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My Life Among the Underdogs: A Memoir by Tia Torres
RRP: £10.99£7.25From one of the most respected figures in the dog rescue community come the harrowing, funny, and inspiring stories of nine incredible dogs that shaped her life. Tia Torres, beloved underdog advocate and star of Animal Planet's hit show Pit Bulls... -
My Lifey by Paddy McGuinness
RRP: £9.99£7.11Get the kettle on, the biscuits out and settle in for a belting read.Let Paddy McGuinness take you back, far, far away from celebrity land, to a two-up, two-down terrace in 1970s Bolton, where he grew up. They were happy times, but money was tight... -
How to Solve a Murder by Derek Tremain
RRP: £8.99£5.92As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a forensic scientist. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes. FRACTURED SKULLS. GAS MASKS. BRAIN... -
Pat in the City by Patricia Field
RRP: £20.00£13.74From the iconic stylist and fashion provocateur whose designs transformed culture - bringing the glitz of Studio 54 and the sophistication of Sex and the City to the mainstream - comes a playful yet intimate memoir of a life spent... -
How to Grow Old: A middle-aged man moaning by John Bishop 9781529105391
RRP: £20.00£14.29Intimate confessions and spit-your-dentures-out hilarious commentary - this is observational comedy at its best.How to Grow Old is a stupid title, because the answer is obvious: Don't Die. Provided you don't die, you are growing old.Don't come to this... -
There's a Hole in my Bucket: A Journey of Two Brothers by Royd Tolkien
RRP: £8.99£6.13An inspirational, life-affirming memoir from the great-grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien. Having grown up on their great-grandfather's stories, Royd Tolkien and his brother, Mike, have always enjoyed adventures. So when Mike is diagnosed with motor neurone... -
A Home for All Seasons by Gavin Plumley 9781838954802
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Charming - a love-letter to home, history, and nature.'LEAH BROAD, Author of Quartet'A tender and illuminating history of an overlooked world.'HORATIO CLARE'Truly a revelation on every page.'PETROC TRELAWNY'A richly textured book, replete with... -
It's Not A Proper Job: Stories from 50 Years in TV by Tarrant Chris 9781914227196
RRP: £17.99£12.95In It's Not a Proper Job, TV legend Chris Tarrant regales the reader with hilarious and heart-warming stories from his stellar 50-year career in television and radio. With trademark wit and self-mockery, Chris not only recalls his behind-the-scenes... -
Let That Be a Lesson: A Teacher's Life in the Classroom by Ryan Wilson
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A frank, funny and long overdue ode to teachers and teaching' ADAM KAYThe malodorous horrors of Sports Day. Bracing yourself for Parents' Evening. Refereeing teenage relationship dramas...From the age of eight, Ryan Wilson dreamed of being a teacher... -
Bright Lights, Prairie Dust: Reflections on Life, Loss, and Love from Little House's Ma by Karen Grassle 9781647423131
RRP: £12.99£9.78Karen Grassle, the beloved actress who played Ma on Little House on the Prairie, grew up at the edge of the Pacific Ocean in a family where love was plentiful but alcohol wreaked havoc. In this candid memoir, Grassle reveals her journey to succeed as an... -
A Gift of Hope by Danielle Steel
RRP: £9.99£7.11THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERIn her powerful memoir His Bright Light, Danielle Steel opened her heart to share the devastating story of the loss of her beloved son. In A Gift of Hope, she shows us how she transformed that pain into a campaign of... -
F*cked at 40: Life Beyond Suburbia, Monogamy and Stretch Marks by Tova Leigh 9781786785220
RRP: £10.99£7.40"I was bored, angry, tired and sad. I felt all alone, yet I had nothing to complain about. I had a good job, a husband who wasn't shagging his assistant, three children who apart from being occasional a**holes were pretty good kids; a house, a dog and... -
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £20.00£14.69Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his catastrophic mistakes in love (sacred and profane) and his life in Grub Street - as a prolific writer... -
Square Peg, Round Ball: Football, TV and Me by Ned Boulting
RRP: £10.99£8.38SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'What Ned hasn't seen on a sports TV channel isn't worth knowing about.' Gabby Logan 'From falling out with Mourinho to flying with Gerrard, this is a... -
Gloucestershire Between the Wars: A Memoir by Arthur Stanley Bullock 9780752447933
RRP: £14.99£11.55One of the most eventful periods in history - the first half of the twentieth century - is vividly and astutely described by Arthur Stanley Bullock in this entertaining memoir. His unique insight comes from having not been in any sense part of the... -
The Girl in the Dark: The True Story of Runaway Child with a Secret. A Devastating Discovery that Changes Everything. by Angela Hart 9781529004151
RRP: £12.99£8.05The true story of runaway child with a secret. A devastating discovery that changes everything.Melissa is a sweet-natured girl with a disturbing habit of running away and mixing with the wrong crowd. After she's picked up by the police, and with nowhere... -
Bad Karma: The True Story of a Mexican Surf Trip from Hell by Paul Wilson 9780578579061
RRP: £11.95£8.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578579061Author Paul WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Paul WilsonPublisher Paul WilsonWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 15mm -
The Yorkshire Vet: In the Footsteps of Herriot by Peter Wright 9781912624119 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.29As featured on BBC Breakfast.A warm, engaging and witty memoir from the star of Channel 5's The Yorkshire Vet.This is the life story of vet Peter Wright, charting his working relationship with the famous 'James Herriot', from work experience with him as... -
Mustaine: A Life in Metal by Dave Mustaine
RRP: £9.99£6.64Founding member of Megadeth and former Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine tells a never-before-heard story of the lifetime he has spent in rock 'n' roll. But this extraordinary tale, riddled with his own personal ups and downs, is also the inside account... -
KING: Life, Death and Hip Hop by Hau Latukefu
