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My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir by Clarence Thomas 9780060565565
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565565Author Clarence ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future by Phyllida Scrivens 9781473843646 [USED COPY]
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Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future by Phyllida Scrivens 9781473843646
RRP: £25.00£18.02Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of a fourteen-year-old boy Gunter Stern who, when Adolf Hitler threatened hisfamily, education and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July... -
An Independent Man: The Autobiography by Eddie Jordan
RRP: £10.99£7.40The hugely entertaining, and extremely candid, autobiography of one of the most colourful characters in motor sportEddie Jordan gave Michael Schumacher his first drive, and helped groom a whole series of drivers early in their careers, including Damon... -
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
RRP: £10.99£7.77The bestselling, much-loved classic account of an English couple escaping to enjoy the fruits of French rural summer living - an irresistible feast of humour and heart.Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their... -
One Day in My Life by Bobby Sands
RRP: £11.99£8.43Bobby Sands was twenty-seven years old when he died. He spent almost nine years of his life in prison because of his Irish republican activities. He died, in prison, on 5 May 1981, on the sixty-sixth day of his hunger strike at Long Kesh, outside Belfast... -
Chanel: Her life, her world, and the woman behind the legend she herself created by Edmonde Charles-Roux 9781906694241 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.44***Now the subject of a major sell-out exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum***She revolutionized how women looked. She banned corsets, shortened skirts and scented the world with Chanel No.5. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was an icon. But how... -
Chanel: Her life, her world, and the woman behind the legend she herself created by Edmonde Charles-Roux
RRP: £16.99£11.54***Now the subject of a major sell-out exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum***She revolutionized how women looked. She banned corsets, shortened skirts and scented the world with Chanel No.5. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel was an icon. But how... -
Manet: His Life and Work in 500 Images by Nigel Rodgers 9780754828945
RRP: £16.99£13.28This is an illustrated exploration of the artist, his life and context, with a gallery of 300 of his greatest works. It is a lively but expert account of Edouard Manet, one of the greatest French artists, whose striking realism has led to him being... -
The Cold Fix: Drawing strength from cold water swimming and immersion by Sara Barnes
RRP: £14.95£11.11'The cold water has given me the key to unlock myself within a place I didn't know existed: the community of cold-water swimmers right around the world. What binds us all together is the cold and how it makes us feel: brave enough to tackle even the... -
Joe Jackson On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Richard James 9781789521894
RRP: £15.99£11.61Joe Jackson is a singer, songwriter, composer, and performer who has twisted and turned his career through numerous genres, and continues to release excellent albums forty years after his initial breakthrough success. For some he's the 'Angsty Young... -
The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho 9780007251872
RRP: £9.99£6.64From one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho, comes a riveting novel tracing the mysterious life and disappearance of Athena dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello'. This is the story of Athena, or Sherine,... -
Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber
RRP: £12.99£9.45On December 26th, 1985, Whitley Strieber was woken in his isolated cabin in upstate New York, he saw a creature in his bedroom. His next memory is sitting in the woods around the cabin. Hypnosis revealed that Whitley Strieber had been abducted by... -
Moondust by Andrew Smith
RRP: £9.99£7.11A revised and updated edition of the classic work to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing 'It left me spellbound ... belongs to the same tradition as Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff' Sunday Times 'Fascinating. A wonderful book'... -
Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
RRP: £8.99£6.45'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.' William Godwin, the author's future husband, was not alone in admiring Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and... -
3,096 Days by Natascha Kampusch
RRP: £10.99£7.77The remarkable and shocking true account of the kidnap of Natascha Kampusch in 1998, who shares her deeply moving story. On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. When she... -
High Performance: When Britain Ruled the Roads by Peter Grimsdale
RRP: £9.99£6.41'A band of stubborn pioneers rose from the embers of Britain's cities after the war and created the finest automobiles the world had ever seen... High Performance tells the exhilarating tale of their journey' Ben Collins, bestselling author of How To... -
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell 9780241951460
RRP: £8.99£6.45My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'What we all need,' said... -
Hackney Child by Hope Daniels
RRP: £9.99£6.41The powerful, refreshingly honest, first-hand account of a childhood spent in the Care system.At the age of nine, Hope Daniels walked into Stoke Newington Police Station with her little brothers and asked to be taken into care. Home life was intolerable:... -
It Must Never Happen Again by John McShane
