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J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin 9780300098228
RRP: $38.98$33.87An enchanting biography of J. M. Barrie, the man who created Peter Pan and his Lost Boys "For an insightful exploration of Barrie and the boys who inspired him, nothing rivals [this book]."-Norman Allen, Smithsonian Magazine J. M. Barrie, Victorian... -
Eric Gill by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: $39.00$26.25A gorgeous new edition of Fiona MacCarthy's ground-breaking biography of the artist-craftsman, typographer, and lettercutter, master wood-engraver, and sculptor: Eric Gill.'Fascinating on the work and fair to the man; a brilliant biography.'... -
Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby by Vera Brittain
RRP: $25.33$16.77WRITTEN WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARK BOSTRIDGE In her bestselling first volume of autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain passionately recorded the agonising years of the First World War, lamenting the destruction of a generation which for... -
Cezanne: A life by Alex Danchev
RRP: $48.75$35.14Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight, drawing on a vast range of primary sources, Alex Danchev tells the story of an artist who was never... -
Risotto With Nettles: A Memoir with Food by Anna Del Conte
RRP: $21.43$15.15A wonderful, evocative memoir by the woman who first brought Italian cooking to Britain and fuelled a culinary revolution.'Anyone who cooks should have Anna's books, it is the simple truth' Nigella LawsonBorn in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in... -
We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life by Laura McKowen
RRP: $31.18$18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687862Author Laura McKowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
The House of Getty by Russell Miller
RRP: $29.23$21.35The true story of the Getty family as featured in the TV series Trust and the movie All the Money in the World Boardroom battles, sex, money, drugs, power, crime, tragedy, and family intrigue; at the centre stands the figure of John Paul Getty, the... -
A Nurse's War: A Diary of Heroism and Heartache on the Home Front by Patricia Malcolmson
RRP: $17.53$11.74The remarkable wartime diary of nurse Kathleen Johnstone 'Warm, chatty and endlessly absorbing, this delightful diary brims with intelligence and humour.' Wendy Moore, author of Endell Street: The Women... -
My Judy Garland Life by Susie Boyt 9780349013381 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$4.41Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, My Judy Garland Life will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or held a candle to a star.Judy Garland has been an important figure in Susie Boyt's life since she was three years old,... -
My Judy Garland Life by Susie Boyt
RRP: $21.43$6.84Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, My Judy Garland Life will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or held a candle to a star.Judy Garland has been an important figure in Susie Boyt's life since she was three years old,... -
A Bike Ride: 12,000 miles around the world by Anne Mustoe
RRP: $29.23$21.35When ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe gave up her job, bought a bike and took to the road, she couldn't even mend a puncture. 12,000 miles and 15 months later, she was home. Her epic solo journey took her around the world, through Europe, India, the Far East... -
Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith by Sarah Bessey 9780232532395
RRP: $19.48$13.86From the popular blogger and provocative author of Jesus Feminist comes a riveting new study of Christianity that helps you wrestle with - and sort out - your faith.In Out of Sorts, Sarah Bessey - award-winning blogger and author of Jesus Feminist, which... -
Perfectly Human: Nine Months with Cerian by Sarah C. Williams
RRP: $23.38$15.60She knew they would only have a few fleeting months together, but in that time Sarah's unborn daughter would transform her understanding of beauty, worth, and the gift of life. Happily married and teaching history at the University of Oxford, Sarah... -
Marathon Mum: How one woman's fight for mental health inspired a running revolution: 2021 by Rachel Brown 9781913543662
RRP: $17.53$12.09'It's the finish line, not the finish time.' In the late 80s, our Rachel was having a boss time as a podium dancer at the Pleasuredrome, Birkenhead. Fast forward several years and she's married, with the kids she's always dreamed of, but the body... -
Brother to the Sun King: Philippe, Duke of Orleans by Nancy Nichols Barker
RRP: $61.43$55.05In battle he fought with legendary valor ...At court, dressed in silks and ribbons, he openly favored his male lovers ...Despised but feared by his brother, he was the perpetual loser in a lifelong sibling rivalry ...Brother to the Sun King: Philippe,... -
A Short Life on the Ocean Wave by Robert Howe 9780244766962
RRP: $17.18$15.19Robert Howe's short time in the Merchant Navy gave him a wealth of experiences and took him around the world. He saw some of Africa and Hong Kong when they were still British Protectorates, and South Africa under apartheid. He has had such diverse... -
You are Therefore I am: A Declaration of Dependence by Satish Kumar
RRP: $25.33$19.09This book traces the spiritual journey of Satish Kumar child monk, peace pilgrim, ecological activist and educator. In it he traces the sources of inspiration which formed his understanding of the world as a network of multiple and diverse relationships... -
Tamara De Lempicka by Laura Claridge
RRP: $33.13$23.95Born in 1899 to Russian Aristocrats, Tamara de Lempicka escaped the Bolsheviks by exchanging her body for freedom, dramatically beginning a sexual career that included most of the influential men and women she painted. Her paintings, like the artist... -
Llythyr Noel by Noel Thomas 9781913996758
