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An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work Charlotte Shane 9781982126865
RRP: $39.88$33.20Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tender reckoning of what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society.In her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women’s... -
London's No 1 Dog-Walking Agency: 'Charming, funny, heartwarming' - Adam Kay by Kate Macdougall
RRP: $20.98$14.60'A really lovely book for dog lovers' - Jilly Cooper'Charming, funny, heartwarming and full of dogs - what more could you want?' - Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt'A joy from start to finish. I loved it!' - Stacey Halls, bestselling... -
Drumming with Dead Can Dance: and Parallel Adventures by Peter Ulrich 9781636280738
RRP: $41.98$29.32Ulrich thinks he got the ultimate fan trip-to play, record, and tour with his favourite band, Dead Can Dance. His memoir details the early days, from signing with 4AD, recording their first album, then heading off on tour with the Cocteau Twins. There... -
I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory by Patricia Hampl 9780393320312
RRP: $38.85$32.26In this timely gathering, Patricia Hampl, one of our most elegant practitioners, "weaves personal stories and grand ideas into shimmering bolts of prose" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) as she explores the autobiographical writing that has enchanted or... -
Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam by Julia Blackburn
RRP: $42.00$30.01A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn... -
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World Suzy Hansen 9781472153883
RRP: $23.08$15.75'Deeply honest and brave . . . A sincere and intelligent act of self-questioning . . . Hansen is doing something both rare and necessary' - Hisham Matar, New York TimesIn the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen was enjoying... -
Ma, Jackser's Dyin Alone Martha Long 9781780576770
RRP: $23.08$16.78On hearing that Jackser, her childhood abuser, is seriously ill, Martha is elated, thinking that finally she will be able to watch him suffer. But in the hospital she sees a frightened, lonely old man and realises with a shock that he seems to regret his... -
The Ref by Owen Doyle
RRP: $33.58$22.95'A genuine presence on the field, Owen refereed with the perfect balance of respect and authority' Keith Wood'Highly respected with vast experience and knowledge, Owen Doyle contributed hugely to the world of rugby refereeing, both on and off the field'... -
A Big Little Life by Dean Koontz 9780007336821
RRP: $23.08$17.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Boy On The Run by Welcome Mandla Lishivha 9781431432370
RRP: $27.28$20.54It is the godly feeling of dancing like a goddess and snapping on a beat with sheer joy that makes all the trouble life demands worthwhile. In these moments, of intensive freedom from pain, of joy that knows no bound and peace that passeth all... -
I Saw Ramallah by Muraid Barghauthai
RRP: $35.70$26.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032662Author Mourid BarghoutiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Breath Taking: A Memoir of Family, Dreams, and Broken Genes by Jessica Fein 9781681151106
RRP: $41.98$28.48"A master class in how to be a person." --Joanna Rakoff, bestselling author of My Salinger Year"Astonishing...one of the most moving memoirs I've read." --Caroline Leavitt, best-selling author of With or Without You and the forthcoming Days of Wonder.At... -
Who is it that can tell me who I am? by Jane Haynes 9781845299729
RRP: $27.28$24.07In this searingly honest memoir, Jane Haynes recalls to her psychotherapist her extraordinary story. Having overcome her strange childhood, overshadowed by her mother's absence and father's descent into madness, the real diagnosis of which the family... -
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef 9781472156822 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.68THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found solace in the aisles of a bookstore' Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here'A unique memoir about career, life,... -
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller Nadia Wassef 9781472156822
RRP: $31.48$18.14THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found solace in the aisles of a bookstore' Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here'A unique memoir about career, life,... -
Memoirs From the Edge: Exploring the Line Between Life and Death by Jeb Corliss 9781955690232
RRP: $46.18$31.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955690232Author Jeb CorlissFormat HardbackPage Count 398Imprint Di Angelo PublicationsPublisher Di Angelo PublicationsWeight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm)... -
Run for Your Life: How One Woman Ran Circles Around Breast Cancer by Jenny Baker
RRP: $18.88$13.76Running has been many things to Jenny Baker - a space to achieve new things, a way to keep fit and healthy, and a source of friendship and community. She had planned a year of running to celebrate her birthday; instead Jenny was hit with a bombshell... -
Centre Stage by Jamie Roberts
RRP: $23.08$13.80In a nation of rugby heroes, Jamie Roberts has become a legend.Jamie Roberts is your quintessential hard man: a 6 foot 4, 17 stone slab of rippling muscle, conditioned to run hard into other huge men in an arena where physical dominance is the prime... -
Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut by Samantha Cristoforetti
RRP: $27.28$19.61The inspiring memoir of the superstar astronaut and TikTok sensation - now on her biggest space mission yet'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space'In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain... -
To School Through the Fields by Alice Taylor 9781847175878
RRP: $25.18$23.00'A delightful evocation of Irishness and of the author's deep-rooted love of the very fields of home' Publishers Weekly Alice Taylor's classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside, the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland,... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner 9780008347628
