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Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London by Andrew Nagorski 9781785788772
RRP: $14.18$9.44'Astonishing... In the American journalist Andrew Nagorski this tale has found its ideal narrator'SEBASTIAN FAULKS, Sunday Times'[A] thrilling book, as edge-of-your-seat gripping as any heist movie'Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Book of the Day'A gripping... -
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In by Freddie Foreman
RRP: $12.89$8.84For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law - and those who operate just outside of it. With almost all of his compatriots - like the notorious Kray twins - now gone,... -
Four Weeks in May: A Captain's Story of War at Sea by David Hart-Dyke 9781843545910
RRP: $14.18$9.44Reissued 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... -
Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted by Kristina Jones
RRP: $12.89$8.57The 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... -
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
RRP: $16.76$11.46NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The authors make this unassuming, most studious woman come pulsing to life...Notorious RBG may be a playful project, but it asks to be read seriously...That I responded so personally to it is a testimony to [its]... -
Home in the World: A Memoir by Amartya Sen 9781846144868
RRP: $32.25$23.25The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised... -
Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words by Barry Day 9781589790711
RRP: $24.50$18.47Despite her prolific output, ageless writer and wit Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) never penned an autobiography (although if she had, she said that it would have been titled Mongrel). Combing through her stories, poems, articles, reviews, correspondence,... -
Talking to Myself: Memoirs of a Human Rights Activist by Anthony Lester
RRP: $32.25$22.73'I have been a campaigner in many human rights causes, some successful, some less so, some failed. My mother once said, 'Anthony, we had such a fine system until you ruined it!' I hope she was wrong.' Over the course of his illustrious, pioneering and... -
The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist's Journey from Helplessness to Optimism by Martin Seligman
RRP: $21.92$14.89One of the most important psychologists alive today tells the story of the transformation of modern psychology through the lens of his own career and change of heart.Martin E. P. Seligman is one of the most decorated and popular psychologists of his... -
Xi Jinping: A Study in Power by Kerry Brown
RRP: $14.18$9.44'Kerry Brown's Xi is the perfect primer for understanding Xi Jinping's status as China's greatest ruler since Mao and as this century's least assailable statesman' John Keay, author of China: A History'A valuable primer for anyone looking to get up to... -
Tango, Juliet, Foxtrot: How did British policing go wrong? by Iain Donnelly 9781785907166
RRP: $25.80$19.20In thirty years on the front line of British policing, there is very little that Iain Donnelly didn't do: from being a uniformed constable on the beat in London to running counter-terrorism and surveillance operations, combatting child sexual... -
The Best of Enemies: Diaries 1980-1997: At the heart of power with two Prime Ministers by Norman Fowler 9781785908156
RRP: $32.25$23.01The Best of Enemies is the political diaries of one of the most significant politicians of the late twentieth century. Covering the Thatcher/Major period - during which time Norman Fowler held prominent positions in the Cabinet and as party chairman -... -
Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys Of A Sceptical Muslim by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $11.60$7.84Ziauddin Sardar, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals in Britain, learned the Koran at his mother's knee in Pakistan. As a young student in London he set out to grasp the meaning of his religion, and, hopefully, to find 'paradise', his quest leading... -
Mr Nice: 21st Anniversary Edition by Howard Marks
RRP: $16.76$11.7321ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHHe was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him.During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and... -
Wilson Duff: Coming Back, a Life by Robin Fisher
RRP: $28.37$19.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179750Author Robin FisherFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing -
Masters of Sex (Media tie-in): The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier 9780465079995 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$4.08Now a New Showtime Original SeriesShowtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America... -
Masters of Sex (Media tie-in): The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier
RRP: $16.76$11.09Now a New Showtime Original SeriesShowtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America... -
What A Bloody Awful Country: Northern Ireland's century of division by Kevin Meagher
RRP: $14.18$10.23"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 As a long and bloody guerrilla war staggered to a close on the island of Ireland,... -
In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist by Dr Sohom Das
RRP: $24.50$16.96AS SEEN ON THIS MORNING'a fascinating and moving account of life working with people who too often society wants to forget'Dr Amanda Brown, author of THE PRISON DOCTOR'excellent and enlightening'Jonathan Levi and Emma French, authors of INSIDE... -
Introducing Freud: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi 9781840468519
RRP: $11.60$8.64Freud 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... -
