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Tom Shields Takes the Fifth by Tom Shields 9781840186888 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $5.59Just 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... -
JFK: Say Goodbye to America by Matthew Smith 9781840187410 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $2.63American 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... -
Leeds United: The Second Coat by Gary Edwards 9781845960193 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $5.23He made you cry with laughter with Paint It White, now the celebrated Leeds-supporting, cartoon-drawing, painting-and-decorating eccentric Gary Edwards is back. It turns out that his first book was... -
100 Countryside Walks Around Edinburgh by Derek Storey 9781840181821 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $5.80Covering 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... -
As I Lay Me Down to Sleep by Eileen Munro 9781845963446 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $2.63When 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... -
Hollywood Undercover: Revealing the Sordid Secrets of Tinseltown by Ian Halperin 9781845962661 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $2.63Ian 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... -
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19More 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... -
Hillsborough - The Truth by Phil Scraton
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12This 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: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.50Celtic 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,... -
Voices from the Back of the Bus: Tall Tales and Hoary Stories from Rugby's Real Heroes by Stewart McKinney
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Voices from the Back of the Bus provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at international rugby at the height of a golden period. Recounted with genuine warmth and much humour, over a hundred players... -
The Last Gentleman of the SAS: A Moving Testimony from the First Allied Officer to Enter Belsen at the End of the Second World War by John Randall
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73In 1945, John Randall was the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen - the concentration camp that would reveal the horrors of the Holocaust to the world. Randall was one of that league of... -
Scots: The Mither Tongue Billy Kay 9781845960520
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96Scots: The Mither Tongue is a classic of contemporary Scottish culture and essential reading for those who care about their country's identity in the twenty-first century. It is a passionately... -
Mad Mitch's Tribal Law: Aden and the End of Empire by Aaron Edwards 9781780577005
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.87Aden, 20 June 1967: two army Land Rovers burn ferociously in the midday sun. The bodies of British soldiers litter the road. Thick black smoke bellows above Crater town, home to insurgents who are... -
The Glory Game by Hunter Davies
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12When the first edition of The Glory Game was published in 1972, it was instantly hailed as the most insightful book about the life of a football club ever published. Hunter Davies was, and still is,... -
The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath by Philip Carlo
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Written by the bestselling author of The Ice Man, The Butcher is a gripping and disturbing fly-on-the-wall account of the US Drug Enforcement Administration's four-year hunt to bring down Tommy... -
The Devil: Britain's Most Feared Underworld Taxman Graham Johnson 9781845961787
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.37Drug dealers beware. The Devil is coming to get you. Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided their... -
A Day to Die For: 1996: Everest's Worst Disaster - One Survivor's Personal Journey to Uncover the Truth by Graham Ratcliffe
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87On the night of 10-11 May 1996, eight climbers perished in what remains the worst disaster in Everest's history. Following the tragedy, numerous accounts were published, with Jon Krakauer's Into Thin... -
The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: The Robin Friday Story by Paul McGuigan
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Robin Friday was an exceptional footballer who should have played for England. He never did. Robin Friday was a brilliant player who could have played in the top flight. He never did. Why? Because... -
Rebels for the Cause: The Alternative History of Arsenal Football Club by Jon Spurling
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Arsenal's on-field success has been well documented. But what has never been written before is the equally remarkable history of Arsenal's rebels, both on and off the pitch. Spanning almost 120... -
In Search of Duncan Ferguson: The Life and Crimes of a Footballing Enigma by Alan Pattullo
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.87He was one of the hardest, most controversial footballers of his generation: the GBP20million man who became the first professional player to go to jail for an offence committed on the field of play... -
McIlvanney On Boxing H McIlvanney 9781840186055
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Hugh McIlvanney is a living legend in sports journalism. A regular winner of the fiercely contested UK Sports Writer of the Year award, he also has the unique distinction of being the only sports... -
Culloden Tales: Stories from Scotland's Most Famous Battlefield by Hugh G. Allison
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Culloden was the last battle on British soil. It marked the end of clan culture and was the harbinger of the Highland Clearances. It ensured the inevitability of the American Revolution and increased... -
The Island Nurse Mary J. MacLeod 9781845967901
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.50Life on the remote island of Papavray in the 1970s was a world away from Mary J. MacLeod's urban existence in the south of England. And this peaceful environment was just what she was looking for... -
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer Philip Carlo 9781845963392
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Top Mafia hit man. Doting father. For 30 years, Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos, becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins... -
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Loung Ung 9781840185195
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.50Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie PittUntil the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a... -
The Krays: A Violent Business: The Definitive Inside Story of Britain's Most Notorious Brothers in Crime Colin Fry 9781845967741
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Twins Ron and Reg Kray were without doubt the most powerful, violent and deadly gangsters that London has ever known. They ran protection rackets, clubs and casinos, as well as fraudulent 'long... -
The Scottish World: A Journey Into the Scottish Diaspora by Billy Kay
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'Thaim wi a guid Scots tongue in their heid are fit tae gang ower the warld' In The Scottish World, renowned broadcaster Billy Kay takes us on a global journey of discovery, highlighting the... -
First They Killed My Father: Film tie-in by Loung Ung
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.01A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child... -
Ma, I've Reached for the Moon an I'm Hittin the Stars by Martha Long 9781780576114
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.36After a failed suicide attempt and recovery in the mad house, Martha is heading for France to be reunited with the one true love of her life.Father Ralph Fitzgerald rescued her from the streets when... -
Lucky Luciano: Mafia Murderer and Secret Agent by Tim Newark
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. He was a legend - but also a fake master criminal without real power, his... -
Ma, Now I'm Goin Up in the World by Martha Long
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12At 16, Martha collapses on the streets, suffering from starvation and exposure. She has reached rock bottom, but after Martha is taken to hospital, Lady Luck smiles kindly on her and she is given the... -
Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House Martha Long 9781780575414
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of... -
Sons of Thunder: Writing from the Fast Lane: A Motorcycling Anthology by Neil Bradford
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87'A fool couldn't ride the Vincent Black Shadow more than once, but a fool can ride a Ducati 900 many times, and it will always be a bloodcurdling kind of fun. That is the Curse of Speed which has... -
Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy Martha Long 9781845964498
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.50Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally. After numerous arrests for shoplifting, a judge rules that she is to... -
The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison W Fellows 9781840182750
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.97Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it... -
100 Classic Coastal Walks in Scotland: the essential practical guide to experiencing Scotland's truly dramatic, extensive and ever-varying coastline on foot Andrew Dempster 9781845965860
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75If you are keen to explore the six thousand miles of coastline that Scotland has to offer, then this is the perfect guide for you. Complete with maps and illustrations and covering walks ranging from... -
Hell's Prisoner: The Shocking True Story Of An Innocent Man Jailed For Eleven Years In Indonesia's Most Notorious Prisons by Christopher V.V. Parnell
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Prepare yourself for a journey into the indonesian penal system, a world where murder, torture and fights to the death are the norm.Hell's Prisoner is the powerful story of one man's battle to... -
Manx Murders: 150 Years of Island Madness, Mayhem and Manslaughter by Keith Wilkinson 9781840186925
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $25.37A beautiful island lying in the northern part of the Irish Sea between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, the Isle of Man was once a popular holiday destination. It is perhaps better known today... -
Unhooked: The Rehab of a London Call Girl by Clare Gee
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $21.25Addicted 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... -
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes by Martha Long
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start.As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth...