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The Orphanage: My shocking true story of surviving cruelty and abuse at Nazareth House Convent by Frances Reilly 9781399614924
RRP: $20.98$14.70'Nobody wants you, so we have to put up with you. We'll soon knock the disobedience out of you...'Frances Reilly and her sisters were abandoned by their mother outside Nazareth House Convent - a Belfast orphanage run by nuns. Little did they know the... -
My Body: Emily Ratajkowski's deeply honest and personal exploration of what it means to be a woman today - THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Emily Ratajkowski 9781529415896
RRP: $35.68$24.23*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* - November 2021A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time._______________'This is the book for every woman... -
Without Warning: a Soldier's Extraordinary Journey by Damien Thomlinson 9780732297169
$33.47Private Damien Thomlinson is a former member of the elite 2nd Commando Regiment of the Australian Army who was terribly injured in after a bomb explosion in Afghanistan. His inspiring journey back from the dead stands as proof that no challenge is too... -
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount 9781472991980
RRP: $23.08$16.78'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... -
The End of Where We Begin: A Refugee Story by Rosalind Russell 9781785633713
RRP: $20.98$15.37Winner of the Moore Prize 2021 'A beautiful, moving and important book' - Simon Reeve Veronica is a teenager when civil war erupts in South Sudan, the world's youngest country. Lonely and friendless after the death of her father, she finds solace... -
Carrington's Letters: Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships by Dora Carrington
RRP: $63.00$46.81'Your letters are a great pleasure. I lap them down with breakfast and they do me more good than tonics, blood capsules or iron jelloids' Lytton StracheyDora Carrington was considered an outsider to Bloomsbury, but she lived right at its heart. Known... -
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn
RRP: $23.08$15.83With an introduction by Robert PlantAgainst an unflinching backdrop of 90s reservation life in the western Dakotas, Neither Wolf Nor Dog tells the story of two men, one white and one Native American Indian, connected by their own understandings of life... -
From Insurgent To Citizen: World War, Insurgency, And Confrontation In Malaya And Singapore by Thomas Swee Leong Chow 9789811272622
RRP: $94.50$82.93This is a first-person account of an overseas Chinese who was involved in the armed struggle for the independence of Malaya and Singapore and who evolved through several roles during those tumultuous times - from an anti-Japanese agent in World War II,... -
The Gypsy Code: The true story of hide-and-seek in a violent underworld Mike Woodhouse 9780241357248
RRP: $23.08$16.78The Gypsy Code is a true story of secret identity, revenge and forbidden love that's perfect for fans of Running with the Firm, Undercover and Soldier Spy.Mike Woodhouse had everything: an engineering business, a wine bar, a home, a Range Rover and a... -
An Unruled Body by Ani Gjika 9781632063403
RRP: $39.88$27.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781632063403Author Ani GjikaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Restless... -
Forever Young: An Autobiography by Hayley Mills
RRP: $42.00$16.40What happens when a girl tries to grow up in a world where everyone wants her to remain a child?Hayley Mills' teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the era's greatest coming-of-age family movies: classics like Pollyanna, The Parent Trap and In... -
HONEST: The (Uncut) Memoirs of Boris Johnson by Lucien Young 9781529434286
RRP: $27.28$18.54*The memoirs of Boris Johnson, complete and unabridged, including all the great material he had to take out for being either too incendiary or too obviously made up*Ghostwritten by Lucien Young, while Boris was sunbathing on a donor's private island... -
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog: 'Will make you laugh, cry and stroke your dog (or any dog)' -Sarah Millican by Emily Dean 9781473671386 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$5.57**As featured on BBC2's Between the Covers**'Glamorous. Heart-breaking. Hilarious. Feminist. Life-changing'Katherine Ryan'I loved this book so much. It's hard to overpraise. So funny and so sad and so hopeful' Neil Gaiman'A wonderful and very special... -
Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog Emily Dean 9781473671386
RRP: $23.08$15.98**As featured on BBC2's Between the Covers**'Glamorous. Heart-breaking. Hilarious. Feminist. Life-changing'Katherine Ryan'I loved this book so much. It's hard to overpraise. So funny and so sad and so hopeful' Neil Gaiman'A wonderful and very special... -
A River Runs Through Me: A Life of Salmon Fishing in Scotland by Andrew Douglas-Home
RRP: $20.98$14.81'It is a love letter not just to the river, but to the rhythms of family life by its banks. Warm, witty, and in parts, deeply moving' SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL An evocative account of one man's life spent fishing on arguably the world's best salmon river:... -
Winning the War on Cancer: The Epic Journey Towards a Natural Cure by Sylvie Beljanski 9781683507246
RRP: $31.48$24.49President Nixon signed the War on Cancer into Law in 1971. Some forty-five years and several billion dollars later, it looks like we have lost the battle. Or have we? What if a natural solution had been there all along, just overlooked by the... -
The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite Laura Freeman 9781474604659
RRP: $20.98$14.70'Freeman's pleasure in the food of literature ... is infectious. The Reading Cure will speak to anyone who has ever felt pain and found solace in a book' Bee WilsonAt the age of fourteen, Laura Freeman was diagnosed with anorexia. But even when recovery... -
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49' Richard Broad 9781846680007
RRP: $18.88$13.97In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son... -
A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between by Linda Thompson
RRP: $20.98$14.36Award-winning songwriter Linda Thompson breaks her silence, sharing the extraordinary story of her life, career, and epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American superstars-Elvis Presley and Bruce Jenner For the last... -
Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life by Brianna Madia
RRP: $23.08$15.67NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * USA TODAY! BESTSELLER In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named... -
A Gift from Heaven: True-life stories of contact from the other side (HarperTrue Fate - A Short Read) by Jacky Newcomb
RRP: $14.68$11.13Millions of people around the world have experienced contact from the other side. In this inspiring and uplifting short story leading expert Jacky Newcomb shares some of the stories she's received about contact and life after death. When a... -
I Miss Mummy: The true story of a frightened young girl who is desperate to go home by Cathy Glass 9780007267446 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.81In her new book, Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother. Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to... -
I Miss Mummy: The true story of a frightened young girl who is desperate to go home by Cathy Glass
RRP: $20.98$14.36In her new book, Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother. Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to... -
Take It Like A Man by Spencer Bright
RRP: $35.68$32.00BOY GEORGE'S BESTSELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY - HONEST, FUNNY, MOVING AND ENTERTAINING.'Witty and outrageous' - Mail on SundayWhen he was a boy growing up in sixties London, the 'pink sheep' of his working-class Irish Catholic family, George Alan O'Dowd wanted... -
The Autobiography: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Alastair Cook 9780241401446 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.18$5.10Get to know England legend Alastair Cook in his fascinating and remarkably honest autobiographyTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR'He is England's greatest ever batsman . . . a hugely enjoyable book' Daily Mail, SPORTS BOOKS OF THE... -
The Autobiography: The Sunday Times Bestseller Sir Alastair Cook 9780241401446
RRP: $25.18$18.19Get to know England legend Alastair Cook in his fascinating and remarkably honest autobiographyTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR'He is England's greatest ever batsman . . . a hugely enjoyable book' Daily Mail, SPORTS BOOKS OF THE... -
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In Vera Brittain 9780349005928
RRP: $27.28$18.54NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still... -
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz 9781786890276
RRP: $23.08$16.78I am glad I am alive to witness these things; giving words to this life of sensations is a relief. Smell the flowers while you can.Close to the Knives is the artist, writer and activist David Wojnarowicz's extraordinary memoir. Filthy, beautiful, and... -
The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices by Paul McVeigh
RRP: $20.98$15.37We read because we want to experience lives and emotions beyond our own, to learn, to see with others' eyes.The 32 is a celebration of working-class voices from the island of Ireland. Edited by award-winning novelist Paul McVeigh, this intimate and... -
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018 by Bart van Es
RRP: $20.98$15.37WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2019'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing,... -
This is Not a Self-Help Book by Mark Mehigan 9780717199945
RRP: $37.78$27.20Much of Mark Mehigan’s twenties read like a ‘how-to’ manual: How to get very drunk without raising people’s suspicions you might be an alcoholic. Although outwardly successful, nearing 30 he was hurtling towards a nervous breakdown and using payday loans... -
Plum by Hollie McNish
RRP: $27.28$19.66A wise, rude, sharp poetry collection encompassing a life from childhood to attempted adulthood, from one of the most important poets of the new generation.'She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love. She points out the absurdities we've grown... -
The Raven's Nest: An Icelandic Journey Through Light and Darkness by Sarah Thomas
RRP: $23.08$15.58'Fascinating' - Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'Truly a thing of wonder' - Kerri ni Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places'Lyrical [and] thoughtful' - Cal Flyn, author of Islands of AbandonmentVisiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in... -
The Only Way Through Is Out by Suzette Mullen 9780299345501
RRP: $56.60$41.12Suzette Mullen had been raised to play it safe—and she hated causing others pain. With college and law degrees, a kind and successful husband, two thriving adult sons, and an ocean-view vacation home, she lived a life many people would envy. But beneath... -
I Flew for the Fuhrer: The Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot by Heinz Knoke 9781784386023
RRP: $27.28$19.61Heinz Knocke was one of the outstanding German fighter pilots of World War II and this vivid first-hand record of his experiences has become a classic among aviation memoirs, a best-selling counter-balance to the numerous accounts written by Allied... -
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister by Cathy Rentzenbrink 9781447286394 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$3.74A Richard and Judy Book club selection.In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school. Sitting by his... -
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister by Cathy Rentzenbrink
RRP: $20.98$15.71A Richard and Judy Book club selection.In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school. Sitting by his... -
Procession by Jack Cooke
RRP: $31.48$23.00A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous - and not so famous -... -
Bedpans And Bobby Socks: Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime by Barbara Fox
RRP: $23.08$15.98'In my dreams, I was always in some vast landscape on a long, straight road. Driving. Always driving.'Gwenda had always loved the open road, but her home town of Newcastle didn't really offer the sort of adventure she longed for. So, in 1957, with friend... -
Island Wife: living on the edge of the wild by Judy Fairbairns
RRP: $20.98$14.70Dream of living on a remote Scottish island? ISLAND WIFE tells one woman's true life story from 19-year-old bride to mother of five, running a family hotel a recording studio and a whale watching business. By turns unflinching, moving and very funny,...