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Something Sensational to Read in the Train: The Diary of a Lifetime by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: $29.23$19.11This is a diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful observation, providing both a compelling record of five remarkable decades and a revealing, often hilarious and sometimes moving... -
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane
RRP: $25.33$23.05Selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of shuttle astronauts, Mike Mullane completed three missions and logged 356 hours aboard the Discovery and Atlantis shuttles. It was a dream come true. As a boy, Mullane could only read about... -
Appetite: A Memoir in Recipes of Family and Food by Ed Balls
RRP: $17.53$11.35THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Charming' - The Sunday Times'Delicious' - Daily Mail'Wonderful' - Stephen Fry'Delightful' - Delia Smith'Brilliant' - Claudia Winkleman'Joyous' - Caitlin Moran'Entertaining' - Observer'Funny' - Ken Follett 'Glorious' - Daily... -
These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales by B. L. Coombes 9780708315637
RRP: $21.43$16.17"These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales", was first published in June 1939. It was an instant bestseller, and its fame catapulted its author into the front rank of 'proletarian writers'. B. L. Coombes, an English-born... -
Dylan Thomas: A New Life by Andrew Lycett
RRP: $29.23$19.11The definitive biography of the poet who was almost as notorious for his 'rock 'n' roll' lifestyle as his artistic workDylan Thomas was a romantic and controversial figure; a poet who lived to excess and died young. An inventive genius with a gift for... -
David Mitchell: Back Story by David Mitchell
RRP: $21.43$14.14David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on... -
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
RRP: $21.43$14.14'My favourite book about the wilderness' Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work... -
The Cat Who Came In From The Cold by Deric Longden
RRP: $19.48$13.86The little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to rain it seemed only natural to bring him inside. Once there he slipped so easily into Deric and Aileen's lives that there... -
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein by Jonathan Cott
RRP: $40.93$30.65Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of... -
Parky: My Autobiography: A Full and Funny Life by Michael Parkinson 9780340961667 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.75$2.44The Sunday Times BestsellerAll Michael Parkinson really wanted to do was play cricket for Yorkshire and England. However, he soon realised that to be paid to watch films, football and cricket would be the best way to spend life, so he became a journalist... -
Parky: My Autobiography: A Full and Funny Life by Michael Parkinson
RRP: $48.75$32.72The Sunday Times BestsellerAll Michael Parkinson really wanted to do was play cricket for Yorkshire and England. However, he soon realised that to be paid to watch films, football and cricket would be the best way to spend life, so he became a journalist... -
Brian May: The definitive biography by Laura Jackson
RRP: $21.43$14.43As the lead guitarist of Queen, Brian May is one of rock's most recognisable stars. Brian May: the definitive biography charts his life from his childhood, through his years studying astro physics and teaching, his success with Queen, his more recent... -
Slow Walking The Wales Coast Path by Eirlys Thomas
$29.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913637859Author Eirlys ThomasFormat PaperbackImprint Jelly Bean BooksPublisher Candy Jar Books -
The Old Man And Me by Jason Wilson 9781913406882
RRP: $17.53$12.58Amsterdam, 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... -
Hashish by Henry de Monfreid
RRP: $25.33$17.73Nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin, Henri de Monfried lived by his own account 'a rich, restless, magnificent life' as one of the great travellers of his or any age. Infamous as well... -
Test Pilot: An Extraordinary Career Testing Civil Aircraft by Taylor, Chris 9781399085342
RRP: $48.75$34.36Having flown an astonishing 400 different aircraft, as a licensed Category 1 test pilot and flight test instructor for both aeroplanes and helicopters, Chris Taylor is arguably one of the best qualified and widely experienced test pilots working today... -
The Art of the Good Life: Clear Thinking for Business and a Better Life by Rolf Dobelli
RRP: $19.48$13.26FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER THE ART OF THINKING CLEARLY'Grab Rolf's book and don't let it go!'Tenley E. Albright, Director, MIT Collaborative Initiatives'Informative, insightful and accessible'Professor Lou Marinoff'Brilliant'Robert... -
A Baby's Cry by Cathy Glass
RRP: $19.48$12.95What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option? Cathy Glass is about to find out. From author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Damaged comes a harrowing and moving memoir about tiny Harrison, left... -
Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy J. Schoenberger 9780306811876
$34.59You can see her dark-eyed beauty in photos by Walker Evans, and her bewitching figure in paintings by Lucian Freud. She is the mermaid of whom poet Robert Lowell writes in The Dolphin (and he was clutching her portrait when he died). She was Lady... -
The North: (And Almost Everything In It) by Paul Morley
RRP: $33.13$23.95A celebratory and beautiful mixture of memoir, social history and cultural observation, Paul Morley's The North is a unique portrait of Northern England and almost everything within it 'Breathtaking tour de force' Mail on Sunday 'Packed with raw... -
