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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford
Booksplease Price: £20.87From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers... -
The House on Carnaval Street: From Kabul to a Home by the Mexican Sea by Deborah Rodriguez
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26I hadn't been planning on making Mexico my new home, but the little house on the sea was all that I had left . . . Intimate, honest and touching, this is the story of Deborah Rodriguez's often... -
Woman at Sea by Catherine Poulain
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZE 2019****NOMINATED FOR THE MEDICIS PRIZE 2018**'A tale of travel and adventure, the story of a body utterly surrendered to pain and joy. It is mind-blowing,... -
The Art of Not Falling Apart by Christina Patterson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31New Statesman's Best Books of the Year, 2018Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year, 2018When life threw journalist Christina Patterson an involuntary-redundancy shaped curveball she decided to tear up the... -
Sanctuary by Emily Rapp
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'A powerful memoir of love and loss, which are two sides of the same coin' - Julia Samuel, bestselling author of Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass'A lyrical, deep, funny, eyes-wide-open, ultimately... -
Reckless Years: A Diary of Love and Madness by Heather Chaplin 9781501135002
Booksplease Price: £11.03The "searingly honest, brilliantly written" (Delia Ephron, New York Times bestselling author) memoir of a woman trying to reinvent her life who finds, after her divorce, that true freedom to make any... -
The Rules of Inheritance by Claire Bidwell Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Claire Bidwell Smith, an only child, is just fourteen years old when both of her charismatic parents are diagnosed with cancer. What follows is a coming-of-age story that is both heartbreaking and... -
I Am An Island: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Tamsin Calidas
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Memoir of the year' - Vogue'A wondrous, sensuous memoir of salt-stung survival . . . clear-eyed and poetic prose' Sunday Times'A fascinating memoir' - Daily MailWhen... -
All the Secrets of the World by Steve Almond 9781638930686
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638930686Author Steve AlmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint ZandoPublisher Zando -
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Harold G. Moore
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American... and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then... -
More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood by Majka Burhardt
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25An intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world's top ice climbers, born at the confluence of motherhood, adventure, career, and marriage. As one of the world's leading female... -
The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down by Andrew McCarthy
Booksplease Price: £14.03"A soulful and searching book. Vibrant and elegant...McCarthy's prose shines with intelligence and intimacy. One feels pulled along...the book gaining momentum and meaning page by page" (Cheryl... -
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15THE RESISTANCE STARTS NOWA group of rebels have united to save a world ravaged by war, violence and greed. Joan is their leader. Jean de Men is their foe. The future of humanity is being rewritten . ... -
SOLO by Jenny Tough
Booksplease Price: £16.99'Jenny Tough writes with the same talent, imagination, and sheer courage that she displays in her athletic endeavours. This book will broaden the horizons of all who venture between its covers.' -... -
Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places by Alastair Sawday
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A charming and beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel - for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron and Eric Newby.'Lawrence Sterne once suggested that we travel for one... -
Unhooked: The Rehab of a London Call Girl by Clare Gee
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.17Addicted to coke and booze and reliant on selling her body for cash, Katie, the heroine of Clare Gee's bestselling Hooked, can no longer cope with the life she's created for herself. She has messed... -
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.24'Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk' NEW STATESMAN'Wonderful ... both frank and fearless' TELEGRAPH BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Fascinating'... -
Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.99The book that has captivated millions of Chinese readers, translated into English for the very first time. 'Hypnotic . . . A record of one person's fierce refusal to follow a path laid down for... -
Soundings: Journeys in the Company of Whales by Doreen Cunningham 9780349014937
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.93'Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk' NEW STATESMAN'Wonderful ... both frank and fearless' TELEGRAPH BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Fascinating'... -
Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to... -
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We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Harold G. Moore 9780552150262 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'If you want to know what is was like to go to Vietnam as a young American... and find yourself caught in ferocious, remorseless combat with an enemy as courageous and idealistic as you were, then... -
Comrades: A Lifetime of Friendships Rosita Boland 9781781620540
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close... -
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith 9781982185862
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982185862Author Maggie SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon... -
SOLO: A true story of spirit, adventure & the life-changing power of running alone by Jenny Tough
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Jenny Tough writes with the same talent, imagination, and sheer courage that she displays in her athletic endeavours. This book will broaden the horizons of all who venture between its covers.' -... -
Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this unfinished novel. He discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that... -
Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places by Alastair Sawday 9781408708521
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.56A charming and beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel - for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron and Eric Newby.'Lawrence Sterne once suggested that we travel for one... -
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Paul Theroux invites us to join him on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets... -
Hashish by Henry de Monfreid
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Nobleman, writer, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the Adventures of Tintin, Henri de Monfried lived by his own account 'a rich, restless, magnificent life' as one of... -
Junky by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life'William Burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the Beats and author of... -
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden 9781529936117
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN VOGUE, BBC, NEW YORK TIMES, W MAGAZINE, TOWN & COUNTRY'A beautifully written eulogy for the loss of a relationship' Joyce Carol Oates'Beautiful... devastating ..... -
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In Irving's great work, The Sketch Book, fictional historian Diedrich Knickerbocker introduces us to Rip van Winkle, the Dutch colonist who slept through the Revolutionary War; Ichabod Crane, the... -
Music for Chameleons: New Writing by Truman Capote
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a 'nonfiction novel' based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers... -
Nova Express: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the... -
Iron in the Soul by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, Iron in the Soul unfolds what men... -
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe 9780140437591
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.00With its insightful portrayals of her protagonist's inner life, Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho was a hugely influential work of early Gothic horror. This Penguin Classics edition is edited... -
Castle Rackrent and Ennui by Maria Edgeworth 9780140433203
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Thady Quirk, devoted steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a riotous story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Rackrent (1800). Thady will defend his masters to... -
To the Gorge: Running, Grief, and Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail by Emily Halnon 9781639366651
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.45**A USA TODAY bestseller** A riveting narrative of love and loss, grief and joy, as one woman embarks on a quest for a record on the Pacific Crest Trail. When Emily Halnon lost her beloved mother to... -
Roughing it by Mark Twain 9780140390100
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small... -
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The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love by Per J. Andersson 9781786072085 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.41How far would you travel for love? WINNER OF THE MARCO POLO OUTSTANDING TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 'A wonderful love story.' National Geographic, Best Books of 2017 The story begins in a... -
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men...