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Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Genocide by Immaculee Ilibagiza
RRP: $31.48$19.05Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family that she cherished.But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into bloody holocaust. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that... -
Being a Beast by Charles Foster
RRP: $20.98$15.37LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2016 Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple... -
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson 9781529115673
RRP: $23.08$16.78'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph'Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Simon SchamaHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer.Howard... -
Delight by J. B. Priestley
RRP: $20.98$14.36'An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.' Dolly Alderton 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is... -
The Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games
RRP: $23.08$15.67A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. This stunning anthology of Spike Milligan's work comprises of favourites from his classic books ('Adolf Hitler: My Part in his... -
Jump: One Girl's Search for Meaning by Daniella Moyles 9780717186723 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.78$5.57'The point of all this has nothing to do with finding yourself. It's about what you can do to lose what you don't need.' It's a dark rainy afternoon on Dublin's jammed M50 motorway. The rain is hammering on the windscreen of Daniella Moyles' car. She... -
Jump: One Girl's Search for Meaning by Daniella Moyles 9780717186723
RRP: $37.78$27.62'The point of all this has nothing to do with finding yourself. It's about what you can do to lose what you don't need.' It's a dark rainy afternoon on Dublin's jammed M50 motorway. The rain is hammering on the windscreen of Daniella Moyles' car. She... -
The Lady's Maid: My Life in Service by Rosina Harrison
RRP: $31.48$23.00'I was able to get on well with everyone below stairs and above, or so I thought until I began working for Lady Astor...' In 1929, Yorkshire lass Rosina Harrison became personal maid to Lady Astor: the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat... -
My Sporting Life: Memories, moments and declarations by Michael Parkinson 9781399711562
RRP: $23.08$14.01'Like my father before me, I believe that both the playing and watching of sport can teach us important lessons about ourselves by providing practical instruction in co-operation, tests of resolve and temper'Michael Parkinson was destined to spend his... -
I Love the Bones of You: My Father And The Making Of Me by Christopher Eccleston
RRP: $20.98$13.88'A beautiful book' Zoe Ball 'My father was an "ordinary man", which of course means he was extraordinary.' Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, One man, in life and death, has... -
Pushing the Boundaries: Cricket in the Eighties: The Perfect Gift Book for Cricket Fans by Derek Pringle 9781473674950
RRP: $31.48$21.11Derek Pringle is finally ready to tell his story of cricket in the 80s. First chosen by England whilst still at university in 1982, Derek featured in the national side for the next 11 years. He played 30 Tests, 44 One Day Internationals, and appeared in... -
Grease Junkie: A book of moving parts by Edd China
RRP: $27.28$19.61SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.As you'll discover in his incomparable memoir, inventor, mechanic, TV presenter and walking tall as the definition of the British eccentric, Edd China sees things differently.An unstoppable enthusiast from an early age, Edd had 35... -
My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making Jay Rayner 9781783351473
RRP: $23.08$15.83'Hilarious, informative, enlightening, instructive ... It's the funniest book I've read all year' - Chris EvansYou're About to Die. What Would Your Final Meal Be?This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. But why wait for death? Why not eat your 'last... -
Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years by Roger Mortimer
RRP: $20.98$14.11'I think prison has done me very little harm and some good. I am now far better read, far less smug and conceited, far more tolerant and considerably more capable of looking after myself'In 1930, twenty-one-year-old Roger Mortimer was commissioned into... -
Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter Angela Hui 9781398705548
RRP: $35.68$20.62SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023_______________'A beautiful book: compellingly written, tender and thoughtful' Ruby Tadoh'A warm, incandescent memoir about identity, food, family,... -
A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth by Graham Ratcliffe
RRP: $27.28$19.61On the night of 10-11 May 1996, eight climbers perished in what remains the worst disaster in Everest's history. Following the tragedy, numerous accounts were published, with Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air becoming an international bestseller. But has the... -
Where Have All the Bullets Gone? by Spike Milligan
RRP: $23.08$18.08VOLUME FIVE OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard______________ 'Back to those haunting days in Italy in 1944, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, with lava... -
Mancunians: Where Do We Start, Where Do I Begin? by David Scott
RRP: $35.68$26.61In the late 1990s, Manchester was a city in upheaval. The devastation of the IRA bomb and the closure of the notorious Hacienda nightclub were seismic events that rocked the city's confidence at a time when identikit bands were flooding its clubs and... -
The First Half by Gabby Logan 9780349433073 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$4.81A brilliant book. Read immediately' Claudia WinklemanA fascinating, inspiring and funny memoir from much-loved broadcaster Gabby Logan When I sat down to write this book, I was really not keen on the idea of writing a biography that charted my life in a... -
Living with Ghosts by Brian Rowan
RRP: $35.68$30.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374036Author Brian RowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win the Second World War Sarah Rose 9780751578270
