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The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be Free Andy West 9781529032017
RRP: $35.68$26.19'Tense and intimate... an education.' Geoff Dyer'Written with sensitivity and humanity... a remarkable insight into prison life.' Amanda Brown'Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving.' Terry Waite'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending... a... -
Extraordinary Knowing by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
RRP: $29.38$19.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553382235Author Elizabeth Lloyd MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House... -
Lucky Man: The Autobiography by Greg Lake
RRP: $23.08$15.98Greg Lake first won acclaim as lead vocalist, bass guitarist and producer when, together with Robert Fripp, he formed King Crimson. Their first album, the landmark In the Court of the Crimson King, co-produced by Greg, featured the iconic song '21st... -
Report from the Interior by Paul Auster
RRP: $23.08$15.83'In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .' Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally best-selling novelist Paul Auster now remembers the... -
Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy by Kate Swenson 9780778387145
RRP: $46.18$27.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778387145Author Kate SwensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Park RowPublisher Park RowWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 23mm -
A House in Sicily by Daphne Phelps 9780786707942
$33.81This is the captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful house in Sicily." For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne Phelps has extended her English charm and warm hospitality... -
Party Time: Raving Arizona by Shaun Attwood 9780993021589
RRP: $25.18$23.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993021589Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood -
The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn by Lucette Matalon Lagnado 9780061803697
$24.74In the award-winning "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit", Lucette Lagnado offered a heartbreaking portrait of her father, Leon, a successful Cairo boulevardier forced to take flight with his family during the rise of the Nasser dictatorship,... -
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney
RRP: $31.48$21.92Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Suffering from (but enjoying) extreme mania, and terrified that medication would cause her to lose creativity, she began a long struggle over many years to find mental... -
In Her Shoes: Women of the Eighth: A Memoir and Anthology by Erin Darcy
RRP: $33.58$24.76In early 2018, Erin Darcy created an online art project, In Her Shoes - Women of the Eighth, to safely and anonymously share private stories of the real and devastating impact of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. In the five months... -
Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Marianne Faithfull
RRP: $23.08$16.78This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational, intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of her life, her friends, her triumphs and mistakes. ... -
Miles To Go Before I Sleep: Letters on Hope, Death and Learning to Live by Claire Gilbert
RRP: $23.08$14.01'Claire's honest, raw, authentic diaries will be a source of comfort to many'- Miranda Hart At the age of 54 Claire Gilbert was diagnosed with myeloma, an incurable cancer of the blood. The prognoses ranged from surviving only a few months to living for... -
Tales of A Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
RRP: $29.38$21.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809549Author Rita Golden GelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal 9781913505721
RRP: $27.28$19.28When Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great - yet forgotten - novel written by Enayat al-Zayyat, a young woman who killed herself in 1963, four years before her book was published, Mersal begins to research the writer. She tracks down Enayat's best friend,... -
Holding the Baby: Milk, sweat and tears from the frontline of motherhood Nell Frizzell 9781787635944
RRP: $35.68$26.19'My favourite person on the politics of parenthood' Pandora Sykes'Exhilarating, infuriating, urgent and human' Daisy Buchanan'A blazing, brilliant read ... compassionate, convincing, funny!' Amy Liptrot'Honest, unflinching and necessary' Sara... -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson 9780241951583
RRP: $20.98$15.37Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell's Angels, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'A phalanx of motorcycles came... -
Word Monkey by Christopher Fowler 9780857529626
RRP: $39.88$29.02'A delight . . . a glorious, witty and life-affirming ragbag of autobiography, cultural commentary and hard-won wisdom.' ANDREW TAYLOR, author of The Shadows of London'Perceptive, wise and illuminating . . . an unmissable farewell.' Barry Forshaw,... -
Among Flowers by Jamaica Kincaid
RRP: $20.98$15.71In this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants... -
Heart Berries: A Memoir Terese Marie Mailhot 9781526604507
RRP: $18.88$13.97A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Whiting Award for Non-Fiction Selected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick 'I loved it' Kate Tempest 'Astounding' Roxane Gay 'A sledgehammer' New York Times Heart Berries is a powerful,... -
Eden's Keepers: The Lives and Gardens of Humphrey Waterfield and Nancy Tennant by Sarah Barclay 9781908337634
RRP: $52.50$38.43Without Nancy Tennant, Humphrey Waterfield's exquisite horticultural creations might never have existed. The two of them were life-long partners and together created 'the most beautiful small garden in England' at Hill Pasture in Essex and collaborated... -
