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The Good Rat: A True Mafia Story by Jimmy Breslin 9781845963668 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €3.16He came from the same streets as mob bosses John Gotti and Vito Genovese. Before Scarface, The Godfather or The Sopranos, there was Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin, 'the city's steadiest and most... -
Let's Hang on: Mudhuts, Bets and Beers on the Road to Division One with Wigan Athletic by Martin Tarbuck 9781840187847 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €4.73Every football fan must say it at the outset of every league campaign: "I will go to every game this season". Wigan Athletic-mad Martin Tarbuck nearly did it a couple of seasons ago until he... -
Claret and Blue Blood: Pumping Life into West Ham United by Kirk Blows 9781840188783 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €3.16From the World Cup-winning days of Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters to highly acclaimed modern-day heroes such as Joe Cole, Michael Carrick and Jermain Defoe, West Ham United supporters... -
Who Wants it? by Colin Ward 9781840183252 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €5.12Chris Henderson formed the Chelsea Headhunters - who later earned a reputation as the most dangerous fans in Britain - as well as the band Combat 84 who, with their punk attitude and uncut, Orwellian... -
Bottle by Steve Fist 9781840189735 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €3.88Steve Fist was the football hooligan's football hooligan and Bottle is his story, so it follows that he is now the ex-football hooligan turned writer's ex-football hooligan turned writer. Between the... -
Someone to Watch Over Me: The True Tale of a Survivor Haunted by the Demons of Abuse by Izzy Hammond 9781845962586 [USED COPY]
RRP: €8.39Booksplease Price: €3.04'It is my dearest hope that this book will allow me to reach out to others in pain and give them hope, for they too can choose to be a survivor.' Izzy Hammond's deaf and partially blind parents... -
The Resurrection Men by Paul Rees 9781845964214 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €3.00Wales were written off as no-hopers at the start of the 2008 Six Nations. They had failed to reach the World Cup quarter-finals the previous October and had reacted by appointing their 13th coach in... -
Walk Slim by Les Snowdon 9781851586042 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: €3.34A guide to losing weight by walking. Other work by the authors includes "The Walking Diet - Walk Back to Fitness in 30 Days".Book InformationISBN 9781851586042Author Les SnowdonFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Krays - the Final Countdown: The Ultimate Biography of Ron, Reg and Charlie Kray by Colin Fry 9781840184488 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €5.17The Krays were a product of their age, nurtured by a doting mother and created by their community, the East End of London. Their name alone conjures up images of power, violence and greed - and even... -
50 Years on the Street by William Roache 9781845966553 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €3.50William Roache has been part of Coronation Street since the very first episode, in December 1960, when he first appeared playing the character of Ken Barlow. In 50 Years on the Street: My Life with... -
JFK: Say Goodbye to America by Matthew Smith 9781840187410 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €1.50American distrust of government, polititians and authority in general can be traced back to the time of the official investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the... -
Colin Bell - Reluctant Hero: The Autobiography of a Manchester City and England Legend by Colin Bell 9781840187717 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: €3.50If Manchester City legend Colin Bell were playing today, he'd be one of the most sought-after midfielders in the world and would command the wages of, and comparison to, the likes of Zidane,... -
Female Cancers: A Complementary Approach by Jan de Vries 9781840188479 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.19Booksplease Price: €3.26To many people, being diagnosed with cancer is tantamount to a death sentence and among women, rates of breast and ovarian cancers are still very much on the increase. Conventional treatments such... -
Nothing Like a Dame by Elaine C. Smith 9781845964559 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €4.70'How did I end up here?' A question Elaine C. Smith asked herself when sitting in the dressing-room of a top theatre in London's West End, about to go on stage with one of the UK's most successful... -
Diary by Tom Shields 9781851584918 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: €3.08This is a compendium of fun, insult and malapropism. For 12 years the "Glasgow Herald" has paid this man to delve into every aspect of Scottish society. It is a witty irreverent commentary on every... -
Wannabe in My Gang?: From the Krays to the Essex Boys by Bernard O'Mahoney 9781840187670 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €3.20Kray gang boss Tony Lambrianou, who served a life sentence for the brutal murder of Jack 'the Hat' McVitie, has threatened to kill Bernard O'Mahoney 'by smashing a hammer through his head'. 'Dodgy'... -
Dead Man Running: A True Story of a Secret Agent's Escape from the IRA and MI5 by Martin McGartland 9781840181609 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: €3.59This is the story of Martin McGartland who worked undercover as a British agent inside the Provisional IRA. Captured by the Provos, he escaped and re-settled on the mainland, but later discovered... -
Soldier Against the Odds: From Infantry to SAS by Lofty Large 9781840183467 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €3.08Lofty Large has known the exhilaration of victory and the terrible despondency of defeat, the satisfaction of seeing his enemies go down and the horrific stinging crash of bullets smashing into his... -
The Still Single Papers by Alison Taylor 9781780575582
RRP: €20.34Booksplease Price: €13.19Still Single should be a marital status all of its own. Single girls today are smarter, stronger and funnier, and journalist Alison Taylor is the witty voice for this new generation who are looking... -
The Butler Did It by Paul Pender 9781780575612
