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Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters 9780385340885
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book 2006 and Amazon's Top 10 Editors' Picks: Biographies 2006.Book... -
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters 9780007200375
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.58'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... -
Simon: The Genius in my Basement by Alexander Masters
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68From the author of 'Stuart: A Life Backwards'; a warm and witty portrait of a harmless, eccentric, bona fide genius. Alexander Master's landlord, Simon, lives in the basement of their... -
A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip by Alexander Masters
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him... -
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Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters 9780007200375 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98'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... -
A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in the Trash by Alexander Masters 9780374537227
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537227Author Alexander MastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
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A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip by Alexander Masters 9780008130770 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.82Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him... -
Origen of Alexandria: Master Theologian of the Early Church by John Anthony McGuckin 9781978708457
Booksplease Price: £33.49Origen of Alexandria is the most influential thinker and writer of the Christian church after John the Evangelist and Paul the Apostle. This book charts his momentous impact on the structures,... -
Origen of Alexandria: Master Theologian of the Early Church by John Anthony McGuckin 9781978708433
Booksplease Price: £86.43Origen of Alexandria is the most influential thinker and writer of the Christian church after John the Evangelist and Paul the Apostle. This book charts his momentous impact on the structures,... -
Wreck: Gericault's Raft and the Art of Being Lost at Sea Tom de Freston 9781783786633
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep inside the making of an artwork. Artist Tom de Freston has... -
Kathleen and Frank by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16This is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915,... -
Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival by Tom de Freston
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep inside the making of an artwork. Artist Tom de Freston has... -
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain Damian Le Bas 9781784704131
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I belonged.'Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His... -
Breaking Night by Liz Murray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81____________________________________Liz Murray never really had a chance in life. Born to a drug-addicted father who was in and out of prison, and an equally dependent mother who was in and out of... -
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A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin 9780241239957 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.00A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of... -
Saltwater Mansions: A mystery that became an obsession David Whitehouse 9781399621977
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Margate is in the grip of a heatwave when David Whitehouse stumbles across the mysterious story of a local woman who lived on the ground floor of Saltwater Mansions, a block of flats not far from the... -
The Octopus Man Jasper Gibson 9781474616096
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Astonishing' Stephen Fry'Exceptional' Douglas Stuart, author of the Booker Prize-winning SHUGGIE BAIN'Now is the time for this book' DBC Pierre, author of the Booker Prize-winning VERNON GOD... -
The Civil Sphere by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9780195162509
RRP: £142.50Booksplease Price: £108.72How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.35A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... -
Life Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion by Carole Angier 9781472527066
Booksplease Price: £27.99Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir. PART 1 explores the history and forms of life writing and the challenges and... -
Facts and Fiction by Michael Holroyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63'As deft and devastating as a piece of non-fiction writing in miniature as you're ever likely to read ... A collection to be savoured, its urbanity, wisdom and humorous probing best digested at... -
Lives of Houses by Kate Kennedy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.80Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers,... -
Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock 9780007580866
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22An incredible debut novel: a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders, 'full of daring, authenticity and wit' (Rachel Cusk). LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI... -
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Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock 9780007580842 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.34An incredible debut novel: a coming of age tale set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Ripper murders, `full of daring, authenticity and wit' (Rachel Cusk). LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI... -
Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew by Bernard Hare
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.26You'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... -
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Urban Grimshaw and The Shed Crew by Bernard Hare 9780340837351 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97You'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... -
Representation and the Electoral College by Robert M. Alexander 9780190939427
Booksplease Price: £80.61Nearly 800 proposals have been made to amend or abolish the Electoral College, and its divisiveness raises many questions. What role do electors play in American democracy? How should they vote?... -
I, Vera: The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, a Radical Princess Miranda Seymour 9780008650384
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.00'Vera Gedroits was a true medical heroine: outrageous, intrepid and devoted to saving lives. Miranda Seymour's genius as a story teller brings this astonishing woman blazing back to... -
Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story Sophie Elmhirst 9781529931495
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'An absolute jewel of a book' India Knight'A gripping tale of adventure' Elizabeth Day'An extraordinary survival story' Sunday TimesWhat begins as an eccentric English love story turns into one of... -
The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb: Founder of Save the Children by Clare Mulley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An unconventional biography of an unconventional woman. Eglantyne Jebb, not particularly fond of children herself, nevertheless dedicated her life to establishing Save the Children and promoting her... -
Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a beautiful story of rebellion and scienceShortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize'A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science,... -
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack 9780141989587
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, NEW SCIENTIST, BBC FOCUS, INDEPENDENT AND WASHINGTON POST 'A rollicking tour of the wildest physics. . . Like an animated discussion with... -
The Civil Sphere by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9780195369304
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £29.37What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way? Jeffrey C. Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life...