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Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
RRP: €13.08€7.81THE 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... -
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful, Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff
RRP: €17.84€11.54In 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... -
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist by Lori Gottlieb
RRP: €13.08€8.71A 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... -
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life by Catherine Gray
RRP: €11.89€7.71THE 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: €15.46€10.09'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: €13.08€8.71Norah 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: €13.08€8.39The 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... -
The Grass Arena: An Autobiography by John Healy
RRP: €11.89€8.46John 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... -
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
RRP: €13.08€8.94An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A classic memoir of enormous candour and courage, it teems with the wit and wisdom of its writer, Dr Kay Redfield Jamison.With... -
Night by Elie Wiesel
RRP: €11.89€8.46Born 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: €13.08€8.94A 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: €11.89€7.71'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... -
Past Mortems: Life and death behind mortuary doors by Carla Valentine
RRP: €10.70€7.03A 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 Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work by Joseph Campbell 9781608681891
RRP: €21.41€14.02Apologies 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 -
In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist by Dr Sohom Das 9780751583793
RRP: €15.46€9.35Shocking. 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: €10.70€7.68Elie 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... -
Introducing Jung: A Graphic Guide by Maggie Hyde
RRP: €10.70€7.97'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 Boy Grows Up: The inspirational story of his journey from broken boy to family man by Richard McCann
RRP: €15.46€10.82Richard 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: €13.08€11.67From 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: €13.08€11.67"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... -
The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: €23.79€18.18Learn 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: €35.70€22.82One 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... -
Red Rowans and Wild Honey by Betsy Whyte
RRP: €9.51€6.50The 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... -
Spreading My Wings by Diana Barnato Walker 9781904010319
RRP: €15.46€10.82The 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... -
Behind Closed Doors by Jenny Tomlin
RRP: €13.08€8.39Jenny 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... -
Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation by Paul Thompson
RRP: €29.74€25.66Presenting 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... -
Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender by Linda McDougall 9781785907524
RRP: €29.75€20.78Over 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. ... -
In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist by Dr Sohom Das
RRP: €22.60€14.90AS 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... -
The Not Quite Prime Ministers: Leaders of the Opposition 1783–2020 by Nigel Fletcher 9781785908101
RRP: €23.80€16.85History 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: €15.46€10.82In 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: €9.51€6.84The 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... -
Against the Tide by Noel Browne
RRP: €21.41€15.41Against 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... -
What's Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre 9780008201371
RRP: €11.89€6.96A 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 ... -
Introducing Freud: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi 9781840468519
RRP: €10.70€7.97Freud 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... -
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters 9780007200375
RRP: €13.08€8.63'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: €11.89€7.71The 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 Story of My Life by Helen Keller 9780486292496
RRP: €4.75€4.33Apologies 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)... -
By the Waters of Liverpool by Helen Forrester
RRP: €11.89€7.90The 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... -
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jon Halliday
RRP: €20.22€15.09The 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... -
The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder by Olga Trujillo
RRP: €23.80€15.10Olga Trujillo's childhood was marked by such extensive violence and sexual abuse that she developed the ability to observe scenes from her life as though they were happening to someone else. Blocking herself from the terrors of her real life, Olga began...