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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... -
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR... -
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: £8.99£6.97Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this... -
The White Album by Joan Didion
RRP: £9.99£6.64Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in... -
Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul by Ann Wroe 9781787334458
RRP: £18.99£13.61The 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... -
Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, Collected wisdom from her Sunday Times Style Column by Dolly Alderton
RRP: £16.99£12.78'Dolly Alderton at her wise, warm and witty best' RedSince early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their questions... -
No One Taught Me To Tango by Trevor Grove
RRP: £20.00£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915406149Author Trevor GroveFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear Publishing -
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest,... -
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... -
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
RRP: £9.99£7.11George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society.'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you... -
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780008470333
RRP: £6.99£4.80A 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... -
Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London by Lee Jackson 9780300266207
RRP: £20.00£17.77The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years "Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the city as it was. . . . Dickens, who was no stranger to... -
Selected Diaries by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £12.99£9.09Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded... -
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: £14.99£10.10A smaller, cheaper edition of this acclaimed illustrated biography of Beatrix Potter. Respected biographer Sarah Gristwood discovers a life crisscrossed with contradictions and marked by tragedy, yet one that left a remarkable literary - and... -
A Life In Pictures by Alasdair Gray 9781841956404
RRP: £50.00£34.69Alasdair Gray is known throughout the world for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who not only illustrates and designs his own books, but has created many beautiful and intriguing portraits, paintings, posters and murals.Alasdair... -
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £25.00£15.95** 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... -
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder
RRP: £20.00£14.69THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'A marvellous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation'... -
The Infernal World Of Branwell Bronte by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99£7.40FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ' . . . she is unravelling a long distorted mystery' KIRKUS... -
Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first ever memoir by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99£7.05Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which vividly evokes a vanished world.'The best thing he's ever written . . . What a world he captures here. You can almost smell it' Rachel Cooke,... -
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
RRP: £12.99£8.32From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective. ... -
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje 9781784877811
RRP: £10.99£7.77'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed... I think all of our lives have been terribly shaped by what went on before us.'Twenty-five years after leaving his... -
Novelist as a Vocation: ‘Every creative person should read this short book’ Literary Review by Haruki Murakami 9781529918359
RRP: £10.99£7.12Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never stand apart from those principles.'You end this collection...vowing to never let life, or writing, get so complicated again' GuardianReaders who have long wondered... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: £7.99£5.79WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is... -
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022 by Polly Morland
RRP: £9.99£7.06Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeThe Top Ten BestsellerA The Times Book of the YearWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month'If you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sentence and the quality of language and with the... -
All Before Me: A Search for Belonging in Wordsworth’s Lake District by Esther Rutter 9781783787951
RRP: £16.99£11.58In her early twenties, Esther Rutter suffered an acute mental breakdown while teaching English in Japan. Sectioned and held in a Japanese psychiatric institution until she could be flown home under escort, her recovery only began when she came to live... -
The Bronte Myth by Lucasta Miller
RRP: £12.99£9.09A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontes.Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing. These range from pious accounts in Victorian... -
Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo 9780241993620
RRP: £10.99£7.77'This honest, engaging memoir shares such gems . . . the perfect read for anyone who dreams big' The Times and Sunday Times, Books of the Year The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine... -
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: £9.99£7.11The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in... -
Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor
RRP: £30.00£19.80Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40... -
Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression by Nino Strachey
RRP: £10.99£7.05'I wanted to climb inside this book and live there' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it' MIRIAM MARGOLYES'Superb, sparky and reflective' The Spectator'Gender fluidity? Pansexuality? Throuples? Chosen families?... -
Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today by The School of Life
RRP: £24.99£18.11The Great Thinkers is a collection of some of the most important ideas of Eastern and Western culture - drawn from the works of those philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, artists and novelists whom we believe have the most to offer to us... -
Ulysses: A Reader's Odyssey by Daniel Mulhall
RRP: £13.99£9.75Marking the centenary of Ireland's - and possibly the world's - most famous novel, this joyful introductory guide opens up Ulysses to a whole new readership, offering insight into the literary, historical and cultural elements at play in James Joyce's... -
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
RRP: £9.99£7.11As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with RosieAbandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But,... -
Better Broken Than New: A Fragmented Memoir by Lisa St Aubin de Teran 9781914278129
RRP: £19.95£12.84Following a successful career as an award-winning, best-selling novelist, in 2004 Lisa St Aubin de Teran retreated to a remote village in northern Mozambique. There she found her own African roots, founded a charity, and confronted new challenges. Much... -
Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £10.99£7.77J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, 'Empire of the Sun', this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life. ... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99£7.77A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of a wartime childhood, Cambridge friendships and an early... -
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and... -
The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £20.00£13.86The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of... -
Pour Me: A Life by Adrian Gill
RRP: £9.99£6.80SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE'An intense, succulent read that's intermittently dazzling' THE TIMES'Chilling, exquisitely moving' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A superb memoir - and one of the best books on addiction I have ever read' EVENING STANDARDA. A...