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The definitive guide to who's buried where in England A new, extensively revised and updated edition of this wideranging guide to the English burial places of over 350 prominent historical and royal figures, including Diana, Princess of Wales, with a...

Danny Ellis was a survivor, strong and resilient. A successful singer/songwriter, he was proud of the way he'd `handled' his painful past: the grinding poverty of the 1950s Dublin slums, and the brutality of the orphanage, the notorious Artane Industrial...

There is no reason why you should have heard of Geoffrey Pyke. After his suicide in 1948 he was described as one of the great geniuses of his time, to rank alongside Einstein, yet he remains today, as The Times put it, 'one of the most original if...

In April 1982 Harry Benson was a 21-year-old Royal Navy commando helicopter pilot, fresh out of training and one of the youngest helicopter pilots to serve in the Falklands War. These pilots, nicknamed 'junglies', flew most of the land-based missions in...

Be sure you marry a pure-blooded Englishman.' The memory of this inexplicable command to nine-year-old Diana Quick by her terminally ill grandfather was to remain buried for years. It wasn't until she played Julia Flyte in the celebrated Granada TV...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844014187Author Maria NerelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 145g

'It took me places I hadn't expected to go. I loved it.' Tom Brokaw One summer, Jim Sterba accepts an invitation from Frances FitzGerald to visit her log cabin.Imagine a secluded little house in the woods on the Atlantic coast, out of harm's way and the...

The only book about the search for a proof to the Riemann Hypothesis. In 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a shy German mathematician, wrote an eight-page article, suggesting an answer to a problem that had long puzzled mathematicians. For the next 150 years, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842327852Author John BuchanFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint House of StratusPublisher House of StratusWeight(grams) 135g

Many musicians sing about heartache, despair and confusion, but few have experienced those feelings more intensely than James Taylor, who rose from a privileged childhood as the son of an affluent medical school dean to become a modern-day troubadour and...

What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought, and yet there are more than 25 million refugees in the world. To be a refugee is to grapple with your place in society, attempting to reconcile the life you have known...

Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. With songs like `The Weight', `The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' and `Up on Cripple Creek', he and his partners in...

Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties of caring for her own property, and free to settle into...

Today one of the most successful music stars in the world, Lady Gaga fast became a household name after the release of her first album, The Fame, in 2008. Now noted as much for her flamboyant dress sense and extravagant live performances as her undoubted...

Brigitte Bardot was the first official face of Marianne, the figure synonymous with the liberty of France. She became one of the most famous faces of French cinema during the 50s and 60s and set the world alight when she appeared in And God Created Woman...

The Mob was the biggest, richest business in America - until it was destroyed from within by drugs, greed and the decline of traditional crime-family values. And by guys like Sal Polisi. Born into one of the New York Mob's feared Five Families, Polisi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595551566Author Lynne SpearsFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Nelson CurrentPublisher Thomas Nelson Publishers

From award-winning vlogger and entrepreneur Connor Franta comes this collectible hardcover edition-complete with a brand-new bonus chapter-of his New York Times bestselling memoir, A Work in Progress, which was selected by Forbes as a Top 5 Breakthrough...

Imagine how it would feel to one day wake up and find your vision descending swiftly into darkness. Your fingertips are turning numb, and, as the world closes in around you, you realise there is nothing you can do to stop it. This is what happened to...

Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), An...

A new Sunday Times bestseller from Bryony Gordon, Telegraph columnist and author of the bestselling The Wrong Knickers. For readers who enjoyed Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive and Ruby Wax's Sane New World, Mad Girl is a shocking, funny, unpredictable,...

Liz Jones is Fashion Editor of the Daily Mail, and a columnist for the Mail on Sunday. She is the former editor of Marie Claire, which sounds quite an achievement, but she was sacked three years in. A psychotherapist once told her, 'What you brood on...

Elizabeth I ruled during a turbulent time in Tudor history. Find out about her highs and lows from being imprisoned in the Tower of London to inspiring victory over the Spanish Armada. Discover the stories of people who have helped to shape history,...

On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian Faulks' heroine, Charlotte...

In 'The Ace of Spades', Motorhead's most famous song, Lemmy, the born-to-lose, live-to-win frontman of the band sang, 'I don't want to live forever'. Yet as he told his friend of 35 years, former PR and biographer Mick Wall, 'Actually, I want to go the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400131488Author Andrew BursteinImprint Tantor Media, IncPublisher Tantor Media, IncWeight(grams) 162g

Second Nature is the father-daughter autobiography from WWE Legend "Nature Boy" Ric Flair himself and his talented daughter Charlotte, a multi-time WWE Women's Champion. For the father-daughter duo of Ric and Charlotte Flair, sports...

A vivid, first-hand account of Nobel Prize-winning singer and songwriter Bob Dylan as an artist, friend, and celebrity, illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, and told by an engaging raconteur who cut his own swathe through the turbulent...

Director of over forty-five movies, playwright, writer, actor, and jazz clarinetist, Woody Allen is one of the great artistic polymaths of our time. From Sleeper through Annie Hall and on to Midnight in Paris, his films embody a sensibility that's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964346017Author Krista QuinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint The Bradford Book CoPublisher The Bradford Book CoWeight(grams) 140g

Likened to James Joyce and Franz Kafka, W.N.P. Barbellion's Journal is one of the great diaries and caused a sensation when first published in 1919. Begun when its author was 13 years old, the Journal at first catalogues his misadventures in the Devon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948253560Author John TicknerFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint The Sportsman's PressPublisher Quiller Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884194538Author Betty J. RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Creation HousePublisher Creation HouseWeight(grams) 386g

This book presents in-depth interviews with 24 'motor sport greats', all characters with a story to tell. The idea was to get them to suggest their favourite pub or restaurant for a good meal and a half-decent bottle, and gently prod them into opening up...

James Brindley was of humble birth, from a remote part of Britain, and received little or no education. Yet by sheer innate ability, he rose to be consulted and admired by the highest in the land. His first achievements were in harnessing wind and water...

A look at the life and military accomplishments of General Douglas MacArthur, whose career included serving as commander of the United States Army in the Far East during World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780791074022Author Earle RiceFormat HardbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786038701Author Linda ScarpaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Pinnacle Books,U.S.Publisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767914048Author Jennifer Finney BoylanFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

By combing through the journals that Hannah has kept for much of her life, this collection of narrative essays deliver a fuller picture of her life, her experiences, and the things she's figured out about family, faith, love, sexuality, self-worth,...

The series focuses on the people who inspire children today. This title looks at the life of Martin Luther King, from his younger years, to training to become a minister, and eventually becoming the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Read about his...