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At age two, one December day in 1943, Eric is handed over to a stranger, the Reverend Brightman. The Reverend is here to help Eric's unmarried mother, who cannot keep Eric as she has to work in the cotton mills. Across war-torn Britain, a bawling and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762403264Author Peter DonnellyFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Running Press Book PublishersPublisher Running Press Book Publishers

Hollywood superstar; Oscar-winning director; greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded in great actors - Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'Toole - but none could challenge Laurence Olivier's range and power. By the 1940s he...

At school, Roald Dahl looked forward most to those special days when the local chocolate company sent every pupil a large box of chocolate bars for testing. Years later he wrote a children's book inspired by the chocolate testing. It was one of the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914408373Author Richard StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Biddles BooksPublisher Biddles Books

Lorraine Kelly is Britain's undisputed Queen of breakfast television. From "TV-am", "GMTV" and "This Morning" to "LK Today", her genuine warmth, enthusiasm and energy have made her the most-loved broadcaster in Britain.But there is far more to Lorraine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952961987Author Michael St. John ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Wessex BooksPublisher Wessex Books

_______________ ‘A moving book by one of our generation's finest foreign correspondents' - Daily Telegraph ‘A terrifying account, soberly written ... Presents a stunning portrait of the anarchy, cruelty and overwhelming confusion of contemporary wars' -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853717383Author Meda RyanFormat PaperbackImprint Poolbeg Press LtdPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316034418Author Keith RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

'Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I've ever read' Kamila Shamsie, winner fo the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, from the introduction Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When...

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life is well known. Austrian-born to a tyrannical father who worked him --fiercely; unhappily married to a spendthrift woman; a child-like character ill at ease amid the aristocratic splendour of the Viennese court;...

A few miles from New Orleans stands a life-size bronze statue of two men in combat. One of them is the legendary Gypsy Jem Mace, the first Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World and the last of the great bare-knuckle fighters. This is his story.Between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847828996Author Susan RichardsFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Ulverscroft Large Print Books LtdPublisher F. A. Thorpe (Publishers)

The London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games will see the world's athletes come together to determine who really is the best and The London 2012 Games Superstars profiles the leading contenders. Officially endorsed by London 2012 Games and...

When TV presenter Philippa Forrester first met Charlie, a wildlife cameraman, she thought he was a show-off - and he thought she was arrogant. The second time, despite being hungry, thirsty and trapped in torrential rain aboard the world's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840300581Author A.T. PiersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Ambassador PublicationsPublisher Ambassador Publications

`All our animals showed their independence at a dishearteningly early age.' The Toveys attempt to settle down to a quiet life in the country. Unfortunately for them, however, their tyrannical Siamese cats have other ideas. From causing an uproar on the...

This book provides an introduction by J. H. Stape, St. Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill.Written in 1910 and first privately published in New York in 1916, Frank Harris' "Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions" gained almost instant...

When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room Is Full of Books. Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels...

A revealing biography detailing how Katy Perry made her transformation from demure choir girl to sexy household name and one of the most popular female singers in the world today. Accounts of the conflict Katy had growing up with a deeply religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567996340Author Stephen MatteoFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint MetroBooks (NY)Publisher MetroBooks (NY)Weight(grams) 1089g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591796268Author Mirabai StarrFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Sounds True IncPublisher Sounds True IncWeight(grams) 138g

Bursting with facts and photos, The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors is the book that all true movie fans will want to own! Expert film historian, Barry Monush (associate editor of Screen World) has produced the work of a lifetime: a complete...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956749406Author Alex DaleyFormat HardbackPage Count 329Imprint TPD AssociatesPublisher TPD Associates

The story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and rescue, finally told by one of the heroes who saved his team-mates. When Nando Parrado took off on a flight from Uruguay to Chile with his rugby team-mates, he was looking forward to an enjoyable weekend break...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345321008Author Noah BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 159g

In 2001 Andrew Anthony occupied a comfortable position within the liberal left media. A successful Observer and Guardian journalist, he believed he was on the right side of the argument - the left side. But after the events of 11 September, he noticed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805030587Author Tony ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 235Imprint Henry Holt & CompanyPublisher Henry Holt & CompanyWeight(grams) 445g

This ingenious book captures the very essence of the Kiwi character and is a spectacular celebration of over 100 examples of pioneering Kiwi ingenuity, profiling shed mechanics like Burt Munro and John Britten to those who used overseas resources to win...

Michael McIntyre has become Britain's biggest comedy star. His debut stand-up DVD was the fastest selling of all time, only to be eclipsed by his second that sold over 1.4 million copies and was the 2009 Christmas number one. He hosts his own BAFTA...

Priscilla Beaulieu Presley inspires morbid and fervid curiosity. She was a schoolgirl, barely 14 years old, when Elvis Presley plucked her from a US Air Force base in Germany to be his child bride. Her own book, published in 1986, ended with their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679450795Author Noa Ben Artzi-PelossofFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 130g

The extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the...

In addition to being a great composer, Igor Stravinsky was one of the most fascinating personalities of his time. His life spanned an amazing range of events and places - pre-revolutionary Russia, Europe in the years between the wars, and the United...

In his acclaimed and much-loved memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father? Blake Morrison's mother remains a mysterious, shadowy figure. One of the many things that Kim Morrison never told her son was that she was born Agnes O'Shea, one of twenty...

The Bronte sisters, who occupy such an important place in English literature, continue to fascinate us - the passionate intensity of Emily's Wuthering Heights and her poetry, the blend of romance and realism in Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Villette, the...

Meredith Maran lived a daughter's nightmare: she accused her father of sexual abuse, then realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent. During the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands of Americans became convinced that they had repressed memories of...

Harriet Tytler was the only woman present at the siege of Delhi in 1957, the most crucial encounter of the Indian Mutiny. l857. Her unique eyewitness account of the siege and description of her life in India are remarkable as much for their compelling...

Once there was a girl, pretty and smart and sexy. By her mid-twenties, she'd acquired two husbands and two children, and life wasn't going to plan...Then she met a man. Outrageous, brilliant, impossible, charismatic and kind, he was irresistible. Sex,...