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Paula: My Story So Far by Paula Radcliffe 9780743478694
RRP: £10.99£7.00Paula Radcliffe has managed to be both very successful in her field and incredibly popular with the Great British Public. She was the underdog for so long -- narrowly missing out on medals in the 1999 World Championships and the 2000 Sydney Olympics --... -
Toy Fights: A Boyhood - 'A classic of its kind' William Boyd by Don Paterson 9780571240289
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A classic of its kind.' William Boyd'Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.' Scotsman'A work of dazzling craft.' Times Literary Supplement'A memoir in a million.' Sunday Times** Chosen as a Time Book of the Year ** Don Paterson... -
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan 9780099990307 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.86Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years. For much of that... -
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan
RRP: £10.99£7.77Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years. For much of that... -
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream by Sue Prideaux
RRP: £17.99£15.79Who was the man behind The Scream, the iconic painting that so acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked on a lifelong effort to paint his 'soul's diary' - and began a perverse... -
No Handcuffs: The Final Word on My War with The Krays by Eddie Richardson 9781789461596
RRP: £8.99£6.22THE FINAL WORD FROM THE LAST KING OF GANGLAND WITH A FOREWORD BY MARTINA COLE 'We couldn't, we wouldn't, let anyone take a liberty. That was never an option at that time.' Eddie Richardson is the last brand-name gangster. Say the name and the world of... -
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Oliver Stone
RRP: £9.99£7.16*** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux"A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris Evans, Virgin Radio"Raw, savagely honest, as dramatic as any of his movies." - Mail on Sunday"A tremendous book - readable,... -
Time to Be in Earnest by P. D. James 9780571203963
RRP: £10.99£7.32P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life... -
The Kindness of Strangers: Travel Stories That Make Your Heart Grow by Fearghal O'Nuallain
RRP: £10.99£7.40Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richerTravel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visit. But what happens when we arrive... -
Forgotten Victorian Generals: Studies in the Exercise of Command and Control in the British Army 1837-1901 by Christopher Brice 9781910777206
RRP: £25.00£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777206Author Christopher BriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy, Updated and Expanded Edition by Elizabeth Kendall 9781419744853
RRP: £19.99£13.92The inspiration for the five-part Amazon Original docuseries Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer This updated, expanded edition of The Phantom Prince, Elizabeth Kendall's 1981 memoir detailing her six-year relationship with serial killer... -
A Sense of Belonging: An Almost English Life by Miriam Gross 9781780720999
RRP: £14.99£9.80A sparklingly witty memoir, which takes us on a seductive journey from wartime Jerusalem to the heart of Fleet Street, providing a riveting outsider's view of English cultural life.About the AuthorMiriam Gross has worked on the Observer, as deputy... -
Exploited by Emma Jackson 9780091950460 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.15'If you read the papers, you'd think that the only girls to get hooked are from dysfunctional families. But what happened to me could happen to anyone. Your child, your sister, your friend - even yourself if you are young and naive enough, like I... -
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C Ford
RRP: £16.99£11.76"Beautifully written, searingly honest, and deeply affecting ... when the book ended, I only wanted more" - Roxane Gay"Ford is a writer for the ages, and Somebody's Daughter will be a book of the year" - Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed"Truly a classic... -
Rock Stars Stole my Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music by Mark Ellen
RRP: £9.99£6.80'The book is f***ing BRILLIANT! Just arrived NYC and wanked myself laughing. Literally tears. Irritated looks all around. What a great writer you are. It's a classic. You absolutely got the whole shite early 70s thing down precisely as it was. Names,... -
Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music by Neil Powell
RRP: £17.99£12.95Benjamin Britten was the greatest English composer of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding musicians of his age. Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Britten was the youngest child of a dentist father and amateur musician mother. After... -
The Eighty Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts
RRP: £12.99£8.60Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry's modest farm on Long Island, he... -
Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible by Alan Rusbridger 9780099554745 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin's Ballade No. 1 - a piece that inspires dread in many professional pianists. His timing could have been better. The next... -
Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible by Alan Rusbridger
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin's Ballade No. 1 - a piece that inspires dread in many professional pianists. His timing could have been better. The next... -
Churchill's Little Redhead by Celia Sandys 9781781558553
RRP: £25.00£18.02'Churchill's Little Redhead' is the autobiography of much-travelled author and television presenter, Celia Sandys, Winston Churchill's granddaughter. In 1959 she accompanied her grandparents on the 'Christina', Aristotle Onassis's superyacht, for a grand... -
Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy by Jane Dunn
RRP: £14.99£9.80A moving and important book on the relationship between two remarkable sisters who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group'An outstanding work... one of the best books on Virginia Woolf to date' Literary Review'Dunn's unlayering of this complex relationship... -
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375892Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Elgar's Secret Lover by Chris Nicholson 9781035815029
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035815029Author Chris NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott 9780747596561 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Zealand for a converted cowshed in the wilds of Botswana. Once there, Robyn and her siblings, mostly left to amuse themselves, grew up collecting snakes,... -
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott 9780747596561
RRP: £12.99£9.09When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Zealand for a converted cowshed in the wilds of Botswana. Once there, Robyn and her siblings, mostly left to amuse themselves, grew up collecting snakes,... -
The Parting Years: A British Family and the End of Empire by Sheila Bevan 9781860647345
£54.87How did the end of Empire affect a family steeped in British imperial traditions for more than four generations? Shiela Bevan's story begins when the British Empire still seemed in its heyday of world dominion, when the vast increase in territorial... -
Joseph Conrad by Robert Hampson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Born in Poland in 1857, Joseph Conrad is one of the great writers of the twentieth century. This book traces Conrad's life from his childhood in a Russian penal colony, through his early manhood in Marseille and his years in the British Merchant Navy, to... -
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Summer of Letting Go, Loving from Afar and 21 Jars of Tomato Sauce by Laura Munson 9780749955373 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.13When Laura Munson's essay was first published, the New York Times was so flooded with responses that they had to close down the comment feature on their website. Readers sent it to their friends and therapists gave it to their clients. What did Munson... -
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet
RRP: £9.99£7.11A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. From the glamorous singles clubs of Paris to the Bois de Boulogne, she... -
Lifting the Latch: A Life on the Land - Based on the Life of Mont Abbott of Enstone, Oxfordshire by Sheila Stewart 9780953221332
RRP: £8.99£8.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953221332Author Sheila StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Day BooksPublisher Day Books -
Cause of Death: Memoirs of a Home Office Pathologist by Geoffrey Garrett
RRP: £10.99£7.40Dr Geoffrey Garrett was for over 30 years a Home Office pathologist. This is his personal memoir, in conjunction with crime journalist Andrew Nott, of many infamous, unusual and heartbreaking cases and a fascinating history of his professional life,... -
Paula by Isabel Allende
RRP: £10.99£7.25In December 1991, Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26, fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book started as a letter to Paula written during the hours spent at her bedside, and became a personal memoir and a testament to the ties that bind families... -
The Tenth Muse by Judith Jones 9780307277442
RRP: £14.92£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277442Author Judith JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 292g -
One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780198703112
RRP: £28.99£21.20The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a... -
From Source to Sea: Notes from a 215-Mile Walk Along the River Thames by Tom Chesshyre 9781849539210
RRP: £16.99£10.79Over the years, authors, artists and amblers aplenty have felt the pull of the Thames, and now travel writer Tom Chesshyre is following in their footsteps. He's walking the length of the river from the Cotswolds to the North Sea - a winding journey of... -
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero 9780751571769 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.26Now a major motion picture, The Disaster Artist, starring James Franco, Alison Brie, Zoey Deutch, Lizzy Caplan, Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, Sharon Stone, and Judd Apatow.In 2003, an independent film called The Room -... -
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero 9780751571769
RRP: £9.99£7.16Now a major motion picture, The Disaster Artist, starring James Franco, Alison Brie, Zoey Deutch, Lizzy Caplan, Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, Sharon Stone, and Judd Apatow.In 2003, an independent film called The Room -... -
Cole and Sav: Our Surprising Love Story by Cole Labrant 9780785222903
RRP: £20.00£17.38Popular YouTubers the Labrant Fam share their inspiring love story of how Savannah, a young, single mom, fell in love with Cole, a 19-year-old from Alabama, highlighting the redemptive, surprising nature of God at work in our lives.The Labrant Fam-Cole,... -
Enid: The Scandalous High-society Life of the Formidable 'Lady Killmore' by Robert Wainwright
RRP: £10.99£7.32Enid Lindeman stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and walked her pet cheetah through Hyde Park on a diamond collar. In early twentieth-century society, where women were expected to be demure and obedient, she gallivanted... -
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova by Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova
RRP: £22.99£20.41Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (1743-1810), Russian princess, playwright, author, President of the Academy of Sciences, and founder and Director of the Russian Academy, was one of the first women in Europe to hold public office. Her memoir, among the...