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Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland by Sarah Moss
RRP: £9.99£6.70'One of the most enjoyable travel books I've read' The Times Acclaimed novelist Sarah Moss's compelling account of living in Iceland with two small children in the year the volcano erupted At the height of the financial crisis in 2009, Sarah Moss... -
Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking by Bill Buford
RRP: £9.99£6.52From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French cooking.'A romping, chomping, savoury tour de force... Hilarious' Simon SchamaWhat does it take to master French cooking? This is the... -
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
RRP: £9.99£6.87** The wise, warm, defiant meditation on what it means to be a woman - from literary legend Isabel Allende ** 'Allende combine[s] wit with anger as she picks apart the patriarchy' Independent 'Full of Isabel's wisdom and warm words' Grazia ... -
Grounding: Finding Home in a Garden by Lulah Ellender 9781783786992
RRP: £9.99£6.70Lulah Ellender's garden in Sussex is an unruly but beloved place. It is also not permanently her own. When just a few weeks after losing her mother, Lulah is told that she and her family might have to leave the rented house that they have made their... -
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig 9781786892676
RRP: £12.99£8.56THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe world is messing with our minds.Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel more alone. And we are encouraged to worry about... -
El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder: My time inside Ecuador's toughest prisons by Pieter Tritton
RRP: £14.99£10.95"Gato's head snapped back... We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn't look back."Caught in an Ecuador hotel room with 8kg of cocaine, Pieter Tritton... -
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
RRP: £10.99£7.25"Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic."-Pico Iyer A brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling... -
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Julia Gillard
RRP: £10.99£8.64For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sheryl Sandberg and Mary Beard, Women and Leadership is a powerful call to arms about the lack of women at the top.'Who better qualified to delve into this topic?' Business Life_______________Women make up less... -
Lady in Waiting: The perfect gift for Mum on Mother's Day by Anne Glenconner 9781529359060 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.29**DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in the entire... -
Lady in Waiting: The perfect gift for Mum on Mother's Day by Anne Glenconner
RRP: £25.00£16.78**DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in the entire... -
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
RRP: £12.99£7.54Winner of the Pulitzer Price and William Hill Sports Book of the Year: Barbarian Days is a deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer looking for transcendence 'that recalls early James Salter' (Geoff Dyer, Observer)Surfing only looks like a... -
New Animal by Ella Baxter
RRP: £9.99£6.87'Sharp' - The Guardian'Excellent' - Glamour'Darkly funny' - Harper's BAZAAR'Chaotic' - The SkinnyAmelia is no stranger to sex and death.Her job as a cosmetic mortician at her family's funeral parlour might be unusual but she's good at it. When it comes... -
Brasso, Blanco and Bull by Tony Thorne
RRP: £8.99£5.45When Tony Thorne first turned up for his medical in 1956 he had little idea of the adventures he would face and the people he would encounter over the next two years in service. Brasso, Blanco & Bull is the hilarious account of life in National Service,... -
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world' Barack Obama THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:The New York Times * Time * The... -
A Book of Dreams - The Book That Inspired Kate Bush's Hit Song 'Cloudbusting' by Peter Reich
RRP: £12.99£8.73This famous book, the inspiration behind Kate Bush's 1985 hit song 'Cloudbusting', is the extraordinary account of life as friend, confidant and child of the brilliant but persecuted psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. Peter, his son, shared with his father the... -
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
RRP: £9.99£7.11An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern... -
Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption and Hollywood by Danny Trejo 9781789465310
RRP: £8.99£6.22On screen, Danny Trejo is the most recognisable anti-hero in Hollywood. But off screen, he is so much more. The ultimate hard-knock-lifer, and a true man of the world, he has all the stories, and all the scars. Raised in an abusive home, Danny struggled... -
Collected Poems by Laurie Lee 9780241625170
RRP: £20.00£14.29A landmark new collection of poems from the author of Cider with RosieLaurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons changing and the years turning... -
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by Mourid Barghouti
RRP: £10.99£7.77The sequel to the classic memoir I Saw Ramallah, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here takes up the story in 1998 when Barghouti returned to the Occupied Territories to introduce his Cairo-born son, Tamim, to his Palestinian family. Ranging freely back... -
The Life of Rylan by Rylan Clark-Neal 9781784755218 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29*The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller*Well hark at you, stumbling upon my autobiography. Bet you wouldn't have put money on that three years ago, eh?! Please don't stress yourself out too much, though, it's actually socially acceptable nowadays that... -
The Life of Rylan by Rylan Clark-Neal
RRP: £10.99£7.77*The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller*Well hark at you, stumbling upon my autobiography. Bet you wouldn't have put money on that three years ago, eh?! Please don't stress yourself out too much, though, it's actually socially acceptable nowadays that... -
Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness by Allyson Shaw 9781529395495
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Beautiful... A moving reminder for us all to connect with what's gone before' STYLIST'Atmospheric, scholarly - and gripping . . . Shocking and important' Laline Paull, author of PodRoaming the ragged coasts and remote villages of Scotland, Ashes &... -
Alfie and Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe by Carl Safina 9781324065463
RRP: £19.99£17.37When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they'd rescued, she'd be a temporary presence. But Alfie's feathers were not growing correctly, requiring prolonged care. And... -
Dispatches by Michael Herr 9781447275060
RRP: £10.99£7.51With an introduction by Kevin Powers.A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket.We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine... -
Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood by Terence Frisby 9781408801062 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.78'When you get there', our mum said, 'you find out your new address and you write it on the card. Then you post it at once. Now, the code. Our secret code ...You know how to write a kiss? Well, put one kiss if it's horrible and I'll come straight there... -
Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen
RRP: £12.99£9.09For everyone who loves watching Amanda Owen and her family on Our Yorkshire Farm, or enjoys reading her bestselling books, comes this delightful and uplifting collection of her monthly Dalesman columns. In Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess... -
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea by Hyeonseo Lee
RRP: £9.99£6.64NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman's terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. ... -
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree: A Sequel to Driving over Lemons by Chris Stewart
RRP: £9.99£6.85Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller. A Parrot in the Pepper... -
Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa by Pauline Butcher
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655705Author Pauline ButcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah 'A charming diary of life with a tame magpie - despite George's bad behaviour, it will render corvid lovers (like me) green with envy!' Katherine May, author of Wintering A... -
Common Ground: One of Britain's Favourite Nature Books as featured on BBC's Winterwatch by Rob Cowen
RRP: £10.99£7.77ONE OF BRITAIN'S FAVOURITE NATURE BOOKS AS FEATURED ON BBC's WINTERWATCHSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 'Bold and beautiful.' Robert Macfarlane'Sensitive, thoughtful and poetic ... leading us into a whole new way of looking at the world'... -
Devil's Child by Jerry A. Coyne
RRP: £10.99£6.47Deserted by his mother and abandoned by his father at just three months old, Jerry Coyne was sent to live in a Catholic children's home run by nuns of the order of the Sisters of Nazareth. Life soon settled into a rhythm and then, one day, the beatings... -
Too Scared To Cry: And other true stories from the nation's favourite foster carer by Maggie Hartley 9781409179818 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering stories perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Rosie Lewis. Contains previously published stories Too Scared To Cry, The Girl No One Wanted and A Family For Christmas - brought together in this... -
Too Scared To Cry: And other true stories from the nation's favourite foster carer by Maggie Hartley
RRP: £8.99£6.20A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering stories perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Rosie Lewis. Contains previously published stories Too Scared To Cry, The Girl No One Wanted and A Family For Christmas - brought together in this... -
Mind Games: The Ups and Downs of Life and Football by Neville Southall
RRP: £9.99£6.64In this unique book, one of football's greatest cult players reflects on the travails of the sport and draws upon his own experience to offer an honest assessment on one of its final remaining taboos: mental health. The most difficult position... -
And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st Century Diplomacy by Baroness Catherine Ashton
RRP: £20.00£13.65Financial Times - BEST BOOKS OF 2023 'And Then What? is breathless and conversational - and all the more readable for that. But while her tone is down-to-earth, the events that Ashton played a part in were dramatic and often historic.' Gideon... -
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication.' In December 1995, Jean-Dominique... -
Hear Me Out by Sarah Harding
RRP: £8.99£5.92Sunday Times Bestseller'I can't rewrite history; all I can do is be honest and wear my heart on my sleeve. It's really the only way I know. I want to show people the real me. Or perhaps remind them. Because, somewhere - amongst the nightclubs, the frocks... -
The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry by Sheridan Morley
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIANThe unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant characters of the 20th century - with a new introduction by Stephen Fry'Compulsive reading' SUNDAY TIMES'19th... -
Never Had a Dad: Adventures in Fatherlessness by Georgie Codd 9780008603021
RRP: £16.99£11.47Fatherless, friendly 31yoF looking for intrepid M50s-70s who wants to try being a father figure (not sugar daddy). Georgie Codd never had a dad. And she didn’t think that would ever change – until a stranger’s practical joke made her wonder if she...