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Ghost Girl: The true story of a child in desperate peril – and a teacher who saved her by Torey Hayden 9780007218646
RRP: $27.28$20.92A stunning and poignant account of an extraordinary teacher's determination from the author of the #1 Sunday Times bestsellers The Tiger's Child and One Child. Jadie never spoke, never laughed, never cried. She spent every waking hour locked... -
Red Rowans and Wild Honey Betsy Whyte 9781841580708
RRP: $16.78$14.36The 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... -
Liverpool Miss by Helen Forrester
RRP: $23.08$15.67The 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... -
You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson 9781911344322
RRP: $20.98$14.49Winner 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... -
Don't Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal by Toni Maguire
RRP: $20.98$14.36This 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... -
Desert Flower Waris Dirie 9781860497582
RRP: $20.98$14.70Waris 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... -
The Orphanage: My shocking true story of surviving cruelty and abuse at Nazareth House Convent by Frances Reilly 9781399614924
RRP: $20.98$14.70'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 Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $31.48$23.00In 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... -
Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer by Michael Ashcroft 9781785906961
RRP: $42.00$30.41Sir 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 Fat of the Land by John Seymour 9781908213488
RRP: $31.50$23.37In 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 Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
$48.24In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Despite discouragement from friends that feared for her safety, she accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an... -
In Two Minds: Shocking true stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist Dr Sohom Das 9780751583793
RRP: $27.28$16.21Shocking. 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... -
Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender by Linda McDougall 9781785907524
RRP: $52.50$38.03Over 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. ... -
John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman by Robert Skidelsky
RRP: $67.20$47.65THE 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... -
Out Of Place: A Memoir by Edward W. Said
RRP: $23.08$15.83Edward 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... -
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 by Kate Summerscale
RRP: $20.98$16.74SHORTLISTED 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... -
Past Mortems: Life and death behind mortuary doors Carla Valentine 9780751565348
RRP: $18.88$13.42A 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... -
The Invisible Girl by Torey Hayden
RRP: $16.78$12.87From 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... -
The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture by Liam Konemann 9781912489404
RRP: $15.75$10.73In April 2019, Liam Konemann idly began work on what he thought of as 'the appendix' - a record of ongoing transphobia in the UK that he came across. But when his mental health began to spiral, he turned his attention to a different topic instead: how do... -
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
RRP: $20.98$14.36A '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... -
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain James Bloodworth 9781786490162
$29.09Longlisted 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... -
Bugles and a Tiger: My life in the Gurkhas by John Masters
RRP: $20.98$14.49The 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... -
The Islandman by Tomas O'Crohan
RRP: $19.93$14.66Tomas 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... -
Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women Margaret Llewelyn Davies 9781844088010
RRP: $23.08$15.98'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... -
Four Weeks in May: A Captain's Story of War at Sea by David Hart-Dyke 9781843545910
RRP: $23.08$15.83Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.A Sunday Times Bestseller'Electric... Outstanding.' GuardianIn March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April... -
The Informer by Sean O'Callaghan
RRP: $27.28$19.61In 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... -
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
RRP: $25.18$20.92In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the... -
Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl who Couldn't Ask for Help by Torey Hayden
RRP: $20.98$15.71From 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... -
Against the Tide Noel Browne 9780717142958
RRP: $37.78$27.62Against 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... -
Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted by Kristina Jones
RRP: $20.98$14.36The bestselling, devastating account of three sisters torn apart, abused and exploited at the hands of a community that robbed them of their childhood. It reveals three lives, separate but entwined, that have experienced unspeakable horror, unrelenting... -
Rockhopper Copper by Conrad Glass 9780955364877
RRP: $20.90$18.86Conrad Glass MBE is the Inspector of Police with the most lonely beat in the world: he patrols the remote island of Tristan da Cunha, a UK Overseas Territory in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. No aircraft fly overhead and none can land. Few... -
Night by Elie Wiesel 9780140189896
RRP: $18.88$13.97Elie 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 Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks 9781401309442
RRP: $41.98$25.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401309442Author Elyn R SaksFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 138mm * 25mm -
Unlocking the Golden Cage: An Intimate Biography of Hilde Bruch, M.D. Joanne Hatch Bruch 9780936077161
RRP: $46.18$31.98This 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: $23.08$15.67A 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... -
What A Bloody Awful Country: Northern Ireland's century of division by Kevin Meagher 9781785906664
RRP: $42.00$30.87'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... -
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein
RRP: $29.38$26.42Attila 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... -
Recollections: An Autobiography by Viktor Frankl 9780738203553
RRP: $23.08$18.90Born 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... -
Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide by Maggie Hyde
RRP: $18.88$14.07'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 Girl With Two Lives: A Shocking Childhood. A Foster Carer Who Understood. A Young Girl's Life Forever Changed by Angela Hart
RRP: $16.78$12.87The 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...