versatile and talented British painter whose work was inspired by John Sell Cotman, John Constable and Alfred Munnings.Over 200 colour reproductions are... -
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
RRP: £9.99£5.75The bestselling book that inspired the cult classic film, Girl, Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie."Not since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim" TIME... -
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
RRP: £8.99£5.22This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London'. DAILY TELEGRAPHTold in a series of letters in 84 CHARING CROSS... -
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West by Konstantin Kisin
RRP: £10.99£6.28For all the West's failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few - it has its upsides. Konstantin would know. Growing up in the Soviet Union, he experienced first-hand the horrors of a socialist... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780241952436
RRP: £8.99£5.39THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK IS 'A MONUMENT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT'One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Edited by her father Otto H. Frank and German novelist Mirjam... -
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
RRP: £9.99£4.07The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside ... -
Lady in Waiting: The perfect gift for Mum on Mother's Day by Anne Glenconner 9781529359107
RRP: £12.99£7.35**OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD****THE TIMES MEMOIR OF THE YEAR 2019**'The best royal book by miles . . . funny, gossipy and riveting'JANE RIDLEY, SPECTATOR'If your jaw doesn't drop at least three times every chapter, you've not been paying proper... -
Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi 9780007281435
RRP: £10.99£6.10He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court - but from early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game. Coaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds... -
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism by Naoki Higashida 9781529375701
RRP: £10.99£6.28The No. 1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling account of life as a child with autism, now a documentary film Winner of Best Documentary and Best Sound in the British Independent Film Awards 2021. 'It will stretch your vision of what it is to be... -
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
RRP: £10.99£6.10From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Several days before... -
The Duchess: The Untold Story - the explosive biography, as seen in the Daily Mail by Penny Junor
RRP: £9.99£5.56THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A gripping story of human frailty, love, loss, sadness, and tragedy' Daily Mail She is the most public and least understood woman in Britain. Diana called her a Rottweiler... -
Letters from a Stoic: The Ancient Classic by Seneca
RRP: £11.99£6.92DISCOVER THE ENDURING LEGACY OF ANCIENT STOICISM Since Roman antiquity, Lucius Annaeus Seneca's Letters have been one of the greatest expressions of Stoic philosophy. In a highly accessible and timeless way, Seneca reveals the importance of cultivating... -
The Accidental Adventurer by Ben Fogle
RRP: £10.99£6.56Ben Fogle's life has been action-packed to say the least. He has rowed across the Atlantic, walked to the South Pole, run the Sahara and ice-skated across Sweden. He has encountered isolated tribes in deepest Papua New Guinea, caused a Boeing 747 to... -
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors. The 'Explosive' new book from 'Britain's Top Investigative Author' by Tom Bower
RRP: £22.00£12.33THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER 'Explosive' The Sun 'Accounts from insiders who have never spoken before' The Times 'Bombshell' The Mirror The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebrated... -
Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography by Robin Bunce
RRP: £20.00£11.97More than three decades after her election to Parliament, Diane Abbott is still racking up firsts. The first black woman elected to Parliament, she also recently became the first black person to represent their party at PMQs. Abbott came to fame in... -
An Autobiography by Agatha Christie 9780007314669
RRP: £14.99£8.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
RRP: £10.99£6.56I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but... -
Mum, Can You Lend Me Twenty Quid?: What drugs did to my family by Elizabeth Burton-Phillips
RRP: £11.99£8.00i newspaper 'What We're Reading This Week' December 2017'Elizabeth's courage in speaking out is moving, and her ability to move others is impressive. This is a story that needs to be told, and needs to be heard.' - Theresa May, Prime Minister'Elizabeth... -
Miss Willmott's Ghosts: the extraordinary life and gardens of a forgotten genius by Sandra Lawrence 9781786581556
RRP: £10.99£7.26'An amazing read! I galloped through it' Lady Antonia Fraser'Lawrence has done an excellent job of recreating this eccentric gardening guru's life' The Times'My pick for gardening book of the year is this page-turning life story of Ellen Willmott' The... -
Chasing the Dream: An Autobiography by Shaun Wallace
RRP: £19.99£14.71Born on the 2nd of June 1960 to Jamaican parents, Shaun is a Londoner born and bred, and has been a devoted Chelsea fan since 1967. From the age of 12, Shaun knew he wanted to be a barrister and was determined to make it. Despite one or two setbacks... -
