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Father and Son by Edmund Gosse
RRP: $25.18$18.19'This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.' Father and Son stands as one of English literature's seminal autobiographies. In it Edmund Gosse recounts, with humour and pathos, his childhood... -
Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg by Emily Rapp Black
RRP: $31.48$26.36Frida Kahlo was an amputee in the last part of her life, but long before that her right leg had been compromised by a childhood bout with polio. Since adolescence, Emily Rapp, herself an amputee since the age of four, felt that there were many things she... -
The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale by James Atlas
RRP: $63.00$41.58The biographer - so often in the shadows, kibbitzing, casting doubt, proving facts - here comes to the stage.James Atlas takes us back to his childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love with literature and, early on, found in himself the impulse... -
147 Things: A hilariously brilliant guide to this thing called life by Jim Chapman 9781509854158 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$4.81It's Sapiens for teenagers.' The TimesLIFE IS WEIRD.Nothing gives you a sense of perspective like finding out just how weird.I'm an extremely curious chap and with this book I wanted to share the content of my noggin, because I think these are the 147... -
147 Things: A hilariously brilliant guide to this thing called life by Jim Chapman
RRP: $35.68$28.01It's Sapiens for teenagers.' The TimesLIFE IS WEIRD.Nothing gives you a sense of perspective like finding out just how weird.I'm an extremely curious chap and with this book I wanted to share the content of my noggin, because I think these are the 147... -
No More Silence: He thought he’d got away with it. But one day little David would find the strength to speak out. by David Whelan 9780007388905 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81David had everything. No-one knew the London businessman was born into a world beyond poverty, the son of a rapist father and disturbed mother. Abandoned as a baby, he spent most of his childhood in care and suffered appalling sexual abuse. But no-one... -
No More Silence: He thought he’d got away with it. But one day little David would find the strength to speak out. by David Whelan 9780007388905
RRP: $23.08$17.62David had everything. No-one knew the London businessman was born into a world beyond poverty, the son of a rapist father and disturbed mother. Abandoned as a baby, he spent most of his childhood in care and suffered appalling sexual abuse. But no-one... -
Cruising Attitude: Tales of Crashpads, Crew Drama, and Crazy Passengers at 35,000 Feet by Heather Poole
RRP: $20.98$14.36In the spirit of books like "Waiter Rant" and "Kitchen Confidential", blogger and flight attendant Heather Poole gives the inside scoop on how to be the most hated passenger on the plane, whether passionate affairs with pilots are... -
Confessions by Edmund Augustine 9781565481541
$23.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565481541Author Edmund AugustineFormat PaperbackPage Count 307Imprint New City PressPublisher New City PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 178mm *... -
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi 9780375714573
RRP: $33.60$19.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 2004 and Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and School Library Journal Adult Books... -
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis 9781401307455
RRP: $46.18$28.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401307455Author Anthony KiedisFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 135mm * 36mm -
The Blues are Back in Town: A Year and a Lifetime Supporting Cardiff City by Nick Fisk
RRP: $18.88$13.76For around twenty years, Nick Fisk believed that one day he would find a letter on his doormat from Cardiff City FC requesting his services on the football pitch. When he realised it was unlikely he was ever going to be offered the role of groundsman, he... -
Between Worlds: A Queer Boy from the Valleys by Jeffrey Weeks 9781914595097
RRP: $31.50$23.02Jeffrey Weeks has been called 'the 'most significant British intellectual working on sexuality to emerge from the radical sexual movements of the 1970s'. Yet behind the titles and acclaim lies the story of a hugely fascinating, inspirational life -... -
Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy 9781538709214
RRP: $41.98$27.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538709214Author Andrew McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central Publishing -
Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones 9781984881922
RRP: $37.80$25.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984881922Author Luvvie Ajayi JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin LifePublisher Penguin LifeWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm... -
Titanic Survivor by Violet Jessop 9781574093155
RRP: $29.38$22.76Violet Jessop's life is an inspiring story of survival. Born in 1887 in Argentina, the eldest child of Irish immigrants, at the age of 21 she became the breadwinner for her widowed mother and five siblings when she commenced a career as a stewardess and... -
Keep the Faith: A Memoir by Faith Evans 9780446199513
$44.73KEEP THE FAITH is Faith's first person account of life at ground zero of hip-hop's greatest generation. She'll share the truth about the love affair that changed her life, and the innuendo that rocked the hip-hop world to its core. From her passionate... -
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea Marcus Berkmann 9781408713839
RRP: $35.68$24.23Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this one. He reckons to have written literally millions of words in that time, several of them in the right order. This,... -
Carrying Albert Home: The Somewhat True Story of a Man, his Wife and her Alligator by Homer Hickam 9780008154240
RRP: $16.78$11.74'Must-read... A funny yet tragic tale of a husband and wife's car journey across the US with Albert the alligator in tow. Yes, really.' Marie Claire A journey of a thousand miles. With an alligator on the back seat. And John Steinbeck as a... -
