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Dickens by Peter Ackroyd 9780749306472 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.50£2.29This comprehensive biography of the great 19th-century novelist combines extensive research and documentation, including much new speculation on the nature of his affair with Ellen Ternan, with imaginative reconstruction of the writer's thoughts.Book... -
Life After You by Lucie Brownlee 9780753555842 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.84'He crashed on to the pillow next to me, heavy as a felled oak. I slapped His face and told Him to wake up. Our daughter, B, appeared in the doorway, woken up by the screaming - I must have been screaming but I don't remember - and she was crying and... -
The Virgin Way: How to Listen, Learn, Laugh and Lead by Sir Richard Branson 9780753519882 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£1.25In September 2012, a YOUGOV poll conducted in Britain found that the person British workers would most like as their manager was Sir Richard Branson. With over 40 years in business, Richard Branson is an inspiring pioneer of humanitarian projects and an... -
Love Is The Best Medicine: What two dogs taught one vet about hope, humility and everyday miracles by Nick Trout 9780751544015 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£1.25British vet, Nick Trout, a modern day James Herriot working in Boston, USA, returns with a completely captivating true story. After exposing the fascinating life of a vet in his previous book, Trout now delves into rich emotional territory with the story... -
Cherished: A mother's fight to prove her innocence by Angela Cannings 9780751538724 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.65Angela Cannings was charged with murder directly after she and her husband Terry lost their third infant in ten years. She was convicted because of a medical theory that came to be known as ' Meadow's Law', which stated that 'one sudden infant death is a... -
Rogue Trader by Nick Leeson 9780751517088 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.29Pressure, pace, error: ROGUE TRADER grippingly tells the inside story of how the greatest gamble ever made rocked the City of London to its foundations. Crackling with tension, in a narrative as crisp as any thriller, Nick Leeson's autobiographical... -
Surviving With Wolves by Misha Defonseca 9780749950897 [USED COPY]
£14.60One of the most extraordinary and poignant survival stories to come out of World War II. Misha was only six years old when her Jewish parents were taken away from their home in Belgium by the Nazis. She was given a new name, a new home, and forced into a... -
Alcatraz from inside by Jim Quillen 9780962520617 [USED COPY]
RRP: £26.99£1.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962520617Author Jim QuillenFormat PaperbackImprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic Books -
Jimmy: A legacy of peace by Justin Butcher 9780745955797 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.13On the morning after his sixteenth birthday, Jimmy Mizen went out to buy his first lottery ticket. A few minutes later, he was dead: fatally wounded in an unprovoked attack in the local bakery, he bled to death in his brother's arms. A popular lad, a... -
Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot by Anna Beer 9780747584254 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the great epic Paradise Lost and of numerous sonnets and other works, from Comus and Lycidas to Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. Of all the major English poets, John Milton was by far the most... -
The North: (And Almost Everything In It) by Paul Morley 9780747578161 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£3.09Here is the north, this is where it lies, where it belongs, full of itself, high up above everything else, surrounded by everything that isn't the north, that's off the page, somewhere else...Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from... -
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family by Richard Benson 9780747591849 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.29The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson's great-grandmother Winnie's ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and... -
The Four Sisters of Hofei by Annping Chin 9780747560081 [USED COPY]
£2.65Not since Wild Swans has Chinese history been so intimately encountered - through the stories of four sisters born between 1907 and 1914, a renowned historian examines a century of extraordinary change in Chinese culture and in women's lives. Now in... -
The Invisible Man: Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells by Michael Coren 9780747517627 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£1.78For almost half a century, H.G. Wells was an international phenomenon, the only writer of his time who could command an audience with both Roosevelt and Stalin. His circle of friends included George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, G.K. Chesterton,... -
Tis Herself by Maureen O'Hara 9780743495356 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Maureen O'Hara was born for Technicolour. Her fiery red hair and piercing green eyes made the screen crackle with electricity. Her bold Irish bearing cast her as the prototypical strong, determined woman struggling in a man's world. During a career that... -
Wrong Rooms: A Memoir by Mark Sanderson 9780743220101 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£1.87In 1992 Mark Sanderson met the love of his life. A Lonely Hearts ad in TIME OUT may not have promised much, but a long and detailed letter from an Australian called Drew marked the beginning of a relationship Mark is still struggling to come to terms... -
Waiting For Snow In Havana by Carlos Eire 9780743207379 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater... -
The Girl In The Picture: The Remarkable Story Of Vietnam's Most Famous Casualty by Denise Chong 9780743207034 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29On 8 June 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her burning village and into the eye of history. Her photograph, seen around the world, helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War and is one of a handful of images that... -
Jarhead: A Solder's Story of Modern War by Anthony Swofford 9780743239196 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.29Anthony Swofford's grandfather fought in WWII; his father fought in Vietnam; and he - a directionless, testosterone-battered teenager - became a scout/sniper in the marines and fought in the Gulf War. His account of that time is also part of a lineage -... -
Diplomatic Baggage by Brigid Keenan 9780719567261 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties, little idea did she have of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together - with most things going horribly awry while being... -
