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Liverpool Miss by Helen Forrester
RRP: $14.18$9.35The 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... -
Bugles and a Tiger: My life in the Gurkhas by John Masters
RRP: $12.89$8.77The 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... -
Don't Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal by Toni Maguire
RRP: $12.89$8.57This heart-wrenching memoir from Toni Maguire tells the deeply moving story of an idyllic childhood that masked a terrible truth. Underneath her mother's gentility and her father's roguish charm lay horrifying secrets, which eventually led to their only... -
Just A Boy: The True Story Of A Stolen Childhood by Richard McCann
RRP: $16.76$11.73One October night in 1975 Richard, aged five, was alone in the house with his three sisters. It was 3am and their mother hadn't come home yet. Next morning, the police arrived to take the children away. Their mother had become the first victim of a... -
A Brother's Journey: Surviving A Childhood of Abuse by Richard B. Pelzer
RRP: $14.18$9.55The story of Dave Pelzer is a legend of our times: the shattering tale of the child called 'It' who was forced to live in the basement. His mother was the perpetrator of the horror, but she had a willing accomplice. It was Dave's brother Richard - the... -
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
RRP: $12.89$8.77Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of... -
Autobiography Of A Geisha by Sayo Masuda 9780099462040
RRP: $20.63$14.98Sayo Masuda's story is an extraordinary portrait of rural life in japan and an illuminating contrast to the fictionalised lives of glamorous geishas.At the age of sis Masuda's poverty-stricken family sent her to work as a nursemaid. At the age of twelve,... -
The Bigger Picture: How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World by Alexander Beiner
RRP: $16.76$9.96Can psychedelic drugs help us tackle the biggest problems we face globally? Can they heal the cultural, spiritual, and political wounds we're wrestling with?Psychedelics have hit the mainstream as powerful new mental health treatments. But as clinicians... -
A Promise To Nadia: A true story of a British slave in the Yemen by Zana Muhsen
RRP: $14.18$9.55Ten years previously Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son, her sister Nadia, and Nadia's two small children. As she described so powerfully in her... -
John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman by Robert Skidelsky
RRP: $41.28$29.27THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHYRobert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. Here, Skidelsky has revised and abridged his magnum opus into... -
Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone
RRP: $16.76$11.73In 1978, the US government waged a war against organised crime. One man was left behind the lines. From 1976 until 1981, Special Agent Pistone lived undercover with the Mafia. Only able to visit his young family once every few months, Pistone - under the... -
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
RRP: $12.89$8.57A 'retired career anorexic' examines herself and her, and our, culture in a masterpiece of confessional literature. At the age of four Marya Hornbacher looked in a mirror and decided she was fat. At nine, she was bulimic. At twelve, she was... -
The Secrets of My Life by Caitlyn Jenner
RRP: $12.89$8.77THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn this remarkable memoir - written with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger during her pivotal first years of rebirth - Caitlyn Jenner reflects on her past as she looks to her future. With poignancy and humour,... -
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 by Kate Summerscale
RRP: $12.89$9.93SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERS London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young... -
The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $19.34$14.13In 1593, the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account - a violent quarrel over the bill, or 'recknynge' - long regarded as... -
The Clinical Diary of Sandor Ferenczi by Sandor Ferenczi 9780674135277
RRP: $39.93$31.50In the half-century since his death, the Hungarian analyst Sandor Ferenczi has amassed an influential following within the psychoanalytic community. During his lifetime Ferenczi, a respected associate and intimate of Freud, unleashed widely disputed... -
The Invisible Girl by Torey Hayden
RRP: $10.31$7.66From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes The Invisible Girl, a deeply moving true account of a young teen with a troubling obsession and an extraordinary educational psychologist's sympathy and determination to... -
Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer by Michael Ashcroft 9781785906961
RRP: $25.80$18.68Sir Keir Starmer has played many parts during his life and career. He went from schoolboy socialist to radical lawyer before surprising many by joining the establishment, becoming Director of Public Prosecutions, accepting a knighthood and then, in 2015,... -
The Islandman by Tomas O'Crohan
RRP: $12.24$8.75Tomas O'Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 and died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd and humorous detachment that enabled him to... -
Fire Woman: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's First Female Firefighter by Josephine Reynolds 9781782436997
RRP: $12.89$8.84The inspiring true story of Josephine Reynolds, Britain's first full-time female firefighter.When Josephine Reynolds signed up with the Norfolk Fire Service in July 1982 at just seventeen years old, there was no such thing as a firefighter - only fire... -
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C G Jung 9780679723950
RRP: $24.51$14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723950Author Carl G. JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Veiled Threat: On being visibly Muslim in Britain by Nadeine Asbali 9781785908194
RRP: $24.50$17.81Nadeine Asbali would be the first to say that a scarf on a woman's head doesn't define her, but in her case, that's a lie. Nadeine's life changed overnight. As a mixed-race teenager, she had unknowingly been passing as white her entire life: until she... -
Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide by Maggie Hyde
RRP: $11.60$8.64'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... -
The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist by John Marzillier
RRP: $29.03$27.74An honest and accessible insight into the often closed world of psychotherapy. This book is a memoir of the author's professional life as a psychologist and psychotherapist. It shows his progression from a hard-nosed behaviour therapist with a... -
Shame Travels by Jasvinder Sanghera
RRP: $14.18$9.55When she was a little girl, Jasvinder Sanghera's father told her about the village he came from, Kang Sabhu in rural Punjab. One day, he promised to take her there so she could meet her half-sister, Bachanu, who had stayed behind. But at the age of... -
Out Of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said
RRP: $14.18$9.44Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This account of his early life reveals how it influenced his books Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. Edward Said was... -
Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women by Margaret Llewelyn Davies 9781844088010
RRP: $14.18$9.55'I was born in Bethnal Green ...a tiny scrap of humanity. I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me ...When I was ten years old I began to earn my own living.' Told in the distinctive and memorable voices of working class women, Life... -
Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl who Couldn't Ask for Help by Torey Hayden
RRP: $12.89$9.38From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes Lost Girl, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost little girl and an extraordinary educational psychologist's courage and determination.Jessie is nine years old... -
Unlocking the Golden Cage: An Intimate Biography of Hilde Bruch, M.D. by Joanne Hatch Bruch
RRP: $28.37$19.65This biography of Hilde Bruch is a colorful, personal account of a legendary figure in modern psychiatry. Although she is best known as a pioneer in the field of eating disorders and is considered a major contributor to the conceptualization of anorexia... -
Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys by Peter Evans 9780060580544
RRP: $14.18$9.35A longtime investigative journalist uncovers one of the great untold stories of twentieth-century international intrigue, and the secrets it has held until now. Shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and Bobby Kennedy, two of the world's richest and most... -
Mixed Blessings: My Psychic Life by Diane Lazarus
RRP: $14.18$10.02At the age of eight Diane Lazarus first experienced the power of her amazing gift by seeing, hearing and speaking to spirits. Since then Diane has learned to control her gift, switching it on and off at will. Today she is rated in the top five... -
You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson 9781911344322
RRP: $12.89$8.64Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. A letter arrives. You've got an appointment with a trainee clinical psychologist on April 29, 2008. You don't attend. Another letter arrives. It says they don't normally reschedule appointments, but they... -
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education by Stephanie Land 9781982151393
RRP: $24.50$15.83A Good Morning America Book Club Pick "Raw and inspiring." -People "Land is not just exploring her own story, but also the larger implications of what it means to fall between the cracks of American capitalism." -The New York Times From the New York... -
Mr Smiley: My Last Pill and Testament by Howard Marks 9781509809684
RRP: $14.18$10.23Howard Marks is the most famous drug smuggler of his age, and a hero to a generation. On his release from one of America's toughest prisons, Howard made a promise to himself to go straight. No more drugs, no more smuggling, no more fake passports. He... -
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein
RRP: $18.05$16.23Attila Ambrus was a gentleman thief from Transylvania, a terrible professional hockey goalkeeper - and preferred women in leopard-skin hot pants. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Ambrus took up bank robbery to make... -
What A Bloody Awful Country: Northern Ireland's century of division by Kevin Meagher 9781785906664
RRP: $25.80$18.68'For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!' HOME SECRETARY REGINALD MAUDLING, RETURNING FROM HIS FIRST VISIT TO NORTHERN IRELAND IN 1970 In the early years of the twentieth century, simmering discontent began to boil over... -
Recollections: An Autobiography by Viktor Frankl 9780738203553
RRP: $14.18$11.27Born in 1905 in the centre of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a young... -
Red Adair: An American Hero - The Authorized Biography by Philip Singerman 9780747506195
RRP: $19.34$14.13Red Adair is now a multimillionaire, but he has worked his way up from a poor childhood in Houston where he spent years on the railways and on bomb-disposal before becoming an expert on oil-well firefighting. This is an account of his heroic life... -
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth
RRP: $12.89$8.64Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series of... -
Underboss by Peter Maas 9780060930967
RRP: $24.50$12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060930967Author Peter MaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc