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Lime Street at Two by Helen Forrester
RRP: £9.99£6.84The 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: £9.99£7.00You'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... -
Silent Sisters by Jenny Tomlin
RRP: £10.99£7.61For years, Jenny and sister Kim suffered horrendous physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their father. They survived in part because of their closeness and their determination to be there for each other. Both sisters left home at the earliest... -
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... -
An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck 9780299165048
RRP: £18.95£14.71That 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... -
What's Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
RRP: £12.99£8.71A 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 ... -
Underboss by Peter Maas 9780060930967
RRP: £18.99£11.17Apologies 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 -
Rumi's World: The Life and Work of the Great Sufi Poet by Annemarie Schimmel 9780877736110
RRP: £24.00£15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877736110Author Annemarie SchimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 353g -
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon
RRP: £12.99£9.11NEW 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]... -
In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist Dr Sohom Das 9780751583786
RRP: £18.99£13.34AS 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... -
I Belong to No One: Abused, afraid and alone. A young girl forced to make the ultimate sacrifice for her survival. Gwen Wilson 9781409164890
RRP: £6.99£5.17Abused, afraid and alone. This is the heartbreaking true story of a young woman forced to sacrifice it all to survive...*****GWEN WILSON WAS UNLOVED FROM BIRTH.Illegitimate, fatherless, her mother in and out of psychiatric hospitals, it would have been... -
Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us by C. N. Lester
RRP: £10.99£7.61'CN Lester breaks down the myths and misconceptions about trans people and politics with clarity and calm. An important, timely book' JULIET JACQUESIn this eye-opening book, CN Lester, academic and activist, takes us on a journey through some of the most... -
Home in the World: A Memoir by Amartya Sen
RRP: £12.99£9.34The 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, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised... -
Snakes and Ladders: Navigating the ups and downs of politics by Andrea Leadsom
RRP: £10.99£8.15In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and terrible lows - and never more so than in the period since 2010. Few are better placed to give an insider's view of the turmoil than the Rt Hon. Dame Andrea Leadsom MP. From taking to... -
Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette
RRP: £11.99£8.22He grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950's, watching lassie, going to church, getting straight A's at school, a scholar destined for success. But he already had a secret, and his public life with family and friends was already a constant... -
Now Then Lad... by Mike Pannett
RRP: £10.99£7.61A true-life Heartbeat for the twenty-first century. Yorkshireman Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting as a local bobby in rural North Yorkshire. It's quite a change from the Met, where he dealt with riots on the capital's streets and drug gangs... -
Shakar: an Afghan Woman's Journey: From Refugee to Cancer Pioneer by Shakardokht Jafari 9781785633553
RRP: £9.99£7.32'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... -
A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer
RRP: £10.99£7.61The concluding volume of Dave Pelzer's million-copy bestselling memoir.'I don't blame others for my problems. I stand on my own. And one day, you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself.' These words were eighteen-year-old Dave Pelzer's declaration... -
Criminal Women: Some Autobiographical Accounts Diana Christina 9780745600888
RRP: £17.99£16.29Criminal Women tells the stories of four women who, in attempting to become women of their own making, became deeply involved in crime.Throughout the book, tales from the underworld and the criminal business world are interspersed with inside accounts of... -
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both by Juno Dawson
RRP: £12.99£8.83*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'... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs
RRP: £8.99£6.65A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the... -
The Dreyfus Affair: Jaccuse and Other Writings by Emile Zola 9780300073676
£22.38In September 1894 the French authorities intercepted a letter which they claimed emanated from a Jewish army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, which they claimed to be proof of espionage on behalf of Germany. Dreyfus was subsequently court-martialed and... -
In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi 9781844673681
RRP: £26.99£24.48Ghada Karmi's acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, flight to Britain after the catastrophe, and coming of age in Golders Green, the north London Jewish suburb. A powerful biographical story, In Search of Fatima reflects the author's... -
Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terrence McKenna by Dennis McKenna
RRP: £17.99£12.70Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna, is an autobiographical account of renowned ethnobotanist Dennis McKenna's childhood, his relationship with his brother, and the author's experiences with and reflections on psychedelics,... -
Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan
RRP: £21.00£14.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172865Author Emmett GroganFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
STUPID WOMAN: 12 ways NOT to do politics by To be confirmed
RRP: £20.00£14.70In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and terrible lows - and never more so than in the period since 2010, during which so much has changed. Few are better placed to give an insider's view of the turmoil than the Rt Hon. Dame... -
The Devil on the Doorstep: My Escape From a Satanic Sex Cult by Annabelle Forest
RRP: £9.99£6.61Annabelle Forest was just seven years old when she was inducted into a twisted sex cult by her own mother. For the next few years she was brainwashed by the cult's leader, Colin Batley, who ran a harem of followers from his unassuming cul-de-sac in... -
Modern Women: 52 Pioneers Kira Cochrane 9780711237896
RRP: £22.00£14.37Modern Women is a celebration of influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women... -
The Kiss: A Secret Life by Kathryn Harrison 9781857027082
RRP: £10.99£8.52From the bestselling author of THE BINDING CHAIR, a searing memoir of a four-year affair between the author and her father. 'My father takes my face in his hands. He tips it up and kisses my closed eyes, my throat. I feel his fingers in the... -
Unmasking Our Leaders: Confessions of a Political Documentary-Maker by Michael Cockerell 9781785907661
RRP: £12.99£6.33A Daily Mail Political Book of the Year Our 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... -
Shame Travels by Jasvinder Sanghera
RRP: £10.99£7.61When 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... -
Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey by Colin Grant
RRP: £12.99£9.34Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey 'Grant is an accomplished... -
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind by Mike Jay
£20.40A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick "Jay is a leading expert on the history of Western drug use, and... -
War In A Stringbag by Charles Lamb
RRP: £10.99£7.61A classic autobiography by the best known Second World War Fleet Air Arm pilot. A story of real life adventure, action and heroism.Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. It... -
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: £12.99£8.83Now 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... -
Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means by Russell Means 9780312147617
RRP: £25.00£18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147617Author Russell MeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 573Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 907g -
Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK by Ian Bone 9780954417772
RRP: £9.99£8.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954417772Author Ian BoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Naked Guides LtdPublisher Tangent BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 10mm -
My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing by Sylvia Fraser 9780860681816 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.09She was a beautiful blond child, a quintessential Canadian teenager: she loved Saturday film matinees, giggled at pyjama parties, ran for student president, led the cheerleading squad, went steady with the right boy and married him, her proud father at... -
The Cloak: An inspirational account of personal transformation by Virginia Routh Lynch 9780996899390
RRP: £9.99£7.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996899390Author Virginia Routh LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint All She Wrote ProductionsPublisher All She Wrote ProductionsWeight(grams) 259g -
The Fear of Doing Nothing: Notes of a Young Therapist by Valery Hazanov
£12.13A deeply honest, searching examination of psychotherapy based on the experiences of a young sceptical trainee meeting his first patients. "Why is psychotherapy different from talking to a friend?" Hazanov asks. "Because generations of...