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From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots: How Music, Clothes and Going Out Shaped My Life and Upset My Mother by Geoff Deane 9781739123895
RRP: £16.99£11.54This is the tale of life lived large, a collection of uproarious and often moving stories spanning 60 years, from Geoff's youth as a clothes obsessed Jewish suedehead, hanging out in Tottenham dancehalls, via straight Bowie Boy frequenting London's gay... -
The Heath: My Year on Hampstead Heath by Hunter Davies
RRP: £10.99£7.77An engaging portrait of Hampstead Heath - a place rich not just in natural wonders but in history and monuments, emotions and memories, people and places. 'I enjoyed every inch of the way, from Parliament Hill to the Pergola... A late-life little... -
Just Sayin': My Life In Words by Malorie Blackman
RRP: £10.99£7.77The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books.Malorie Blackman OBE is one of Britain's best loved and most widely-read writers. For over thirty years, her... -
Shop Girl by Mary Portas
RRP: £12.99£9.09* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *Young Mary Newton, born into a large Irish family in a small Watford semi, was always getting into trouble. When she wasn't choking back fits of giggles at Holy Communion or eating Chappie dog food for a bet, she was... -
Don't Forget to Scream: Unspoken Truths About Motherhood by Marianne Levy
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Every person - parent or not - ought to read this . . . beautifully written and searingly honest'iLike grief or falling in love, becoming a mother is an experience both ordinary and transformative - one that not only turns your world upside-down, but... -
The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days by Helen Rebanks 9780785290483
RRP: £29.99£17.44A heartfelt, unvarnished reflection on the power of domestic life.Helen Rebanks' beautifully written memoir takes place across a single day on her working farm in the Lake District of England. Weaving past and present, through a journey of... -
No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters by Anne-Marie Fyfe 9781781725177
RRP: £9.99£6.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781725177Author Anne-Marie FyfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Swimming for My Life: A Memoir by Kim Fairley
RRP: £17.99£15.40In 1970s Cincinnati, Kim's overwhelmed, financially stressed parents dragged her and her four younger siblings into swimming-starting with a nearby motel pool-as a way to keep them occupied and out of their way. When Kim was eleven, they began leaving... -
Burn: A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing by Ben Short
RRP: £10.99£7.40'An extraordinary and powerful book, full of vitality. Every page celebrates the way traditional skills can shape who we are' Tristan Gooley'Lyrical, moving and never self-pitying . . . a lovely book' The TimesBen Short has a successful career in... -
Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach by Horatio Clare 9781908213778
RRP: £10.00£7.12In the depths of winter in 1705 the young Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher and organist, set off on a long journey by foot to Lubeck to visit the composer Dieterich Buxterhude, a distance of more... -
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
RRP: £16.99£11.54For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels - several of which are now established classics... -
The Autobiography Of Andrew Carnegie And The Gospel Of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
RRP: £7.99£5.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530387Author Andrew CarnegieFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 173g -
EB325573 by EBtbc325573
RRP: £20.00£14.29Denise Van Outen, original 90s 'ladette', West End star and primetime TV favourite, reveals for the first time the true story of grit and graft beneath the famous Essex sparkle.In this refreshingly candid memoir, Denise speaks openly and sensitively... -
Time the Present: Selected Stories by Tess Slesinger 9781913861605
RRP: £14.99£10.77Pull Devil, Pull Baker is one of the oddest autobiographies ever written.The novelist Stella Benson first encountered an eccentric Russiannobleman, Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec De Savine in the pauper'sward of a Hong Kong hospital. Striking up a... -
A Hundred to One: 100 convictions. 1 Million Euro. The devastating true story of a compulsive gambler by Pat Sheedy 9781804580585
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804580585Author Pat SheedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gill BooksPublisher Gill BooksWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 152mm * 20mm -
Father and Son: A memoir about family, the past and mortality by Jonathan Raban 9780330418409
RRP: £22.00£15.10A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, and on the other, the conventional codes of what must remain unsaid. This,... -
Trump by Donald J. Trump
RRP: £8.99£6.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345481405Author Donald J. TrumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)... -
10 Scotland Street by Leslie Hills 9781910895733
RRP: £24.99£17.31This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. - Sara Sheridan As a writer of fiction, I found myself itching to lift some of these characters from the page into the fertile fields of my own imagination... -
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Hawksley
RRP: £25.00£15.26Over 2,000 years of history seen through the eyes of 50 extraordinary women. Was Jane Austen a fan of her own work? What did Harriet Tubman want to tell Abraham Lincoln? And how did Greta Thunberg respond to her critics? This carefully curated selection... -
And Now The Shipping Forecast: A Tide of History Around Our Shores by Peter Jefferson