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761046308Author Hau LatukefuFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia -
On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging (BBC Countryfile Magazine's Best Nature and Countryside Books of 2021) by Nicola Chester 9781915294067
RRP: £10.99£7.40Shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize 2022 for Nature Writing - Highly Commended Winner for the Richard Jefferies Award 2021 for Best Nature Writing 'A rural, working-class writer in an all too rarefied field, Chester's work is unusual... -
Apache by Ed Macy
RRP: £12.99£8.48Ed Macy is an elite pilot, one of the few men qualified to fly Apache helicopters, the world's deadliest fighting machines. This is his account of a fearless mission behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. After a brutal accident forced him out of... -
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy by Sofia Tolstoy 9781846881022
RRP: £12.99£9.09When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of "War and Peace", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her... -
My Year Off: Rediscovering Life After a Stroke by Robert McCrum
RRP: £9.99£7.27With an introduction by Henry Marsh, author of Do No HarmMy brain, which had just let me down so badly, was perhaps never so active. The paramedics' question was a fundamental one. Who are you? Yes indeed. Who am I?Robert McCrum was forty-two when he... -
Walled Gardens: Scenes from an Anglo-Irish Childhood by Annabel Davis-Goff 9781906011024
RRP: £12.99£8.60"Walled Gardens" is a brilliant portrait of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, struggling through the post-war depression aided by drink, horse-racing and religion, and their own idiosyncratic adaptations to modern life. Seen from the troubled perspective of... -
Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen by Chloé Cooper Jones
RRP: £10.99£7.40FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR'An exquisite exploration of disability, identity and the human capacity to do (and be) more than we've ever dreamed' Time'Gorgeously, vividly alive' New York Times'Challenges the unspoken social taboos... -
Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong by Claire Ratinon
RRP: £16.99£12.28*** A GARDENS ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR***'A beautiful book about nature...I recommend it' Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish)A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.Unearthed is the story of... -
Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £10.99£7.77After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World... -
Horses, Heifers and Hairy Pigs: The Life of a Yorkshire Vet by Julian Norton
RRP: £9.99£6.85Based 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... -
When You Lose It by Roxy Spiegel
RRP: £16.99£9.58'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston 'An extraordinary and important book. Read it immediately' Claudia Winkleman 'Superbly written, this deeply moving book underlines how truly precious mother-daughter... -
The Olive Route: A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean by Carol Drinkwater
RRP: £9.99£6.80In the terrific bestselling olive series by writer and actress Carol Drinkwater, bestselling author of THE FORGOTTEN SUMMER'She writes so well you can almost smell the sun-baked countryside' BELLA'Spellbinding' CHOICE'One cannot resist Drinkwater's... -
We Bought an Island by Evelyn E. Atkins
RRP: £9.95£8.74Evelyn Atkins and her sister Babs were two middle-aged sisters who lived in suburban Surrey and led the humdrum life of so many commuters. Like others, Evelyn dreamed of owning an island. And Evelyn was a very determined daydreamer...Then Evelyn broke... -
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
RRP: £10.99£7.93With an introduction by Xiaolu GuoA classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talking-story, we... -
The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness by Amy-Jane Beer
RRP: £18.99£12.48WINNER OF THE 2023 JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 'Unparalleled.' THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'A true masterpiece.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A tour de force.' GUY SHRUBSOLE 'Quietly courageous.' PATRICK BARKHAM 'Lyrical, wholehearted... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja 9781913505462
RRP: £12.00£8.30Usman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offences at age 20, and sent to high-security prison. He was released eight years later, and allowed to travel to London for one day, to attend an event marking the fifth anniversary of a prison education... -
Raised by the Zoo: My Life with Elephants and Other Animals by Gerry Creighton 9780717197514
RRP: £21.99£15.61People have been enchanted by elephants for centuries. For Gerry Creighton, this fascination began at an early age; his father was a keeper at Dublin Zoo and instilled in him a love and respect for animals. Gerry followed his father and joined the zoo at... -
The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
RRP: £15.00£10.21THE SICK BAG SONG chronicles Cave's journey with his band the Bad Seeds on a twenty-two-day, North American tour. It is a highly personal account that blends memories, musings, poetry, lyrics, flights of fancy and road journal.Drawing inspiration from... -
I Don't Want to Talk About Home: A migrant’s search for belonging by Suad Aldarra 9781529177138
RRP: £10.99£7.77Powerful, fascinating and deeply moving - this book pushes aside our lazy images of human migration and refugees. I loved it. RODDY DOYLE, author of LoveTHE BESTSELLING MEMOIR - SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR'I carry... -
Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir by Brianna Madia 9780063316096
RRP: £22.00£14.58The author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Very Long continues her story with this deeply honest, moving account of a woman walking the line between independence and isolation when she moves to the Southwest desert with nothing and no one... -
Love Is A Mix Tape: A Memoir by Rob Sheffield
RRP: £10.99£7.40In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine, tells the story of his musical coming of age, and how rock music, the first love of his life, led him to his second, a girl named...