RRP: $20.98$14.70The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory, for fans of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia Purnell'Gripping: Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains,... -
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Oliver Stone
RRP: $20.98$15.04*** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux"A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris Evans, Virgin Radio"Raw, savagely honest, as dramatic as any of his movies." - Mail on Sunday"A tremendous book - readable,... -
Mr Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters 9781472155207
RRP: $20.98$14.70No one knows more about everything - especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling - than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray,... -
I'll Take That One: An Evacuee's Childhood by Kitty Baxter 9780749028497 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$3.74A UNIQUE, PERSONAL AND UNFORGETTABLE MEMOIR OF A FAMILY THAT WAS CHANGED FOREVER BY THE SECOND WORLD WAR Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930, the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five children. On her ninth birthday, as the... -
I'll Take That One: An Evacuee's Childhood Kitty Baxter 9780749028497
RRP: $18.88$13.97A UNIQUE, PERSONAL AND UNFORGETTABLE MEMOIR OF A FAMILY THAT WAS CHANGED FOREVER BY THE SECOND WORLD WAR Kitty Baxter was born in London in 1930, the daughter of a road sweeper and a cleaner and one of five children. On her ninth birthday, as the... -
Outlaw: How I Became Britain's Most Wanted Man by Ray Bishop
RRP: $20.98$15.37Follow Britain's most wanted man into London's underworld and back out again Ray Bishop was on the run, skulking in a dealer's house in north London, when an image of his face flashed up on the TV, accompanied by a public warning. The assembled company... -
How to be an Ex-Footballer by Peter Crouch 9781529106589
$49.94The funniest man in British sport - MetroPeter Crouch is a comedy genius - Daily MailOften recruited before they've worn long trousers, today's footballers become superstars who earn huge amounts without ever learning much about the world beyond the... -
Sigrid Rides: The Story of an Extraordinary Friendship and An Adventure on Two Wheels by Travis Nelson
RRP: $39.88$35.24When Travis Nelson arrived in London, he expected to embark on a new life and a new job. Coming from California, he'd uprooted his wife and his cat, Sigrid, and planned to be here for the long haul. Then Covid-19 struck. Travis's new job vanished as the... -
Above Head Height: A Five-A-Side Life by James Brown
RRP: $23.08$15.98'The Fever Pitch of five-a-side' TONY PARSONSA must-have for anyone who has ever played and enjoyed amateur football.James Brown has been playing football since growing up in the backstreets of Leeds. The sudden death of one of his long-standing team... -
Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row by Damien Echols
RRP: $42.00$31.31In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. - who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three - were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence,... -
Pretty Mess by Erika Jayne 9781501181900
RRP: $23.08$16.78NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Without her alter-ego Erika Jayne, Erika Girardi says she'd just be "another rich bitch with a plane"-so get ready for the dishy, tell-all memoir from show-stopping performer, model, singer, and beloved star of The Real... -
In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II by Pope John Paul, II
RRP: $33.58$24.38The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II - published for the first time ever in English. The most intimate insight into the longest-serving pontiff of our time. Ten years after his death, the popularity and devotion towards John Paul II,... -
Seventeen by Joe Gibson
RRP: $35.68$23.27*A gripping and powerful memoir reminiscent of Notes on a Scandal, An Education and My Dark Vanessa* 'Engaging and engrossing, frank and frankly troubling, Seventeen is a book not easily forgotten' - Karen Joy Fowler' I can't remember the last time, if... -
I Remember Nothing and other reflections by Nora Ephron
RRP: $20.98$15.37'Memories, aphorisms and stern good advice from America's favourite naughty aunt' Independent on Sunday'This book is as grown-up as a dirty martini' Sunday Times'Sharp as a knife' Daily Express___In her final book, Nora Ephron reflects on life, growing... -
Horses, Heifers and Hairy Pigs: The Life of a Yorkshire Vet by Julian Norton
RRP: $20.98$14.81Based at the Skeldale Veterinary Centre, in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, the modern, relocated practice featured in the classic stories of James Herriot, and with a foreword by James Herriot's son, this is a warm and evocative memoir from a young vet whose... -
The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan
RRP: $20.98$14.70'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' Brian Eno'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' John Higgs'A perfect example of the power and beauty of... -
I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman by Joumana Haddad 9780863564277
RRP: $20.98$14.70In this provocative book Joumana Haddad uses the format of the political pamphlet to describe the liberating impact of literature on her life. She tells of reading the Marquis de Sade at twelve, of her metamorphosis into an award-winning poet, and... -
Move Like Water: A Story of the Sea and Its Creatures by Hannah Stowe
RRP: $35.68$23.67A heartfelt hymn to the sea and an unforgettable introduction to one of the most gifted nature writers of the new generation The seas cover over two thirds of our planet and yet most of us live our lives on land, creatures of a different element, at... -
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A memoir about women, addiction and love by Nina Renata Aron
RRP: $20.98$15.37'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... -
Never Work with Animals by Gareth Steel 9780008466589 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.81Imagine going from neurologist to dermatologist, orthopaedic surgeon to obstetrician, assassin to saviour - all in one day. Welcome to the extraordinary world of veterinary medicine... In Never Work with Animals, vet Gareth Steel shares the...