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Can't Swim, Can't Ride, Can't Run: My Triathlon Journey from Common Man to Ironman by Andy Holgate 9781848187436 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£1.78A 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile run make up the Ironman triathlon. It's not for the faint-hearted. What possesses an overweight, thirty-something librarian who can't swim, doesn't own a bike and has two dodgy knees to take on the... -
Can't Swim, Can't Ride, Can't Run: My Triathlon Journey from Common Man to Ironman by Andy Holgate
RRP: £12.99£9.09A 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a 26.2-mile run make up the Ironman triathlon. It's not for the faint-hearted. What possesses an overweight, thirty-something librarian who can't swim, doesn't own a bike and has two dodgy knees to take on the... -
Hard Time: Locked Up Abroad by Shaun Attwood 9781912885008
RRP: £11.99£10.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912885008Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood -
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins 9780062267412
£11.78Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins' warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels-including Still Life With Woodpecker,... -
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics by Joe Biden
RRP: £18.00£12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812976212Author Joe BidenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Being Lolita: A Memoir by Alisson Wood 9781398701205
RRP: £16.99£12.28"Have you ever read Lolita?"So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writing and in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr... -
The Wild Track: adopting, mothering, belonging by Margaret Reynolds
RRP: £9.99£6.52'A remarkable book...wise and arresting' Sarah Winman'Exquisite... a deeply insightful memoir which charts our fundamental longings for place and identity, and ultimately our yearnings for love.' Helena KennedySingle, in her mid-forties and having... -
Flirting with French: Adventures in Pursuit of a Language by Alexander William
RRP: £9.99£6.75William Alexander is not just a Francophile, he wants to be French. It's not enough to explore the country, to enjoy the food and revel in the ambiance, he wants to feel French from the inside. Among the things that stand in his way is the fact that he... -
Flight to Heaven: A Plane Crash...A Lone Survivor...A Journey to Heaven--and Back by Dale Black
RRP: £12.99£9.37Imagine getting a glimpse of heaven, a preview of life in God's presence. Could life here ever be the same? Capt. Dale Black has flown as a commercial pilot all over the world, but one flight changed his life forever--an amazing journey to heaven and... -
Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected - A Memoir by Kelle Hampton 9780062045041
£15.41"In her tender and genuinely beautiful memoir, Kelle Hampton encourages us to not simply accept the unexpected circumstances of our lives, but to embrace them like the things we wished for all along." -Matthew Logelin, New York Times bestselling author... -
Blood Ties: Family is not always a place of safety by Julie Shaw 9780008142919
RRP: £10.99£8.29Family is not always a place of safety. Kathleen was just eight years old when her mother was tragically killed in a car accident. And when her father remarries it is to the bitter and resentful Irene who has two children of her own and no... -
Fire Under The Snow: Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner by Palden Gyatso
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life... -
The Girl from Nowhere by Eliska Tanzer 9781912624775 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£3.06My mother was a prostitute. My grandmother and great-grandmother were prostitutes.Maybe I should have given the family business a chance...BBC RADIO 4 PICK OF THE WEEK, Katie Puckrik'Eliska's story is an extraordinary and powerful read. It's the ultimate... -
Monster in My Mind by Alison Pepperton 9781528987646
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528987646Author Alison PeppertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Stories of Hope: From the bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 9781786580498
RRP: £13.99£9.35The Tattooist of Auschwitz is one of the bestselling books of the 21st Century. Now, in this essential companion, Heather Morris presents an inspiring manual for life, with a series of tales of the remarkable people she has met, the incredible stories... -
The Dogs of Windcutter Down by David Kennard
RRP: £10.99£7.40'There is no good flock without a good shepherd, and no good shepherd without good dogs.' These age-old words of wisdom have always guided Devon sheep farmer David Kennard. But as he battles to save his farm from extinction, they resonate more loudly -... -
The Three of Us: A Family Story by Julia Blackburn
RRP: £15.99£11.61Winner of the J. R. Ackerley AwardThis is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to barbiturates; Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and... -
Diaries and Selected Letters by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: £9.99£7.11The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression... -
The Real Deal: A Life Freed from the Grip of Addiction by Rod Williams 9781780781211
RRP: £10.99£9.59Rod's drug addiction began at college and quickly moved from cannabis to Ecstasy and eventually heroin and crack cocaine. He soon became heavily involved in dealing drugs and gambling in order to finance his drugs habit. Following an attempt to import... -
It's Only a Movie: Reel Life Adventures of a Film Obsessive by Mark Kermode
RRP: £10.99£7.77In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen. Join him as he gets lost in Russia on the trail of a low-budget horror flick, gasp as he's shot at in Hollywood while interviewing Bavarian... -
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