£9.59This is a comprehensive look at the events leading up to the death of Baby P. A recent investigation has found that there was poor communication between authorities, a repeated failure to take into account the child's history and inaccurate documentation... -
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
RRP: £9.99£7.11In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. Karen Blixen was forced to return to Denmark in 1931 and it was there that she wrote... -
The Boy Grows Up: The inspirational story of his journey from broken boy to family man by Richard McCann 9780091908645 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£1.97Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller. In it he told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherless when the Yorkshire Ripper killed his first victim, Richard's mother Wilma McCann. Just A Boy was... -
The Boy Grows Up: The inspirational story of his journey from broken boy to family man by Richard McCann
RRP: £12.99£9.09Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller. In it he told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherless when the Yorkshire Ripper killed his first victim, Richard's mother Wilma McCann. Just A Boy was... -
The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle
RRP: £10.99£7.77An honest, radical and moving account of life off the grid. It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever. No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers:... -
Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle 9780340919590 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stalin Ate My Homework by Alexei Sayle
RRP: £9.99£6.80The Sayles might not have been the only Jewish atheist communist family in Liverpool, but Alexei knew from an early age that they were one of the more eccentric. Born on the day egg rationing came to an end, Alexei was the only child of Joe, an affable... -
Tressa: The Twelve Year Old Mum: My Story by Tressa Middleton
RRP: £9.99£6.85'Nobody knew the truth. For all those years while people judged me, I protected those closest to me. Now it's time for the real story to be told. It's time for healing and forgiveness.' Tressa Middleton made UK history when she became Britain's youngest... -
Lump: The Dog who ate a Picasso by David Douglas Duncan
RRP: £12.95£8.58One spring morning in 1957, veteran photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent photographic subject Pablo Picasso, at the artist's home near Cannes. As a co-pilot alongside Duncan in his Mercedes Gullwing 300 SL was the... -
High Risk: A True Story of the SAS, Drugs and Other Bad Behaviour by Ben Timberlake
RRP: £11.99£11.12This is a dark, raw and uncompromising tale of the human condition in extremis, drawing on the many lives of Ben Timberlake: as an archaeologist, Special Forces soldier, combat medic and drug addict. Starting with Ben's first near-death... -
Calypso by David Sedaris 9780349141893
RRP: £10.99£6.14'Sedaris is the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses'ADAM KAY'Funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' HADLEY FREEMAN, GUARDIAN'The brilliance of David Sedaris' writing is that his very essence, his aura, seeps... -
The Jewel Garden by Monty Don
RRP: £12.99£7.51'TRULY INSPIRING' Mail on SundayNow familiar to millions of Gardeners' World fans as Longmeadow (the home of Nigel & Nellie), this is the story of Monty & Sarah Don's early days there. The Jewel Garden is the story of the garden that bloomed from the... -
Epileptic by David B.
RRP: £25.00£18.88The most acclaimed European graphic novel of the last ten years, Epileptic is David B.'s story of his brother's battle with epilepsy - but it turns into a penetrating and sometimes lacerating self-examination on the author's part, as he delves into his... -
Gertrude Jekyll by Twigs Way
RRP: £7.99£6.64Almost eighty years after her death, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) is still one of the most influential of all English garden designers. Best known for the superb use of colour schemes in her hallmark flower borders, she combined an early training in art... -
The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left? The... -
Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith by Mark E. Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.77The only way to appreciate the legendary Mark E Smith is to encounter the man in his own words.'Ranting, raging, burning...relentlessly splenetic, a long and sustained rant... may also be the funniest music book ever written' - Observer'Unutterably funny... -
The Kindness of Strangers by Kate Adie
RRP: £12.99£8.60Kate Adie's story is an unusual one. Raised in post-war Sunderland, where life was 'a sunny experience, full of meat-paste sandwiches and Sunday school', she has reported memorably and courageously from many of the world's trouble spots since she joined... -
Elisabeth Elliot: A Life by Lucy S. R. Austen
RRP: £29.99£21.94This biography takes readers on an in-depth journey through the life of Elisabeth Elliot-her marriage to Jim Elliot, her years of international missions work, and her prolific career as a writer and speaker.About the AuthorLucy S. R. Austen (BA,... -
What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed by Robert Sellers
RRP: £12.99£9.00Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric... -
Not Normal: The uncensored account of an extraordinary true life story by Paul Connolly 9781982908713
RRP: £8.99£7.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982908713Author Paul ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire 9781848541917 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.32Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her upbringing, lovingly and wittily describing her parents (so memorably fictionalised by her sister Nancy); she...