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks 9781529087451
RRP: $14.18$10.23When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . .From its opening pages on his youthful obsession... -
Order Out Of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou by Dolly McPherson 9781853812132 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.02$2.70I know of no other autobiography in American letters who celebrates and sings her life with as much verve and display of vulnerability.' With this acknowledgement of Maya Angelou's unique achievement, Dolly McPherson reveals her place within the Black... -
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner 9781984879707
RRP: $23.22$14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879707Author Dacher KeltnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 140mm... -
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis by Seamus O'Mahony 9781803285665
RRP: $14.18$9.69A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Welsh-born psychoanalyst Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's closest associate and most fervent... -
By the Waters of Liverpool by Helen Forrester
RRP: $12.89$8.57The 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... -
Shakar: an Afghan Woman's Journey: From Refugee to Cancer Pioneer by Shakardokht Jafari 9781785633553
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Fascinating...an enticingly interesting read' - Sayeeda Warsi. Born in rural Afghanistan, Shakardokht Jafari became a refugee aged just six, after a harrowing half-year trek to Iran. There, at twelve, she discovered she had been promised in... -
Unmasking Our Leaders by Michael Cockerell 9781785906855
RRP: $25.80$18.68Our political leaders spend their careers spinning their images and polishing their achievements; Michael Cockerell has spent his professional life stripping off the gloss. Over fifty years, he has gained unrivalled access to the secret chambers of... -
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
$16.58New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the 2015 WOMEN'S WAY Book Prize * Goodreads Best of 2014 Semi-Finalist * Books for a Better Life Award Finalist * Lambda Literary Award Finalist * Time Magazine "30 Most Influential People on the Internet" * American... -
My Fathers' Daughter by Hannah Azieb Pool
RRP: $12.89$8.41A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time.What a story. So vivid, honest and moving' Andrea Levy, author of Small Island'When I stepped off... -
Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali 9781847398185
RRP: $14.18$9.03Nomad is a philosophical memoir, telling how Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to America in search of a new life, and the difficulties she faced in reconciling her two worlds. With vivid anecdotes and observations of people, cultures, and political debacles, this... -
Genie: An Abused Child's Flight from Silence by Russ Rymer 9780060924652
RRP: $24.50$12.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060924652Author Russ RymerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Lime Street at Two by Helen Forrester
RRP: $12.89$8.57The fourth and final part of Helen Forrester's bestselling autobiography continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of the war years in Blitz-torn Liverpool In 1940 Helen, now twenty, is working long hours at... -
Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew by Bernard Hare
RRP: $12.89$8.77You're twelve years old. Your mother's a junkie and your father might as well be dead. You can't read or write, and you don't go to school. An average day means sitting round a bonfire with your mates smoking drugs, or stealing cars. Welcome to Urban's... -
Aimee and Jaguar by Erica Fischer 9780747526704
RRP: $21.92$15.84In the Berlin of 1942, Lilly Wust was married to a soldier and was the mother of four children. Her quiet domestic life was forever changed when she met and fell in love with Jewish Felice Schragenheim. Aimee and Jaguar, as the two called one another,... -
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck 9780299165048
RRP: $24.45$18.98That Gad Beck, a Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through the Holocaust at all is surprising. The fact that he lived it as a homosexual Jew who spent the entire war funnelling food, money and clothing to hidden Jews and helping smuggle others out... -
Baby Catcher: Chronicles Modern by Peggy Vincent
RRP: $24.50$15.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743219341Author Vincent PeggyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 316g -
What's Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
RRP: $16.76$10.94A 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 ... -
Under and Alone: Infiltrating the World's Most Violent Motorcycle Gang by William Queen
RRP: $14.18$10.02When veteran law-enforcement officer and lifelong motorcycle lover William Queen penetrated the San Fernando chapter of the notorious Mongols, he was at the mercy of psychopaths who sought to have him prove his fealty by any means necessary, from selling... -
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both by Juno Dawson
RRP: $16.76$11.09*WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017**AS SEEN ON TRANSFORMATION STREET* 'Opens minds, breaks down myths and vaporises prejudice - I loved it!' Rebecca Root, star of Boy Meets Girl 'Funny, thoughtful and honest'... -
The Scent of Dried Roses: One family and the end of English Suburbia - an elegy by Tim Lott
RRP: $12.89$9.17Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange as China'. In this extraordinarily moving exploration of his parents' lives, his mother's inexplicable suicide in her late...