RRP: $23.08$15.67A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life... -
Letters To Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: $31.48$23.33In 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... -
The Life of Stuff: A memoir about the mess we leave behind by Susannah Walker
RRP: $31.48$23.00Shortlisted for the James Tait Black biography prize 2019'A moving memoir.' Sunday Times'Gripped me from the first page.' Clover Stroud, author of My Wild and Sleepless Nights'A gripping read... a riveting piece of writing.' Radio 4__________What do our... -
Life in Lashes: The Story of a Drag Superstar by Kita Mean
RRP: $20.98$14.36The hilarious tell-all memoir by the season one winner of Ru Paul's Drag Race Down Under Hailing from a sleepy eastern suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, Nick Nash grew up feeling like he stood out for all the wrong reasons. It wasn't until he experimented... -
From My Heart: The Autobiography by Linda Nolan
RRP: $39.88$29.42'While I don't have any choice in how long I have to live, I do have a choice in how I spend the time I have. And I've chosen not to spend it constantly stressing about cancer. I've chosen to enjoy the little things. I've chosen to laugh. And I've chosen... -
Margaret Thatcher's Last Election by David Young 9781785906831
RRP: $42.00$30.41The year is 1987. Having made history by becoming the UK's first female Prime Minister and then driving out the most left-wing manifesto the country has ever seen, Margaret Thatcher faces a climactic third election campaign. Her eight years in power... -
For Love or Money Jonathan Raban 9781780601403
RRP: $27.28$18.27'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years, he has made my work better and me happier.' Paul Theroux 'For Love and Money ... is as good a... -
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place by Annie Proulx 9780007231997
RRP: $23.08$15.67Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. ... -
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me – a Memoir by Deirdre Bair
RRP: $27.28$18.48A The Times & Sunday Times Literary Nonfiction Book of the Year'Fascinating... Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing' Sunday Times'Gripping... A story well told.' New York Times Book ReviewFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020In 1971... -
All the Things Left Unsaid: Confessions of Love and Regret by Michael Harding 9781529379204
RRP: $23.08$15.75NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom' JOSEPH O'CONNORFor almost fifty years, Michael Harding has been crafting words in a bid to express himself and to explore truths about the human condition. But even... -
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Alathea Fitzalan Howard 9781529328103
RRP: $27.28$18.27**SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020**'A new perspective on "Lilibet" as she fell for her future husband' Sunday Express, Books of the Year'For a glimpse into the lives of the young... -
Some Sunny Day: A Nurse. A Soldier. A Wartime Love Story. by Madge Lambert 9781509859375 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78$4.39A moving true story of love on the front lines.It was July 1944 when Madge stepped onto a troopship that was to carry her thousands of miles away from home. Only twenty years old and not long qualified as a nurse, she had signed up to serve in the Burma... -
Some Sunny Day: A Nurse. A Soldier. A Wartime Love Story. by Madge Lambert
RRP: $16.78$12.87A moving true story of love on the front lines.It was July 1944 when Madge stepped onto a troopship that was to carry her thousands of miles away from home. Only twenty years old and not long qualified as a nurse, she had signed up to serve in the Burma... -
A Cotswold Family Life: heart-warming stories of the countryside from the bestselling author Clare Mackintosh 9780751575569
RRP: $23.08$15.98From No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Clare Mackintosh, A Cotswold Family Life is a warm, humorous memoir of family life in the countryside'Insightful, funny, absorbing' Prue Leith'Original yet totally recognisable' Katie Fforde'Sheer bliss!' Jill... -
I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl 9781498583947
RRP: $75.60$66.80Gisella Perl's memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women's extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass... -
Striking Back: The Untold Story of an Anti-Apartheid Striker by Mary Manning
RRP: $27.28$24.38`Young shopworkers on Henry Street in Dublin, who in 1984 refused to handle the fruits of apartheid, provided me with great hope during my years of imprisonment, and inspiration to millions of South Africans.' Nelson Mandela Dunnes Stores cashier... -
Diplomatic Incidents: Memoirs of an (Un)diplomatic Wife Cherry Denman 9781848542433
RRP: $20.98$14.49Cherry Denman has spent her life trailing husband Charlie round some of the world's most remote outposts and can ask for the lavatory in eleven languages. While some aspects of living abroad will always puzzle her - saunas, tofu and circumcision, to name... -
Another Day in Paradise by Karen Telling 9781800942134
RRP: $23.08$21.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800942134Author Karen TellingFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Michael Terence PublishingPublisher Michael Terence PublishingWeight(grams) 222g -
The Elements: A Widowhood by Kat Lister 9781785786969
RRP: $31.48$21.13'Powerful, humane and deeply affecting, Lister's wise and truthful writing makes this essential reading for anyone touched, and utterly confused, by grief.' Sali Hughes'The must-read memoir' RedWhat does it mean to become a widow at 35?In her... -
The Cure for Good Intentions: A Doctor's Story by Sophie Harrison
RRP: $20.98$14.70'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What made you do that? I couldn't find a short answer. Sometimes I said, "I had a revelation on a beach." It was partly true'The...