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking Anya von Bremzen 9780552777476
RRP: $31.48$23.00Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, Anya von Bremzen grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns... -
An Astronomer's Tale: A Bricklayer's Guide to the Galaxy by Gary Fildes 9781784754389 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.89A Bricklayer's Guide to the Galaxy . . . The inspirational memoir of a former brickie who followed his passion for the stars and built his own observatory. Perfect for readers of Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald and James Rebanks - as well as fans of... -
An Astronomer's Tale: A Bricklayer's Guide to the Galaxy Gary Fildes 9781784754389
RRP: $27.28$19.61A Bricklayer's Guide to the Galaxy . . . The inspirational memoir of a former brickie who followed his passion for the stars and built his own observatory. Perfect for readers of Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald and James Rebanks - as well as fans of... -
This Really Isn't About You by Jean Hannah Edelstein 9781509863815
RRP: $18.88$14.28'A most magnificent, beautifully written memoir' - Nina Stibbe'Deft, witty and profound . . . had me turning the pages all night' - Jessie BurtonJean Hannah Edelstein was looking for love on OKCupid the night she lost her father. She had recently moved... -
Dancing Barefoot: How To Be Common by Glyn Brown 9780993204494
RRP: $29.40$28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993204494Author Glyn BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Ignite BooksPublisher Ignite Books -
On All Fronts by Clarissa Ward 9780525561491
RRP: $27.28$18.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561491Author Clarissa WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Gypsy Princess: A touching memoir of a Romany childhood Violet Cannon 9780755362837
RRP: $23.08$14.01The true story of a Romany childhood... Gypsy Princess is a searingly honest account of what life is really like for travelling communities, for girls in particular, and captures a way of life that is slowly fading away. If you enjoyed the memoirs of... -
A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays by David Mamet
RRP: $42.00$28.27A Whore's Profession brings together, for the first time, David Mamet's acclaimed volumes of notes and essays, including, The Cabin, Writing in Restaurants, Some Freaks and On Directing Film. Poignant, intimate, insightful and witty by turns, these... -
Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies by Nick Frost
RRP: $27.28$18.54'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness was laughter and time. With enough of both of these things I reckon you could get over just about anything.'Nick Frost burst onto our screens in a... -
The Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s Secret History by Martin Puchner
RRP: $35.68$24.32You might have heard the saying 'you're in a pickle' meaning you're in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the road influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs, and spoken by vagrants and... -
Ice Diaries: An Antartic Memoir by Jean McNeil 9781770414464
RRP: $33.58$23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414464Author Jean McNeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin by Damian McBride 9781785908385
RRP: $31.48$23.73From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No. 10. He was a pivotal member of Gordon Brown's inner circle before a notorious scandal propelled him out of Downing Street and onto the front pages. When he released his memoir... -
Not the Life It Seems by Tom Bryant 9780306823497
RRP: $46.18$32.13My Chemical Romance is the most significant band in alternative rock in the last decade. Inspirational, original, and stunningly creative, they forged an extraordinary connection with their fans. Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical... -
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan 9780063269330
RRP: $27.28$18.29A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s new book chronicles ten days that tested us and ultimately showed us at our best. It’s a captivating story about what’s worth fighting for, an antidote to... -
Black Boy by Richard Wright
RRP: $23.08$16.78Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension.'A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South between... -
Orwell in Spain by George Orwell
RRP: $27.28$19.61Including Homage to Catalonia'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, GuardianGeorge Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and... -
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel 9781529116168
RRP: $23.08$18.08DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.'A sapphic graphic treat' The TimesA moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane... -
Love, Tanya Tanya Burr 9781405921404
RRP: $27.28$21.71Love, Tanya is the first book from YouTube sensation Tanya Burr.Hi everyone and welcome to Love, Tanya! This book is really close to my heart, because it's inspired by my journey to becoming confident and feeling happy about who I am. I wanted to write a... -
Openhearted: Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go by Ann Ingle
RRP: $31.48$23.33SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman... -
Finucane and Me by John Clarke 9780717195503
RRP: $46.18$35.57Marian Finucane was a trailblazing broadcaster, the first to champion women’s issues on air, and respected for her fairness, empathy and doggedness. One of a small group of Irish people known simply by their first name, the nation mourned when she died...