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The Bodyguard's Story: Diana, the Crash, and the Sole Survivor by Trevor Rees-Jones 9780446527750
RRP: $63.00$46.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446527750Author Trevor Rees-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Warner Books IncPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Complete Books of Charles Fort by Charles Fort
RRP: $88.18$58.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486230948Author Charles FortFormat PaperbackPage Count 1152Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
RRP: $41.98$29.99The extraordinary account of Margaret Thatcher's life up to her dramatic election as the first woman Prime Minister of England in 1979. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. This is the story of... -
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953 by Dylan Thomas
RRP: $42.00$14.53Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no biography can.The letters begin in the poet's schooldays and end just before his death in New York at the age of 39. In between, he loved, wrote,... -
Gaelic Guerrilla: John Angus Mackay, Gael Extraordinaire by Roy Pedersen 9781913025397
RRP: $31.48$23.37This book describes the astonishing achievements of John Angus Mackay - a man whose intelligence, humanity, political nous, people skills, wit, steely resolve and courage, were such that, what lesser beings regarded as impossible, he made possible. ... -
Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex' by Iain Sinclair
RRP: $33.58$24.38In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare.In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce - a... -
Everybody's Autobiography by Gertrude Stein 9781878972088
RRP: $33.58$23.18The 1937 Sequel to THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B TOKLAS, is Stein's account of her triumphant return to the U.S, and a meditation of the meaning of identity, success and America. I used to be fond of saying that America was a land of failure. Most of the... -
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster 9780571353361
RRP: $31.48$20.58** WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY **'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker'Brilliant . . . Remarkable.' New York Journal of BooksStephen Crane produced... -
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters 9780008329723 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$5.57The winner of the Guardian First Book Award that reinvented the biographic form. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a... -
What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes
RRP: $27.28$17.98In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military objective other than kill ratios and body counts,... -
Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays and Life into Literature by Bill Roorbach
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582975276Author Bill RoorbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm)... -
The Exiled Collector: William Bankes and the Making of an English Country House by Anne Sebba 9781904349679
RRP: $20.90$18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904349679Author Anne SebbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press -
Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $35.68$24.32Winner of the Portico PrizeShortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the YearHigh-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and... -
Undreamed Shores: Five Women Who Sought Out the World by Dr Frances Larson
RRP: $20.98$13.69The inspiring story of five women who set out to explore the furthest reaches of the globe and redefine scholarship At the dawn of the twentieth century, Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara... -
The Crocodile by the Door: The Story of a House, a Farm and a Family by Selina Guinness
RRP: $33.58$24.38The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness - shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award - is a remarkable, compelling and moving memoir of a farm, a family and a home.When Selina Guinness and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with... -
Army Life...to Ex-Wife by Elise Spencer-Hughes
$24.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528992671Author Elise Spencer-HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Bridging Our Differences by Gerry S M Hughes 9781789557732
RRP: $41.98$24.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789557732Author Gerry S M HughesFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 599g -
Relish: My Life on a Plate by Prue Leith
RRP: $27.28$15.77The eye-opening story of one woman's incredible appetite for life: the memoirs of Prue Leith, judge of C4's GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF and former judge of BBC2's GREAT BRITISH MENU. Now fully revised and updated, including Prue falling in love and marrying... -
Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami 9780006387145 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81Alice Keppel was a manipulative woman, whose relationship with Edward VII placed her at the centre of high society. Her daughter, Violet, was fascinated with her mother's power. Yet when she fell in love with Vita Sackville-West, she threatened to break... -
The Boy Who Disappeared by Valerie Nettles 9781789460711
RRP: $20.98$14.39I opened my mouth and it came. It wasn't a cry, or even a sob. It came from deep in my soul... It was the sound of a mother helpless to save her child from danger. I asked the same unanswered questions over and again. Where was he? Where was my Damien?On... -
Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Griffin Wolff 9780201168099
