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John Henry Newman: A Biography by Ian Ker
RRP: £13.49£12.87This full-length life of John Henry Newman is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the thinker and writer. It draws extensively on material from Newman's letters and papers. Newman's character is revealed in its complexity and contrasts:... -
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Hunt for Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
RRP: £25.00£16.53Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month.The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration.'Bound has a... -
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda 9788120818941
£17.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120818941Author Paramahansa YoganandaFormat HardbackPage Count 516Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass,Dimensions(mm) 220mm * 150mm... -
Beautiful Ever After by Katie Piper
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Katie Piper has an attitude to life that can make anything bearable. She's a hero' MARIAN KEYESThe heartbreaking, inspiring and uplifting story of Katie Piper's journey from recovery to new beginnings, motherhood and finding love. Since the brutal rape... -
Island Cross-talk: Pages from a Diary by Tomas O'Crohan 9780192819093
RRP: £11.99£9.00Written between 1919 and 1925, 'Island Cross-Talk' was the first book to come out of the Blasket Islands - that tiny, remote community off the west coast of Kerry. Springing from a powerful oral tradition, it captured the moment of transition from speech... -
A Time to Risk All: The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes, the Irish woman who saved children from Nazi Concentration Camps by Clodagh Finn
RRP: £18.99£13.61'I am truly grateful to Mary Elmes for the life I might not have had, had it not been for her brave actions to save us and many others. She was truly a heroine.' Michael Freund Mary Elmes was an extraordinary woman. Sometimes known as the 'Irish... -
The Drowned And The Saved by Primo Levi
RRP: £10.99£4.11Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that he kiled himself because he was tormented by guilt - guilt that he had... -
In Sunshine or in Shadow: Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prize by Donald McRae 9781471163135
RRP: £10.99£7.00SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 'One of the most captivating boxing writers on the planet' Barry McGuigan 'A superb tale...His inspirational story celebrates peace and reconciliation' Daily Telegraph Multi-award-winning... -
Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to The Road to Nab End by William Woodruff 9780349116228 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.78The second volume of Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job. His digs are with an old couple in Bow where he has to share a single bed (head to toe)... -
Beyond Nab End: The Sequel to The Road to Nab End by William Woodruff
RRP: £10.99£7.40The second volume of Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job. His digs are with an old couple in Bow where he has to share a single bed (head to toe)... -
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719566967 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across... -
Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: £10.99£7.40The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across... -
A Life Like Other People's by Alan Bennett
RRP: £10.99£7.32Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and... -
A Zoo in My Luggage by Gerald Durrell
RRP: £9.99£7.11'For many years I had wanted to start a zoo . . . any reasonable person smitten with an ambition of this sort would have secured the zoo first and obtained the animals afterwards. but throughout my life I have rarely if ever achieved what I wanted by... -
Woman of Substances by Jenny Valentish 9781788541640 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£5.05Journalist Jenny Valentish takes a gendered look at drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way. Mining the expertise of 35 leading researchers, clinicians and psychiatrists, she explores the early predictors of addictive behaviour, such as... -
Woman of Substances by Jenny Valentish
RRP: £8.99£6.45Journalist Jenny Valentish takes a gendered look at drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way. Mining the expertise of 35 leading researchers, clinicians and psychiatrists, she explores the early predictors of addictive behaviour, such as... -
Winning the Fight: My Autobiography by Maggie Alphonsi 9781915359018
RRP: £20.00£13.46'Maggie has changed the way the game is played forever' - The Sunday Times Maggie Alphonsi is not only a national sporting icon, the face of international women's rugby and star player of the England side that won the World Cup in 2014. She is also an... -
The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I by Steven Veerapen 9781780278162
RRP: £25.00£16.99James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never washed, the colourless man behind... -
The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell 9780099514756 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the... -
The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £16.99£12.68The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the... -
Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer by Robert Graysmith 9781845765316
