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What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking by Rupert Callender
RRP: £20.00£13.35'This isn't a grisly book; it is sharp, angry, punchily philosophical and often funny. It basically invents a new type of lifestyle aspiration: deathstyle.' The Times 'Callender's joyous, thought-provoking book is an account of how his own early... -
Alexandria Adieu: A Personal History of the Maid of the Mediterranean: 1939-1960 by Adel Darwish 9781914325007
RRP: £27.50£18.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914325007Author Adel DarwishFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad PublishingWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 142mm... -
Being a Beast by Charles Foster
RRP: £9.99£7.11LONGLISTED 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... -
My Life in Sea Creatures: A young queer science writer’s reflections on identity and the ocean by Sabrina Imbler
RRP: £16.99£12.28***AMAZON BEST BOOK OF DECEMBER******A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR******LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER***A young queer science writer on some of the ocean's strangest creatures and what they can teach us about human empathy and survival'A miraculous,... -
Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew by Patti Davis 9781324093480
RRP: £16.99£13.73As a frequent guest columnist for The New York Times, Patti Davis has distinguished herself as a contemporary storyteller. Far from being the enfant terrible she was once portrayed to be, Davis here turns an honest yet empathetic eye toward her parents,... -
My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making by Jay Rayner
RRP: £10.99£7.32'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... -
The Right Sort of Girl by Anita Rani 9781788704236 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Anita's debut novel Baby Does a Runner is available to pre-order now - coming July 2023!Fizzing with energy, hilarity and charm, The Right Sort of Girl is the Sunday Times bestseller from Countryfile's Anita Rani.'Warm, honest and funny, filled with hope... -
The Right Sort of Girl by Anita Rani
RRP: £16.99£11.76Anita's debut novel Baby Does a Runner is available to pre-order now - coming July 2023!Fizzing with energy, hilarity and charm, The Right Sort of Girl is the Sunday Times bestseller from Countryfile's Anita Rani.'Warm, honest and funny, filled with hope... -
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford 9781982168568
RRP: £18.99£12.27From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems-from Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and... -
The Essential Spike Milligan by Alexander Games
RRP: £10.99£7.25A 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... -
The Woman with Nine Lives by Iby Knill 9780993510113
RRP: £13.99£13.45Iby Knill is a simply remarkable woman. An Auschwitz holocaust survivor originally from Bratislava, she married a British army officer and set out to make a new life in England, arriving in Cornwall in 1947 to set up home. Dealing with the problems of... -
Out of the Woods But Not Over the Hill by Gervase Phinn
RRP: £8.99£6.20For Gervase Phinn growing old is not about a leisurely walk to the pub for a game of dominoes or snoozing in his favourite armchair. As this sparkling collection of his very best humorous writing shows, he may be 'out of the woods' but he is certainly... -
Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories' THE TIMES'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'An intimate view of a creative personality . . . as richly evocative as any of her novels' LOS ANGELES TIMESIn Myself When Young, based... -
The Yorkshire Horseman by Cooper Wilson 9781914227387
RRP: £9.99£7.11Cooper Wilson is a man who knows horses. He's also a man who has an incredible, amazing gift of being able to help many horses through psychic powers. In this his first book he tells of how the apparition of a stag started what has now brought him the... -
Sigrid Rides: The Story of an Extraordinary Friendship and An Adventure on Two Wheels by Travis Nelson
RRP: £18.99£16.78When 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... -
A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz by Dita Kraus 9781529106053 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes... -
A Delayed Life: The true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz by Dita Kraus
RRP: £12.99£9.09The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes... -
A Woman's Work by Harriet Harman
RRP: £10.99£7.77GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017**Winner of best memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards**Now with a new epilogue for the paperback'Compelling ... She has guts to spare ... An important story ... Role model? You bet' Tim Shipman, Sunday... -
Pretty Mess by Erika Jayne 9781501181900
RRP: £10.99£7.00NEW 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... -
To School Through the Fields by Alice Taylor
£9.00'A delightful evocation of Irishness and of the author's deep-rooted love of the very fields of home' Publishers Weekly Alice Taylor's classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside, the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. If... -
The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers by Bobby Seagull
