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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
RRP: £18.99£10.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544002234Author Alison BechdelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *... -
Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside by Ronald Blythe
RRP: £25.00£14.66'All the charm, wonder, eccentricity and vigour of country life is here in these pages, and told with such engaging directness, detail and colour. To immerse yourself in this East Anglian year is be reminded of why we love and value the rhythms and... -
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz by Shlomo Venezia 9780745643847
RRP: £12.99£8.60This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his... -
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog by Christina Hunger
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A wonderful book.' - Temple Grandin, author of Animals in TranslationUnderstand what your canine best friend is thinking with this New York Times bestselling handbook.An incredible, revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching your... -
My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir by Clarence Thomas 9780060565565
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565565Author Clarence ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Crossing the Line: Lessons From a Life on Duty by John Sutherland
RRP: £9.99£6.80A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A love letter to police officers and the most vulnerable people they protect and serve' CHRISTIE WATSON, author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS'Extraordinary . . . urgent and compelling. We all have lessons to learn from this... -
Fire Island: A Queer History by Jack Parlett 9781783787029
RRP: £10.99£7.32"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia" - Olivia Laing "Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read" - Jeremy Atherton Lin --- Fire Island: a slim strip of... -
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir 9781804270448
RRP: £10.99£7.32Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s final days after she is hospitalized following a fall. Though a devout Catholic, her faith is subsumed by her... -
Memoir Writing For Dummies by Ryan G. Van Cleave
RRP: £16.99£11.54The fast and easy way to write your memoir Memoir writing is a growing phenomenon, and not just by celebrities and politicians. Everyone has a story to tell, and Memoir Writing For Dummies provides hopeful writers with the tools they need to share their... -
A Clear Blue Sky: A remarkable memoir about family, loss and the will to overcome by Jonny Bairstow
RRP: £10.99£7.25WINNER OF THE WISDEN BOOK OF THE YEAR As a young boy of eight, Jonny Bairstow was dealt a cruel blow. His father David 'Bluey' Bairstow, the combative and very popular wicketkeeper and captain of Yorkshire, took his own life at the age of... -
Trapped: The Terrifying True Story of a Secret World of Abuse by Rosie Lewis 9780007541782
RRP: £10.99£8.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism by Kate Garraway 9781788707404 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.00£2.65*** The Sunday Times Bestseller ***'Intimate, tender and brutally honest ... a remarkable book.' Decca Aitkenhead, The Sunday Times'These are probably the toughest times we have faced in many decades, and we all have to find within us the strength and... -
The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism by Kate Garraway
RRP: £22.00£14.91*** The Sunday Times Bestseller ***'Intimate, tender and brutally honest ... a remarkable book.' Decca Aitkenhead, The Sunday Times'These are probably the toughest times we have faced in many decades, and we all have to find within us the strength and... -
Red Sky at Sunrise: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
RRP: £14.99£10.95A beautiful new edition of Laurie Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy: Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning and A Moment of War'I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment... -
Spring Rain: A wise and life-affirming memoir about how gardens can help us heal by Marc Hamer 9781529920482
RRP: £10.99£7.77An inspiring and life-affirming story of a difficult childhood transformed into happy adulthood through the power of nature and gardensBeloved author Marc Hamer writes about finding refuge in his tiny back garden in this highly original story of... -
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
RRP: £10.99£7.77The bestselling, much-loved classic account of an English couple escaping to enjoy the fruits of French rural summer living - an irresistible feast of humour and heart.Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their... -
Becoming the One: Heal Your Past, Transform Your Relationship Patterns and Come Home to Yourself by Sheleana Aiyana
RRP: £19.99£14.28'A spectacular guide to the inner world and relationships; it dispels myths, grounds you in transformative truth and reconnects you to your power' Yung Pueblo'This masterpiece will take you from pain to freedom' Nedra Glover TawwabRelationships have the... -
A Woman's Place is in the Kitchen: dispatches from behind the pass by Sally Abé 9780349727769
RRP: £22.00£14.56'Fantastic, exciting deep dive into kitchen life from one of Britain's leading young chefs' TOM KERRIDGE'Sally really tells it how it is . . . This book will be a go to for those needing that bit of bravery and resilience in a world that needs more... -
Many Different Kinds of Love: A story of life, death and the NHS by Michael Rosen
RRP: £9.99£7.11The instant Sunday Times top ten bestsellerA Guardian Book of the YearAn Evening Standard Book of the YearAn Independent Book of the YearNetgalley's non-fiction Book of the YearA national treasure's journey to the brink and back.'Will I wake up?''There's... -
The Tin Ring: My Memoir of Love and Survival in the Holocaust by Zdenka Fantlova 9780857162298
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Tin Ring is moving memoir of love, loss and hope. Zdenka Fantlova's peaceful life was changed forever when she was sent to Terezin concentration camp. Here, she was given a humble engraved tin ring by her first love Arno. When he gave her the ring he... -
The Auschwitz Photographer: Based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444 by Luca Crippa
RRP: £10.99£7.77Based on the powerful true story of Auschwitz prisoner number 3444 Wilhelm Brasse, whose photographs helped to expose the atrocities of the Holocaust.'Horror in sharp focus... important, because the world must know.' John Lewis-Stempel, Daily... -
Billy in the Wars by Bill Wyman 9781804680209
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804680209Author Bill WymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers -
Dearest Father by Franz Kafka 9781847497048
RRP: £7.99£5.79Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as... -
Swimming with Seals by Victoria Whitworth
RRP: £8.99£6.45A book about intense physical and personal experience, narrating how Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of escaping a failing marriage. This is a memoir of intense physical and personal experience, exploring how... -
The Flying Prince: Alexander Obolensky: The Sporting Hero Who Died Too Young by Hugh Godwin
RRP: £20.00£13.35**Winner of the Rugby Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards 2022**Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky made his name on a cold January day at Twickenham in 1936, his achievements captured for posterity by the newsreels of the time. On his England... -
The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' Brian Eno'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' John Higgs'A perfect example of the power and beauty of... -
Blackout: Remembering the things I drank to forget by Sarah Hepola
RRP: £9.99£6.80'SIMPLY EXTRAORDINARY' New York Times'It's such a savage thing to lose your memory, but the crazy thing is, it doesn't hurt one bit. A blackout doesn't sting, or stab, or leave a scar when it robs you. Close your eyes and open them again. That's what a... -
Straight Jacket by Matthew Todd
RRP: £10.99£7.77'This is an essential read for every gay person on the planet' - Elton John'A really brilliant and moving read for everybody, especially LGBTQI+ people' - Olly Alexander, star of It's A SinStraight Jacket is a revolutionary clarion call for gay men, the... -
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen 9781471157820
RRP: £12.99£7.11The international Number One bestseller. Over a million copies sold in the English language. Published in 23 foreign languages. 'A heartfelt memoir . . . there is a fearlessness to his prose, a willingness to engage with his past, that chimes with his... -
The Way of the Fight by Georges St-Pierre
RRP: £9.99£6.64UFC fighter, Georges "Rush" St. Pierre, shares the lessons he learned on his way to the top, in The Way of the Fight, revealing how he overcame bullying and injury to become an internationally celebrated athlete and champion. The reigning UFC... -
Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age by Katherine May
RRP: £16.99£11.58THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'It will do your soul good to read this.' NIGELLA LAWSONA balm for our times from the internationally bestselling author of Wintering.Our sense of enchantment is not only sparked by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the... -
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
RRP: £10.99£7.77The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician.This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. As idiosyncratic as its author, Barthes plays both commentator and subject... -
Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us The Best We Can Be: The New Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick 9781398706491 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.65In this inspiring, uplifting and heart-warming memoir, world-renowned veterinary surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick shares some of the most personal and powerful tales ever from his life as The Supervet. Picking up from where the Sunday Times bestselling... -
Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us The Best We Can Be: The New Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Professor Noel Fitzpatrick
RRP: £8.99£6.20In this inspiring, uplifting and heart-warming memoir, world-renowned veterinary surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick shares some of the most personal and powerful tales ever from his life as The Supervet. Picking up from where the Sunday Times bestselling... -
Shame – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270561
RRP: £9.99£6.75‘My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.’ Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life... -
The Flying Prince: Alexander Obolensky: The Rugby Hero Who Died Too Young: The Sunday Times Rugby Book of the Year Winner 2022 by Hugh Godwin
RRP: £10.99£6.47**Winner of the Rugby Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards 2022**Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky made his name on a cold January day at Twickenham in 1936, his achievements captured for posterity by the newsreels of the time. On his England... -
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
RRP: £10.99£7.77FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings' Zadie Smith, Wall... -
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir by Chris Packham 9781785033506 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Voted the UK's Favourite Nature BookThe memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger's and MeEvery minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with... -
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir by Chris Packham
RRP: £12.99£9.09Voted the UK's Favourite Nature BookThe memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC documentary, Asperger's and MeEvery minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn't do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with... -
When I Were A Lad...: Snapshots From A Time That Health & Safety Forgot by Andrew Davies
RRP: £9.99£6.64When I Were a Lad... looks at the glorious-yet-risky childhoods of yesteryear before the Health and Safety officers told us we couldn't do everything because it was too dangerous. The sleeper hit of Christmas 2009 - more than 4,000 copies sold...