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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist by Lori Gottlieb
RRP: £10.99£7.32A TIME magazine Must-Read Book of the Year Ever wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Times bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of her practice - where her patients are looking... -
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful, Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff
RRP: £14.99£9.70In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff looks back to our ancestors for solutions to our failing modern-day parenting theories. When Dr Michaeleen Doucleff became a mother, she examined the studies behind modern parenting... -
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life by Catherine Gray
RRP: £9.99£6.80THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Many people wonder if they can still have fun without alcohol... Gray tackles this misconception.' - The New York Times 'Gray's tale of going sober is uplifting and inspiring' - The Evening Standard 'An icon of the Quit... -
Memories, Dreams, Reflections: An Autobiography by Carl Jung
RRP: £12.99£8.48'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' Carl Jung An eye-opening biography of one of the most... -
Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man by Norah Vincent
RRP: £10.99£7.32Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man's world. Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, exploring what men are like... -
My Story: A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer
RRP: £10.99£7.40The remarkable trilogy from SUNDAY TIMES No.1 Bestseller Dave Pelzer - now in one volume.A CHILD CALLED 'IT' is Dave Pelzer's story of a child beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played torturous, unpredictable... -
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family... -
The Grass Arena: An Autobiography by John Healy
RRP: £9.99£7.11John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. This Penguin Classics edition includes an afterword by Colin... -
Night by Elie Wiesel
RRP: £9.99£7.11Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to... -
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding In Plain Sight by M. E. Thomas
RRP: £10.99£7.51A memoir by a diagnosed sociopath. Fascinating, shocking and funny, Confessions of a Sociopath is a gripping insight into the mind of a self-confessed predator.M. E. Thomas is a high-functioning non-criminal sociopath. She is charismatic, ambitious and... -
The Orphanage: My shocking true story of surviving cruelty and abuse at Nazareth House Convent by Frances Reilly 9781399614924
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Nobody wants you, so we have to put up with you. We'll soon knock the disobedience out of you...'Frances Reilly and her sisters were abandoned by their mother outside Nazareth House Convent - a Belfast orphanage run by nuns. Little did they know the... -
The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work by Joseph Campbell 9781608681891
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681891Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Past Mortems: Life and death behind mortuary doors by Carla Valentine
RRP: £8.99£6.20A day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' - is not your average day. She spent ten years training and working as an Anatomical Pathology Technologist: where the mortuary slab was her desk, and that... -
Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide by Maggie Hyde
RRP: £8.99£6.08'Clever and witty.' Susie Orbach, GuardianCarl Gustav Jung was the enigmatic and controversial father of analytical psychology.This updated edition of Introducing Jung brilliantly explains the theories that underpin Jung's work, delves into the... -
In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist by Dr Sohom Das 9780751583793
RRP: £12.99£7.51Shocking. Eye-opening. Grimly fascinating. These true stories from a Forensic Psychiatrist working in prisons, secure hospitals and criminal courts are perfect for true crime fans and readers of The Prison Doctor and The Dark Side of the Mind.As a... -
Night by Elie Wiesel 9780140189896
RRP: £8.99£6.45Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics. Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was... -
The Boy Grows Up: The inspirational story of his journey from broken boy to family man by Richard McCann
RRP: £12.99£9.09Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller. In it he told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherless when the Yorkshire Ripper killed his first victim, Richard's mother Wilma McCann. Just A Boy was... -
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
RRP: £10.99£9.37From one of the world's foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysisBecoming Freud is the story of the young Freud-Freud up until the age of fifty-that incorporates all of Freud's many... -
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind by Mike Jay 9780300276091
RRP: £10.99£9.37"Fascinating."-Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian "Richly detailed and frequently illuminating."-Rhys Blakely, Times (UK) "Excellent."-Clare Bucknell, New Yorker A New Yorker Best of the Week PickA provocative and original history of the scientists and... -
Liverpool Miss by Helen Forrester
RRP: £10.99£7.25The second volume of Helen Forrester's powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival... -