RRP: £12.99£12.55Peter Jefferson presented The Shipping Forecast for over 40 years, and his familiar voice continued to be heard reading quotations on BBC Radio 4's Quote... Unquote. This book is both an affectionate memoir and a history of the science and BBC... -
This is the Place to Be by Lara Pawson
RRP: £8.99£7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585218Author Lara PawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions -
Generations: A Memoir by Lucille Clifton
RRP: £13.99£9.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375878Author Lucille CliftonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: The Autobiography by Steven Tyler
RRP: £9.99£7.11The long-awaited, never-before-told, no-holds-barred memoir from the legendary Aerosmith frontman. Finally, all the lurid tales of debauchery, sex, drugs and rock n' roll are told straight from the horse's lips as The Demon of Screamin' describes his... -
Paperboy by Christopher Fowler
RRP: £10.99£7.77Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, cereal packets - anything that might reveal a... -
Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood by Trixie Mattel
RRP: £22.00£16.02Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova took the world by storm with their Guide to Modern Womanhood, a book of expert advice on beauty, homemaking and relationships. Now, they're tackling an even bigger challenge: finding success in the workplace.In... -
David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine by Nicholas Royle 9781526173638
RRP: £15.99£11.80In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delves deeply into questions about the value of art, music... -
Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood by Robert Douglas 9780340838617 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence... -
Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood by Robert Douglas
RRP: £10.99£7.40A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence... -
Dare to Dream: Develop the courage and tools to realize high stake dreams by Lowell Sheppard 9781911687900
RRP: £12.99£8.60Lowell Sheppard had a life-long dream: to buy a sailboat, live on it, learn how to sail, and then cross the Pacific Ocean...solo and by the time he was 70. When he finally announced that he was going to do just that, he was at the ripe age of 64..... -
Other People's Houses by Lore Segal
RRP: £8.99£6.73'First published 54 years ago and yet feels as timely as any book I've read this year' Observer Nine months after the Nazi occupation of Austria, 600 Jewish Children assembled at Vienna station to board the first of the Kindertransports bound for... -
Be My Baby by Ronnie Spector
RRP: £18.99£14.01Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, Be My Baby is the true story of how Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ronnie Spector carved out a space for herself against tremendous odds amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene... -
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970658Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 248g -
Silent Child: From no.1 bestseller Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival, for fans of Cathy Glass by Toni Maguire 9781789463057 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29Unlike people with carefree previous lives, I packed away my past. There are some memories labelled 'Look at', and others 'Leave well alone'...Emily Smith was held in a prison of fear for ten years. When she was four, her father left and a new man was... -
Silent Child: From no.1 bestseller Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival, for fans of Cathy Glass by Toni Maguire
RRP: £8.99£6.22Unlike people with carefree previous lives, I packed away my past. There are some memories labelled 'Look at', and others 'Leave well alone'...Emily Smith was held in a prison of fear for ten years. When she was four, her father left and a new man was... -
Leadership: Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy by Simon McDonald
RRP: £20.00£14.06When Abraham Lincoln said, 'You can be anything you want to be,' Americans, and eventually everybody everywhere, lifted their sights. Nowadays anybody can aspire to be a leader, and nearly everybody has to lead sometimes. In his first book, Simon... -
Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling by Jim Ross 9781683583974
RRP: £12.99£8.18New York Times bestselling author! Here is the story of how Jim Ross, an Oklahoman farm kid with a vivid imagination and seemingly unattainable dreams, became "The Voice of Wrestling" to record TV audiences and millions of fans around the world. There... -
This Is Not About Me by Janice Galloway 9781847080998 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother, Janice Galloway grew up as a watcher - careful and vigilant. Then her parents' marriage broke up and mother and daughter moved to an attic above a doctor''s... -
This Is Not About Me by Janice Galloway
RRP: £9.99£6.70From her earliest years with a boozy, accident-prone father and a reluctantly pragmatic mother, Janice Galloway grew up as a watcher - careful and vigilant. Then her parents' marriage broke up and mother and daughter moved to an attic above a doctor''s... -
In Parenthesis by David Jones 9780571259809
RRP: £17.99£12.20In Parenthesis was first published in London in 1937. I am proud to share the responsibility for that first publication. On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and still regard it, as a work of genius... Here is a book... -
My Nonidentical Twin: What I'd like you to know about living with Tourette's by Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie 9780751584066 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.54*Order now to read the long-awaited debut book from the huge TikTok sensation Evie Meg | This Trippy Hippie!*Hey guys, you might know me already from one of my social media channels where I talk about the highs and lows of living with Tourette's Syndrome...