Thank You for the Days: A Boy's Own Adventures in Radio and Beyond by Mark Radcliffe 9781847393708 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$3.47Approaching 50, Mark Radcliffe decided to write about his life and his love of music. But crucially, he only wanted to write about the most interesting days and not the dull ones in between. From 'The Day My Mother Hit Me With a Golf Club' to 'The Day I... -
Violated: A Shocking and Harrowing Survival Story from the Notorious Rotherham Abuse Scandal by Sarah Wilson
RRP: $19.48$12.95The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. In the summer of 2014, the Rotherham sex abuse scandal sent shockwaves through the nation. A report revealed that,... -
Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime by Joanne Drayton 9780007328680
RRP: $29.23$22.74The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story - revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography. While Ngaio Marsh had a flamboyant public persona, she was fiercely protective of her private life. And no... -
Beyond Limits by Lowri Morgan 9781785622755 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.38$3.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785622755Author Lowri MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press -
Beyond Limits by Lowri Morgan
RRP: $23.38$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785622755Author Lowri MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press -
Vow of Silence by Suzanne Walsh
RRP: $15.58$10.92The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Suzanne suffered five heart attacks and made it through open heart surgery. But even that pales in comparison to the horrors she faced as a young girl. Her childhood became the 'stuff of nightmares' after her... -
The Centre Cannot Hold: A Memoir of My Schizophrenia by Elyn R. Saks
RRP: $29.23$19.11Elyn Saks is Professor of Law and Psychiatry at University of Southern California Law School. She's the author of several books. Happily married. And - a schizophrenic. Saks lifts the veil on schizophrenia with her startling and honest account of how... -
Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
RRP: $38.98$26.77A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Shelley, the most neglected of all the great... -
Ash + Salt: Sexual Assault - From Survival to Empowerment by Sarah Grace
RRP: $29.23$22.74Sarah Grace is a sexual assault survivor. On 17 July 2019, she fell asleep like any other night. A burglar broke into her apartment and attacked her as she slept. What followed was a fight for her life. That violent assault blew apart her world, reducing... -
101 Kruger tales: Extraordinary stories from ordinary visitors to the Kruger National Park by Jeff Gordon
RRP: $25.33$16.77This is a collection of 101 jaw-dropping stories, as told by the very people who experienced them - first-hand accounts of sightings, scrapes and encounters in one of Africa's greatest National Parks. It details hair-raising experiences from the Kruger... -
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
RRP: $25.33$17.37Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and... -
The Last Gangster: My Final Confession by Charlie Richardson 9780099580867 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$4.47Charlie Richardson, one of Britain's most notorious gangland bosses, sheds light on his extraordinary life story completed just weeks before his death in September 2012.Notorious Charlie Richardson was the most feared gangster in 1960s London. Boss of... -
The Last Gangster: My Final Confession by Charlie Richardson
RRP: $21.43$15.15Charlie Richardson, one of Britain's most notorious gangland bosses, sheds light on his extraordinary life story completed just weeks before his death in September 2012.Notorious Charlie Richardson was the most feared gangster in 1960s London. Boss of... -
Where There Is Evil by Sandra Brown
RRP: $27.28$22.97Sandra Brown was eight when her friend and neighbour, twelve-year-old Moira Anderson, disappeared from the small town of Coatbridge near Glasgow in 1957. Moira has never been seen since. Twenty-seven years later, at a family funeral, Sandra's estranged... -
Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser 9781907554803
RRP: $25.33$16.54One of the most recognisable, respected and inspirational men on earth, Muhammad Ali is the world's most famous boxing hero. Ali brought unprecedented speed and grace to the sport, and his charm and wit changed forever what the world expects of a... -
Shackleton by Roland Huntford 9780349107448
RRP: $33.13$23.28Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary - and adversary - of Scott, he sailed on the 'Discovery' expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow and ice... -
999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service by Dan Farnworth 9781471184444 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53$4.54In this updated edition, taking in his experiences during the coronavirus pandemic, Dan Farnworth brings vividly to life his astonishing times as a medic working on the frontline of the UK Ambulance Service. When the 999 call goes out, he has little idea... -
999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service by Dan Farnworth
RRP: $17.53$11.35In this updated edition, taking in his experiences during the coronavirus pandemic, Dan Farnworth brings vividly to life his astonishing times as a medic working on the frontline of the UK Ambulance Service. When the 999 call goes out, he has little idea... -
The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon by Thomas E. Starzl 9780822958369
$38.61Given the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in the controversial field of transplant surgery should... -
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum 9781398510388
RRP: $19.48$12.50'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN 'READS LIKE A THRILLER' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Freezing Order comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur...