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Caesar's Vast Ghost by Lawrence Durrell
RRP: £9.99£6.70Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'Full of stories, landscapes, comedy, history, heresies, animals, food, drink, and songs of... -
A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun: The Autobiography of a Career Criminal by Noel "Razor" Smith
RRP: £16.99£12.28A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun is the autobiography of convicted felon Noel 'Razor' Smith. An extraordinarily vivid account of how a tearaway kid from South London became a career criminal, it is both a searing indictment of a system that determinedly... -
Born On a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
RRP: £10.99£7.40'I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, becasue the date is blue in my mind and Wednesdays are always blue, like the number nine or the sound of loud voices arguing.'Like the character Hoffman portrayed, he can perform... -
Young Winstone by Ray Winstone
RRP: £10.99£7.32Ray Winstone's amazing talent for bringing out the humanity buried inside his often brutal screen characters - violent offender in Scum, wife-beater in Nil by Mouth, retired blagger in Sexy Beast - has made him one of the most charismatic actors of his... -
Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr
RRP: £12.99£9.09John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused his... -
In Search of Silence: A memoir of finding life after loss by Poorna Bell
RRP: £9.99£6.41Winner of Red Magazine's Book of the Year 2019 'Raw, poetic and breathtaking' Fearne Cotton 'It is rare to find an author who writes with such authenticity, empathy and humour. I couldn't recommend this read enough. It will enrich your life' Will Young ... -
Bette And Joan: THE DIVINE FEUD by Shaun Considine
RRP: £12.99£8.60'An absolute must-read' VANITY FAIRBette Davis and Joan Crawford: two of the deadliest arch-rivals of all time. Born in the same year (though Davis swore 'Crawford is five years older than me if she's a day'), the two fought bitterly throughout their... -
Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit by Philip Webster
RRP: £12.99£8.48An insider's account of the great political stories over the past three decades years, illustrated with Peter Brookes' iconic cartoons. Philip Webster covered politics for The Times newspaper for 43 years, including... -
The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist by John Marzillier
RRP: £22.50£21.12An honest and accessible insight into the often closed world of psychotherapy. This book is a memoir of the author's professional life as a psychologist and psychotherapist. It shows his progression from a hard-nosed behaviour therapist with a... -
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
RRP: £9.99£7.11New 25th Anniversary Edition__________'I am still haunted by Mah's memoir . . . Riveting. A marvel of memory. Poignant proof of the human will to endure' Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club1940s, Shanghai. As the civil war rages on and China... -
A Conversation About Happiness: The Story of a Lost Childhood by Mikey Cuddihy
RRP: £8.99£6.45When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in Suffolk, and abandoned there. The setting was idyllic, lessons were optional, pupils made... -
Hideyoshi by Mary Elizabeth Berry
RRP: £20.95£16.88Here is the first full-length biography in English of the most important political figure in premodern Japan.Hideyoshi-peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japan-is the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best... -
James Bond: the Authorised Biography: (James Bond 007) by John Pearson 9781915797148
RRP: £9.99£7.16"It was a strong face, certainly - the eyes pale grey and very cold, the mouth was hard, the dark hair - grey-streaked now - still fell in the authentic comma over the forehead." This is how John Pearson reacted to his first encounter with the real... -
Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes 9780340826997 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott lived through; he has suffered... -
Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: £10.99£7.40Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott lived through; he has suffered... -
Beautiful: A beautiful girl. An evil man. One inspiring true story of courage by Katie Piper
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered ... then I realised it was me.'When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model.But then she... -
Edith Sitwell: Avant garde poet, English genius by Richard Greene
RRP: £14.99£9.80For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell's poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly regarded by her contemporaries: the great writers and artists of the day who attended her... -
Always Unreliable: Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: £16.99£12.47Always Unreliable is the collected first three volumes of Clive James's eloquently witty autobiographies, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week Was in June.In Unreliable Memoirs we meet the young Clive James - dressed in shorts and... -
A Foreign Field by Ben Macintyre
RRP: £10.99£6.91A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy... -
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke 9780751531602 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. The woman of half a dozen comebacks and a hundred heartbreaks. To tell her story, Gerald Clarke took ten years, travelled thousands of miles... -
Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke
RRP: £14.99£9.80Judy Garland, the girl with the pigtails in THE WIZARD OF OZ, was an entertainer of almost magical power. The woman of half a dozen comebacks and a hundred heartbreaks. To tell her story, Gerald Clarke took ten years, travelled thousands of miles... -
Shame Travels by Jasvinder Sanghera
RRP: £10.99£7.40When she was a little girl, Jasvinder Sanghera's father told her about the village he came from, Kang Sabhu in rural Punjab. One day, he promised to take her there so she could meet her half-sister, Bachanu, who had stayed behind. But at the age of... -
You Can't Park There!: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor by Dr Tony Bleetman 9780091947262 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.26Note to customers: This book is also available under the title Confessions of an Air Ambulance Doctor.'People get into this work for "the juice", meaning the adrenaline rush, but they don't tell you about the other juices - the mud, blood, snot and grot... -
Summerlands: A Personal Journey around the Underworld of the Glastonbury Zodiac by Jenny Chapman 9780995618848
RRP: £10.00£7.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995618848Author Jenny ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Jenny ChapmanPublisher Jenny Chapman -
Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan 9780192813251 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.49£2.15Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... -
Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan
RRP: £9.49£6.78Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... -
Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal 9780500294550
RRP: £20.00£13.03Over the course of a career that spanned fifty years, Agnes Martin's austere, serene work anticipated and helped to define Minimalism, even as she battled psychological crises and carved out a solitary existence in the American Southwest. 'I paint with... -
Krays: The Final Word - the definitive account of the Krays' life and crimes by James Morton
RRP: £14.99£11.35Think you know everything about the Krays?Think again.Britain's most infamous criminals: the Kray twins. The extent of their activities has always been uncertain. But now, it is time for the conclusive account of their story, from their East End... -
The Year of Sitting Dangerously: My Garden Safari by Simon Barnes 9781398518889
RRP: £16.99£11.08From the acclaimed author of Rewild Yourself comes a brilliant new book that reveals the natural joys to be discovered on your doorstep. In the autumn of 2020, Simon Barnes should have been leading a safari in Zambia, but Covid restrictions meant his... -
The Mafia Philosopher: Two Tonys by Shaun Attwood 9780993021596
RRP: £10.00£9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993021596Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood -
Out Of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said
RRP: £10.99£7.32Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This account of his early life reveals how it influenced his books Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. Edward Said was... -
The Diary of Lady Murasaki by Murasaki Shikibu
RRP: £8.99£7.09The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial... -
Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury by Matt Richards
RRP: £10.99£7.47When Freddie Mercury died in 1991, aged just 45, the world was rocked by the vibrant and flamboyant star's tragic secret that he had been battling AIDS. The announcement of his diagnosis reached them less than 24-hours before his death, shocking his... -
Emma and I by Sheila Hocken
RRP: £14.99£10.95As a girl, Sheila never let her gradual descent into blindness prevent her from trying to do everything a sighted person could do. Then at 17, unable to see to find her way around the house she grew up in, she found herself dreading her future in an... -
This Is This Country: The official book of the BAFTA award-winning show by Kerry Mucklowe
RRP: £16.99£11.94Listen up chumps, basically the Vicar asked us to edit the parish newsletter this month, we weren't gonna do it at first cos the vicar said 'I want you to channel your energy into doing something creative', which he knows brings back Kurtan's PTSD cos... -
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature (Children/Young Adult) 2014. Short-listed for Delaware Diamonds Award (High School) 2014.Book... -
Inside the Room: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Crisis Government by Eamon Gilmore 9781785370342
£16.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785370342Author Eamon GilmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Knitted Swimming Trunks: Tales of a Birmingham Boy Growing Up in the 50s & 60s by Andy Harper 9781858587615
£13.29Knitted Swimming Trunks is an honest, painful, but ultimately hopeful portrayal of an ordinary boy living an ordinary life. After a traumatic birth, Andy takes us through the 1950s and 1960s, from his schooldays to teenage antics. With humour and a good... -
ROSE WEST: The Making of a Monster by Jane Carter Woodrow
RRP: £12.99£8.60A gripping read on the real story of Rose West who, together with her husband Fred West, became Britain's biggest and most notorious murderers.***As seen on the Channel 5 documentary Making a Monster***Although it's hard to believe now, Rose West was an... -
Two Lives by Vikram Seth 9780349117980 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to...