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Caithness to Patagonia: Distant Lands and Close Relatives by Ian Leith 9781849951739
RRP: £16.99£14.10This is an extraordinary and little-known story of emigration fromScotland. Caithness and Patagonia are literally a world apart, yet in the late19th and early 20th centuries a number of Caithness men and women took on thechallenge of this wild, open and... -
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock 9780006863748 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£9.80Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by... -
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock
RRP: £25.00£17.43Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by... -
Giants: The Dwarfs of Auschwitz by Yehuda Koren 9781849546539
RRP: £9.99£7.27'Through thick and thin, never separate. Stick together, guard each other, and live for one another.' As Hitler's war intensified, the Ovitz family would have good reason to stand by their mother's mantra. Descending from the cattle train into the death... -
Van Gogh's Letters: The Mind of the Artist in Paintings, Drawings, and Words, 1875-1890 by H. Anna Suh
RRP: £20.00£16.24A beautiful, one-of-a-kind collection of more than 150 of Van Gogh's letters, paired with more than 250 works of art.Vincent Van Gogh wrote hundreds of letters to his brother Theo, as well as to family members and fellow artists including Paul Gauguin... -
Keats by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571172283 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Keats is the first major biography of this tragic hero of romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the story is well known - has become, in fact, the stuff of legend: the archetypal... -
Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela 9781408703113
RRP: £25.00£20.40'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack Obama'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book' The Times'Burns with the luminosity of faith in the invincible nature of human hope and... -
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
RRP: £10.99£7.32The #1 New York Times BestsellerAn Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the YearNow a Major Motion PictureThis is the true story of a boy who wanted to grow up with the Brady Bunch, but ended up living with the Addams Family. Augusten Burroughs's mother... -
The Growing Pains of a Colonial Boy by Peter Hunt 9781398471344
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398471344Author Peter HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Highbury: The Story of Arsenal In N.5 by Jon Spurling
RRP: £10.99£7.40'SPORTING HISTORY AT ITS BEST' Daily Telegraph'A TERRIFIC READ AND A WORTHY TRIBUTE' FourFourTwo'VERY WELL WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED' Nostalgic GoonerFrom Herbert Chapman to Arsene Wenger, this is the definitive history of Arsenal's time at the famous... -
Standing on the Shoulders: Incredible Heroes and How They Inspire Us by Dan Walker, Jr.
RRP: £22.00£19.29'AN EXTRAORDINARY BOOK' NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE'SUCH AN INCREDIBLE READ' ZOE BALL'ONE OF THE YEAR'S MOST INSPIRING BOOKS' HOLLY WILLOUGHBYWith a foreword by 2021 Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis, and including chapters on Rose and her mum, the 3... -
War Stories by Jeremy Bowen 9781471135965
RRP: £9.99£6.41Having joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984, Jeremy Bowen first became a foreign correspondent four years later. He had witnessed violence already, both at home and abroad, but it wasn't until he covered his first war -- in El Salvador -- that he felt he... -
An Eye to the Hills by Cameron McNeish
RRP: £24.99£17.61For over four decades, Cameron McNeish has chronicled Scotland's majestic landscapes and the outdoor communities who inhabit them. While much has changed, especially in terms of conservation and access, the hills themselves remain little altered, as do... -
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1593, the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account - a violent quarrel over the bill, or 'recknynge' - long regarded as... -
Imagine This by Julia Baird
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Honest and poignant' THE SUNThe honest and revealing story of John Lennon's childhood by his sister Julia. Through her own personal journey, Julia reveals the battle between two strong, self-willed women - John's mother and his Aunt Mimi - to have... -
Smile Though Your Heart Is Breaking by Pauline Prescott 9780007337170
RRP: £10.99£8.29A tale of Catherine Cookson-esque tragedy and Northern grit, Pauline Prescott's life story will shock and amaze. A mother and a faithful friend, Pauline is not your typical politician's wife. She is immensely proud of her role as a housewife... -
By Your Side: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor by Scott Mitchell
RRP: £20.00£18.02A warm, colourful and heartfelt tribute to Barbara Windsor's rich, varied and remarkable life from the man who knew her best.'I'm so glad you had the life you did, Barbara. I'm sorry you can't remember, but my God, what a life! You haven't wasted a... -
Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha by Mineko Iwasaki
RRP: £9.99£7.11The extraordinary, bestselling memoir from Japan's foremost geisha.'A glimpse into the exotic, mysterious, tinged-with-eroticism world of the almost mythical geisha' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail'[An] eloquent and innovative memoir' The Times 'I can identify... -
Eighteen Seconds: A shocking and gripping memoir of horror, forgiveness and love by Louise Beech
RRP: £9.99£6.80My mother once said to me, 'I wish you could feel the way I do for eighteen seconds. Just eighteen seconds, so you'd know how awful it is.' I thought about it. Realised we could all learn from being in another person's head for eighteen seconds... -