RRP: £14.99£10.95If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, that's because you didn't have a teacher like Bobby Seagull.***As seen on Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain*** Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby... -
12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness by Charlie Corbett
RRP: £10.99£7.12Discover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds, whose song is never far away . . .LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'A lyrical and life-affirming book that teaches us as much about birds as it does ourselves -... -
I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman by Joumana Haddad 9780863564277
RRP: £9.99£6.80In 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... -
How to Be Human: An Autistic Man's Guide to Life by Jory Fleming
RRP: £16.99£9.65A "beautiful and astonishing" (Walter Isaacson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker) narrative that examines the many ways to be fully human, told by the first young adult with autism to attend Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar... -
Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle
RRP: £10.99£7.77A second idyllic helping of rural life in France from the bestselling author of the classic A YEAR IN PROVENCE. Skulking through customs with a suitcase full of truffles, toads singing the Marseillaise, taking pastis lessons and finding gold at the... -
How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
RRP: £10.99£7.25Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the literary sensation of 2010, whilst 'The Corrections' was the best-loved and most written-about novel... -
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood by Bill Bryson
RRP: £10.99£7.77From one of our most beloved and bestselling authors, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States, Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories... -
Move Like Water: A Story of the Sea and Its Creatures by Hannah Stowe
RRP: £16.99£11.27A 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... -
Make Life Beautiful by Syd McGee
RRP: £18.99£15.08Stars of the hit Netflix series Dream Home Makeover Syd and Shea McGee offer fans a new and intimate look into how they built their business in this bestselling autobiography.Do you want to live the best version of your life? Learn how Syd and Shea... -
Politics, Poverty and Belief: A Political Memoir by The Rt Hon Frank Field
RRP: £20.00£15.24'For the past half-century Frank Field has been an outstanding parliamentarian, social reformer and champion of the disadvantaged. He joined the Labour Party at the age of 16 and was expelled from it at the age of 78.' -Brian & Rachel Griffiths 'Frank... -
Never Work with Animals by Gareth Steel 9780008466589 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Imagine 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... -
Owning Up: The Trilogy by George Melly
RRP: £18.99£13.61This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class... -
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
RRP: £10.99£7.40The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic film.One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to... -
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: And Other Lessons in Life by Michael Caine
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Wise, funny' Daily Mail'Chatty and engaging . . . he often comes across as endearingly humble' Sunday Times'Thoroughly engaging' Sunday Express magazine'Fabulous storytelling' PrimaOne of 'the top 25 most compelling Hollywood autobiographies'... -
Caution to the Wind: A Memoir by Terry Prone 9781786051967
RRP: £20.00£16.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786051967Author Terry ProneFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Red Stripe PressPublisher Orpen Press -
The Man Who Climbs Trees by James Aldred
RRP: £9.99£6.52'A book of heart-stopping bravery and endurance' -- Helen Macdonald'A great read - incredible adventures and a dramatic new perspective' -- Chris Packham'[A] delightful, endlessly fascinating book' -- Daily Mail BOOK OF THE WEEKThis is the story of a... -
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert by Spike Milligan
RRP: £9.99£7.75VOLUME TWO OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A OUTRAGEOUS, HILARIOUS WW2 MEMOIRS'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times______________'Keep talking, Milligan... -
Eastern Horizons: Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Award by Levison Wood
RRP: £12.99£8.60Levison Wood was only 22 when he decided to hitch-hike from England to India through Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but he wasn't the conventional follower of the hippy trail. A fascination with the deeds of the early explorers, a history... -
Josie's Story: A Mother's Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe by Sorrel King 9780802145048
RRP: £12.99£10.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145048Author Sorrel KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
That Guy Fae the Corries by Ronnie Browne
RRP: £9.99£7.54With his musical partner, Roy Williamson, Ronnie Browne became a national and international figure as one half of The Corries. His autobiography describes his childhood in war time and the austerity Britain of the 1950s and 60s, his musical career...