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Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon
RRP: $23.08$16.78'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary MantelA Guardian reader's Best Book of 2018 "There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit... -
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl by Jeannie Vanasco
RRP: $20.98$14.62Why would a good person commit a terrible act? Fifteen years ago, Jeannie's relationship with a close friend ended in rape. With the rise of the #MeToo movement, recurring nightmares of the event that plagued her as a girl have returned. To process... -
Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles
RRP: $18.88$13.73Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between Wellington, Kota Kinabalu and Shanghai, tracing the constants in her life: eating and cooking, and the dishes that have come to define her. Through... -
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
RRP: $29.38$19.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105329Author Huey P. NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 419g -
Wicked Girl by Jeanie Doyle
RRP: $16.78$12.56How do you teach a mother to love her child, when she's still a child herself?Jeanie Doyle nurtures, teaches and cares for young and dysfunctional mums, showing them how to care for their newborn babies, sometimes even taking the mother into foster care... -
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) by Elaine Welteroth
RRP: $35.68$26.19INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2020 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK - BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHYIn this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue... -
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin
RRP: $20.98$15.71'Swan Dive is to ballet what Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential was to restaurants, a chance to go behind the serene front of house to the sweaty, foul-mouthed, psychofrenzy backstage.' - Daisy Goodwin, Sunday TimesIn this love letter to the art of... -
They Called Us Enemy by JUSTIN EISINGER
RRP: $37.78$27.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Young Adult Literature) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781603094504Author George TakeiFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson 9781472994820
RRP: $23.08$18.08When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ... Stephen Fry Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his... -
Boy Friends: A Memoir of Joy, Grief and Male Friendship by Michael Pedersen 9780571360062
RRP: $20.98$14.49An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents.'As perfect a portrait of friendship as I've ever read.'STEPHEN FRY'Lucid, lyrical, loaded . . . A love letter to friendship.'JACKIE KAY'A... -
I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music Sylvia Patterson 9780751558708
RRP: $23.08$15.75DON'T MISS SYLVIA PATTERSON'S BRAND NEW MEMOIR, SAME OLD GIRL, COMING SPRING 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2016 'Celebratory and elegiac' Guardian 'A roller-coaster memoir' Sunday Times 'Funny, anecdote-packed, nostalgic but also very... -
Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong by Claire Ratinon 9781529114867
RRP: $23.08$15.39A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world.Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire Ratinon grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors and... -
Back in the Frame: How to get back on your bike, whatever life throws at you Jools Walker 9780751570786
RRP: $14.68$10.25Has your bicycle become your biggest escape of late? Are you rediscovering the joy of two wheels? If so, then Back in the Frame from award-winning blogger, Lady Velo, is the book for you Jools Walker re-discovered cycling aged twenty-eight after a... -
Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee, to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner by Hassan Akkad 9781529059816 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88$6.11A poignant and powerful memoir from BAFTA award-winning filmmaker, Syrian refugee, hospital cleaner and activist, Hassan Akkad.I've experienced the best and worst of humanity. I've been detained and beaten, and welcomed and respected. And yet, this story... -
Hope Not Fear: Finding My Way from Refugee to Filmmaker to NHS Hospital Cleaner and Activist Hassan Akkad 9781529059816
RRP: $39.88$29.02A poignant and powerful memoir from BAFTA award-winning filmmaker, Syrian refugee, hospital cleaner and activist, Hassan Akkad.I've experienced the best and worst of humanity. I've been detained and beaten, and welcomed and respected. And yet, this story... -
A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
RRP: $33.58$24.38A House Unlocked is Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively's classic memoir.The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house Golsoncott. Years later, as the house was sold out of the... -
Tom Mann's Memoirs by Tom Mann 9780851247588
RRP: $33.60$33.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247588Author Tom MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 221mm * 142mm * 4mm -
Critical by Anthea Allen 9780008506452 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$5.57THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of the toughest battle our nurses have had to fight. Anthea Allen's writing is raw, honest and full of... -
Critical by Anthea Allen
RRP: $31.48$28.25THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of the toughest battle our nurses have had to fight. Anthea Allen's writing is raw, honest and full of... -
Animal House James Brown 9781787477902
RRP: $42.00$29.30Music, Magazines & MayhemBetween 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade. It won every award going, year after year, and came to define not only its audience but also a generation. Bright,... -
Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide by Lynsey Hanley
RRP: $23.08$16.78'Pithy and provoking, spiced with the personal' Hilary MantelLynsey Hanley grew up part of the 'respectable working class'. At university, she discovered that social mobility is not all it seems. This book is about what it means to cross class divides,... -
That Guy Fae the Corries by Ronnie Browne
RRP: $20.98$15.37With 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... -
