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The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight to Wartime Shanghai by Rachel Meller
RRP: $52.50$34.84'A transfixingly readable amalgam of memoir and history... Superbly written and researched.... [Meller] has turned the raw material of her life into literature'Ian Thomson, author of Primo LeviRachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool,... -
When the Wheels Come Off: More Confessions of a 1970s & '80s Car Mechanic by Brian Cunningham
RRP: $27.28$20.73Brian Cunningham's popular first book, Under the Bonnet, was a colourful and humorous collection of memories of his time as a car mechanic in the 1970s and '80s. When he wrote it, he was sure he had put everything of interest down, but it turns out there... -
Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir by Margaret Forster 9780140239829 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$3.91Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so close to... -
Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir by Margaret Forster
RRP: $33.58$24.38Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so close to... -
My Girl by Michelle Hadaway 9781804943519
RRP: $18.88$12.83Shortlisted in the 'True Crime Book Of The Year' category for Capital Crime's Fingerprint Awards, 2023.On Thursday 9th October 1986, Michelle Hadaway's worst fears came true. After watching her daughter Karen playing in the neighbour's garden with her... -
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat by Dan Hampton
RRP: $20.98$14.36"Viper Pilot" is the high-octane memoir of one of America's elite aviators: a twenty-year battle-seasoned pilot who flew 151 combat missions in the world's most iconic fighter plane - the F-16 Fighting Falcon - the Viper as its pilots call it. A fighter... -
Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The captivating, candid and hilarious new memoir from the legendary actress and bestselling author by Joan Collins 9781399609982
RRP: $23.08$15.98'The stories, the gossip, the glamour! Discover it all and more' Woman & Home'[A] hugely engaging and riveting memoir' The Lady'Unstoppable, a veritable living legend' Daily Mail'All you'd hope for from the stiletto-stamping diva' The i paper*****'Some... -
SEX/LIFE: 44 Chapters About 4 Men: Now a series on Netflix BB Easton 9780751580709
RRP: $23.08$15.98The inspiration for seasons one and two of the hit Netflix series Sex/LifeOne woman's secret journal completely changes her marriage in this hilarious and biting memoir. School psychologists aren't supposed to write books about sex. Doing so would be... -
A Prickly Affair: The Charm of the Hedgehog by Hugh Warwick
RRP: $23.08$16.78Discover the many wonders of the hedgehog: a funny, charming creature of the countryside. Carrying its secrets beneath patterned spinesand roaming our fields, parks and gardens, why is it that the hedgehog fascinates so many of us? In A Prickly Affair,... -
Parisian Days: The Rediscovered Classic Memoir by Banine 9781782278030
RRP: $23.08$15.83'A scintillating book' TLS 'Her company is a delight' Tatler 'Part memoir, part social history... sumptuous and unsparing' Financial Times A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedom ... -
It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell
RRP: $23.08$15.67Colin Powell, one of America's most admired public figures, reveals the principles that have shaped his life and career in this inspiring and engrossing memoir. A beautiful companion to his previous memoir, the #1 New York Times bestseller My American... -
The Girl with the Suitcase: A Girl Without a Home and the Foster Carer Who Changes her Life Forever by Angela Hart
RRP: $16.78$12.56Why will nobody give little Grace a home? Foster carer Angela is determined to find the answer.Shunned by her mother, ten-year-old Grace has spent most of her childhood in care, moving from one foster home to the next. Each placement breaks down due to... -
Better to Live: How I Learnt to Survive Depression by Alastair Campbell 9781529331820 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$5.57THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLast Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. I've had a lot of almosts. Never gone from almost to deed. Don't think I ever will. But it was a bad almost. Living Better is Alastair Campbell's honest, moving and life affirming... -
Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression Alastair Campbell 9781529331820
RRP: $35.68$24.59THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLast Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. I've had a lot of almosts. Never gone from almost to deed. Don't think I ever will. But it was a bad almost. Living Better is Alastair Campbell's honest, moving and life affirming... -
Something Sensational to Read in the Train: The Diary of a Lifetime Gyles Brandreth 9780719520624
RRP: $31.48$21.11This is a diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful observation, providing both a compelling record of five remarkable decades and a revealing, often hilarious and sometimes moving... -
The Happy Hoofer by Celia Imrie
RRP: $27.28$18.54'I've always been wilful... I've always been stubborn and always determined'One of our best-loved actresses, Celia Imrie would rather have been a dancer. As a child she planned to join the Royal Ballet and marry Rudolf Nureyev. Now she has become one of... -
The Courage to Care: A Call for Compassion by Christie Watson 9781529111071
RRP: $20.98$15.37'An inspiring book for our challenging times' Olivia Coleman Nurses have never been more important. We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel ... -
The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens by Ben Dark
RRP: $20.98$12.92***'The best gardening book of 2022.' The Telegraph'A book to make even a quick trip to the corner shop endlessly fascinating. Dark has been dubbed the millennial Monty Don for this beautifully written study of the oft-overlooked nature on our doorsteps.... -
Crisis by Nicky Perfect 9780008561161
RRP: $20.98$12.62We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out of one of the busiest train stations in the country. He refused to talk to us, threatening to... -
Tailgate to Heaven: A British NFL Fan Tackles America by Adam Goldstein 9781612347080
RRP: $29.38$26.44Despite a global recession, Adam Goldstein felt 2008 was the perfect time to invest in his lifelong passion. He sold his flat and left his job and his girlfriend in London for American football.His goal was to achieve what no other American football fan... -
Underneath The Archers: Nature’s secret agent on Britain’s longest-running drama by Graham Harvey 9781800182653
RRP: $39.88$27.76'As hilarious, charming, eccentric, informative, addictive and delightful as the show itself' STEPHEN FRYMuch-loved radio drama The Archers has been at the heart of British life for over seventy years, and the momentous events and changes of this time... -
The Grassling by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
RRP: $23.08$16.78'Deliciously tactile and meditative . . . to read this is to luxuriate in the land, and to connect to it and oneself' Bernardine Evaristo What fills my lungs is wider than breath could be. It is a place and a language torn, matted and melded; flowered... -
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 9781529920796
RRP: $23.08$16.78A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor.'A book that will stay with you for life'NATALIE HAYNES'The best book about multiple sclerosis'THE TIMESWe all have... -
How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't by Lane Moore
RRP: $23.08$15.14The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book.Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage-whether... -
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $23.08$15.39'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern... -
Men Have Called Her Crazy Anna Marie Tendler 9781785122385
RRP: $42.00$29.11In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and self-harm. Over two weeks, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in numerous therapy... -
The Power Of Hope: The moving no.1 bestselling memoir from TV's Kate Garraway by Kate Garraway
RRP: $23.08$16.78'A raw, honest rollercoaster that touches the heart' *****'Kate and her family's courageous battle over the last year is told with such candour' *****'Written from the heart with the will never to give up hope' *****........................In March 2020,... -
To War with Whitaker by Hermione Ranfurly, Countess of Ranfurly
RRP: $23.08$17.12Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, kept a diary all her life. To War with Whitaker is an account of the most adventurous, most defiant and most valiant of those years. Hermione and Dan Ranfurly married only months before the Second World War erupted. So... -
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur
RRP: $20.98$14.49I propose to open my mind as wide as possible to allow my readers the first ever glimpse at South Central from my side of the gun, street, fence and wall.After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members,... -
Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright
RRP: $27.28$19.13A national bestseller on its first publication in 2003, "Madam Secretary" is the riveting personal story of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. For eight years, during Bill Clinton's two presidential terms, Albright was an active participant in... -
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
RRP: $20.98$15.37'So compellingly personal you feel you're looking over her shoulder as she sits down to write' New York Times 'Electrically entertaining ... Funny, generous, spirited and kind' The Times This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is an irresistible... -
The Olive Harvest: A Memoir of Love, Old Trees, and Olive Oil Carol Drinkwater 9780753829363
RRP: $20.98$14.70NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES: CAROL DRINKWATER'S SECRET PROVENCEThe third in the bestselling story which began with THE OLIVE FARM - from the author of THE FORGOTTEN SUMMER'Captures perfectly the dreamy atmosphere of the South of France and its people'... -
Bend, Don't Break: A Memoir of Endurance by Frank O'Mara 9781788494373
RRP: $33.58$29.44'Victory is a life well lived or a day enjoyed.' Limerick man Frank O'Mara had the athletics career most only dream of, competing for Ireland in three Olympic Games and breaking Irish and world records. After his retirement from running, he settled in... -
Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir about Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls by Susan Seidelman 9781250328212
RRP: $63.00$41.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250328212Author Susan SeidelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
My Sporting Life by Michael Parkinson 9781399711470 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$4.81'A lovely kind of nostalgia, which colourises the black and white of yesteryear' - The Oldie Review'He writes about them all with wonderful precision and a powerful evocation' - Radio Times'Like my father before me, I believe that both the playing and... -
My Sporting Life: Memories, moments and declarations Michael Parkinson 9781399711470
RRP: $42.00$25.68'A lovely kind of nostalgia, which colourises the black and white of yesteryear' - The Oldie Review'He writes about them all with wonderful precision and a powerful evocation' - Radio Times'Like my father before me, I believe that both the playing and... -
The Gladiator Mindset: Push Your Limits. Overcome Challenges. Achieve Your Goals. by Adam Peaty
RRP: $23.08$14.01Think like Britain's greatest living Olympian: Ten steps to push your limits and achieve the impossible from the one of the world's greatest swimmers'The most dominant sportsperson in Great Britain today - and perhaps ever' TelegraphFrom one of the best... -
Oh My Gosh, I Love Your Shoes!: A Decade of Head-Turning Heels by Sophia Webster 9781787139275
RRP: $84.00$59.12"A vibrant, inspiring celebration of fashion, family and passion. I love this colourful celebration of all things shoes." - Fearne Cotton"I really enjoyed the personal insights into what makes Sophia so unique and wonderful. A brilliantly bold, colourful... -
The Innocent and the Beautiful: A true story of love, death, and survival by Alan Atkinson 9781915494368
RRP: $23.08$19.28A life can change in a second. 'The Innocent and the Beautiful' is a deeply moving true story of love and tragedy, of injustice and the courage to endure. In 1981 Alan Atkinson took his perfect family on holiday to Florida. As night fell in the... -
The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon
RRP: $39.88$29.86WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHORLike Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonising experience of depression. Solomon also portrays the pain...