RRP: £8.99£6.45"This is the Zodiac speaking. I like killing people because it is so much fun...the most thrilling experience..." This shocking true crime classic is now a major movie. A sexual sadist, the Zodiac's pleasure was torture and murder. He taunted the... -
Ghost Boy by Martin Pistorius 9781471151002
RRP: £9.99£7.00In January 1988, aged twelve, Martin Pistorius fell inexplicably sick. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound, being cared for at centres for severely disabled children. What no-one knew is that while Martin's body remained unresponsive,... -
Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics by Edward Teller 9780738207780 [USED COPY]
RRP: £26.99£10.38Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defence. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind the headlines- passionate and humorous, devoted and loyal. Never before has Teller told his story as fully... -
Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics by Edward Teller 9780738207780
RRP: £26.99£22.80Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defence. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind the headlines- passionate and humorous, devoted and loyal. Never before has Teller told his story as fully... -
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs by Kazuo Ishiguro
RRP: £4.99£3.60Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship... -
Strangeland: The memoirs of one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation by Tracey Emin
RRP: £12.99£8.60The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost... -
Eleanor by David Michaelis 9781439192016
RRP: £25.00£16.84New York Times Bestseller Prizewinning bestselling author David Michaelis presents a "stunning" (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency... -
Our Father's Secret: The true story of three Irish girls' struggle against abuse and their fight for justice by Joyce Kavanagh
RRP: £8.99£6.20THE NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the crowded working-class streets of 1960s Dublin, comes the powerful and inspiring true story of three young sisters who - after years of abuse and trauma - overcame their fears and together, fought for the justice... -
Mummy Told Me Not to Tell: The true story of a troubled boy with a dark secret by Cathy Glass
RRP: £8.99£6.02When Reece arrives at Cathy's door aged 7 years old, he has already passed through the hands of four different carers in four weeks. As the details of his short life emerge, it becomes clear that to help him, Cathy will face her biggest challenge yet. ... -
Felix the Railway Cat by Kate Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.77It will make you laugh and it will make you cry: Felix The Railway Cat is the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling, extraordinary tale of a close-knit community and its amazing bond with a very special cat. 'The global sensation' Daily Telegraph________ When Felix... -
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris 9780349119427
RRP: £9.99£6.80A guy walks into a bar . . . From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless. In Let's... -
Just A Boy: The True Story Of A Stolen Childhood by Richard McCann
RRP: £12.99£9.09One October night in 1975 Richard, aged five, was alone in the house with his three sisters. It was 3am and their mother hadn't come home yet. Next morning, the police arrived to take the children away. Their mother had become the first victim of a... -
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris'I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful... -
Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles by Robert Sackville-West 9781408809686
RRP: £14.99£10.95Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives and... -
Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden 9781786490711 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo tells the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of... -
Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden 9781786490711
RRP: £10.99£7.32A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo tells the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of... -
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson 9781847390547
RRP: £10.99£7.40NOW A MAJOR SERIES 'GENIUS' ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, PRODUCED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING GEOFFREY RUSHEinstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary... -
If We Lived in the Highlands by Trevor Rogers 9780955691805
RRP: £8.99£7.93A must for those dreaming of living in the Scottish Highlands, or perhaps just wishing to be re-acquainted with life in a west coast village. This was the dream of Irene and Trevor Rogers who both gave up their professional careers in search of an ideal... -
Without Warning: a Soldier's Extraordinary Journey by Damien Thomlinson 9780732297169
£15.94Private Damien Thomlinson is a former member of the elite 2nd Commando Regiment of the Australian Army who was terribly injured in after a bomb explosion in Afghanistan. His inspiring journey back from the dead stands as proof that no challenge is too... -
A Brother's Journey: Surviving A Childhood of Abuse by Richard B. Pelzer 9780751536003 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29The story of Dave Pelzer is a legend of our times: the shattering tale of the child called 'It' who was forced to live in the basement. His mother was the perpetrator of the horror, but she had a willing accomplice. It was Dave's brother Richard - the...