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An Auctioneer's Lot by Philip Serrell
RRP: £10.99£7.40From priceless eighteenth-century dining tables hidden away in decaying farm sheds to tattooed travellers with a penchant for Wedgewood china, professional auctioneer Philip Serrell has seen it all. In An Auctioneer's Lot he brings to life a world in... -
Nicholas Winton and the Rescued Generation: Save One Life, Save the World by Muriel Emanuel
RRP: £15.95£12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034254Author Muriel EmanuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook 9781847391773 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday'... -
The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook 9781847391773
RRP: £9.99£6.41Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday'... -
Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird
RRP: £18.99£12.13NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JANET MASLIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES'Victoria the Queen, Julia Baird's exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched biography, brushes the dusty myth off this extraordinary monarch' The New York Times Book Review... -
The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress by Frances Osborne 9781844084807 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.87On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by... -
The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress by Frances Osborne
RRP: £10.99£7.40On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by... -
Cocoa at Midnight: The real life story of my time as a housekeeper by Tom Quinn
RRP: £9.99£6.80Kathleen Clifford was born in 1909. Her family lived in a tiny flat near Paddington Station and her earliest memories were of the smell of horses and the shrill whistle of steam trains. For a girl from the slums there was really only one option once... -
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
£15.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386690388Author Anne FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Orange Books InternationalPublisher Orange Books InternationalDimensions(mm) 200mm *... -
Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at Number 11 by Alistair Darling 9780857892812 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Back from the Brink is a gripping and immediate account of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling's knowledge and understanding make this not only a unique perspective on the events that... -
Back from the Brink: 1000 Days at Number 11 by Alistair Darling
RRP: £14.99£9.80Back from the Brink is a gripping and immediate account of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling's knowledge and understanding make this not only a unique perspective on the events that... -
One Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe by Monica Dickens 9780349016016
RRP: £9.99£6.80INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearted and blissfully funny' NINA STIBBE ' Humorous, moving and fascinating' CLARE MACKINTOSH Considering herself unsuitable for any other... -
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan 9780099706502 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.72'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life... -
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life... -
The Year the World Went Mad: A Scientific Memoir from the Pandemic by Mark Woolhouse
RRP: £16.99£12.28In January 2020, leading epidemiologist Professor Mark Woolhouse learned of a new virus taking hold in China. He immediately foresaw a hard road ahead for the entire world, and emailed the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland warning that the UK should... -
Could It Be Forever? My Story by David Cassidy 9780755315802
RRP: £12.99£8.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Misadventures of a Big Mouth Brit by Piers Morgan 9780091913946 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Piers has got a new job. He's off to America to be the 'Nasty Brit' judging the show America's Got Talent - surely a role he was made for? And with unprecedented access to people, places and parties on both sides of the pond, he'll get the inside scoop... -
The Poison Line: Life and Death in the Infected Blood Scandal by Cara McGoogan 9780241998397
RRP: £10.99£7.77The shocking true story of the infected blood scandal: the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, which saw people infected with HIV by a revolutionary medical treatment and a cover-up from governments and the multi-billion-dollar plasma industry.'The... -
A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth by Graham Ratcliffe
RRP: £12.99£9.74On the night of 10-11 May 1996, eight climbers perished in what remains the worst disaster in Everest's history. Following the tragedy, numerous accounts were published, with Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air becoming an international bestseller. But has the... -
Lighthouse by Tony Parker 9780907871583
RRP: £14.99£9.80An extraordinary collection of interviews with lighthouse keepers and their families, in their own words - a record of a vanished profession and a vanished Britain of the 1970s. Described by William Golding as "one of the most fascinating social... -
The Beatles, Football and Me by Hunter Davies
RRP: £10.99£6.47Hunter Davies is one of the most respected writers in the country. THE GLORY GAME is a footballing classic still in print some 30 years since its original publication but Hunter is also a successful novelist and distinguished biographer, whose subjects... -
Hitch 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £12.99£8.56Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardIn this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date, from his childhood in Portsmouth, with his adoring, tragic mother and reserved Naval officer father; to... -
A Book of Life by Peter Kingsley 9781999638450
£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999638450Author Peter KingsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Catafalque PressPublisher Catafalque PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey by Ralph Leighton 9780393320695
RRP: £18.50£15.28In 1977, Feynman and his sidekick- fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton-set out to make arrangements to visit Tuva, doing noble and hilarious battle with Soviet red tape, befriending quite a few Tuvans, and discovering the wonders of... -
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer 9780099688600 [USED COPY]
£20.09WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life... -
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
RRP: £16.99£12.68WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life... -
Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2: 1962-1994 by Nelson Mandela 9780349116303
£13.33The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. From his imprisonment on Robben Island to his remarkable... -
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto 9780061120565
RRP: £10.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061120565Author John ColapintoFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249g -
Apricots on the Nile: Memories of a Lost Egypt by Colette Rossant 9780743475617
£11.94A James Beard Award-winning journalist presents a combination memoir and cookbook in which she describes growing up in French colonial Egypt and presents a richly exotic collection of recipes that blend a variety of cultural influences. Originally... -
George Muller: Man of Faith and Miracles by Basil Miller 9780871231826
RRP: £7.99£6.07The remarkable and challenging story of a man who dared to believe that God both could and would supply all of his needs whether personal or for the thousands of orphans in his care!Though confirmed in the church at the age of 14, George Muller was... -
Maria Montessori: A Biography by Rita Kramer 9780201092271
RRP: £24.99£17.83Maria Montessori (1870--1952) brought about a revolution in the classroom. She developed a method of teaching small children and inspired a movement that carried that method into every corner of the world. In her rich and forthright biography, Rita... -
The Ferris Conspiracy by Paul Ferris
RRP: £10.99£7.77On Glasgow's meanest streets life started well for the young Paul Ferris. How did he become Glasgow's most feared gangster, deemed a risk to national security?Arthur Thompson, Godfather of the crime world and senior partner of the Krays, recruited young... -
Killing My Own Snakes: A Memoir by Ann Leslie
RRP: £18.99£14.01'Gloriously funny . . . unfailingly entertaining' - Mail on Sunday'What worlds she's seen, what a life she's had - at long last, the memoirs of the fearless, witty, indomitable Ann Leslie' - Deborah MoggachShe has been shot at by Bosnian snipers, been... -
Committed: A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert
RRP: £10.99£7.77________________ 'Like Eat, Pray, Love, her follow-up ... feels irresistibly confessional ... I found myself guzzling Committed, reading it in mighty chunks, far into the night. Whenever I put it down, it was pinched by my mother or sister' - Sunday... -
I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God by Bilquis Sheikh
RRP: £11.99£8.71I Dared to Call Him Father is the fascinating true story of Bilquis Sheikh, a prominent Muslim woman. Her unusual journey to a personal relationship with God turned her world upside down-and put her life in danger. Originally published in 1978, the book... -
Dry by Augusten Burroughs 9781843541851 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative memoir. Outrageously fuinny and scorchingly honest.You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street,... -
My Father And Myself by J. R. Ackerley
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322127Author J.R. AckerleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Chosen by a Horse by Susan Richards
RRP: £10.99£7.40When she agrees to take on one of the abused horses just rescued by the local SPCA, a new chapter opens in Susan Richards's difficult life. She lost her mother at the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; she married unhappily and divorced;... -
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett 9781781255407 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£1.78In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord... -
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
RRP: £6.99£5.13In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord...