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An Education by Lynn Barber
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.92When the journalist Lynn Barber was 16, she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man who drew up in his sports car - and her life was almost wrecked. A bright confident girl, on course... -
A Little Art Education by Lynn Barber 9781739440541
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50Journalist, writer, interviewer and memoirist Lynn Barber claims no skill in art herself but loves hanging out with artists - and has devoted much of her career to interviewing them. Beautifully... -
A Curious Career by Lynn Barber 9781408837191 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.57Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of... -
MI5 and Me by Ms Charlotte Bingham 9781408888148 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £3.20'A Jilly Cooper heroine in a John le Carre world' (Libby Purves, TLS); a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (and was the model for John le Carre's George... -
Coronet Among the Weeds by Charlotte Bingham
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller It is the early 1960s, and eighteen-year-old Charlotte Bingham, fresh from convent school, has been... -
A.A. Gill is Further Away by Adrian Gill
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A collection of dazzling travel pieces from SUNDAY TIMES journalist and critic A. A. GILL.From the moment he joined the SUNDAY TIMES, A.A. Gill has wanted to interview places - to discover the... -
Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life Rose Tremain 9781784708016
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46*The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London - a city still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed. But when... -
Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life by Rose Tremain 9781784742270 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.54*A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2018**The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Rose Tremain grew up in post-war London, a city of grey austerity, still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were... -
Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction by Richard Keeble
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.96Print Journalism provides an up-to-date overview of the skills needed to work within the newspaper and magazine industries.This critical approach to newspaper and magazine practice highlights... -
Poems That Make Grown Women Cry by Anthony Holden
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501121869Author Anthony HoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi 9781788161688
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR Both inventive and shocking, Trust Exercise became a sensation on publication in the USA for its timely insights into... -
The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club Julie Welch 9781409187837
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40When Julie Welch called in her first ever football report at the Observer, an entire room of men fell silent. Heart in her mouth, Julie waited for the voice on the other end of the line to declare it... -
Interviewing for Journalists Sally Adams 9781138650237
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Interviewing for Journalists focuses on the central journalistic skill of how to ask the right questions in the right way. It is a practical and concise guide for all print and online journalists -... -
The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life by Tanya Shadrick 9781474618090
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.41'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunWhat happens when you realise that you must change your life?When - after years of... -
The Magazines Handbook Jenny McKay (University of Sunderland, UK) 9781138087019
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.84The Magazines Handbook is an introductory guide to all aspects of magazine journalism and publishing. The book explores the latest innovations in digital design and delivery, whilst also reaffirming... -
Start Digging, You Bastards!: The Turning Point of the Second World War by Tom Gilling 9781761471766
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43July 1942: Rommel's Panzerarmee pursues retreating Allied forces across North Africa, targeting Cairo and the vital Suez Canal. Control of these would give Hitler access to Middle Eastern oil fields... -
Get Me the Urgent Biscuits: An Assistant's Adventures in Theatreland by Sweetpea Slight
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.06'A sparkling memoir ... A delight from start to finish' NINA STIBBE 'Anyone who loves the theatre will love this book' ZOE WANAMAKER In 1980s London, Sweetpea Slight is en route to drama school when... -
Delicacy: A memoir about cake and death by Katy Wix
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Mesmerising . . . an extraordinary piece of writing.' - The i paper'A book that has the rare quality of being both poetic and accessible . . . missing Delicacy would be a huge mistake.' - Guardian'A... -
Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.99THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY ON KURT COBAIN'A joy to read'Observer'Superbly researched'Sunday Times'Is, or should be, the last word on Kurt Cobain'Lynn Barber, Daily TelegraphKurt Cobain's life and death... -
Granta 82: Lifes Like That by Ian Jack 9780903141604
Booksplease Price: £16.53Like what, exactly? Like always ready to surprise you on the stairs; like wishing you had only known; like wanting it to go on for rather longer. This issue of Granta contains lessons drawn from the... -
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood by Perry Grayson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can... -
