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The self-deprecating image of man - an amalgam of Pascal's "thinking reed" and Falstaff's "forked radish" - that provides a title for Peter Medawar's autobiography stems from his belief that the professional lives of scientists usually make dull reading...

In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise. Within 15 years, Carr's of Carlisle had become one of the largest baking businesses in the world -and is a...

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I couldn't grieve for him. I couldn't speak to any of my family. It was like I'd been found guilty before I could be proved innocent' Losing a child is any mother's worst nightmare, but how do you grieve when you're being...

Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller. In it he told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherless when the Yorkshire Ripper killed his first victim, Richard's mother Wilma McCann. "Just A...

As a result of a genetically-transmitted gene, all three Bryan sisters, Felicity, Elizabeth and Bunny have had cancer. And, unusually, each of them suffered a different cancer; ovarian, breast and pancreatic. As the gene also has a dominant inheritance,...

From an early age Tom Sykes liked to drink. In fact, he loved it. Booze offered an escape from the drudge of school and the hurt of his rapidly disintegrating family. Though his troubled adolescence was littered with direction less toxic indulgence, it...

Shortly before his death in 1978, Paul Scott won the Booker Prize for Fiction. In this biography, the author explores Scott's family background in North London, his war years in India and the Far East, the development of his fiction and the characters on...

'It's amazing how some people can light up a room just by stepping into it. Ben was twenty-one months old and full of smiles. He spread happiness simply by being there.' In 1991 Kerry and her son Ben followed Kerry's parents to live on the Greek island...

I am proud of who I am and what I am. I teach my children to be proud too. Because being a traveller means everything to me. It's not just a label, it goes much deeper. It's an identity that is burned into my heart.' Paddy Doherty loves his life as an...

From Delia to Michael Palin, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to Alan Titchmarsh, David Attenborough to Jamie Oliver, the TV tie-ins that sell books are those with charismatic presenters. When you meet Jimmy you'll realise that this is television's big new...

Rohan Candappa, author of bestselling humour books such as the "Little Book of Stress" and "The Curious Incident of the Weapons of Mass Destruction", is the son of a Sri Lankan father and Burmese mother. He grew up small and round in...

You know him. He's the funny, sweet guy with the great eyes who asks you a million questions and seems mesmerized by every reply. He takes you on the greatest, longest date of your life. He swears he loves cats and cuddling. And his apartment is so clean...

The heroine of this nostalgic, moving and sweetly funny memoir is Evelyn Ryan - the author's mother - who supports her ten children and unhelpful husband by winning competitions. Terry Ryan recounts with warmth and love how her mom wrote rhymes,...

Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer and wit, Swift is best known as the author of "Gulliver's Travels". In this biography, Victoria Glendinning investigates the main events and relationships of Swift's life and provides a portrait set in a tapestry...

A collection of letters full of Wodehousian expressions. Every aspect of Wodehouse's career is covered, including his experiences during the war concerning the Berlin Broadcasts and his subsequent dealings with Cassandra who unfairly attacked him.Book...

Ruri Pilgrim tells the story of her family from the 1870s to the 1950s. She begins with the formality and security of the arrangements of life for a Japanese middle-class family, living in a walled compound with their servants, following exactly the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857701753Author Gregory HolyoakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint SB PublicationsPublisher SB Publications

An analysis of the problems faced by the UN and NATO in the post-Cold War era, this text is an account of peacekeeping in Bosnia in 1994. Taken from a diary, contemporary documents and photographs collected at the time, January 1994 to January 1995, this...

The dialogues in this book take place during the last decade of Pablo Picasso's life in his last home, at Mougins in the south of France. As well as reported conversations, they are based on the artist's published statements and a small number of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983478331Author David LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Rain Mountain PressPublisher Rain Mountain PressWeight(grams) 476g

On the morning of 24th February 1944 following a devastating Luftwaffe raid, Donald Wheal and his family were homeless refugees with bulging suitcases and faces blackened by soot blast. In "World's End", the first part of his bestselling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525937371Author James WhitakerFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Dutton BooksPublisher Dutton BooksWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555841447Author Elspeth HuxleyFormat HardbackPage Count 287Imprint George Weidenfeld & NicholsonPublisher George Weidenfeld & NicholsonWeight(grams) 998g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671852498Author Sandy SchofieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Star TrekPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 161g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999837990Author James Roose-EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Port Meadow PressPublisher Port Meadow PressWeight(grams) 195g

One golden summer afternoon in 1862, on the banks of the River Thames, the young Oxford mathematics don Charles Dodgson shared a picnic with three little girls, who asked for a story. The adventure he created for one of the sisters, Alice Liddell, under...

From her captivating debut in Roman Holiday in 1953, Audrey Hepburn redefined notions of Hollywood elegance and sophistication. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates Audrey's popularity as an enduring icon, providing a unique insight into her career,...

John Skoyles guides us through 1960s New York, a city we only thought we knew. Against a backdrop of late-night radio airwaves featuring talk-show kings like Long John Nebel, the sixteen-year-old pairs up with his Uncle Fred, a Mob associate and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780613001175Author John HockenberryFormat HardbackPage Count 367Imprint Econo-Clad Books, Div. of American Cos., Inc.Publisher Econo-Clad Books, Div. of...

"This book is an original, important, and interesting contribution to the literature on President Eisenhower and on American history in the years before and after World War II. It will make a difference in the way historians and political scientists...

Covering the lives of 1750 men and women, who, whether by deed or thought, set their mark on our times, this 20th-century biography spans all countries and cultures. It covers all fields of human activity, from politics, science and the arts to sport and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140058567Format PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 129g

Written together with friend and journalist Boyd Hilton, "Inside Little Britain" follows a year in the lives of Matt Lucas and David Walliams - the good, the bad, the mundane and the monumental - a year that includes at its core a mammoth...

This highly controversial and compelling biography of George Formby presents a very different Formby from the one known to his many fans. His life was fiercely dominated by his wife Beryl, a woman who was single-handedly responsible for his tremendous...

Alistair Cooke offers a gallery of portraits and sketches of many of the people he has known, admired, or covered during his career. He provides stimulating and candid protraits of some of the most important people of the past and present.Book...

The Water Road is the story of a four month circumnavigation by narrowboat of 'The Grand Cross', the name given to the inland waterway linking the Thames to the Humber, Severn and Mersey. Starting in London, Paul Gogarty follows a figure of eight through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948400285Author Sally GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint The Larks PressPublisher The Larks Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860518297Format PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Robson Books LtdPublisher Robson Books LtdWeight(grams) 431g

In this sequel to `The Autobiography of a Supertramp', Davies describes his early career as a writer, and his friendships with Belloc, Thomas, Shaw, and other eminent literary figures of the period.Book InformationISBN 9780192818645Author W. H...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140156157Author Michael WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 219g