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Landscape For A Good Woman by Carolyn Steedman
RRP: $14.18$9.55This 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
RRP: $12.89$8.57This 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: $19.34$14.90With 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: $12.89$9.38The 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: $16.76$11.09NOW 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: $14.18$2.95The 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: $14.18$9.03The 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: $11.60$7.57DID 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: $12.89$5.30The 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
RRP: $10.31$7.47This 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... -
The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence by Dr Amanda Brown
RRP: $11.60$6.82From 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: $14.18$9.44In 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: $14.18$9.44THE 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: $19.29$15.92Apologies 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: $19.34$14.13Maliodoma 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: $11.60$7.84In 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
RRP: $11.60$8.32Think 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: $23.21$16.71D. 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: $14.18$9.55'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: $14.18$2.95Ben 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: $14.18$10.02Ben 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... -
Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires by Juan Ricardo Cole 9781568587837
RRP: $36.12$27.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568587837Author Juan ColeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint PublicAffairs,U.S.Publisher PublicAffairs,U.S.Weight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
The Jive Talker by Samson Kambalu 9781914613180
RRP: $16.76$11.09A uniquely vivid and wickedly funny memoir of growing up ambitious, creative and sometimes hungry in Malawi. With exuberant prose, a cast of extraordinary characters and a rebellious spirit, Samson Kambalu tells the story of how a little boy obsessed... -
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Hugo Mercier
RRP: $25.79$18.94The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success. Knight places him firmly in the context of the Royal Navy at the time. He analyses Nelson's more obvious qualities, his... -
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride 9780747538325
RRP: $14.18$10.02_______________ 'A triumph' - New York Times Book Review 'A startling, tender-hearted tribute to a woman for whom the expression tough love might have been invented' - The Times 'As lively as a novel, a well-written, thoughtful contribution to... -
Sort Your Head Out: Mental health without all the bollocks by Sam Delaney
RRP: $24.50$14.36'An honest, funny account of how we're all capable of changing for the better' SETH MEYERS'A great, motivating book that can really help - every bloke should read it' SHAUN RYDERSam Delaney was Jack the Lad. He was confident, loud and funny; an absolute... -
Lovely: Ladies of Animation: The Art of Lorelay Bove, Brittney Lee, Claire Keane, Lisa Keene, Victoria Ying and Helen Chen by Lorelay Bove
RRP: $28.37$19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650130Author Lorelay BoveFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio PressWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 257mm *... -
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou
RRP: $12.89$8.77A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD... -
Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page 9781905662326
$56.82Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page is the photographic autobiography and visual history of the world's most iconic guitar player. With incredible attention to detail, Page has chosen hundreds of photographs representing significant moments in his career: from a... -
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh
RRP: $16.76$11.73A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and... -
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer by Sarah Bakewell
RRP: $16.76$11.73How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and... -
Passage Across the Mersey by Robert Bhatia
RRP: $12.89$8.57The remarkable story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned tragedy to triumph. When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in the 1930's, she and her six siblings fell from a comfortable middle-class... -
A Life In Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE by Sarah Helm 9780349119366 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$3.13During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead' after the war. Twelve of these were women who died in German... -
A Life In Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE by Sarah Helm
RRP: $16.76$11.09During World War Two the Special Operation Executive's French Section sent more than 400 agents into Occupied France -- at least 100 never returned and were reported 'Missing Believed Dead' after the war. Twelve of these were women who died in German... -
The Devil in the Kitchen: The Autobiography by Marco Pierre White
RRP: $14.18$9.55The long-awaited autobiography of the archetypal kitchen bad boy - Marco Pierre WhiteWhen Marco Pierre White's mother died when he was just six years old, it transformed his life. Soon, his father was urging him to earn his own keep and by sixteen he was... -
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 9780007205233 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.95Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and... -
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
RRP: $14.18$9.35Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and... -
Sara Payne: A Mother's Story by Sara Payne
RRP: $14.18$9.55'Thank God we have found her.' Sara Payne's words as she announced that the body of her daughter - snatched and murdered by paedophile, Roy Whiting - had finally been found. In this memoir, Sara tells her personal story. She describes the numbness as... -
All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life by Loren Eiseley 9780803267411
RRP: $20.63$16.99A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley began his lifelong exploration of nature in the salt flats and ponds around his hometown and in the mammoth bone collection hoarded in the old red brick museum at the University of Nebraska, where he conducted... -
Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
RRP: $11.60$4.53'I loved this book ... a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be, and I will never forget it Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, LoveWith her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the...