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Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson
RRP: £30.00£20.40From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of... -
Sort Your Head Out: Mental health without all the bollocks by Sam Delaney
RRP: £18.99£11.13'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... -
Long Way Back Charley Boorman 9780749579258
RRP: £8.99£5.74February 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... -
Passage Across the Mersey by Robert Bhatia
RRP: £9.99£6.84The 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... -
The Old Man And Me by Jason Wilson 9781913406882
RRP: £8.99£6.65Amsterdam, 2001. A shoot-out in the city's docklands leaves one man grievously injured and a rival drug dealer killed outright. The injured man is Tony Spencer from Coventry. Aka The Old Man. Once a prolific businessman, he is now considered Public... -
Film Freak by Christopher Fowler
RRP: £11.99£8.66It's the late 1970s and 20-something Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas. He longs to be a famous screenwriter and put his dreams on the big screen. And so he heads for Wardour Street,... -
Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
RRP: £8.99£3.66'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... -
The Kindness of Strangers Kate Adie 9781529391312
RRP: £12.99£8.83Kate 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... -
Soar: As heard on Desert Island Discs by Simon Woolley 9781786581204
RRP: £10.99£7.99'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 Villain: The Life of Don Whillans by Jim Perrin 9780099416722 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive climbs ever made - but behind this and all his other... -
The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans by Jim Perrin
RRP: £16.99£12.28Don Whillans has an iconic significance for generations of climbers. His epoch-making first ascent of Annapurna's South Face, achieved with Dougal Haston in 1970, remains one of the most impressive climbs ever made - but behind this and all his other... -
Antony and Cleopatra: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781904271017
RRP: £8.99£8.81John 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 Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
RRP: £13.99£9.44The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pre-eminent English... -
The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings by Peter Haining 9781845296889
RRP: £14.99£10.05This giant collection includes a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts of hauntings, such as the American troops who repeatedly saw the ghosts of a dead platoon of men while on patrol in Vietnam; and the witnessed haunting of a house near... -
Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking by Bill Buford
RRP: £12.99£6.62From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French cooking.'A romping, chomping, savoury tour de force... Hilarious' Simon SchamaWhat does it take to master French cooking? This is the... -
Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson
RRP: £11.99£8.22'A compelling personal account of the dramas of a singular British band' Neil TennantThe trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Best New Band in Britain' and 'effete southern wankers' - is recalled with moving candour by its frontman... -
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star Tracey Thorn 9781844088683
RRP: £10.99£7.61I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records. Then, for eighteen years, between 1982... -
In Search of Silence: A memoir of finding life after loss by Poorna Bell
RRP: £9.99£6.61Winner of Red Magazine's Book of the Year 2019 'Raw, poetic and breathtaking' Fearne Cotton 'It is rare to find an author who writes with such authenticity, empathy and humour. I couldn't recommend this read enough. It will enrich your life' Will Young ... -
The Pursuit Of Happyness by Chris Gardner 9780060744878
RRP: £9.99£7.32Soon to be a major film starring Will Smith, this is the inspiring rags-to-riches story of the charismatic Chris Gardner, a once homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and then went on to become a crown... -
Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes 9781805460114
RRP: £10.99£7.33Ultramarathon Man is the story of where it all began for Dean Karnazes: the mind-boggling adventures of his nonstop treks through the shoe-melting inferno of Death Valley, the lung-freezing ferocity of the South Pole, and the awe-inspiring beauty of the... -
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
RRP: £16.99£11.71For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels - several of which are now established classics... -
Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain - Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans by Elise Downing
RRP: £9.99£7.00Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2021 Running away from your problems doesn't solve anything - but sometimes it's more fun than dealing with them Elise was spending a lot of time crying on buses. She had just graduated... -
Fatwa: Living with a death threat by Jacky Trevane
