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Wait For Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire
RRP: £12.99£8.60Deborah 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... -
Long Way Back by Charley Boorman 9780749579258
RRP: £8.99£5.55February 16, 2016: motorcycle adventurer Charley Boorman suffers a major road traffic accident in Portugal, breaking his hand and ankle and shattering his left leg. It's unclear if he'll ever walk properly again, let alone ride a motorbike. Bed-bound in... -
The Road to Middle-earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien created a new mythology by Tom Shippey
RRP: £10.99£7.89A detailed and fascinating journey to the roots of The Lord of the Rings, by award-winning Tolkien expert Professor Tom Shippey. The Road to Middle-Earth is a fascinating and accessible exploration of J.R.R.Tolkien's creativity and the sources... -
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins
RRP: £14.99£11.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524761400Author Jedidiah JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 252g -
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession by David Grann 9781849830669
RRP: £9.99£6.41By the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, 'If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and... -
"Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£7.99John Wilders - literary advisor to the BBC TV Shakespeare series - brings thorough scholarship and a practical understanding of performance needs to this new edition. Clarity, accessibility and rigour are the hallmarks of an edition which will provide... -
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty by Ben Macintyre
RRP: £12.99£8.48The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle's Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' arch-rival. From the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zigzag'. Adam Worth was the greatest master... -
Cruel To Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe by Will Birch 9781472129154
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Brilliant biography of an undersung late-blooming treasure . . . subtly profound as well as wickedly entertaining, this biography does its subject scintillating justice' MojoCruel to Be Kind is the definitive account of Nick Lowe's uncompromising life... -
Tony 10: The astonishing story of the postman who gambled EURO10,000,000 ... and lost it all by Declan Lynch
RRP: £9.99£7.11Tony 10 was the online betting username of Tony O'Reilly, the postman who became front-page news in 2011 after he stole EURO1.75 million from An Post while he was a branch manager in Gorey, Co. Wexford. He used the money to fund a gambling addiction that... -
One Girl And Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere by Emma Gray 9780751547399 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.98EMMA GRAY'S NEW BOOK 'MY FARMING LIFE' ('A HEARTWARMING TALE OF LIFE ON THE LAND' Alan Titchmarsh) IS OUT NOWWhat happens when you swap 'I do' for pastures new?When twenty-three-year-old shepherdess Emma Gray breaks off her engagement, the chance to take... -
One Girl And Her Dogs: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere by Emma Gray
RRP: £10.99£7.40EMMA GRAY'S NEW BOOK 'MY FARMING LIFE' ('A HEARTWARMING TALE OF LIFE ON THE LAND' Alan Titchmarsh) IS OUT NOWWhat happens when you swap 'I do' for pastures new?When twenty-three-year-old shepherdess Emma Gray breaks off her engagement, the chance to take... -
The Green Fool by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: £12.99£9.09My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed. A delightful autobiographical novel from one of Ireland's best-loved... -
Soar: My Journey from Council Estate to House of Lords by Simon Woolley
RRP: £20.00£13.65'Simon Woolley revolutionised British politics' - GuardianCan an outsider ever become a member of the establishment?Simon Woolley is a member of the House of Lords, the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college, and a policy changemaker who has the ear... -
The Living Years by Mike Rutherford
RRP: £10.99£7.40"Now Michael, you're the son of a naval officer, you must behave like a naval officer at all times..."What Captain William Rutherford told his seven-year-old son Michael was to stay with him all his life. Born in 1950, Michael was truly his father's... -
The Bodyguard's Story: Diana, the Crash, and the Sole Survivor by Trevor Rees-Jones 9780751537239
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Landscape For A Good Woman by Carolyn Steedman
RRP: £10.99£7.40This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties... -
Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen Forrester 9780008180966 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.33This major best-selling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever read. When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in 1930 she and her six siblings were forced into... -
Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen Forrester
RRP: £9.99£6.64This major best-selling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever read. When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in 1930 she and her six siblings were forced into... -
To Prove I'm Not Forgot by Sylvia M. Barnard
RRP: £14.99£11.55With the growth of English cities during the Industrial Revolution came a booming population too vast for churchyards. Beckett Street Cemetery in Leeds was to become the first municipal cemetery in the country. This study relates how the cemetery was... -
Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster by Stephen McGinty
RRP: £9.99£7.27The fire was visible from seventy miles away and the heat generated was so intense that a helicopter could only circle the rig at a perimeter of one mile. On the surface of the sea, a converted fishing trawler inched as close as possible, but the paint... -
An Angel At My Table: The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
RRP: £12.99£8.60NOW AN AWARD-WINNING FILM ON NETFLIX 'One of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century' MICHAEL HOLROYD, SUNDAY TIMES'Irresistibly readable, commendably honest' FLEUR ADCOCK, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'The Janet Frame of An Angel at My... -
Pele: The Autobiography by Pele 9781416511212 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.40The man. The legend. The autobiography. Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the... -
Pele: The Autobiography by Pele 9781416511212
RRP: £10.99£7.00The man. The legend. The autobiography. Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the... -
Urban Legends: Strange Tales and Unsolved Mysteries from Around the World by James Proud
RRP: £8.99£5.87DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE KIDS WHO FOUND A FERRARI BURIED IN THEIR GARDEN? WHAT ABOUT THE MAN WHO SUED SATAN? DO YOU KNOW THE LEGEND OF THE BUNNY MAN? Strange happenings, unsolved mysteries and seemingly supernatural events have gripped and shocked us... -
Born Survivors: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Wendy Holden
RRP: £9.99£4.11The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new forewordAmong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly... -
Moods of Future Joys by Alastair Humphreys 9781903070857 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.70This enthralling account details Alastair Humphrey's epic journey across Africa, through Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. His experience is at times brutal, and though he faces loneliness, despair, and harsh conditions, he also survives through trust in the... -
Moods of Future Joys by Alastair Humphreys
RRP: £7.99£5.79This enthralling account details Alastair Humphrey's epic journey across Africa, through Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. His experience is at times brutal, and though he faces loneliness, despair, and harsh conditions, he also survives through trust in the... -
Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin'Exquisite' John Updike'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' ObserverRonald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation of the rural Suffolk he had known since childhood was... -
The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence by Dr Amanda Brown
RRP: £8.99£5.29From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown In The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence, Dr Amanda Brown reveals stories of her time spent with foreign national prisoners. DANGER... -
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk
RRP: £10.99£7.32In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the author redefines herself and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. Written in the months... -
The Beauty of Living Twice by Sharon Stone 9781838953898
RRP: £10.99£7.32THE TIMES #1 BESTSELLERTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of Vogue's Best Books to Read in 2021One of O Magazine's 55 Most Anticipated Books of 2021One of Marie Claire's 25 Best 2021 Memoirs to Pre-Order Now'Electrifying.' The Sunday Times'A... -
First One In, Last One Out: Auschwitz Survivor 31321 by Marilyn Shimon
RRP: £14.95£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781533305497Author Marilyn ShimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Some
RRP: £14.99£10.95Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into european ways of thought and worship. The story tells of his return... -
This Party's Got To Stop by Rupert Thomson
RRP: £8.99£6.08In his first venture into non-fiction, the celebrated novelist Rupert Thomson has produced one of the most extraordinary and unforgettable memoirs of recent years. On a warm, sunny day in July 1964, Thomson returned home from school to discover that his... -
The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows 9781840182750 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.20Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big chunk. In... -
The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
RRP: £8.99£6.45Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big chunk. In... -
D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider by John Worthen
RRP: £17.99£12.95D. H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider is an illuminating and clear-sighted portrait of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant, radical and misunderstood writers.John Worthen follows Lawrence's from his awkward and intense youth in... -
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £10.99£7.40'I loved every word' - Sarra Manning, Red'[A] blissful book - it's like basking in the warm Med' - Rachel Johnson, Mail on SundayThe Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon... -
The Accidental Adventurer by Ben Fogle 9780552165785 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.41Ben 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... -
The Accidental Adventurer by Ben Fogle
RRP: £10.99£7.77Ben 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...