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Dragged Up Proppa: Growing up in Britain’s Forgotten North by Pip Fallow 9781529051155
RRP: £10.99£7.51Dragged Up Proppa is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England.'Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as ever' - Sebastian Payne, author of Broken... -
An Angel At My Table: The Complete Autobiography by Janet Frame
RRP: £12.99£8.60NOW AN AWARD-WINNING FILM ON NETFLIX 'One of the great autobiographies written in the twentieth century' MICHAEL HOLROYD, SUNDAY TIMES'Irresistibly readable, commendably honest' FLEUR ADCOCK, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'The Janet Frame of An Angel at My... -
Running The World: My World-Record-Breaking Adventure to Run a Marathon in Every Country on Earth by Nick Butter
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Superb - a great book to fuel your wanderlust.' Mark Beaumont'The ultimate running book, showcasing the ultimate running adventure.' Sean Conway---In 2019, Nick Butter became the first person to run a marathon in every country on Earth. This is Nick's... -
Knee Deep in Life: Wife, Mother, Realist... and why we're already enough by Laura Belbin 9781529107050 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.65SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'I just howled. Bloomin' love you' Giovanna Fletcher'You're hilarious. Thank you for making me laugh every day' Mrs Hinch When does Mary Effing Poppins arrive? Laura Belbin survived hitting her thirties (oh, to be wrinkle-free... -
Knee Deep in Life: Wife, Mother, Realist... and why we're already enough by Laura Belbin
RRP: £9.99£7.11SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'I just howled. Bloomin' love you' Giovanna Fletcher'You're hilarious. Thank you for making me laugh every day' Mrs Hinch When does Mary Effing Poppins arrive? Laura Belbin survived hitting her thirties (oh, to be wrinkle-free... -
It's Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket by Felix White
RRP: £9.99£6.80*****THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK"Felix White's beautifully, elegantly and passionately written book reminds me why I love cricket so much. And reading, come to that." - Stephen Fry"The love of cricket is both communal and... -
The New Big 5: A Global Photography Project for Endangered Species by Graeme Green
RRP: £62.50£42.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647228705Author Graeme GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
Tortured: Abused and neglected by Britain's most sadistic mum. This is my story of survival. by Victoria Spry
RRP: £12.99£9.09As a child, Victoria Spry was brutally beaten, neglected and starved by the woman she called Mummy.To the outside world Eunice Spry was a devoted parent, but behind closed doors she was an evil tyrant. Instead of protecting, loving and caring for... -
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk
RRP: £10.99£7.51THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A virtuosic memoir . . . elegant, frank and well-structured, that entirely resists cliche . . . readable for both diehard classical music fans and complete newcomers alike . . . A rare feat.' - The GuardianA uniquely... -
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £20.00£13.46Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years.Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes of a teenage home-life coloured by tragedy and silence... -
Notebooks of a Wandering Monk by Matthieu Ricard 9780262048293
RRP: £36.00£24.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048293Author Matthieu RicardFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1196gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 164mm * 46mm -
A Grandad's Story of His 30 years in the Kent County Constabulary by Tim Clements 9781398493315
RRP: £10.99£7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398493315Author Tim ClementsFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert 9781529073447 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.43The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerThe incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a foreword by King Charles III.'Unforgettable' - Daily MailWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert 9781529073447
RRP: £10.99£7.51The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerThe incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a foreword by King Charles III.'Unforgettable' - Daily MailWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in... -
Born Survivors: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Wendy Holden
RRP: £9.99£4.11The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new forewordAmong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly... -
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A new story about anxiety by Sarah Wilson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'I loved this book.' MATT HAIG__________ If you have anxiety, this book is for you.If you love someone who is anxious, this book is for you.I Quit Sugar founder and New York Times bestselling author Sarah Wilson has lived through high... -
All Things Wise and Wonderful: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet by James Herriot
RRP: £10.99£7.93The third collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. This omnibus edition comprises of Vets Might Fly and Vet in a Spin. Training as an RAF pilot in the smoke and bustle of London is a... -
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times by Kit de Waal
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian KeyesAS BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4From the award-winning author of MY NAME IS LEON comes a childhood memoir set to become a... -
Little Bird of Auschwitz: How My Mother Escaped Death and Found Our Family by Jacques Peretti 9781473646452
RRP: £20.00£13.35'That nickname . . .''"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking... -
Colder: The Illustrated Story of Britain's Greatest Polar Explorer by Sir Ranulph Fiennes 9781471153556 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.80Sir Ranulph Fiennes is arguably the UK's greatest polar explorer and adventurer, whose never-say-die approach to life has enabled him to endure conditions most of us could never handle. His many successes of exploring the vastness of the icy southern... -
Colder: The Illustrated Story of Britain's Greatest Polar Explorer by Sir Ranulph Fiennes 9781471153556
£5.76Sir Ranulph Fiennes is arguably the UK's greatest polar explorer and adventurer, whose never-say-die approach to life has enabled him to endure conditions most of us could never handle. His many successes of exploring the vastness of the icy southern... -
From Epsom to Tralee: A Journey Round the Racecourses of the British Isles by Roy Gill 9781909339071
RRP: £24.99£21.29In 1955, Reginald Gill - milkman and part-time illegal bookie - took his 12-year-old son Roy to the Spring meeting at Epsom Downs Racecourse. It was a trip that started a life-long passion for racing. In the half-century since, Roy Gill has visited... -
The Day Job: Adventures of a Jobbing Gardener by Mark Wallington
RRP: £9.99£6.52Mark Wallington has a dream. He is going to change the face of British comedy.Unfortunately for the residents of north London, he's going to finance this dream by becoming a gardener.The result is The Day Job, an account of a year spent working in other... -
The Story of a Life: ‘A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement’ Telegraph by Konstantin Paustovsky
RRP: £14.99£11.35Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarkable new translation.'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph'One of the great Russian autobiographies, as fresh now as the day it... -
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John Le Carre 9780241976890 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRE*NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE*'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial TimesFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a... -
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John Le Carre 9780241976890
RRP: £9.99£7.11THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARRE*NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE*'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial TimesFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a... -
We Can Be Heroes: A Survivor's Story by Paul Burston
RRP: £8.99£6.13"This memoir is brutally honest... Wonderful!" - Russell T. Davies Activist. Journalist. Survivor. One man's journey from prejudice to Pride. Paul Burston wasn't always the iconic voice of LGBTQ+ London that he is today. Paul came out in the... -
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Some
RRP: £14.99£10.95Maliodoma Patrice Some was born in a Dagara Village, however he was soon to be abducted to a Jesuit school, where he remained for the next fifteen years, being harshly indoctrinated into european ways of thought and worship. The story tells of his return... -
This Party's Got To Stop by Rupert Thomson
RRP: £8.99£6.08In his first venture into non-fiction, the celebrated novelist Rupert Thomson has produced one of the most extraordinary and unforgettable memoirs of recent years. On a warm, sunny day in July 1964, Thomson returned home from school to discover that his... -
My Farming Life: Tales from a shepherdess on a remote Northumberland farm by Emma Gray
RRP: £9.99£4.71AS SEEN ON BBC TWO'S HIT TV-SHOW 'THIS FARMING LIFE''A heartwarming tale of life on the land' Alan Titchmarsh'There's love and loss, challenge and adversity, but above all it's warm, insightful and inspiring' Helen Skelton'Will inspire any reader to look... -
Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth by Leo Houlding 9781472288714
RRP: £12.99£7.51Leo Houlding started climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District and was the youngest person (and first Briton) to free climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in the United States at eighteen years, which cemented his reputation. He has since... -
Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
RRP: £10.99£7.25Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby escaped from the... -
Killing the Image: A Champion’s Journey of Faith, Fighting, and Forgiveness by Andre Ward 9780785298304
RRP: £18.99£12.71In this inspiring memoir, undefeated five-time world champion boxer Andre Ward--aka "Son of God"--shares the gripping narrative of his unforgettable career, his rock-solid faith, and why boxing was never the biggest fight of his life.Andre Ward was the... -
Lucky by Ed Jackson
RRP: £20.00£13.34'What a story and what an inspirational human. Ed is a total legend.' Joe Wicks 'A life-affirming story . . . inspirational' Tim Peake As seen in the Daily Mail ... -
Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs by Andrew Cotter 9781785303227 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65"Beautifully written ... as funny as you would hope."The TimesOLIVE & MABEL: two of the internet's favourite dogs!ANDREW COTTER: one of our best-loved commentators.Olive and Mabel are the Labradors that broke the internet. With more than 50 million views... -
Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs by Andrew Cotter
RRP: £20.00£14.69"Beautifully written ... as funny as you would hope."The TimesOLIVE & MABEL: two of the internet's favourite dogs!ANDREW COTTER: one of our best-loved commentators.Olive and Mabel are the Labradors that broke the internet. With more than 50 million views... -
City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Could you show me a djinn?' I asked. 'Certainly,' replied the Sufi. 'But you would run away.' From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize shortlisted 'The Return of a King', this is William Dalrymple's captivating memoir of a year spent in... -
One of Them: An Eton College Memoir by Musa Okwonga
RRP: £8.99£5.87Musa Okwonga - a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town - was not your typical Eton College student.The experience moulded him, challenged him... but also made him wonder why a place that was so good for him also seems to... -
The Fact of a Body: A Gripping True Crime Murder Investigation by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
RRP: £10.99£7.93'Part memoir, part true crime, wholly brilliant.' - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train.When law student Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is asked to work on a death-row hearing for convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley, she finds... -
The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain by Kate Bingham 9780861545667
RRP: £10.99£7.77A Sunday Times bestseller and Financial Times Book of the Year. The unmissable inside story of the race against the virus. Catapulted into an international crisis, Kate Bingham knew the odds were heavily stacked against a workable Covid-19 vaccine...