RRP: £14.99£9.80The partial inspiration for the acclaimed mini-series from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance BlackBorn in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself... -
Confessions of a Serial Songwriter by Shelly Peiken
RRP: £14.99£14.73A 2017 Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Nominee!THEConfessions of a Serial SongwriterE is an amusing and poignant memoir about songwriter Shelly Peiken's journey from young girl falling under the spell of magical songs to working professional songwriter... -
Wellmania: SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES by Brigid Delaney 9781399718271 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING CELESTE BARBERMISADVENTURES IN THE SEARCH FOR WELLNESS When journalist and human tornado Brigid wakes up to yet another hangover, chronic anxiety and the reality that she is fast approaching 40, she is forced to... -
Wellmania: SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES by Brigid Delaney
RRP: £10.99£7.40NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING CELESTE BARBERMISADVENTURES IN THE SEARCH FOR WELLNESS When journalist and human tornado Brigid wakes up to yet another hangover, chronic anxiety and the reality that she is fast approaching 40, she is forced to... -
Hotel Dynasty: The Rise and Rise of the World's Most Influential Hotel Dynasty by Geoffrey Gelardi
RRP: £25.00£17.30Sempre Avanti. Ever Forward. That's the motto on the Gelardi family shield and it's a philosophy that has directed the lives and careers of four generations of hoteliers - Giuseppe, Giulio, Bertie and Geoffrey. Giuseppe managed hotels in his native Italy... -
Confessions of a Stratcom Hitman by Paul Erasmus
RRP: £16.95£14.08"Using the word as loosely as some South Africans do today, strips it of its intentional and intimate terror. [...] The diluted use of the word today empties out the pain it was designed to cause. We in Stratcom wanted to annihilate, not only get the odd... -
Dr Quin, Medicine Man by Quin John 9781785907340
RRP: £9.99£7.27John Quin worked for thirty-three years as a physician for the NHS in both Scotland and England, specialising in endocrinology. Days on the wards were uproariously funny one minute, infinitely tragic the next. Starting with a stern lesson from the... -
A Long Retreat by Andrew J. Krivak 9780232527384 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.95£3.28This beautifully written memoir tells the story of one man's search for his religious calling-a search that led him to the Dominican Republic and Central Europe, to Moscow and the South Bronx, and finally into married life with a woman whose search for... -
At Her Majesty's Pleasure by Robert Douglas
RRP: £10.99£7.40In his final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy, Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties and into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer, and, at the end of his career, as an electricity chargehand driving around the... -
Granta 147: 40th-Birthday Special by Sigrid Rausing 9781909889224
RRP: £12.99£8.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889224Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 570gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Vertigo: Spurs, Bale and One Fan's Fear of Success by John Crace 9781472115775
£11.42If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . . then you're probably not a football fan.Years of underachievement. An heroic sense of injustice. A seemingly infinite capacity for self-destruction. John Crace and Spurs were made for... -
My Life in the IRA:: The Border Campaign by Michael Ryan 9781781175187
£18.09Discover the Inspiring Story of a Revolutionary: Mick Ryan's memoir of growing up in Dublin's East Wall and his journey as former IRA Director of Operations. Explore his commitment to the cause, despite suffering, hardship, and disappointment in My Life... -
Larger than an Orange by Lucy Burns
RRP: £10.99£7.12*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*'Raw, tender and urgent' Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater'Irreducible. Once read, it will never be forgotten' Helen Mort, author of Division StreetThis is the story of an abortion. The days and hours before the... -
Letters To Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her... -
A Likely Tale, Lad: Laughs & Larks Growing Up in the 1970s by Mike Pannett
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855683440Author Mike PannettFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Dalesman Publishing Co LtdPublisher Dalesman Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb
RRP: £12.99£8.48A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. One bright morning Nigel Hough, one of the few remaining white farmers in Mugabe's Zimbabwe,... -
The Boxing Diaries: How I Got Hooked by Marion Dunn
RRP: £9.99£6.80Aged fifty, on a whim, Marion Dunn joined a boxing gym. Training to improve fitness quickly became something of an addiction, and then a source of transformation. This is her myth-busting tale of four years of slogging in an amateur boxing gym in... -
The Long Walk Home: An Escape in Wartime Italy by Peter Medd
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900209236Author Peter MeddFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Sickle Moon BooksPublisher Eland Publishing Ltd -
An Island Parish: A Summer on Scilly by Nigel Farrell
RRP: £10.99£7.40The Scilly Isles, one of the most remote parts of England, are in crisis. With the small population constantly leaving the islands for the mainland, those left behind are having to work harder and harder to make a living, and this summer is crunch time... -
Motherland: A Memoir by Paula Ramón 9781542036917
RRP: £8.99£6.13From Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramon comes a powerful memoir about one woman's complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin. In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic...