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Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism by Ariella Azoulay
RRP: £30.00£24.57In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aisha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences.Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from... -
Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away by Lisa Woollett
RRP: £20.00£13.35'A really important book' RAYNOR WINNFrom relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish,... -
Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?: 200 birds. 12 months. 1 lapsed birdwatcher. by Lev Parikian
RRP: £9.99£6.85At twelve years old, Lev Parikian was an avid birdwatcher. He was also a fraud, a liar and a cheat. Those lists of birds seen and ticked off? Lies. One hundred and thirty species? More like sixty.Then, when he turned fifty, he decided to right his... -
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
RRP: £16.99£9.39Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy-Lee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy... -
Self-Contained: Scenes from a single life by Emma John 9781788403429
RRP: £12.99£11.78'Searingly self-aware and sharply funny, Emma John takes the cliches about being a single woman and blows them apart with unforgettable originality.' - Hadley Freeman'Fabulous. Made me well up twice. Honest, vulnerable and all those great things.' - Eva... -
I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast 9781620403228
RRP: £20.00£15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620403228Author Roz ChastFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g -
A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett 9780449005866
RRP: £16.99£12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449005866Author Jimmy BuffettFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)... -
Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers by Antonia Quirke 9780007182763
RRP: £9.99£8.23A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one woman's life. A unique memoir, 'Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers' is the story of how a young female film critic's love-life is affected and nearly... -
Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers by Antonia Quirke 9780007182763 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.78A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one woman's life. A unique memoir, 'Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers' is the story of how a young female film critic's love-life is affected and nearly... -
Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti
RRP: £12.99£8.56A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up. Claudia's mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from jumping off a bridge. Her father... -
Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere by Sarah Perry
RRP: £5.99£4.46'Not all Essex girls are party girls. They can be sages, martyrs, leaders. In her neat and provocative little book, Sarah Perry celebrates their courage and vivacity.' Hilary Mantel A defence and celebration of the Essex Girl by the best-selling... -
A House in Sicily by Daphne Phelps 9780786707942
£15.67This 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... -
The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn by Lucette Matalon Lagnado 9780061803697
RRP: £9.99£8.29In 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,... -
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
RRP: £13.99£9.91Far too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. Black women's eloquent rage is... -
Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Marianne Faithfull
RRP: £10.99£7.77This 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. ... -
Some Sunny Day by Dame Vera Lynn
RRP: £8.99£6.02The remarkable autobiography of the last great wartime icon. Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn's career was set from an early age - along with her father, who also did a 'turn', she sang in Working... -
On the Trail of Wolves: A British Adventure in the Wild West by Philippa Forrester 9781472972040
RRP: £17.99£13.80A chance to move to the US Wild West allows TV presenter Philippa Forrester to fulfil a lifelong dream of living among and learning all she can about wolves When Philippa Forrester and her nature-loving family moved to the wilds of Grand Teton... -
Ninth Building by Jingzhi Zou 9781739822507
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN/Heim Award 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781739822507Author Jingzhi ZouFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Honford StarPublisher Honford Star -
A Letter to My Transgender Daughter by Carolyn Hays 9781529064506
RRP: £10.99£7.12A parent's deeply moving love letter to a daughter who has always known exactly who she is.'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated on every page with love' - Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatWhen Carolyn Hays's child made... -
Small by Small: Becoming a Doctor in 1990s Nigeria by Ike Anya 9781914518096
RRP: £21.99£15.61As he works his way through his medical training, Ike Anya's grandmother reassures him, 'Everything worthwhile is achieved small by small.' Small by Small charts the triumphs and failures of Ike's student days through to his first demanding year as a... -
Zamani: A haunted memoir of Tanzania by Jane Bryce 9781788649865
RRP: £13.99£9.59Haunted by memories of a Tanzanian childhood abruptly ended when her parents were deported, Jane Bryce returns in search of the past only to be ambushed by the present. As she retraces her own and her parents' footsteps she is surprised by unexpected... -
A Traveller's Life by Eric Newby 9780007367870
RRP: £10.99£7.77A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush. Eric Newby's life of travel began in 1919, on pram-ride adventures with his mother into the... -
Above the Law: Adventures in a police helicopter by Adrian Bleese 9781785632624
RRP: £9.99£7.11Adrian Bleese spent twelve years flying on police helicopters, and attended almost 3,000 incidents, as one of only a handful of civilian air observers working anywhere in the world. In Above The Law he recounts the most intriguing, challenging, amusing... -
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya Von Bremzen
RRP: £14.99£10.95Born 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... -
The Man Who Ate the World by Jay Rayner
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Nobody goes to restaurants for nutritional reasons. They go for experience, and what price a really top experience?'What price indeed? Fearlessly, and with huge wit and knowledge and verve, award-winning food writer Jay Rayner has searched the world for... -
Walking on Eggshells: Confessions From an Asperger Marriage and How We Made it Work by Karen Rowlands 9780993561344
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993561344Author Karen RowlandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint ARC PublishingPublisher ARC PublishingWeight(grams) 268g -
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more) by Hadley Freeman
RRP: £9.99£7.75Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s - why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever. For Hadley Freeman, American moves of the 1980s have simply got... -
Live Learn Love Well: Lessons from a Life of Progress Not Perfection by Emma Lovewell
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593497357Author Emma LovewellFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Amit Chaudhuri 9780571219100
RRP: £12.99£9.09**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE**By turns essay, memoir and cultural study, Finding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's singular account of his discovery of, and enduring passion for, North Indian music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose... -
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon by Jay Jayamohan 9781789293203
RRP: £8.99£6.13'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair, use a scalpel to nick the skin then apply an electro-cautery device to burn down to bone level. It's a slow, precise method and it leaves almost no... -
The Weapon Of Choice by Sophia Purcell
RRP: £9.99£7.11Ever wondered what it's like living with a brain that's trying to kill you? If you've struggled with an eating disorder, you'll know exactly how that feels. This book follows an ordinary girl on one of the most extraordinary and difficult journeys of her... -
This Really Isn't About You by Jean Hannah Edelstein 9781509863815
RRP: £8.99£6.60'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: £14.00£13.46Apologies 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 -
Red Odyssey: Liverpool FC 1892-2017 by Jeff Goulding
RRP: £18.99£13.61Red Odyssey: Liverpool FC 1892-2017, is a uniquely affectionate and often deeply moving history of one of the greatest sporting institutions on the planet. Born in the fire of boardroom conflict and launched into the humble surroundings of the Lancashire... -
A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays by David Mamet
RRP: £20.00£13.46A 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... -
The Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s Secret History by Martin Puchner
RRP: £16.99£11.58You 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... -
Henry James: Autobiographies: A Small Boy and Others / Notes of a Son and Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings by Henry James 9781598534719
RRP: £35.99£23.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534719Author Henry JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 722g -
Not the Life It Seems by Tom Bryant 9780306823497
RRP: £21.99£15.13My 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... -
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
RRP: £8.99£6.45A 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,... -
Orwell in Spain by George Orwell
RRP: £12.99£9.09Including 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...