When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black by Harry Edward 9780300270976
RRP: $39.88$33.98"Harry Edward was a hugely talented athlete and an extraordinary man who fought all his life for justice and fairness in the face of repeated prejudice. His story is as powerful today as it was when he lived it and I urge everyone to read this book... -
Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition - As heard on the BBC Radio 4 series 'Between Ourselves with Marian Keyes' by Marian Keyes
RRP: $20.98$16.21Get comfortable, sink under the covers and dip into the hilarious Under the Duvet: Deluxe Edition for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into bestselling author Marian Keyes' life . . .'A must-read for all. Keyes' funny and poignant tales will have you... -
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $31.48$23.33____________________ 'A superbly edited and evocatively illustrated collection that brings together everything that Scott wrote to his wife' - Sunday Telegraph 'Heartbreaking ... Love has seldom seemed more poignant' - Sunday Times 'Excellent ..... -
Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ by Annie Nightingale
RRP: $23.08$12.12A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A joy to read' Guardian'I loved this book' Irvine Welsh 'What a story! I adored it' Lauren LaverneAs a DJ and broadcaster on radio, tv and the live music scene, Annie has been an invigorating and necessarily disruptive... -
Small Town Girl: Love, Lies and the Undercover Police Donna McLean 9781529379853
RRP: $35.68$24.59"You live with someone for two years and then . . . they simply don't exist."Over 40 years, two British police units acted undercover to infiltrate activist groups. At least 20 of those officers deliberately targeted women and entered relationships with... -
The God Squad by Paddy Doyle 9780552150279 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$3.74The past they tried to hide.His mother died from cancer in 1955. His father committed suicide shortly thereafter. Paddy Doyle was sentenced in an Irish district court to be detained in an industrial school for eleven years. He was four years old..... -
Invest Your Suffering: Unexpected Intimacy with a Loving God by Paul Mallard
RRP: $23.08$16.78Let me be honest, there have been times when my faith has seemed fragile... I have struggled with seeing my wife stripped of her dignity and reduced by her agony. I have doubted all kinds of things. I have exploded and lashed out. I do not like what is... -
Suffer The Little Children: The True Story Of An Abused Convent Upbringing by Frances Reilly 9780752880808 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.52The heartbreaking yet inspiring account of a young girl who suffered at the hands of nuns in the Nazareth House Convent in Northern Ireland.Frances Reilly and her sisters were abandoned by their mother outside Nazareth House Convent - a Belfast orphanage... -
Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms with the Troubles by Tony Macaulay
RRP: $23.08$15.67It's Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve and he's got a new job. He's going to be a paperboy. And come rain or shine - or bombs and mortar - he... -
I Am Norwell Roberts: The story of the Met's first Black police officer *COMING SOON TO YOUR SCREENS WITH REVELATION FILMS* Norwell Roberts 9781399800891
RRP: $23.08$15.98To appreciate the present and how far we have come we sometimes need to revisit the uncomfortable past, no matter how painful. Norwell Roberts, who became the Met's first Black police officer in 1967, found out he had a new job the same way the readers... -
Hitch 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $27.28$18.48Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardIn this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date, from his childhood in Portsmouth, with his adoring, tragic mother and reserved Naval officer father; to... -
The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On by Joan Bakewell 9780349013930 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$4.75'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The TimesOld age is no longer a blip in the calendar, just a few declining years before the end. Old age is now a major and important part of life: It... -
Make Hay While the Sun Shines: A Year on the Farm by Tom Pemberton 9781804190050
RRP: $20.98$14.70*A Sunday Times Bestseller***INCLUDES AN EXTRA Q&A CHAPTER EXCLUSIVE TO THE PAPERBACK**For five generations, the Pemberton family have farmed at Birks Farm in the picturesque town of Lytham on Lancashire's Fylde Coast, working at the heart of the area... -
Belonging: A Memoir by Catherine Corless
RRP: $33.58$24.13ONE WOMAN, THE SECRETS OF A SMALL TOWN, AND A QUEST FOR JUSTICE THAT ROCKED A NATION. Catherine Corless could not have known where her interest in local history would lead her, as she began researching the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway in 2010... -
The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry Sheridan Morley 9781398709218
RRP: $35.68$24.59'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIANThe unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant characters of the 20th century - with a new introduction by Stephen Fry'Compulsive reading' SUNDAY TIMES'19th... -
The Goshawk: With a foreword by Helen Macdonald T. H. White 9781474601665
RRP: $27.28$18.54With a foreword by Helen Macdonald, author of the multi-award-winning H IS FOR HAWK.'No hawk can be a pet. There is no sentimentality. In a way, it is the psychiatrist's art. One is matching one's mind against another mind with deadly reason and interest... -
Cracked Eggs and Chicken Soup - A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars: A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars by Norman Jacobs
RRP: $16.78$12.14In this revealing memoir of childhood, the author shows not only what affected his family, but also reveals a large slice of social history concerning the lives of all ordinary working-class people struggling to live in the slums of the East End of... -
Toffee Apples and Quail Feathers: The Best of Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth
RRP: $31.48$21.11Following the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst her manuscripts a folder simply labelled 'Fifth Book'. Imagine her excitement when she sat down to read and her mother's distinctive voice came flooding...