The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh
RRP: $50.40$31.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743237055Author Charles A. LindberghFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)... -
My Silk road: The Adventures & Struggles of a British Asian Refugee by Ram Gidoomal
RRP: $83.98$37.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913738600Author Ram GidoomalFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Pippa Rann Books & MediaPublisher Salt Desert Media Group Ltd. (SDMG)Weight(grams)... -
Based on a True Story by Anthony Holden 9781471154683
RRP: $42.00$27.01From poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled many writers' lives into one. Author of 40 books on a wide range of subjects, this Lancashire... -
A Pembrokeshire Childhood in the 1950s Phil Carradice 9781445613116
RRP: $31.48$23.00As Phil Carradice says in this hugely entertaining and evocative book "the memories of childhood have no order." What they do have, however, is a resonance and an ability to quicken the heart beat and transports you back to a time when the entire world... -
From the Corner of the Oval Office: One woman's true story of her accidental career in the Obama White House by Beck Dorey-Stein 9781784164126 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$5.31_____________________________'If you've ever felt like you were out of your element, in over your head or working without a net, you will love this book. Funny, fast-paced, and so emotionally true it hurts.' Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New... -
From the Corner of the Oval Office: A searing summer 2019 holiday read Beck Dorey-Stein 9781784164126
RRP: $18.88$13.76_____________________________'If you've ever felt like you were out of your element, in over your head or working without a net, you will love this book. Funny, fast-paced, and so emotionally true it hurts.' Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New... -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691144733
RRP: $42.00$33.87When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie--Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith--often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no... -
Boy, Interrupted: Memoir of a Former Smith by Dale Hibbert 9781904590309
RRP: $20.98$17.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904590309Author Dale HibbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PomonaPublisher Pomona -
When 'Jesus' Came to Hong Kong: The remarkable story of the first European football star in Asia by Derek Currie 9789887674801
RRP: $33.58$22.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887674801Author Derek CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 507g -
A Dark Secret by Casey Watson 9780008298616
RRP: $20.98$11.87Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she's asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who drove his previous guardians to release him of their care. It soon unfolds, however, that this is no simple case. ... -
Underneath the Lemon Tree: A Memoir of Depression and Recovery by Mark Rice-Oxley
RRP: $23.08$15.98On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression...How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives... -
Full Blown: Me and My Bipolar Family by David Lovelace
RRP: $27.28$20.92David Lovelace, along his brother and both his parents, is bipolar. This is his extraordinary and vivid memoir of life within his memorable, maddening, loving and unique family. Full Blown is Lovelace's poignant, humorous, and vivid account of... -
Bitch Doctrine by Laurie Penny
RRP: $20.98$15.14LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'A blast, in all senses' Financial Times Includes a new preface and extra essays Smart and provocative, this collection of Laurie Penny's writing establishes her as one of the most urgent and vibrant feminist... -
Rigby Shlept Here: A Memoir of Terence Rigby (1937-2008) by Juliet Ace 9780955999864
RRP: $20.98$15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955999864Author Juliet AceFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Country SettingPublisher Country Setting -
Parachute Doctor: The Memoirs of Captain David Tibbs by David J. Tibbs 9781781220009
RRP: $20.98$15.14Parachute Doctor is the story of Captain David Tibbs RAMC MC who as a member of 225 (Parachute) Field Ambulance and the 13th Parachute Battalion served with the 5th Parachute Brigade of the famous 6th Airborne Division. His fascinating recollections... -
27 Letters to My Daughter by Ella Ward 9781460763827
RRP: $27.28$18.29When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter. Ella Ward... -
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture by Zeba Blay
RRP: $31.48$20.54'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.'Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets; creator of Son of Baldwin'Standout..... -
The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower: My Life (without the Boring Bits) by Paul Hogan
RRP: $35.68$24.09The icon and legend at last tells his story his way -- without the boring bits Paul Hogan first appeared on Australia's screens in 1971 as a 'tap-dancing knife thrower' on TV talent show New Faces. The then father of four and Sydney Harbour Bridge rigger... -
The Journals of Jim Elliot: Missionary, Martyr, Man of God by Elisabeth Elliot 9780800729455
$39.33Jim Elliot was a missionary--and then a martyr at the hands of the Auca Indians to whom he was witnessing. At the age of 28, he left behind a young wife, a baby daughter, and an incredible legacy of faith. Jim's volumes of personal journals, written... -
BOY ON A BICYCLE: A MANDARIN'S MEMOIR by Hayden Phillips
RRP: $52.50$42.63Our image of the civil servant has been implanted indelibly in our minds by Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister. But as this fascinating and important memoir tells us, the real life of the mandarin is very different. With disarming candour, delightful humour... -
The Sweetness of Life by Francoise Heritier
RRP: $16.78$12.56The number one bestseller in France and Italy, from Francoise Heritier, The Sweetness of Life is a beautiful and poetic list of the everyday reasons that make life worth livingIf you assume an average life expectancy of 85 years, and deduct the hours we...