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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion Cory Leadbeater 9780349127194
RRP: £22.00£14.56As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was kept confidential. Since the tumultuous days of childhood, Cory had sought refuge from the rougher parts... -
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life by Georgia Pritchett 9780571365883 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65The must-have memoir from Emmy Award winning writer of Succession, Georgia Pritchett.'Order her book. That's an order.' Miranda Hart'Brimming with wit and honesty' Nina Stibbe'Fantastically entertaining' Marina Hyde'I absolutely bloody loved this book... -
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: £10.99£7.77After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation... -
Hidden Sin: When the past comes back to haunt you by Julie Shaw 9780008228484
RRP: £10.99£8.29The explosive sequel to #1 Sunday Times bestseller Bad Blood. Set 18 years later, Hidden Sin is the story of Joey, his girlfriend Paula and Rasta Mo, the man he is to discover is his dad. Joey Parker is a young man with big dreams... -
Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet by Siôn Rowlands
RRP: £16.99£11.54Trimming a parrot's beak, emptying a dog's anal glands and neutering a cat - then lunch - followed by some tricky horse dentistry, amputating a lamb's leg and calming a distressed client... It's all in a day's work if you're a vet: a delicate balance of... -
The Great Irish Famine: A History in Four Lives by Enda Delaney
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number fled the country within a decade. The Great Irish Famine surveys the history of this great tragedy... -
What It Feels Like for a Girl by Paris Lees 9780141993089
RRP: £10.99£7.77"Fresh, original, heartbreaking" Reni Eddo-Lodge"Devastating, hilarious, unlike anything I have ever read. Destined to be a classic" Pandora Sykes'A must-read ... as mesmerising as it is poignant' Stylist, SPRING MUST-READ BOOKS TO FEEL EMPOWERED'This... -
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast by Michael Scott Moore
RRP: £10.99£7.25Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates-a riveting,thoughtful, and... -
Nowhere to Go: The heartbreaking true story of a boy desperate to be loved by Casey Watson 9780007543083 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.15Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson shares the shocking true story of Tyler, an abused eleven-year-old who, after stabbing his step-mother, had nowhere else to go. Knowing a little of Tyler's past - his biological mother, a heroin... -
Nowhere to Go: The heartbreaking true story of a boy desperate to be loved by Casey Watson
RRP: £9.99£6.64Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson shares the shocking true story of Tyler, an abused eleven-year-old who, after stabbing his step-mother, had nowhere else to go. Knowing a little of Tyler's past - his biological mother, a heroin... -
Unlost: Finding Myself in the Wilderness by Gail Muller
RRP: £8.99£6.20Gail Muller was told she'd be in a wheelchair by the age of forty. At forty-one she set out to hike one of the world's toughest treks, The Appalachian Trail - a 2,200-mile journey that would help her reclaim her life and heal her mind and body. An... -
Making a Difference: Stories of Vision and Courage from America's Leaders by Chesley B. Sullenberger 9780061924712
£12.50At a time of political polarization and economic turmoil, Americans yearn for superlative leadership. Few have demonstrated leadership better than Captain Sully Sullenberger, a man who embodies the core values that are the heart of America:... -
You Can't Stop The Sun From Shining by Sonny Bill Williams 9781529387858
RRP: £20.00£13.75'The book is as compelling and open-hearted as Williams is... It is full of the beguiling Sonny Bill sunshine' Don McCrae, Guardian 'Excellent' David Walsh, Sunday Times __________Out now: the extraordinary and revealing autobiography of one of rugby's... -
The Silver Invicta: Journeys with a Fly Fisher by Tom Harland
RRP: £17.99£12.20The Silver Invicta is a stream of impressions from a fishing life, in its varying moods, coloured with plenty of whisky and eccentric company. Join Tom Harland on his light-hearted journeys with his fly rod; take part in his triumphs and disasters on... -
This Will Only Hurt a Little: The New York Times Bestseller by Busy Philipps
RRP: £14.99£10.95THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Busy is a legit writer with a voice as clear as a bell' Tina Fey 'Funny, refreshingly candid memoir about Hollywood, motherhood and BFFhood' Cosmopolitan'Judy Blume meets Karl Ove Knausgaard meets one brave woman from... -
Addicted to Adventure: Between Rocks and Cold Places by Bob Shepton
RRP: £11.99£9.00Bob Shepton is an ordained minister in the Church of England in his late 70s, but spends most of his time sailing into the Arctic and making first ascents of inaccessible mountains. No tea parties for this vicar. Opening with the disastrous fire that... -
The Psychopath by Mary Turner Thomson
RRP: £8.99£6.13Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX. In 2006, Mary Turner Thomson's world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would be the... -
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S.Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
RRP: £12.99£9.09Faced with cancer and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future. In doing so he won himself a unique place in American letters. Acclaimed by writers... -
Doro: Refugee, hero, champion, survivor by Brendan Woodhouse
RRP: £18.99£13.02'This is Doro and he is beautiful.'So begins the extraordinary story of Doro Goumaneh, who faced an unimaginable series of adversities on his journey from persecution in The Gambia to refuge in France.Doro was once a relatively prosperous fisherman, but... -
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
RRP: £9.99£6.64How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a... -
Scotland Queen by 327509 9781787635555
£21.29'It's no mystery or secret how much I enjoy Lawrence Chaney.' - RuPaul'Tackles everything from gender identity, the thrill of a wig and why Scottish talent is often overlooked.' - i NewsLawrence Chaney has wowed audiences across the globe as the winner... -
One Hundred Miracles: Music, Auschwitz, Survival and Love by Zuzana Ruzickova
RRP: £10.99£7.77The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily Telegraph Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian... -
All In: The Autobiography of Billie Jean King by Billie Jean King
RRP: £14.99£10.95An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.'A constant role model in my life, Billie Jean King is a... -
Jimmy & Me: A Personal Memoir Of A Great Friendship: JAMES DEAN & LEW BRACKER by Lew Bracker
RRP: £11.99£8.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940287010Author Lew BrackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Fulcorte PressPublisher Fulcorte PressWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
On Dangerous Ground by Maire Comerford 9781843518198
RRP: £18.00£14.88On Dangerous Ground is the revolutionary period memoir of Republican Maire Comerford (1893-1982). This striking memoir, one of the last of its era, includes Comerford's original text, written mainly in the 1940s and '50s, and new material unearthed from... -
Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb by Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
RRP: £12.99£9.09The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutionsMemoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an... -
Like Father, Like Son: A family story by Michael Parkinson 9781529362466 [USED COPY]
£2.29'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity autobiographies shy away from: it seeks the truth and, more often than not, finds it.' - THE MAILA look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to.It started in the... -
Like Father, Like Son: A family story by Michael Parkinson 9781529362466
RRP: £20.00£14.29'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity autobiographies shy away from: it seeks the truth and, more often than not, finds it.' - THE MAILA look at the life and times of the man Sir Michael most looked up to.It started in the... -
Remain in Love by Chris Frantz
RRP: £9.99£6.80THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'As the Brits say: I'm gobsmacked. I devoured this book... one of the most potent examples of living the dream' DEBBIE HARRY'A great drummer who has written a great book' BILL MURRAY'A revealing inside account of the highs and... -
Nine Lives: The Reflections of a Deliberate Diplomat by Donal Denham
RRP: £17.95£16.57In a career spanning 41 years in the Irish diplomatic service, Ambassador Donal Denham has lived among nine very different societies, spanning three continents. With stops in France, Zambia, the USA, Lithuania, Belarus, Finland and finally the Holy See,... -
What Are You Doing Here?: My Autobiography by Floella Benjamin 9781529071054
RRP: £20.00£14.69Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book AwardsBaroness Floella Benjamin is an inspiration, an actress and much-loved children's television presenter who is a member of the House of Lords. But how did the girl from Trinidad end up lunching with the Queen?In... -
A Road Back from Schizophrenia: A Memoir by Arnhild Lauveng
RRP: £12.99£8.18A Powerful Memoir for Sufferers, Their Families, and the Professionals who Care for Them For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. A Road Back from Schizophrenia... -
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway by Kate Bradbury
RRP: £11.99£7.87'Wonderfully intense and honest - a poignant manual of how to grow hope against the odds.' - Chris Packham, TV presenter and author of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar. Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her... -
Invest Your Suffering: Unexpected Intimacy with a Loving God by Paul Mallard
RRP: £10.99£7.77Let 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... -
I Let Him Go: The heartbreaking book from the mother of James Bulger by Denise Fergus 9781911600121 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.65THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'I was crying so much I couldn't breathe. The thought of leaving the shopping centre without him was crushing. I knew that walking away from the place where he had gone missing, without any idea where he now was, meant that... -
Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself by Jill Biden 9781250182340 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99£2.15"How did you get this number?" Those were the first words Jill Biden spoke to U.S. senator Joe Biden when he called her out of the blue to ask her on a date. Growing up, Jill had wanted two things: a marriage like her parents'-strong, loving, and... -
The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
RRP: £10.99£7.40Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... -
Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings by Angela Carter
RRP: £9.99£6.80In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long... -
To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in by Philippe Petit
RRP: £8.99£2.91One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time, making eight crossings over the course of an hour, 110... -
Out of Egypt by Andre Aciman
RRP: £12.99£8.56From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me, a memoir of an extraordinary life.'[A] mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world. Aciman's story of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish family with Italian...