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I Can't Stay Long by Laurie Lee
RRP: £9.99£7.11'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a... -
There is No Map in Hell: The record-breaking run across the Lake District fells by Steve Birkinshaw 9781910240946
RRP: £12.99£9.26In 1986, the legendary fell runner Joss Naylor completed a continuous circuit of all 214 Wainwright fells in the Lake District, covering a staggering distance of over 300 miles - plus many thousands of metres of ascent - in only seven days and one hour... -
Sabine’s War: One woman. Three concentration camps. A remarkable true story of survival. by Eva Taylor
RRP: £9.99£6.64An astonishing tale of romance, resistance and bravery 'A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.' Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz ... -
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII by Jane Marguerite Tippett 9781399723930
RRP: £25.00£16.78''An astonishing account...' --- The Daily Mail '... an extraordinary new portrait of the former King, his recollections and feelings'. --- The Telegraph'Tippett has made a remarkable archival discovery...the most consequential book to appear on Edward... -
Souvenir by Michael Bracewell
RRP: £14.99£9.80'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me - a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time and poignant beauty and lived history that I have found myself looking for,... -
6000 Days by Jim McCann
RRP: £13.00£11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783939483588Author Jim McCannFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Elsinor Verlag e.K.Publisher Elsinor Verlag e.K.Weight(grams) 372g -
The Illustrated Letters of the Brontes: The letters, diaries and writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: £17.95£13.00The story both of the real world of the Brontes at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and of the imaginary worlds they spun for themselves in their novels and poetry. Wherever possible, their story is told using... -
Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière 9781805462439
RRP: £14.99£9.80*GIRL, INTERRUPTED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY* *A JENNETTE MCCURDY BOOKCLUB PICK*'The story is extraordinary, but more importantly, the storytelling is exceptional... If you read one memoir this year, make it this one.' - PANDORA SYKES'An impressive feat of... -
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World by Jan Karski
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to recommend' Alan Furst It is 1939. Jan Karski, a... -
Terrified: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Girl Nobody Loved and the Woman Who Saved Her by Angela Hart
RRP: £7.99£5.94A Sunday Times bestseller, Terrified is the first book from well-loved foster carer Angela Hart. It tells the emotionally devastating but ultimately uplifting true story of Vicky, a little girl who arrives on Angela's doorstep unwanted and unloved after... -
The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister: A Ukrainian Story by Olesya Khromeychuk 9781800961203
RRP: £10.99£6.47WITH A FOREWORD BY PHILIPPE SANDS AND AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV'If you read only one book about the war, this is the one to read.' -Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm'Unforgettable. An immediate history of a cruel war and a personal chronicle of... -
Free Spirit: A Memoir of an Extraordinary Life by Tanya Sarne
RRP: £20.00£13.75"I read Free Spirit all in one go as I literally couldn't put it down.Tanya Sarne's courage and resilience are utterly awe-inspiring.You could read no better book than this on the zeitgeist of London and Hollywood in the Sixties and Seventies and the... -
Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Smell of Summer Grass is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal idyll, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener, Sarah Raven. Without knowing one end of a... -
Where Memories Go: Why dementia changes everything - as heard on BBC R4 Book of the Week by Sally Magnusson
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A fine book' The Sunday Times 'Powerful' Guardian 'Wonderful' The Telegraph'Moving, funny, warm' Mail on Sunday'Brave, compassionate, tender and honest' Metro'This book began as an attempt to hold on to my witty, storytelling mother with the one thing I... -
The Wonderful World of James Herriot: A charming collection of classic stories by James Herriot 9781035008551
RRP: £10.99£7.93The perfect gift for fans of All Creatures Great and Small, this is a charming collection of classic stories from James Herriot's much-loved books, with insights into his life and work from his children Rosie and Jim.With astute observations and... -
The Wild Other: A memoir of love, adventure and how to be brave by Clover Stroud 9781473630246
RRP: £9.99£6.80SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'Extraordinary, and a painful but invigorating read. I've never met anyone who has read it and doesn't rank it as one of their favourite books.' Dolly Alderton'This story - so fierce and brave and visceral and raw -... -
Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards
RRP: £9.99£7.11Arguably the greatest of all published memoirs of the Great War, Old Soldiers Never Die is Private Frank Richards' classic account of the war from the standpoint of the regular soldier, and a moving tribute to the army that died on the Western Front in... -
Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know by Nina Schick
RRP: £12.99£8.60It will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what is fake. Recent advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for example using Facebook), a powerful machine learning system can create new video images and place them in scenarios and... -
Our Daily Bread: From Argos to the Altar – a Priest's Story by Father Alex Frost 9780008556556
RRP: £9.99£6.64A warmly funny, intensely moving and startlingly personal account of the lives of an urban parish priest and his parishioners. Father Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calling while running... -
Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones
RRP: £10.99£6.14SOON TO BE A LIMITED SERIES DIRECTED BY DANNY BOYLE_____________________Foreword by Chrissie HyndeWithout the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols.It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones and his Sex... -
Too Much by Tom Allen
RRP: £20.00£13.35'An extraordinary portrait of a son navigating his way through grief and loss in real time. Funny, candid, and measured' GRAHAM NORTONHappily settled in a new relationship and with a dream house of his own, comedian Tom Allen had finally moved on from... -
An Innocent Baby by Cathy Glass
RRP: £8.99£5.73When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The baby is coming to her straight from hospital and will have no contact with her teenage mother, Haylea. Even more worrying, she will be... -
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A memoir about women, addiction and love by Nina Renata Aron
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The disease he has is addiction,' Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend. 'The disease I have is loving him.' Their affair is dramatic, urgent - an intoxicating antidote to the lonely days of early motherhood. But soon, K starts using again. Even as... -
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Grimly funny and superbly written, with a twist on every page' - Hilary Mantel 'Delightfully compulsive and unforgettably original' - Hadley Freeman 'Wonderful, funny and wise' - Kate Summerscale SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021 A... -
Belonging: A Memoir of Place, Beginnings and One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies by Catherine Corless
RRP: £9.99£5.96When Catherine Corless began researching the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway in 2010, she could not have known where her interest in local history would lead her. Uncovering no less than 796 missing burial records of children born there, the stark... -
Tales From When I Were A Lad: More snapshots from a time that Health & Safety forgot by Andrew Davies
RRP: £9.99£6.64Take a nostalgic trip back to a time when children played on the street, the local bobby could clip your ear and anywhere beyond Bridlington was an exotic holiday. Awwww, the old days. A time when grime were fashionable, school sports a menace... -
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane
RRP: £10.99£7.00The New York Times bestselling memoir from the legendary Gucci Mane spares no detail in this "cautionary tale that ends in triumph" (GQ). For the first time Gucci Mane tells his extraordinary story in his own words. It is "as wild, unpredictable, and... -
Diary of a Rural GP: Hilarious True Stories from a Country Practice (Book 3 in the Country Doctor series) by Michael Sparrow 9781788420747 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788420747Author Michael SparrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PreludePublisher Duckworth Books -
Diary of a Rural GP: Hilarious True Stories from a Country Practice (Book 3 in the Country Doctor series) by Michael Sparrow
RRP: £9.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788420747Author Michael SparrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PreludePublisher Duckworth Books -
Bowl. Sleep. Repeat.: Inside the World of England's Greatest-Ever Bowler by Jimmy Anderson
RRP: £12.99£8.60THE #5 TIMES BESTSELLEREver wondered what it's truly like being an England test cricketer? Why not ask England's greatest ever bowler?Jimmy Anderson invites you into his world of cricket and gives you a very personal insight into what it's like playing... -
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman
RRP: £25.00£17.62The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon.In 2008, Paul Newman tasked his best friend with interviewing the people who had shaped his life, in order to create an oral history of it. After hearing and reading what they had to say, Newman... -
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days by Bill Clegg
RRP: £9.99£7.11What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life? In his utterly... -
Nobody's Child by Kate Adie
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Witty, compelling and never mawkish' Observer'Written with a sure touch . . . Adie has a natural understanding of what it is like to be unsure of your origins' Sunday Telegraph'A cracker of a subject . . . (Adie) writes with an engaging, forthright... -
I Survived: I married a charming man. Then he tried to kill me. A true story. by Victoria Cilliers
RRP: £8.99£6.60I Survived is Victoria Cillier's chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case that made headlines around the world. Soon to be the subject of a major TV documentary.On Easter Sunday 2015, experienced... -
Abandoned Child: From the No.1 bestselling author, a new true story of abuse and survival for fans of Cathy Glass by Toni Maguire 9781789465938
RRP: £8.99£6.22From the million-copy bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of neglect, abuse and survival. Amy had a happy childhood until the sudden death of her mother when she was ten years old. Eventually abandoned by her father, she found herself... -
Part of the Family: A journey through fostering by Jan Garsden
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398449664Author Jan GarsdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Listener: In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Irene Oore 9780889776531
RRP: £20.00£19.24In The Listener, a daughter receives a troubling gift: her mother's stories of surviving World War II in Poland. During the Holocaust, Irene Oore's mother escaped the death camps by concealing her Jewish identity. Those years found her constantly on the... -
Diaries, 1942-1954 by James Lees-Milne
RRP: £14.99£9.80James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best known for the remarkable diary he kept for most of his adult life, which has been compared with that of Samuel... -
The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks by Justin Webb
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Searingly honest... gripping... fascinating and hugely entertaining.'- Sunday Times'Moving and frank ... A story of a childhood defined by loneliness, the absence of a father and the grim experience of a Quaker boarding school. It is also one of the... -
His Name Is George Floyd: One man's life and the struggle for racial justice by Robert Samuels
RRP: £20.00£18.02*Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction*'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK...