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Our Vinnie: The true story of Yorkshire’s notorious criminal family by Julie Shaw 9780007542246
RRP: $11.60$8.86The infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, a hotbed of crime, drink and drugs, was a law unto itself in the '70s. So when one of their own was wronged in any way, the community always had its own way of dealing with it. The first title in a... -
Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot by Andrea Leininger
$13.51James Leininger was just two years old when he began having disturbing nightmares that would not stop. He screamed out in the night: 'Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!' While nightmares are common among children, what happened next shocked those... -
Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd 9780753817094
RRP: $16.76$9.69Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Carl Rogers: A Critical Biography by David Cohen 9780094801004
RRP: $19.34$17.20Carl Rogers was the psychiatrist who pioneered the practice of client-centred therapy, revolutionising the practice of psychotherapy, yet his own life was far from ideal. This biography explores his life - including his tortured marriage, his use of... -
The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Callum MacDonald 9781843410362
RRP: $12.89$8.64On 4 June 1942 one of the most powerful figures of the Nazi regime died in agony from wounds sustained during an assassination attempt in Prague. This is the story of the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, a man of extraordinary intelligence, ruthlessness and... -
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
RRP: $16.76$11.73From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would... -
Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace by Alexander Mikaberidze
RRP: $41.91$29.17A full-life portrait of the man Tolstoy immortalized, Stalin lionized, and Russian history has manipulated and mythologized beyond recognition. Every Russian knows him purely by his patronym. He was the general who triumphed over Napoleons Grande... -
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 9780330456715
RRP: $14.18$10.23'Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, I'd say so. And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too' Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times 'Is this how all orphans would speak - "I am at once pitiful and monstrous, I... -
Mad Frank: Memoirs of a Life of Crime by Frank Fraser
RRP: $14.18$9.55MAD FRANK is Frankie Fraser's own extraordinary story - the truth about the legendary villain who for fifty years was a key figure in Britain's underworld. A peer of the Krays and the Richardsons, arguably as influential and certainly as dangerous,... -
You're Coming With Me Lad: Tales of a Yorkshire Bobby by Mike Pannett 9780340918777 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.95Policing rural Yorkshire is a far cry from Mike's old job hunting down drug gangs and knife crime in Central London. Settled back in his native Yorkshire, the former Metropolitan Policeman finds that life as a rural beat bobby is no picnic. After a... -
You're Coming With Me Lad: Tales of a Yorkshire Bobby by Mike Pannett
RRP: $14.18$9.55Policing rural Yorkshire is a far cry from Mike's old job hunting down drug gangs and knife crime in Central London. Settled back in his native Yorkshire, the former Metropolitan Policeman finds that life as a rural beat bobby is no picnic. After a... -
Gypsy Boy on the Run by Mikey Walsh
RRP: $12.89$8.77The incredible sequel to GYPSY BOYGYPSY BOY: ON THE RUN picks up from where GYPSY BOY left off, and tells the gripping, page-turning story of Mikey's battle to escape the Romany gypsy camp he grew up on.After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of... -
Woodbrook by David Thomson
RRP: $14.18$10.02Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo-Irish Kirkwoods. In 1932, David Thomson, aged eighteen, went there are a... -
Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part 1 by Brad Mehldau 9781800503137
$51.43As an innovative and constantly inventive jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau has attracted a sizable following over the years, one that has grown to expect a singular, intense experience from his performances. With Formation, Brad seeks to extend that experience... -
Is There a Pigeon in the Room?: My Life in Schools by Cameron Wylie
RRP: $16.76$11.04Is There a Pigeon in the Room? is a deeply personal book about Cameron Wyllie's remarkable four-decade career in teaching. It's a tapestry of anecdotes and reflections on topics like drugs, parenting and sex education, laced with stories about memorable... -
Life And Limb: A true story of tragedy and survival by Jamie Andrew 9780749950521 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.95Jamie Andrew's survival and rescue after five nights trapped by a ferocious storm in 1999 has passed into Alpine legend. It was a miracle that he survived; but Jamie had to come to terms not only with the death of his close friend, Jamie Fisher, who died... -
Life And Limb: A true story of tragedy and survival by Jamie Andrew
RRP: $14.18$9.55Jamie Andrew's survival and rescue after five nights trapped by a ferocious storm in 1999 has passed into Alpine legend. It was a miracle that he survived; but Jamie had to come to terms not only with the death of his close friend, Jamie Fisher, who died... -
The Private Lives Of The Impressionists by Sue Roe
RRP: $19.34$14.13Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, astonishing sums are paid today for the works of these artists. Their dazzling pictures are... -
Tea, Love and War: Searching for English roots in Assam by David Mitchell
RRP: $10.31$7.47The range of the book: from wartime England to colonial Assam; from sapper training in India to jungle warfare in Malaya - Tea, Love and War tells the unique true story of the child of an exploited village woman gaining recognition and acceptance in... -
Little Wilson and Big God: Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess by Anthony Burgess 9780099437055