The Fat of the Land by John Seymour 9781908213488
RRP: £15.00£10.96In the 1970s, John Seymour's book, The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international best-seller, inspiring a new generation to "down-shift" to a new way of life. The book has remained in print ever since. But years earlier, Seymour had... -
The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99£15.28Learn about how we organise our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject,... -
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns 9780374601140
RRP: £30.00£19.80One of The New York Times's 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall | Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the... -
Spreading My Wings by Diana Barnato Walker 9781904010319
RRP: £12.99£9.09The daughter of millionaire racing driver, Woolf Barnato, and grand-daughter of Barney Barnato who co-founded the De Beers mining company, by 1936 Diana had had enough of her affluent, chaperoned existence and sought excitement in flying, soloing at... -
Red Rowans and Wild Honey by Betsy Whyte
RRP: £7.99£5.46The sequel to the perennially popular Yellow on the Broom, Red Rowans and Wild Honey follows Betsy's story to the end of the Second World War. She recounts in vivid detail the heady years of her adolescence, her courtship and her mother's struggle to... -
Behind Closed Doors by Jenny Tomlin
RRP: £10.99£7.40Jenny grew up in a house where no-one was safe. Born one of five children in the East End, her childhood was spent in squalor and terror. Her father's violent beatings, humiliations, and sexual abuse were part of daily life; her mother - also his sexual... -
Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender by Linda McDougall 9781785907524
RRP: £25.00£17.46Over a decade before Margaret Thatcher swept to power, another woman was running Britain from 10 Downing Street: Marcia Williams was the first ever female political adviser to a Prime Minister and was said to have a powerful grip on her boss. ... -
Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation by Paul Thompson
RRP: £24.99£19.39Presenting the landmark Pioneers life stories project, this one-of-a-kind book documents how modern social research in the UK was shaped. It sheds new light on the lives, methods and motivations of men and women who helped develop a new world of... -
The Not Quite Prime Ministers: Leaders of the Opposition 1783–2020 by Nigel Fletcher 9781785908101
RRP: £20.00£14.16History is written by the winners, they say. And more often than not, it is written about them too. A library's worth of books have been published chronicling the UK's Prime Ministers - those individuals who somehow made it to the top of the greasy pole... -
The Informer by Sean O'Callaghan
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 1988 IRA terrorist Sean O'Callaghan walked into a Tunbridge Wells police station and gave himself up. Two years later, in a Belfast courtroom, he pleaded guilty to all charges of which he was accused and received a sentence of 539 years. Since being... -
The Girl With Two Lives: A Shocking Childhood. A Foster Carer Who Understood. A Young Girl's Life Forever Changed by Angela Hart
RRP: £7.99£5.75The Girl With Two Lives is the fourth book from well loved foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart, in which she tells the story of one of her toughest placements yet.Twelve year old Danielle has been excluded from a special school... -
What's Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre 9780008201371
RRP: £9.99£5.60A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'History that reads like biography that reads like a novel - a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays against type' New York Times ... -
Against the Tide by Noel Browne
RRP: £17.99£12.95Against the Tide is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noel Browne experienced at... -
Introducing Freud: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi 9781840468519
RRP: £8.99£6.70Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we know what they really mean? Introducing Freud... -
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 9780486292496
RRP: £3.99£3.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486292496Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm)... -
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters 9780007200375
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Stuart does not like the manuscript. He's after a bestseller, "like what Tom Clancy writes". "But you are not an assassin trying to frazzle the president with anthrax bombs," I point out. You are an ex-homeless, ex-junkie psychopath, I do not add.' ... -
Bugles and a Tiger: My life in the Gurkhas by John Masters
RRP: £9.99£6.80The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWIIJohn Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th... -
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jon Halliday
RRP: £16.99£12.68The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday.Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked... -
By the Waters of Liverpool by Helen Forrester
RRP: £9.99£6.64The third volume in the classic story of Helen Forrester's childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s. Helen Forrester continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of her teenage... -
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs by Elissa Wall 9780061628030
RRP: £9.99£6.64In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This...