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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
RRP: £9.99£5.75The bestselling book that inspired the cult classic film, Girl, Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie."Not since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim" TIME... -
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
RRP: £8.99£5.22This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London'. DAILY TELEGRAPHTold in a series of letters in 84 CHARING CROSS... -
Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn 9780525521013
RRP: £40.00£24.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525521013Author Mary V. DearbornFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm) 244mm *... -
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
RRP: £9.99£4.07The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside ... -
Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul by Ann Wroe 9781787334458
RRP: £18.99£11.38The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page***A FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***** SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT... -
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780008470333
RRP: £6.99£3.93A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full... -
An Autobiography by Agatha Christie 9780007314669
RRP: £14.99£8.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £25.00£12.12** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Christie lovers should read this biography... -
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £22.00£14.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720250Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder 9780241482742
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Truly wonderful... Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait.' - Claire Tomalin A BLAZING, GENRE-BENDING MASTERPIECE FROM ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE WRITERS OF OUR TIMELooking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder... -
Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Lucy Worsley 9781529303919
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Worsley's sparkling biography brings a fresh eye to Christie's life and work, firmly busting the myth... -
Down Below by Leonora Carrington
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370606Author Leonora CarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist by Lori Gottlieb
RRP: £10.99£7.32A TIME magazine Must-Read Book of the Year Ever wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Times bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of her practice - where her patients are looking... -
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
RRP: £10.99£7.32**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023**'Masterly.'... -
You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol by Louisa Young
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Extraordinarily powerful' Emma Thompson There are a million love stories, and a million stories of addiction. This one is transcendent. Louisa Young met Robert Lockhart when they were both 17. Their... -
Capote's Women: Watch TV's FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS by Laurence Leamer 9781399721226
RRP: £10.99£7.40A FASCINATING TRUE STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, INTRIGUE AND UNFORGIVABLE BETRAYAL, NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES Readers LOVE Capote's Women 'A genuinely fascinating account of a great writer and his muses.' 'Loved it! Fabulous book about a extremely... -
I Remember by Joe Brainyard 9781887123488
RRP: £12.99£8.63The American artist's much-imitated memoir, described by Paul Auster as "one of the few totally original books I have ever read." Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to... -
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer 9780593328101
RRP: £20.00£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593328101Author Laurence LeamerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £12.99£8.60THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the parsonage.' Antonia Fraser'A refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and... -
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy 9780691218557
RRP: £20.00£15.94The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the... -
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography by Benjamin Zephaniah 9781471168956
RRP: £10.99£7.00*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life. In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets... -
The Long and Winding Road: TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE STORY OF LESLEY PEARSE: AS CAPTIVATING AS HER FICTION by Lesley Pearse 9780241453209
RRP: £22.00£16.02'I couldn't put this book down. Although harrowing at times, Lesley's indomitable spirit shines through. What an inspiration, what a book!' Katie Fforde'More extraordinary than any plot twist in Pearse's novels' Mail on SundayREAD THE SPELLBINDING MEMOIR... -
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin 9781784742935
RRP: £25.00£18.02'Destined to become a new classic' Chris KrausA dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences... -
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler
RRP: £20.00£13.26A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have... -
String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £18.99£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534801Author David Foster WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 364g -
Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio by Chris Laoutaris
RRP: £25.00£16.83'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet... -
Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater: Bilingual edition by Franz Kafka
RRP: £13.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212662Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm *... -
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman
RRP: £19.00£11.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250181695Author Ellen UllmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death by Laura Cumming
RRP: £25.00£16.53**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'A wonderful read (or a great present) for anyone who loves stories and art' Nina Stibbe, author of Love, NinaA beautifully illustrated... -
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King 9781444723250
RRP: £10.99£7.40Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic... -
I Feel Bad About My Neck: Dolly Alderton introduction by Nora Ephron
RRP: £9.99£7.11'So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it' - Phoebe Waller-BridgeNow with an introduction from Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love, revealing how a new generation of women can take inspiration from Nora's... -
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Gripping' NEW YORK TIMES'At last, the Ripper's victims get a voice... An eloquent, stirring challenge to reject the prevailing Ripper myth' MAIL ON SUNDAY____________Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine... -
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses by Paula Byrne 9780008322250
RRP: £25.00£16.43A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of the most... -
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
RRP: £10.99£7.51This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. A joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation.'One of Britain's outstanding poets' - Sir Paul McCartney'Riveting' - Observer'An exuberant account of a... -
Learning to Think.: A broken system kept her trapped, education helped her break free by Tracy King 9780857527431
RRP: £16.99£12.28Discover the inspirational coming-of-age memoir about modern poverty in Britain and the liberating power of education.'An astonishing tale, well structured and punchily told.' - Sunday Times'Impossible not to read in one sitting.' - Stylist, Best Books... -
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 9780141183053
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish... -
If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi
RRP: £12.99£4.11With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible... -
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare 9781787302419
RRP: £30.00£21.35A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers.Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our... -
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional'A compelling mediation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer. A perfect reading companion for runners.In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to... -
Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: £12.99£8.78'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday TimesBenjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day,...