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I Spy: My Life in MI5 by Tom Marcus 9781509864096
RRP: £18.99£14.01'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - Sun'The brutal truth about the war against terror. Fast-paced and gripping.' - Ant Middleton The explosive book from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus takes the reader... -
The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £20.00£14.29A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily TelegraphMuch attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in?In this... -
Burn: A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing by Ben Short 9781529370348
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Lyrical, moving and never self-pitying... a lovely book' The Times'An extraordinary and powerful book, full of vitality' Tristan GooleyI came to the woods over a decade ago. I came to the woods because there was a fire in my head.On the outside, Ben... -
Stone Will Answer: A Journey Guided by Craft, Myth and Geology by Beatrice Searle 9781529920499
RRP: £10.99£7.77A beautiful memoir, travelogue and meditation on stone by artist and stone mason Beatrice Searle.'Extraordinary' Guardian'A magnificent book' Alex Woodcock'Exceptional' Kerri Andrews'Luminous' SpectatorAt the age of twenty-six, artist and Cathedral... -
26.2 Miles to Happiness: A Comedian's Tale of Running, Red Wine and Redemption by Paul Tonkinson
RRP: £10.99£9.09WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2021 - SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR The hilarious trials and tribulations of stand-up comedian Paul Tonkinson as he attempts to beat the much lauded 3-hour mark at the London Marathon. Along... -
Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto by Zachary Zane
RRP: £19.99£13.92A sex and relationship columnist bares it all in a series of essays-part memoir, part manifesto-that explore the author's coming-of-age and coming out as a bisexual man and move toward embracing and celebrating sex unencumbered by shame As a boy,... -
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
RRP: £9.99£7.11A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children'As well as being a master of the macabre,... -
Regrets of the Dying: Stories and Wisdom That Remind Us How to Live by Georgina Scull
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A beautiful and moving reminder to appreciate life' Roxie Nafousi, author of Manifest'This book may on first glance appear to be about death and regrets, but is in reality about life and choices. It is warmly life-affirming ... A magnificent read that... -
Ticket to the World: My 80s Story by Martin Kemp 9780008586058
RRP: £9.99£6.52Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all. New Year's Eve, 1979. My family and I stand arm in arm around our Formica kitchen table,... -
Confabulations by John Berger
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it... -
Green Hills Of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: £8.99£7.21'I remember seeing the lion looking yellow and heavy-headed and enormous against a scrubby-looking tree in a patch of orchard bush and P. O. M. kneeling to shoot him. Then there was the short-barrelled explosion of the Mannlicher and the lion was going... -
Deeper Into the Wood by Ruth Pavey
RRP: £10.99£7.38In the late 1990s, Ruth Pavey bought four acres of scrub land above the Somerset Levels. She devoted the next two decades to improving the land into a lush wood; a haven for birds, insects and all manner of wildlife. Beneath the shade of the trees, she... -
Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy and Connection by Mimi Zhu
RRP: £15.00£10.96Be Not Afraid of Love is a stunning collection of interconnected essays and affirmations that follow Mimi Zhu's journey toward embodying and re-learning love after a violent relationship. In their early twenties, queer Chinese-Australian writer and... -
Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
RRP: £15.99£11.61Julie Powell's Julie & Julia is the story of the culinary blogging sensation that inspired the hit film.Living in a tiny apartment in New York and trapped in a job she hates, Julie Powell sees life passing her by. Then one night, she notices that the few... -
Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity by Justin Baldoni
RRP: £10.99£10.07A GRIPPING, FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITY The effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our time. In this engaging and provocative new book, beloved actor, director, and social activist... -
The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest by Nick J. Thorpe
RRP: £12.99£11.46The author takes us on an unexpected journey up the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar world The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine,... -
Stronger Together: How We're Living While Fighting by Anne Nolan 9781529109597
RRP: £9.99£7.11"It's ok to be scared, to feel lonely... we'll get through it, because we have to."For more than 40 years Linda and Anne have performed side by side as members of iconic Irish girl group The Nolans. But in 2020 the sisters sat next to each other for a... -
So Here It Is: The Autobiography by Dave Hill
RRP: £8.99£6.22'No Slade = No Oasis. It's as devastating and as simple as that' Noel Gallagher With six consecutive number one singles and the smash hit 'Merry Xmas Everybody', Slade were unstoppable. Now, the man whose outlandish costumes and unmistakable hairstyle... -
Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99£6.70Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul and Philip Roth. From the pleasures, intrigues and... -
For Love or Money by Jonathan Raban
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years, he has made my work better and me happier.' Paul Theroux 'For Love and Money ... is as good a... -
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain by Anita Sethi
RRP: £10.99£8.38WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE "I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had to report what had happened, not only for myself but to help stop... -
Always Remember Your Name: A True Story of Family and Survival in Auschwitz by Andra & Tatiana Bucci
RRP: £12.99£8.73'These two sisters might be some of our final living first-hand witnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust. With this book, they break the silence and give us the immeasurable gift of their story.' Gwen Strauss, author of The NineOn 28 March 1944, Italian... -
Running On Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss and a Record Setting Run Across America by Marshall Ulrich 9781583334904
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583334904Author Marshall UlrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 325g -
My Life as a Potter: Stories and Techniques by Mary Fox
RRP: £24.99£17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179385Author Mary FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing -
Bedpans And Bobby Socks: Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime by Barbara Fox
RRP: £10.99£7.40'In my dreams, I was always in some vast landscape on a long, straight road. Driving. Always driving.'Gwenda had always loved the open road, but her home town of Newcastle didn't really offer the sort of adventure she longed for. So, in 1957, with friend... -
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
RRP: £9.99£6.80Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there;... -
My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174142Author Elizabeth Marshall ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
A Farmer and His Dog by Adam Henson
RRP: £12.99£8.32There is nothing quite like the relationship between a farmer and his dog.'For me, the bond I have with Peg, my border collie sheepdog is priceless. I know how very lucky I, and thousands of other shepherds and farmers, are to have these extraordinarily... -
Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers by Alex Banayan
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804136662Author Alex BanayanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CurrencyPublisher Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc -
How Not to Kill Yourself: Portrait of a Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin 9780861540488
RRP: £18.99£13.61'Illuminating, riveting, and - for those of us who are suffering, or know people who are - potentially life-savingly helpful.' Scott Stossel The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his basement with a dog leash. He didn't write a note... -
Do You Remember? by Alice Taylor
RRP: £11.99£9.00Alice Taylor remembers her childhood home - the farm with all its tools and animals, the home with its equipment for living, its daily challenges, constant hard work, and its comforts too. She describes the huge open fireplace where all the cooking... -
Into the Woods and Out Again: A Memoir of Love, Madness, and Transformation by Dina Glouberman
RRP: £14.99£13.03A revealing meditation on the behind-the-scenes world of therapy and psychoanalysis in the 1960s. 1971 was the year Dina Glouberman went mad. Now, for the first time, Dr Dina Glouberman, renowned psychotherapist and author, co-founder of the... -
Confessions: Life Re-examined by Edward Stourton
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Thoughtful, witty, occasionally comic, often effortlessly profound - not a conventional journalistic memoir.' Sunday Times'If you value the perspective and judgment of one who has covered, often from the frontline, the major events of the past four... -
What Am I Bid? by Philip Serrell 9781529396461
RRP: £20.00£11.65DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK'A sparkling memoir... My hope is that Philip Serrell will do for the antiques trade what James Herriot did for cow's bottoms, as his memoir contains every ingredient for similar popular success... Serrell is laugh-out-loud... -
Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles
RRP: £8.99£6.34Tiny 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... -
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain by James H. Fallon
RRP: £17.99£11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617230158Author James FallonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CurrentPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 223g -
The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is by Rhyannon Styles
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Inspiring and heart-wrenching' Paloma Faith 'Love Rhyannon. Love this book' Grace Dent The remarkable transgender memoir you won't stop hearing about. Rhyannon Styles will do for transgender what Matt Haig did for mental health. Elle columnist Rhyannon... -
Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth by Leo Houlding
RRP: £20.00£14.69One of Great Britain's finest climbers and adventurers, Leo Houlding started out climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District literally learning the ropes tackling the many historic peaks and crags in the area. Honing his skills as he grew, at... -
Horizon by Barry Lopez
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Horizon is magnificent; a contemporary epic' Robert Macfarlane, author of UnderlandFrom the author of the classic Arctic Dreams comes a vivid recollection of his travels around the world and the encounters that shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1: 1898-1922 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £35.00£24.43Volume One of the Letters of T. S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot in 1988, covered the period from Eliot's childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in England, married and published The Waste Land. Since 1988,...