The White Masai by Corinne Hofmann
RRP: £10.99£7.40Whilst on holiday in Kenya, Corinne Hoffman fell in love with a Masai warrior. Eventually she moved into a tiny shack with him and his mother and spent four years in Kenya. However, slowly but surely, the dream began to crumble. She eventually fled back... -
Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by Eric Manheimer
RRP: £14.99£13.58Using the plights of twelve very different patients-from dignitaries at the nearby UN, to supermax prisoners at Riker's Island, to illegal immigrants, and Wall Street tycoons-Dr. Eric Manheimer "offers far more than remarkable medical dramas: he blends... -
Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage by Kody Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.00The uncensored, New York Times bestselling memoir by the polygamist stars of the hit show Sister Wives, Kody and his four wives openly discuss what it's like living in a plural marriage.A SINGULAR STORY OF PLURAL MARRIAGE Since TLC first launched its... -
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
RRP: £10.99£7.32**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023**'Masterly.'... -
Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson by Mitch Albom
RRP: £9.99£6.80THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 9 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern__________Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you... -
The Gospel According to Luke by Steve Lukather
RRP: £14.99£9.80No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant pop-culture sound of the late-1970s and '80s was not in fact the smash and sneer of punk, but a slick, polished amalgam of... -
Sorry For Your Loss: What working with the dead taught me about life by Kate Marshall
RRP: £8.99£6.20Following Kate Marshall's first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each month exploring the people she meets, in life and death, as well as her own growing awareness of life behind the veil. Meet Mr X Found in his apartment... -
Beyond the Sea: A Wren at War by Christian Lamb
RRP: £8.99£6.20"A WW2 heroine." - Dan Snow Love, duty and true-life adventure in the shadow of the Second World War Christian Lamb is one of the last surviving Wren Officers to have served throughout the Second World War, from Blitz ravaged London, to the... -
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris 9780349144689
RRP: £10.99£4.11'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The TimesIn Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about recent upheavals, personal and public, and... -
The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail by Nick Wallis
RRP: £13.99£9.17On 23rd April 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former Subpostmasters and ruled their prosecutions were an affront to the public conscience. It is a scandal that has been described as one of the most widespread and significant... -
The Illustrated Walden: or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: £14.99£10.20A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature. "Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next... -
Miyamoto Musashi by Kenji Tokitsu
RRP: £36.00£23.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834805675Author Kenji TokitsuFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 737gDimensions(mm)... -
God of the Wild Places: The Power of Adventure by Paul Pringle
RRP: £9.95£7.97Pringle's autobiography offers a graphic and often painful account of his experiences with major marathons, including the Marathon des Sables and the Yukon Arctic Ultra. Journalists and scientists monitor his progress as he pushes his body to the very... -
The Lives of Lee Miller by Anthony Penrose
RRP: £12.99£8.60Published to coincide with the UK release in November 2023 of the film Lee, starring Kate Winslet as Lee Miller, a biography described by the Sunday Times as 'a fascinating revelation of an adventurous and protean spirit.' Lee Miller, 1927 - New York: A... -
A Likely Lad by Peter Doherty 9781408715451
RRP: £10.99£7.40Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his devoted fans, he is a cult hero, a modern-day Rimbaud. Musically, he has defined the past twenty years of indie rock with his sound, lyrics, lifestyle and... -
Meditations: The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius 9781541673854
RRP: £25.00£16.38Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and deep reservoirs of personal insight. He collected his... -
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £10.99£7.77Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life... -
The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari by Simon Barnes 9781398518902
RRP: £10.99£7.00From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant book that reveals the natural joys to be discovered on your doorstep. In the autumn of 2020, Simon Barnes should have been leading a safari in Zambia, but Covid restrictions meant his plans... -
A Street Cat Named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets by James Bowen
RRP: £10.99£6.28From the author of A Christmas Gift from Bob, the original bestseller and heartwarming story of the life-saving friendship between a man and his streetwise cat'[Bob] has entranced London like no feline since the days of Dick Whittington.' (Evening... -
One Fine Day by Ian Marchant
RRP: £20.00£13.86A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all men of a certain age must,...