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The Silver Invicta: Journeys with a Fly Fisher by Tom Harland
RRP: $37.78$26.00The Silver Invicta is a stream of impressions from a fishing life, in its varying moods, coloured with plenty of whisky and eccentric company. Join Tom Harland on his light-hearted journeys with his fly rod; take part in his triumphs and disasters on... -
Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao
RRP: $27.28$19.61The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for her by the rest of the world' Tash Aw, Paris Review Books... -
Book of Mutter by Kate Zambreno
RRP: $35.68$26.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351962Author Kate ZambrenoFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 19mm -
A Victorian Lady's Guide to Life by Elspeth Marr
RRP: $16.78$15.56In this delightful and engagingly eccentric treasury of life lessons, redoubtable Victorian Elspeth Marr (1871-1947) reflects on the fundamental topics of life as well as the nuts and bolts of everyday living. Part journal, part commonplace book, among... -
A Young Man's Passage Julian Clary 9780091908720
RRP: $31.48$23.00This is Julian Clary's story, in his own words - the tale of an awkward schoolboy who became a huge worldwide success on stage and screen.After a sheltered suburban upbringing, Julian was sent to St Benedict's, where beatings from 'holy' men gave him... -
Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION by Anna Jones 9780857839732
RRP: $23.08$15.98'Divide is well written and thought-provoking' - Sunday Telegraph'A lively guide through the thorny challenges of rural life in an urban world. Essential reading for both incomer and local. Anna Jones is insightful but above all sensitive: we walk in... -
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab Marina Wheeler 9781473677760
RRP: $23.08$15.98'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times'A deeply personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey for many in the diaspora... Wheeler taps a rich vein of... -
Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl by Markiyan Kamysh 9781782278559
RRP: $27.28$17.98The 1,000-square-mile Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is, for many, a symbol of total disaster: a reminder of shattered ideals and lost lives, now a toxic, dangerous no-man's-land. For Markiyan Kamysh, it became a site of pilgrimage. He and dozens like him... -
A Rope of Vines: Journal from a Greek Island by Brenda Chamberlain 9781905762866 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$9.09"A Rope of Vines Journal from a Greek Island" is a beautiful and personal account of the time spent by Brenda Chamberlain on the Greek Island of Ydra in the early 1960's. Sea and harbour, mountain and monastery, her neighbours and friends are... -
A Rope of Vines: Journal from a Greek Island by Brenda Chamberlain 9781905762866
RRP: $18.88$16.11"A Rope of Vines Journal from a Greek Island" is a beautiful and personal account of the time spent by Brenda Chamberlain on the Greek Island of Ydra in the early 1960's. Sea and harbour, mountain and monastery, her neighbours and friends are... -
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert : 1830-1880 Gustave Flaubert 9781681377162
RRP: $48.30$32.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377162Author Gustave FlaubertFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
FRONTLINE: Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease by Dr Tony Redmond
RRP: $20.98$14.36A heroic doctor's unflinchingly honest and visceral tale of impossible choices in emergency medicine. 'A brilliant insight into the forgotten heroes at the sharp end of humanitarian emergencies.' Jon Snow, Channel 4 News ... -
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen 9780241647448
RRP: $63.00$56.03ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF THE GUARDIAN AND PROSPECT'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES, ATLANTIC, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL'S TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Extraordinary... Magisterial... A remarkable meditation on... -
Cross Everything: A personal journey into the evolution of cancer by Henry Scowcroft
RRP: $39.88$31.10'A moving, compelling and vital book, that sheds much needed light on the very latest understanding of cancer.' - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies 'A gripping, heartbreaking, accessible personal journey through love and... -
More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys 9781529046083
RRP: $23.08$17.12In her intimate memoir, More Myself, Alicia Keys shares her quest for truth: about herself, her past, and her shift from sacrificing her spirit to celebrating her worth.One of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the... -
Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It - the 2023 Orwell Prize Finalist Emily Kenway 9781472288486
RRP: $46.20$34.17*FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023*'A visceral, unsparing picture of our current situation' ROB DELANEY'A radical vision for how we might do things better ' LADY BRENDA HALE 'A rallying cry we should all heed' TLSA ground-breaking... -
How to Fix Modern Football Chris Sutton 9781913183264
RRP: $27.28$16.21*****Shortlisted for Sports Entertainment Book of the Year in the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2021 'A manifesto to cure modern football's cornucopia of ills.' - i paper 'A brilliant book.' - Ian Wright With diving players, abusive fans, feckless agents... -
All Things Remembered by Goldie 9780571332076
RRP: $39.88$16.40ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 Who better to tell the story of the gentrification of a musical genre than the man who started out as Jungle's most streetwise ambassador and went on to collect an MBE from Buckingham Palace? But Goldie's... -
On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place Mike Parker 9781786090492
RRP: $23.08$16.78WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2020__________________________'A moving story of love, tradition and landscape.' Evening Standard, 'Books of the Year''A moving, multilayered memoir... extraordinary,... -
The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece Horst Kruger 9781529113198
RRP: $20.98$15.37'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times 'An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster' Hilary... -
Forty Autumns: A family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner 9780349141367
RRP: $27.28$18.54In Forty Autumns, Nina Willner recounts the history of three generations of her family - mothers, sisters, daughters and cousins - separated by forty years of Soviet rule, and reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Shortly after the end of the Second... -
On Call with a Yorkshire Vet by Julian Norton
RRP: $25.18$18.19Taken from his popular column in The Yorkshire Post, Julian Norton's On Call with a Yorkshire Vet is the follow up to his successful The Diary of a Yorkshire Vet and features more anecdotes from his veterinary work in North Yorkshire. Through the snows... -
Deep Deception: The story of the spycop network, by the women who uncovered the shocking truth by Helen Steel
RRP: $42.00$28.35Groomed. Gaslighted. Ghosted.They thought they'd found their soulmate. They had no idea he was spying on them.These five motivated, independent women each thought they'd met their perfect partner - someone who shared their values, ambitions and goals.But... -
Hermit: A memoir of finding freedom in a wild place by Jade Angeles Fitton
RRP: $39.88$29.02'I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation I have never experienced... There is never anything out here but my shadow, that no one treads on any more'When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks... -
Free Boots & Back to Backs - Memories of a 1950's Childhood: Memories of a 1950's Childhood by Maureen Harvey 9781786068675 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$4.39Born in 1946, Maureen Harvey was brought up in a poor working-class household in Birmingham at a time when the city was still a major manufacturing centre.Despite her family's poor circumstances, the author recalls a childhood filled with family pride... -
Shut up Legs!: My Wild Ride On and Off the Bike Jens Voigt 9781785031755
RRP: $31.48$23.33Push until it hurts, then push some moreEven by the standards of a sport that requires enormous stamina and capacity for suffering, Jens Voigt is in a class on his own. Beloved by cycling fans for his madcap one-man breakaways as much as his sense of... -
How I Survived a Chinese Re-education Camp: A Uighur Woman Speaks Out by Gulbahar Haitiwaji
RRP: $39.88$25.77'An indispensable account' - Sunday Times 'Moving and devastating' - The Literary Review 'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait' - Sunday Telegraph (Five Stars) FIRST MEMOIR ABOUT CHINA'A 'RE-EDUCATION' CAMPS BY A UYGHUR WOMAN Since 2017, one million... -
Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story by Carlos Acosta 9780007250783 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.85The rags-to-riches story of one of the world's greatest dancers, from his difficult beginnings living in poverty in the backstreets of Cuba to his astronomical rise to international stardom. In 1980, Carlos Acosta was just another Cuban kid of... -
Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story by Carlos Acosta
RRP: $23.08$15.67The rags-to-riches story of one of the world's greatest dancers, from his difficult beginnings living in poverty in the backstreets of Cuba to his astronomical rise to international stardom. In 1980, Carlos Acosta was just another Cuban kid of... -
About A Son: A Murder and A Father's Search for Truth by David Whitehouse
RRP: $35.68$32.24As heard on the HOW TO FAIL podcast with Elizabeth Day'I was utterly floored by the emotional depth of About A Son - a book that reaches so deeply into the human experience that to read it is to be forever changed. It is an unflinching examination of... -
Nothing Is Missing: A Memoir of Living Boldly by Nicole Walters 9781668000953
RRP: $39.88$26.17A profound and gripping memoir by Nicole Walters, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants who became a self-made multi-millionaire by showing others how to recognize their own strengths-and her own harrowing journey to the discovery that she was worthy all... -
I Had to Survive: How a plane crash in the Andes helped me to save lives by Dr. Roberto Canessa
RRP: $23.08$15.98On 12 October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the 'Old Christians' rugby team (and many of their friends and family members) crashed into the Andes mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the... -
A Solitary Confinement: Always look on the bright side, even though you're paralysed from the neck downwards by Robin Sheppard 9781784521219
RRP: $31.48$23.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784521219Author Robin SheppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon by Julia Cameron
RRP: $23.08$16.78In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life. From her early career as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine and her marriage to Martin Scorsese, to her tortured... -
Nobody's Child: The Stirring True Story of an Unwanted Boy Who Found Hope by John Robinson 9781854246233
$15.37John Robinson had the worst possible start in life, taken into care at only four months, John was left in abusive foster homes for most of his childhood. Yet today he has found hope and is working in Manchester with the Eden Bus Ministry with children... -
Losing the Battle, Winning the War: How we can all defy the odds we're given by Ben Parkinson 9780751580259
RRP: $23.08$14.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Losing the Battle, Winning the War: How we can all defy the odds we're given by Ben Parkinson 9780751580259 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81'A great and inspiring book from Doncaster's bravest son. Read it in a day' - Jeremy Clarkson 'Ben is the embodiment of positive thinking. What he has achieved, in large part through willpower, is nothing short of miraculous. An inspiration to us all' -... -
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
RRP: $20.98$14.70When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamila Sidiqi and all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight, they were banned from schools and offices and even forbidden from leaving their front doors on their own. The economy collapsed and... -
The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer
RRP: $23.08$15.98NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY AND STARRING BEN AFFLECK'Highly entertaining . . . constructed as skilfully as a drink mixed by the author's Uncle Charlie' New York Times'Moehringer writes with a survivor's wisdom . . . The Tender Bar is a... -
My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas 9781849013642 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$3.99In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, nine-year-old Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet Dylan Thomas and mother, Caitlin, hoped to find peace, a place to...