$20.44The inspirational story of Anglesey postmaster, Noel Thomas, who was unjustly accused of being a thief by the Royal Mail and jailed. He tells the full story for the first time, with insightful revelations by his daughter, Sian.Book InformationISBN... -
Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts From a Life by Michael Katakis
RRP: $48.75$32.84For many, Ernest Hemingway remains more a compilation of myths than a person: soldier, sportsman, lover, expat and, of course, writer. But the actual life beneath these various legends remains elusive; what did he look like as a laughing child or young... -
Undercover Jihadi Bride: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle 9780008139582
RRP: $19.48$12.95Previously published as 'In the Skin of a Jihadist' Twenty-year-old 'Melodie', a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry... -
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 9780679785897
RRP: $25.33$19.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679785897Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $68.25$47.64Volume Two covers the early years of his editorship of The Criterion (the periodical that Eliot launched with Lady Rothermere's backing in 1922), publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste... -
A Writer's World by Jan Morris
RRP: $29.23$19.11In a wonderfully evocative collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, Jan Morris - a constant traveller - has produced a unique portrait of the twentieth century. Ranging from New York to Venice, Sydney to Berlin, and the... -
House Harkonnen by Brian Herbert 9780340751787 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$4.47Duke Leto Atreides is now the skilful and much-loved ruler of Caladan, served by loyal Duncan Idaho. To his court come Gurney Halleck, despised slave of the Harkonnens - and Jessica, the exquisite, perfectly trained concubine chosen by the Reverend... -
House Harkonnen by Brian Herbert
RRP: $21.43$15.17Duke Leto Atreides is now the skilful and much-loved ruler of Caladan, served by loyal Duncan Idaho. To his court come Gurney Halleck, despised slave of the Harkonnens - and Jessica, the exquisite, perfectly trained concubine chosen by the Reverend... -
Happy Kids: The Secrets to Raising Well-Behaved, Contented Children by Cathy Glass
RRP: $19.48$13.86A fresh and practical guide to successfully managing children's behaviour - from babies to young adults. Cathy Glass has been a foster carer for 30 years, during this time fostering more than 150 children, as well as bringing up three of own... -
Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson by Paul Kimmage 9781847393142 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$4.47SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 'Engage!' was the last word Matt Hampson heard before dislocating his neck while in rugby training with other young England hopefuls. On a cold,... -
Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson by Paul Kimmage 9781847393142
RRP: $19.48$12.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 'Engage!' was the last word Matt Hampson heard before dislocating his neck while in rugby training with other young England hopefuls. On a cold,... -
Inside Strangeways: The shocking truth about life behind bars by Neil Samworth
RRP: $37.03$26.54A darkly funny, harrowing and heartbreaking look at the reality of prison life, with first-hand accounts from men who found themselves on the wrong side of the cell doors. Including a preface powerfully read by the author, Neil Samworth.Neil 'Sam'... -
Now Then Lad... by Mike Pannett 9781845298111 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$3.47A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. It's quite a change from the Met, where he dealt with riots on the capital's streets and drug gangs... -
Now Then Lad... by Mike Pannett
RRP: $21.43$14.43A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. It's quite a change from the Met, where he dealt with riots on the capital's streets and drug gangs... -
Solid Seasons: The Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson by Jeffrey S. Cramer
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640093836Author Jeffrey S. CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir by Aminatta Forna 9780006531265 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$4.47An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period. Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African... -
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir by Aminatta Forna 9780006531265
RRP: $25.33$16.54An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period. Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African... -
The Duchess by Amanda Foreman 9780007285754 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$4.47Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Appointment in Arezzo: A friendship with Muriel Spark by Alan Taylor
RRP: $17.53$11.86This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscreet and admiring memoir charts the course of Muriel Spark's life revealing her as she really was. Once, she... -
My Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People by Sir Ranulph Fiennes 9781444722468 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$4.15In MY HEROES the 'world's greatest living explorer' (Guinness Book of Records), writes about the people who have inspired him - from explorers to policemen, families to freedom fighters. Wherever in the world Ranulph gives one of his lectures or... -
My Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: $21.43$12.62In MY HEROES the 'world's greatest living explorer' (Guinness Book of Records), writes about the people who have inspired him - from explorers to policemen, families to freedom fighters. Wherever in the world Ranulph gives one of his lectures or... -
Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians by Ralph White
RRP: $39.00$25.08The gripping and remarkable true story of author Ralph White's desperate effort to save the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.In April 1975, Ralph White was...