RRP: €28.74Booksplease Price: €19.03Roy Fontaine, also known as Archie Hall, was a butler to Britain's aristocracy, and a rumoured lover of Prince Charles' great-uncle, Lord Mountbatten. He was also a serial killer whose modus operandi... -
The Junk Yard: Voices for the Junk Yard by Marsha Hunt 9781840182170 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.19Booksplease Price: €4.02A writer's workshop for young offenders at Dublin's Mountjoy Prison is the source of this collection of 15 original Irish stories. They include: Kenno's loss of his parents to drug-related AIDS;... -
Inner Harmony: Achieving Physical, Mental and Emotional Well-being by Jan de Vries 9781840180626 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €3.00Drawing on over 40 years spent dealing with patients who have lost their zest for life, the author of this book explains how to achieve a harmonious balance between the three bodies of man - the... -
Foot by K Vanderlinden 9781840187984
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.58Did you know that during Philip II's reign, a man who touched the foot of a woman who was not his wife could be executed? That Thomas Hardy and F Scott Fitzgerald were foot fetishists, whereas... -
As I Lay Me Down to Sleep by Eileen Munro 9781845963446 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €3.04When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 16, she was told to give her baby away to a 'good family', but the couple who paid the fee at the Salvation Army mother-and-baby home in Glasgow in 1963... -
100 Countryside Walks Around Edinburgh by Derek Storey 9781840181821 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €3.10Covering one hundred routes, this is the most comprehensive guide to walking in south-east Scotland. It contains routes suitable for every ability and covers varied terrain, from hills and open... -
125 Years of the British and Irish Lions: The Official History by Clem Thomas 9781780576657 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €3.14The British & Irish Lions are one of the most famous and feted teams in the world of rugby. Every four years, the Lions - selected from the national sides of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland -... -
Jackie Milburn by Jack Milburn 9781840188936 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €4.02Written by his own son, Jackie Milburn: A Man of Two Halves gives an unprecedented insight into the life and career of the legendary Newcastle United forward. To this day, 'Wor Jackie' remains the... -
West Ham: Irons in the Soul by Pete May 9781840186185 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €4.20It's a typical season at West Ham, really. Harry Redknapp has been sacked in the summer and replaced with rookie boss Glenn Roeder, who admits to feeling like a 100-1 outsider winning the Grand... -
Hollywood Undercover: Revealing the Sordid Secrets of Tinseltown by Ian Halperin 9781845962661 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €1.50Ian Halperin is no stranger to undercover investigations. When he posed as a model in 2001 to expose the fashion industry, his resulting book, "Shut Up and Smile", sent shockwaves through the trade... -
Tom Shields Takes the Fifth by Tom Shields 9781840186888 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €3.05Just when you thought it was safe to go into a bookshop, here is yet another book from that man at The Herald Diary. It is the usual scintillating mixture of anecdote, pith (no, there is no lithp... -
Sweet Chariot: The Complete Book of the Rugby World Cup 2003 by Ian Robertson 9781840188226 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €3.06Every four years the elite countries in world rugby battle for the Webb Ellis Cup. First contested in 1987 when it was won by New Zealand, it has been retained in the southern hemisphere ever since:... -
Simon Shaw: The Hard Yards - My Story by Simon Shaw 9781845965112 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €3.06Simon Shaw has played more professional matches than any other player in English rugby history, which is remarkable given that he didn't pick up a rugby ball until he was 16. With a World Cup... -
Botham's Book of the Ashes by Ian Botham 9781845964917 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €3.24Sir Ian Botham and the Ashes are as closely intertwined as willow and leather or Merv Hughes and his moustache. You simply cannot think of one without the other. In this book, Sir Ian takes you on a... -
Guns, Cash and Rock 'n' Roll: The Managers by Steve Overbury 9781845962340 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €4.13For decades, British bands like The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, Wham! and even the Spice Girls have dominated the music industry and made countless... -
Spoken in Whispers: The Autobiography of a Horse Whisperer by Nicci Mackay 9781851589425 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €3.20Spoken in Whispers is the autobiography of a remarkable woman. Nicci Mackay is a horse whisperer, one of only a few people in the world who can translate what horses say. Nicci, who has had the... -
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in... -
Twice Bitten: The Untold Story of Holyfield–Tyson II by George Willis 9781780576701
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96On 28 July 1997, in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield engaged in what would become the most infamous fight in boxing history. After the third round of a heavyweight... -
Hillsborough - The Truth by Phil Scraton
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.78This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. It details the appalling treatment endured by the... -
Celtic: Pride and Passion by Jim Craig
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.92Celtic Football Club's story is laced with drama and excitement, featuring a host of colourful individuals and a social history matched by few, if any, football clubs.In Celtic: Pride and Passion,... -
Don't Ever Tell: Kathy's Story: A True Tale of a Childhood Destroyed by Neglect and Fear by Kathy O'Beirne 9781780576565
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96'I feel my story had to be told. So much evil was done there was a voice inside me shouting, "Justice".'With no one to confide in, Kathy suffered in silence as she was battered by her father and...