The Fall of Fayed: Lies, Greed and Scandal - The bestselling controversial biography by Tom Bower 9781785127144
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10THE BESTSELLING CONTROVERSIAL BIOGRAPHYBritain's leading investigative writer and biographer, Tom Bower turns the full beam of his formidable powers on one of the most controversial figures of... -
All of Me: My Extraordinary Life - The Most Recent Autobiography by Barbara Windsor by Barbara Windsor
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.70THE HEART-WARMING AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY BARBARA WINDSOR CHRONICLING HER EARLY CHILDHOOD IN LONDON'S EAST END TO RECEIVING A DBE IN 2000'A whopping, no-holds-barred rollercoaster of a book' Mail on... -
Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland by Deborah Orr 9781474611466 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.29THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'A fitting legacy left by a blazing talent' Observer'A masterpiece' Andrew O'Hagan, Guardian'Completely... -
The Accidental Duchess: From Farmer's Daughter to Belvoir Castle by Emma Manners, Duchess of Rutland 9781035002108
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'The Duchess does indeed seem a remarkable woman . . . this is an engaging book' - Lynn Barber, Daily TelegraphWhen Emma Watkins, the pony-mad daughter of a Welsh farmer, imagined her future, she... -
All of Me: My Extraordinary Life by Barbara Windsor 9780747266440 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.53THE HEART-WARMING AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY BARBARA WINDSOR CHRONICLING HER EARLY CHILDHOOD IN LONDON'S EAST END TO RECEIVING A DBE IN 2000'A whopping, no-holds-barred rollercoaster of a book' Mail on... -
Spies and Stars: MI5, Showbusiness and Me Charlotte Bingham 9781526608802
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Wickedly funny' Country Life 'Hilarious and candid' Observer _____________________________ London in the 1950s. Lottie is a reluctant typist at MI5 and the even more reluctant daughter of... -
A Drink with Shane MacGowan by Victoria Mary Clarke
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Funny, honest, brilliant and opinionated, A Drink with Shane MacGowan is the highly-acclaimed memoir of a true music icon.'One of the freshest, most original biographies I've ever read' - Lynne... -
How Do You Want Me? by Ruby Wax
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.89Sunday Times BestsellerWith a brand new introduction for 2020.How Do You Want Me? is critically acclaimed as brutally honest, vivid and gripping. Ruby Wax's unflinching revelation of a childhood... -
I an Actor by Nicholas Craig
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.84The new revised edition of the uncensored 'Acto-biography' of the most controversial thespian of his generation. The memoirs of Nicholas Craig - theatrical eminence best known for his Trueplate in... -
Ray's A Laugh: A Reader by Liz Jobey 9781915743367
Booksplease Price: £18.40In 1996, a book of photographs by an unknown young British photographer was launched on to the London contemporary art market to immediate popular and critical success. The pictures were taken within... -
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer by Tina Gaudoin 9780349134833
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022THE UNTOLD STORY OF PRINCESS DIANA'S STEPMOTHER 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' - Lynn Barber, Telegraph ***** 'Gaudoin's book is revealing and hugely... -
Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life Philip Eade 9780007305391
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.51The Sunday Times bestseller A Radio 4 Book of the Week, June 2021 'Highly readable ... deserves to take its place among the first rank of... -
Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life by Philip Eade 9780007305391 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.19The Sunday Times bestseller A Radio 4 Book of the Week, June 2021 'Highly readable ... deserves to take its place among the first rank of... -
These Heavy Black Bones Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell 9781837260652
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 'Poetic, candid and utterly compelling' FREYA BROMLEY'Absolutely... -
Diane Arbus by Arthur Lubow
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.06Diane Arbus was one of the greatest photographers of the last century. Her portraiture of freaks, circus performers, twins, nudists and others on the social margins connected with a wide public at a... -
The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes by Stephen Robinson 9780316730334 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.62In a career that spanned seven decades, WF Deedes proved more than 'pretty good' in a spectacular range of professions. A confident and ambitious journalist at twenty-two, Deedes began a life-long... -
These Heavy Black Bones by Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell 9781805300441
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73WINNER OF THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE HATCHARDS AND BIOGRAPHERS' CLUB FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE'Poetic, candid and... -
Leigh Bowery: The Life and Times of an Icon Sue Tilley 9780500298558
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A new edition of Sue Tilley's classic biography of the man described by Boy George as 'modern art on legs', updated to include never-before-seen photographs and a new chapter reflecting on Bowery's... -
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries Alan Bennett 9781800811928
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022 'Sparklingly sardonic ... There really is no one like Bennett' Independent 'Filled with elegiac memories and literary gossip ... a...