Soldiers by Philip Ziegler 9780712667388 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00£2.65What leads a man to join the Army? To fight and perhaps die for his country? To enjoy a semi-monastic life among his comrades? To belong to a regiment in which he can take pride? To obey orders? Or just to escape into a secure environment? Rich in... -
Addicted to Danger: Affirming Life in the Face of Death by Jim Wickwire 9780671019914 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.54Among the world's most intrepid and fearless mountain climbers, Jim Wickwire has travelled the globe from Alaska to the Alps in search of fresh challenges and new heights to conquer. Along the way he has accumulated an extraordinary number of... -
Outsider: Always Almost: Never Quite by Brian Sewell 9780704372498 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.29Outsider is the life of a child, boy, adolescent, student and young man in London between the Great Depression of the 30s and the sudden prosperity and social changes of the 60s, affected by the moral attitudes of the day, by the Blitz, post-war... -
Fred Dibnah - Made in Britain by David Hall 9780593064696 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.29In 2004, after felling his last chimney and retiring from steeplejacking, Fred took to the road on his engine for the BBC series Made in Britain. Travelling the length and breadth of the country, his intention was to seek out the remarkable achievements... -
Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher by Robin Harris 9780593058916 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65Margaret Thatcher is one of the most iconic politicians of the twentieth century. With the possible exception of Winston Churchill, no other Prime Minister has had such an impact on modern British history. Like it or not, her radical social and economic... -
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden 9780552999656 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29Already winning acclaim as one of the best accounts of combat ever written, Black Hawk Down is a minute-by-minute, heart-stopping account of the 1993 raid on Mogadishu, Somalia. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3 1993, 140 elite US Soldiers... -
Memoirs Of A Not So Dutiful Daughter by Jenni Murray 9780552774079 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29The only child of an electrical engineer and a mother who resented the fact that she'd never been to university, the broadcaster Jenni Murray grew up in a traditional household in the 1950s. But instead of becoming the conventional housewife her mother... -
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas by Matt Lewis 9780241002780 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Last Man Off by Matt Lewis - a first-hand account of an ocean tragedy. "Reads like a sinister version of The Perfect Storm ...Thrilling, compelling, unsettling, rewarding". (Sunday Times). "A story that reminds us of the unforgiving nature... -
Hands of an Angel by Helen Parry Jones 9780099569053 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99£3.01Helen 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. When she was four, Helen... -
Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis 9780099551881 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.65In the early years of the last century, two brothers, Charles and Edward Greene, settled in Berkhamsted, a small country town thirty miles from London. There they were to found a remarkable dynasty - fathering twelve children between then - each of whom... -
My Father's Country by Wibke Bruhns 9780099478775 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.65In August 1944, Hans Georg Klamroth was executed for his part in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Wibke Bruhns, his youngest daughter, was six years old at the time. Decades later, watching a documentary about the events of 20 July, images of her... -
Sickened by Julie Gregory 9780099466291 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£2.29A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she's tall, skinny, and weak. It's four o'clock, and she hasn't been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the... -
To Die for by Carol Lee 9780099446927 [USED COPY]
£2.20When I see her, my first emotion is anger, not sorrow, or the fear I raced here with - that I would be too lateWhen Carol Lee's cherished god-daughter Emma descended into a long and frightening battle with Anorexia, Carol found herself at a loss to know... -
Everybody Knew: A Boy. Two Brothers. A Stolen Childhood. by Michael Clemenger 9780091946692 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29'Holding me around the waist he drew me close to him. "And which of us do you prefer, Michael? You can tell me, it won't get back to Brother Price."' Michael Clemenger was handed over as a baby to the unloving care of a religious-run children's... -
The Secret Diary of a New Mum (aged 43 1/4) by Cari Rosen 9780091935658 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£1.87Whatever your age, becoming a mum for the first time brings with it excitement, anxiety and numerous challenges. But how do you cope when, to top it all, you discover you are old enough to be the mother of everyone else in your NCT group? The story of... -
The Best Friends' Guide to Life by Fearne Cotton 9780091935405 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29What makes a great friend? Has Facebook ruined dating? What's the secret to effortless style? "Hello! This is a book written by proper best friends - us! - who have been hanging out together for over ten years. We thought that if we shared some of... -
Once upon a Secret by Mimi Alford 9780091931759 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£15.41In 1963, Mimi Beardsley was a naive young American girl, very much a product of her class and time - she had attended the same exclusive girls' school as Jackie Bouvier, now installed in the White House as the president's wife. Which is also where Mimi... -
On The Run by Gina Hall 9780099478942 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29By the son and daughter of Henry Hill - immortalised in the book Wiseguy and the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas - On The Run is the harrowing true story of a childhood spent coping with an explosive father whilst dodging Mafia payback. Henry Hill's... -
JLS: Forever and a Day by JLS 9780091957346 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Since forming in 2007, JLS have achieved everything they'd hoped for and more. From four smash-hit albums and five number one singles, to BRIT and MOBO awards and sell-out tours, Oritse, Marvin, JB, and Aston have proved themselves as one of Britain's... -
HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen 9780091954482 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65This is a riveting biography which combines deep reporting and West Wing-esque storytelling to reveal the strategising, machinations and last minute decision-making that have accompanied one of the greatest political comebacks in history. The story of...