RRP: £10.99£6.67Jacky was twenty-three when she arrived in Egypt for a holiday with her boyfriend, Dave. Little did she know that an innocent holiday would result in a horror beyond her imagination. Separated from Dave in a bustling street, Jacky fell and twisted her... -
True Crime Case Histories - (Books 4, 5, & 6): 36 Disturbing True Crime Stories (3 Book True Crime Collection) by Jason Neal 9781956566352
RRP: £21.99£16.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956566352Author Jason NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Idigital GroupPublisher Idigital GroupWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Hard Parts: A Story of Courage and Triumph by Oksana Masters
RRP: £16.99£11.08*A Sunday Times Book of the Year* The remarkable and inspirational story of Oksana Masters, who was born with radiation-induced birth defects and suffered appalling abuse as an orphan, before being adopted and moving to the US, where she went on to... -
Top Dogs: A British Love Affair by Georgina Montague 9781916355446
RRP: £60.00£57.91This book celebrates the special relationship between beloved British dogs and their devoted owners. Architects, fashion designers, florists, entrepreneurs - these and the other famous, creative and hyper-successful people have one thing in common when... -
Rudolf Steiner's Mission and Ita Wegman by Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt 9781855845275
RRP: £20.00£16.43'Because I felt that he knew how things were, I said simply:"I will stay with you." Then he said significant things to me that I was not to repeat. A very ancient karma existing between him and myself was renewed. It was not until many years later that I... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £7.99£5.89'I was born in Tuckahoe I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my... -
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time by A. S. Byatt
RRP: £10.99£7.99Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it. With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A. S. Byatt brings... -
Marella Agnelli: The Last Swan by Marella Agnelli 9780847843213
RRP: £50.00£37.90The exclusive world of one of the twentieth century's most glamorous and alluring women, as seen through her private homes and gardens. Nicknamed The Swan by Richard Avedon when he photographed her iconic portrait in 1953, Marella Agnelli is not only one... -
Fragile: The True Story of My Lifelong Battle With Anorexia by Nikki Grahame
RRP: £10.99£7.69Say the name Nikki Grahame and most people will remember the bubbly, highly strung and hugely entertaining Big Brother 7 contestant. Since leaving the Big Brother house, she has forged a successful career for herself in presenting and writing. Yet Nikki... -
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea by Barbara Demick 9781847081414
RRP: £10.99£7.54WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's most repressive states - North Korea. 'A most perceptive and eye-opening account of everyday life in North Korea'... -
Sparkle's Story by Louise Allen 9781915306555
RRP: £9.99£7.32Louise gets a frantic call to take in a damaged and destructive young girl. Separated from her siblings, Sparkle is hostile and angry. A short while after settling in, Sparkle begins to identify as pansexual. A revolution is underway in the Allen... -
Strength from Within: Personal insights on how to cope, grow, and flourish during life’s trials based on my life with physical disabilities by Sa’diyya Nesar 9781847742230
RRP: £10.99£7.60This book is the fulfilment of my promise to Allah, the One that heard, answered, and released that eight-year-old-girl from the hospital. It contains the most challenging encounters from my life with physical disabilities. It delves into the struggles... -
A Girl Worth More by Joanne Phillips 9781913406868
RRP: £7.99£5.98Joanne Phillips' ordeal began aged 13 when she was gang-raped in her bedroom by local boys. Following the trauma, she dropped out of school, was befriended by an older man and was forced into prostitution aged 16. Over the next six years, she was... -
When Your Lover is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal by Susan Forward 9780060931155
RRP: £15.99£11.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060931155Author S. ForwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 180g -
Darkness Visible by William Styron
RRP: £9.99£7.32This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish. With profound insight and remarkable candor, Styron tracks the progress... -
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes Dr Maya Angelou 9781844085057
RRP: £9.99£7.00A 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... -
Paw Tracks in the Moonlight by Denis O'Connor
RRP: £10.99£7.61When Denis O'Connor rescues a three-week-old kitten from certain death during a snowstorm, little does he know how this tiny creature will change his life forever. Against all odds the kitten - who he names Toby Jug - survives and forms an unusually... -
The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
RRP: £10.99£7.54'Anyone who reads or ever read children's books - read this. It's a joy.' Irish Times 'Exhilarating.' New York Times Book Review 'Sublime.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times ** An Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Guardian and Irish Times Book of...