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The Secrets of My Life Caitlyn Jenner 9781409173960
RRP: £9.99£7.00THE 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,... -
What's It All About? by Cilla Black
RRP: £18.99£13.61Cilla Black is without doubt one of Britain's most treasured personalities. Generations have grown up with Cilla's music, TV shows, and performances. But how much do we really know about 'the girl with the bright red hair and the jet black voice'? What's... -
A Royal Duty by Paul Burrell
RRP: £12.99£10.95Discover the untold story behind one of the most sensational chapters in the history of the House of Windsor'This book had me in tears and also made me smile' 5***** Reader Review 'A loving, informative, respectful tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales'... -
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 9781860498503
RRP: £8.99£6.30A TRUE STORY THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF THOUSANDS'Unmitigated delight from cover to cover' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it' WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with... -
The Listener: In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Irene Oore 9780889776531
RRP: £20.00£19.24In The Listener, a daughter receives a troubling gift: her mother's stories of surviving World War II in Poland. During the Holocaust, Irene Oore's mother escaped the death camps by concealing her Jewish identity. Those years found her constantly on the... -
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder
RRP: £20.00£14.69THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'A marvellous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation'... -
Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII Sarah-beth Watkins 9781782795858
RRP: £9.99£8.82Katherine Knollys was Mary Boleyn's first child, born in 1524 when Mary was having an affair with King Henry VIII. Katherine spent her life unacknowledged as the king's daughter, yet she was given prime appointments at court as maid of honour to both... -
Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education by Sola Mahfouz 9780857528803
RRP: £16.99£12.47'I began to grow up the day my mother warned me to stop laughing''Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.' BILL GATESAt age eleven, Sola Mahfouz was told she... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780670919796
RRP: £20.00£14.51One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the definitive... -
Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell
RRP: £14.99£11.30Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the... -
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
RRP: £25.00£18.30From one of Britain's best selling historians, a sweeping and magisterial history of the extraordinary lives of five queens in England's turbulent Age of ChivalryMedieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of the Plantagenet queens of... -
Committed: A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert
RRP: £10.99£7.99________________ 'Like Eat, Pray, Love, her follow-up ... feels irresistibly confessional ... I found myself guzzling Committed, reading it in mighty chunks, far into the night. Whenever I put it down, it was pinched by my mother or sister' - Sunday... -
Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention by Cathy Newman
RRP: £10.99£7.46'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but... -
Better Broken Than New: A Fragmented Memoir by Lisa St Aubin de Teran 9781914278129
RRP: £19.95£12.84Following a successful career as an award-winning, best-selling novelist, in 2004 Lisa St Aubin de Teran retreated to a remote village in northern Mozambique. There she found her own African roots, founded a charity, and confronted new challenges. Much... -
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
RRP: £20.00£15.51The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.'Surely the final, the definitive, biography of Sylvia Plath' Ali Smith ... -
Spider Woman: A Life - by the former President of the Supreme Court Lady Hale 9781529114041
RRP: £12.99£9.34Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story. As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law... -
Footballer: My Story by Kelly Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.34All Kelly Smith ever wanted to be was a footballer. Blessed with brilliant talent which she honed with hours of practice, it was soon clear to all who saw her that Kelly was the best women's footballer that this country had ever produced. Yet for this... -
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino 9780008294953
RRP: £10.99£7.46A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent'The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled me with hope' Zadie Smith What happens to our behaviour when we live most of our lives... -
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage by Eileen Atkins
RRP: £9.99£3.88'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finest actor appearing in the world right now' - A. A. GillWill She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in... -
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings 9781250288288
RRP: £25.99£18.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250288288Author Tia LevingsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
The Covent Garden Ladies: the book that inspired BBC2’s ‘Harlots’ by Hallie Rubenhold
RRP: £10.99£7.99***By the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of THE FIVE***'A fascinating expose of the seamy side of eighteenth century life' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Rubenhold's pages practically reek with smelly, pox-ridden Georgian Soho'... -
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon 9781529153415
RRP: £20.00£14.51'As the author reaches her 9th decade [this makes] for a fascinating insight into her life and world, albeit with discretion and leaving tantalising hints at what lies beyond. One for the fans (and friends).' Crime Time'Leon's elegant, witty prose . . ... -
Katherine Grainger: The Autobiography Katherine Grainger 9780233004853
RRP: £10.99£6.67Katherine Grainger is not only Great Britain's finest ever woman rower, but also she has won more Olympic medals than any other female British athlete in any sport. At Rio de Janeiro in the 2016 Olympic Games, at the age of 40, and less than two years... -
Things I Learned From Falling: The must-read true story of 2020 by Claire Nelson
RRP: £8.99£6.39'What a story - never heard a story like that before' - Chris Evans'Uplifting and brave' - Stylist'Claire Nelson relives a life-changing four days' - The Times'A riveting account of loneliness, anxiety and survival' - Cosmopolitan'An astonishing feat of... -
The Girl on the Dancing Horse: Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro by Charlotte Dujardin
RRP: £10.99£7.99*THE TOP 10 BESTSELLER FROM THE MOST DECORATED BRITISH FEMALE OLYMPIAN IN HISTORY*'Refreshingly honest [...] a highly enjoyable, fascinating read.' Horse and Hound_______________________________________________"To ride into that arena, next to a sea of... -
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
RRP: £9.99£7.48Even when I was funny, I wasn't this funny'Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors Have you ever embarrassed yourself so badly you thought you'd never get over it? Have you ever wished your family could be just like everyone else's? Have you... -
Chinook Crew 'Chick': Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest Serving Female RAF Chinook Force Crewmember by McConaghy, Liz 9781399072922
RRP: £20.00£14.51Liz McConaghy, from a small town in County Down, spent a total of seventeen years flying with the RAF's Chinook Fleet. Aged just 21, she was the youngest aircrew member to deploy to Iraq and was also the only female crewman' on the Chinook wing for four... -
Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir by Linda Ronstadt
RRP: £10.99£7.21Linda Ronstadt was born in 1946 to a modest family outside Tucson. From an early age, she, her brother and sister began making their own music, eventually performing their own shows in the folk and Mexican traditions of the area. By the time Ronstadt was... -
What Would Boudicca Do?: Everyday Problems Solved by History's Most Remarkable Women by Elizabeth Foley 9780571340484 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Tired of being talked over? Of social media making you feel crap? Of the pressure to 'have it all' and a hot bod too? Boudicca stuck up for herself and now she can help you do the same. It is time to start channelling the spiky superwomen of history... -
Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary: From the prize-winning author of Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe 9781035025299
RRP: £16.99£11.87Ten years after the publication of the prize-winning Love, Nina comes the author's diary of her return to London in her sixty-first year. 'A unique comic voice, endlessly funny' - David Nicholls'Vulnerable, sharp, funny, wise' - Bonnie Garmus, author of... -
Eurydice Street: A Place In Athens Sofka Zinovieff 9781862077508
RRP: £8.99£6.28Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh, funny and inquiring account of her... -
Gather Together In My Name Dr Maya Angelou 9781844085026
RRP: £9.99£7.00The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' Barack ObamaMaya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the... -
Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives by Susan Tomes 9780300266573
RRP: £25.00£20.92Women are an essential part of the history of the piano-but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Even the... -
Chosen by a Horse Susan Richards 9781845297169
RRP: £10.99£7.61When she agrees to take on one of the abused horses just rescued by the local SPCA, a new chapter opens in Susan Richards's difficult life. She lost her mother at the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; she married unhappily and divorced;... -
Find a Way: One Untamed and Courageous Life by Diana Nyad 9781035007158
RRP: £10.99£7.73DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY BEHIND NETFLIX'S BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE NYAD.After four attempts, sixty-four year-old Diana Nyad finally swam from Cuba to the Florida Keys. She swam for fifty-three hours, across one hundred and ten miles. Find a Way is her... -
Bold as a Lamb: Pastor Samuel Lamb and the Underground Church of China by Ken Anderson 9780310532217
RRP: £13.99£7.62You cannot understand China without meeting heroes like Samuel Lamb! In an age when secularism and materialism numb the human spirit, China's amazing Christians demonstrate the power of living faith. In 1950 China's Christians numbered about a million... -
Devotion by Patti Smith 9780300240221
RRP: £8.99£8.03The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process. A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic-its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring... -
Four Mums in a Boat: Friends who rowed 3000 miles, broke a world record and learnt a lot about life along the way by Janette Benaddi 9780008214845 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.29A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 The... -
Four Mums in a Boat: Friends who rowed 3000 miles, broke a world record and learnt a lot about life along the way by Janette Benaddi
RRP: £8.99£5.47A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 The... -
The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women by Rebecca Buxton
RRP: £12.99£8.96'This is brilliant. A book about women in philosophy by women in philosophy - love it!' Elif ShafakWhere are the women philosophers? The answer is right here.The history of philosophy has not done women justice: you've probably heard the names Plato,...