Hands of an Angel by Helen Parry Jones 9780099569077 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£6.16Helen Parry Jones has been a professional spiritual healer and empathic medium for thirty years. She has filled theatres and auditoriums and appeared on radio and TV. But this is the first time she has told her incredible story.'Helen Parry Jones'... -
Hands of an Angel by Helen Parry Jones 9780099569077
RRP: £15.99£11.61Helen Parry Jones has been a professional spiritual healer and empathic medium for thirty years. She has filled theatres and auditoriums and appeared on radio and TV. But this is the first time she has told her incredible story.'Helen Parry Jones'... -
Re-run the Fun: My Life as Pat Sharp by Pat Sharp 9781472134660 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65'The perfect antidote to 2020' Huffington Post'A must-read if you like funny things' Greg James'I had no idea Pat Sharp's life story would be so hilarious and I strongly suspect neither did he' Nish KumarPat Sharp is a man out of time.For those of a... -
Re-run the Fun: My Life as Pat Sharp by Pat Sharp 9781472134660
RRP: £20.00£4.11'The perfect antidote to 2020' Huffington Post'A must-read if you like funny things' Greg James'I had no idea Pat Sharp's life story would be so hilarious and I strongly suspect neither did he' Nish KumarPat Sharp is a man out of time.For those of a... -
Drunk Folk Stories by Beans on Toast
RRP: £10.00£8.18Drunk Folk Stories is a collection of ten, short, true-life stories about songwriting, travelling and drinking from the Essex born songwriter and cult figure Beans on Toast. He's played every bar, club, venue, pub, festival, party and honkytonk you can... -
Fatty Batter: How cricket saved my life (then ruined it) by Michael Simkins
RRP: £16.99£12.28A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief... -
George IV by E. A. Smith 9780300088021
£29.61This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, gives a full and objective reassessment of the monarch's character, reputation, and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavorable verdicts of the king's... -
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem 9781780749204
RRP: £9.99£7.11THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES, MRS. AMERICA Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were... -
Grace Under Pressure: Going the distance as an Aspergers mum by Sophie Walker
RRP: £9.99£5.96When Sophie Walker's daughter Grace was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, her world unravelled. Her high-powered job was in disarray, she couldn't sleep, often woke in tears and felt hopeless and useless in her role as a mother.One day she realised she... -
The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi by Sandor Ferenczi 9780674135277
RRP: £30.95£24.42In the half-century since his death, the Hungarian analyst Sandor Ferenczi has amassed an influential following within the psychoanalytic community. During his lifetime Ferenczi, a respected associate and intimate of Freud, unleashed widely disputed... -
A Man Walks On To a Pitch: Stories from a Life in Football by Harry Redknapp 9780091955533 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£1.87'When a man walks on to a pitch there's always a chance something magic can happen, that's what keeps us coming back...'In A Man Walks On To a Pitch, Harry shares a lifetime's experience of obsessing over football, during which he has seen it all first... -
A Man Walks On To a Pitch: Stories from a Life in Football by Harry Redknapp
RRP: £14.99£9.64'When a man walks on to a pitch there's always a chance something magic can happen, that's what keeps us coming back...'In A Man Walks On To a Pitch, Harry shares a lifetime's experience of obsessing over football, during which he has seen it all first... -
Naked by David Sedaris
RRP: £9.99£6.80A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behaviour in 'A Plague of Tics' to the... -
Zulu Shaman: Dreams Prophecies and Mysteries by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
RRP: £14.99£9.36In this rare window into Zulu mysticism Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa breaks the bonds of traditional silence to share his personal experiences as a sangoma--a Zulu shaman. Set against the backdrop of post-colonial South Africa ZULU SHAMAN relays the... -
Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou
RRP: £9.99£8.76Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,... -
Extra Virgin by Annie Hawes
RRP: £12.99£9.09A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian Riviera but find naturally that it's an offer... -
Cult Following: My escape and return to the Children of God by Bexy Cameron
RRP: £9.99£6.85'A harrowing-but-moving story' - Stylist'Raw, brave and vulnerable. Told with such clarity and purpose' - Maxine Mei-Fung Chung'A brave and deeply moving story of fierce spirit' - Dakota JohnsonBexy Cameron was in her late twenties when the dark events... -
Vet in Harness by James Herriot 9780330443562
RRP: £10.99£7.93From the author whose books inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small, Vet in Harness is the fourth volume of James Herriot's classic memoirs; a book for all those who find laughter and joy in animals, and who love the magic and beauty of... -
Alien Interview - Deluxe Study Edition by Lawrence Spencer 9780557130740
RRP: £15.45£13.84This "Deluxe Study Edition" of the original book, ALIEN INTERVIEW, includes a detailed, paginated Index, and Footnotes at the bottom of each page for easy study of the letters, Top Secret interview transcripts and personal notes received from... -
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
RRP: £16.99£15.06Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man whom Kafka trusted more than any other, and it is to Brod, as his literary executor and... -
The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion IT disaster that put innocent people in jail by Nick Wallis 9781916302389
RRP: £18.99£16.05The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office. It tells of how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the...