RRP: $19.34$14.13These are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; whilst serving in Gibraltar in World War II he was thrown into jail on VE Day for calling Franco names; he once taught a group of Nazi socialites that... -
The Bad Beekeepers Club: How I stumbled into the Curious World of Bees - and became (perhaps) a Better Person by Bill Turnbull
RRP: $14.18$9.55'A must-read' Daily Mail "'Hello. My name is Bill and I'm a bad beekeeper. A really bad beekeeper." So begins the charming and often hilarious account of how Bill Turnbull - the much-loved and much-missed TV presenter - stumbled into the world of... -
Wonder Dogs: Inspirational True Stories of Real-Life Dog Heroes That Will Melt Your Heart by Ben Holt
RRP: $11.60$7.57Life isn't perfect, but dogs certainly make it betterMeet the incredible dogs in this inspiring collection of true stories, championing the often underestimated role of man's best friend- Daisy, the tiny Dachshund who put her life on the line to save her... -
Like A Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School by Sir Richard Branson
RRP: $16.76$9.17Looking for advice on setting up your own company, improving your career prospects, or developing your leadership skills? Why not ask Richard Branson?In Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You in Business School, Richard distils and shares the wisdom... -
Being David Archer: And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living by Timothy Bentinck 9781472125149
RRP: $25.80$15.57Timothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers since 1982. He is also the Earl of Portland and the voice of 'Mind The Gap' on the Piccadilly Line. Aimed primarily at the five million regular Archers listeners, Timothy... -
The Swan In The Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life by Rosamond Lehmann 9780860682998
$13.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between by Theresa Brown
RRP: $21.92$16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061791543Author Theresa BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 178gDimensions(mm) 134mm... -
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J Fox
RRP: $16.76$11.61'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in... -
Angels and Ages: A short book about Darwin, Lincoln and modern life by Adam Gopnik
RRP: $14.18$9.55'Adam Gopnik has taken a coincidence and turned it into a theory of everything, or at least of everything important ... Outstanding' - Andrew MarrOn February 12th, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin;... -
The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed by Jean-Benoit Nadeau
RRP: $14.18$9.52After more than a decade of travelling throughout France one important lesson eluded married couple Julie and Jean-Benoit: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language? In The Bonjour Effect, they chronicle the... -
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad 9780195146431
RRP: $23.21$16.50February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American... -
Good Morning, Mr Mandela by Zelda la Grange
RRP: $16.76$11.73An inspiring international bestseller, Good Morning, Mr Mandela tells the story of Zelda la Grange's incredible friendship with Nelson Mandela Zelda la Grange grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation. Yet just a... -
Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager
RRP: $12.89$8.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553256741Author Chuck YeagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
A Dog Called Hope: The wounded warrior and the dog who dared to love him by Damien Lewis 9781784297169 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.93'Inspiring and very moving. A hero on so many levels' Bear Grylls'The astonishing journey ... and the service dog that helped him recover ... A tale that will inspire and amaze' Waterstones.comWhen special forces soldier Jason Morgan awoke from a... -
A Dog Called Hope: The wounded warrior and the dog who dared to love him by Damien Lewis
RRP: $14.18$9.55'Inspiring and very moving. A hero on so many levels' Bear Grylls'The astonishing journey ... and the service dog that helped him recover ... A tale that will inspire and amaze' Waterstones.comWhen special forces soldier Jason Morgan awoke from a... -
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon 9781844084548 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$3.42Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come to us as an odd and helpless woman living a life of self imposed seclusion. Lyndall Gordon sees instead a volcanic character living on her own terms and with a steely... -
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
RRP: $16.76$11.09Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come to us as an odd and helpless woman living a life of self imposed seclusion. Lyndall Gordon sees instead a volcanic character living on her own terms and with a steely... -
Philip Larkin: Selected Letters by Philip Larkin 9780571170487
RRP: $38.70$27.54The enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is known to his admiring public about the personality behind the work.The Selected Letters will change this, throwing light on a more complex, and in many... -
Psychic Warrior: The True Story of the CIA's Paranormal Espionage Programme by David Morehouse 9781905570386
RRP: $16.76$11.73When David Morehouse - a highly decorated army officer - was hit by a stray bullet, he began to be plagued with visions and uncontrolled out-of-body experiences. As a consequence, he was recruited as a psychic spy for STARGATE, a highly classified... -
What A Bloody Awful Country: Northern Ireland's century of division by Kevin Meagher
RRP: $14.18$10.23"For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!" Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, returning from his first visit to Northern Ireland in 1970 As a long and bloody guerrilla war staggered to a close on the island of Ireland,... -
The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business by Wright Thompson
RRP: $19.34$12.87The New York Times bestseller'Full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail' John Grisham****************From one of America's most beloved sportswriters, a collection of true stories about the dream...