$49.56Cynthia Griffin Wolff's brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson is the first to unravel the intricate relationship between her life and her poetry. It is a vivid portrait of the poet and her times as well as a fascinating interpretive study of... -
Queen of The Savoy: The Extraordinary Life of Helen D'Oyly Carte 1852-1913 by Elisabeth Kehoe
RRP: $52.50$36.33Born in 1852 in a small coastal town in Scotland, Helen D'Oyly Carte, through academic brilliance and an incredible talent for 'managing chaos', developed and ran the world's foremost top entertainment and hospitality organisation with her husband,... -
The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash 9781848870888 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$5.15In 1978 Timothy Garton Ash went to live in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later, by then internationally famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe, he returned... -
The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash
RRP: $27.28$17.98In 1978 Timothy Garton Ash went to live in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later, by then internationally famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe, he returned... -
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes
RRP: $27.28$17.98"A beautiful, wise book. It deals with the some of the grimmest aspects of human experience, but it is also one of the most genuinely up-lifting works I have read in years. Emma Brockes' superb, clear-eyed narration is an object lesson for any aspiring... -
A Life of Colette: Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman
RRP: $35.68$25.79Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century's first modern woman. She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake and brilliant literary impressario, Willy, who signed her first novels, the Claudines, as his own. They... -
Ralph Dutton of Hinton Ampner: A Man and his Home by John Holden 9781843682394
RRP: $33.58$22.95Ralph Dutton, 8th Baron Sherborne, was one of the leading taste-makers of his generation. Together with figures such as Christopher Hussey and James Lees-Milne, he helped create the perception that the apogee of English architecture and design was the... -
Secret Narco: The Great Train Robber whose partnership with Pablo Escobar turned Britain on to cocaine by Wensley Clarkson 9781913543990
RRP: $18.88$13.02This is the extraordinary story of how Charlie Wilson - renowned as one of the leaders of the Great Train Robbery gang - turned his back on so-called traditional crime to become the underworld's original narco by helping to mastermind a multi-billion... -
Bookworm by Patricia Craig 9780992736453
RRP: $21.00$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992736453Author Patricia CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Somerville PressPublisher Somerville Press -
Daughters of the Buddha: Teachings by Ancient Indian Women by Bhikkhu Analayo
RRP: $48.30$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614298410Author Bhikkhu AnalayoFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Film Freak by Christopher Fowler
RRP: $25.18$17.70It's the late 1970s and 20-something Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas. He longs to be a famous screenwriter and put his dreams on the big screen. And so he heads for Wardour Street,... -
I, Phoolan Devi: The Autobiography of India's Bandit Queen by Phoolan Devi
RRP: $27.28$18.06Enduring cruel poverty and degradation, Phoolan Devi survived the humiliation and horrifying gang rape to claim retribution for herself and all low-caste women of the Indian plains. In a three-year campaign which rocked the government, she delivered... -
The Essential Dave Allen by Graham McCann 9780340899458
RRP: $23.08$16.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Essential Dave Allen by Graham McCann 9780340899458 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$3.59When Dave Allen passed away in March 2005, we lost a true comedy great. Sitting cross-legged on a high stool, whiskey in one hand, cigarette in the other, Dave Allen's exasperated commentaries on the absurdities of modern life struck a chord with... -
Hard Choices: A Memoir by Hillary Rodham Clinton 9781471131523 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All of us face hard... -
Hard Choices: A Memoir by Hillary Rodham Clinton 9781471131523
RRP: $23.08$14.70HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE CRISES, CHOICES AND CHALLENGES SHE FACED DURING HER FOUR YEARS AS AMERICA'S 67THSECRETARY OF STATE, AND HOW THOSE EXPERIENCES DRIVE HER VIEW OF THE FUTURE, INCLUDING A NEW EPILOGUE. 'All of us face hard... -
Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Tuck
RRP: $18.88$13.55Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study,... -
Edward Seago by James Russell 9781848221475
RRP: $94.50$73.50This is the definitive account of the life and work of Edward Seago (1910-1974), the highly popular, versatile and talented British painter whose work was inspired by John Sell Cotman, John Constable and Alfred Munnings.Over 200 colour reproductions are... -
Daddy's Little Secret: Pregnant at 14 and there's only one man who can be the father by Tina Davis 9780091941000 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.03'I hated the thought of his child growing inside me...but at least I'd soon have somebody to love and, finally, somebody to love me back.'Tina has never had a stable upbringing. Aged seven, she has a paranoid schizophrenic for a mother and her father is... -
Daddy's Little Secret: Pregnant at 14 and there's only one man who can be the father by Tina Davis
RRP: $27.28$19.09'I hated the thought of his child growing inside me...but at least I'd soon have somebody to love and, finally, somebody to love me back.'Tina has never had a stable upbringing. Aged seven, she has a paranoid schizophrenic for a mother and her father is...