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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465005123Author Bernard LovellFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Basic BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams) 1590g

BL One of the most popular and highly-praised books on Mozart's life and personality Basing his biography on the verifiable facts and on Mozart's many letters, Wolfgang Hildesheimer penetrates the legend that began to envelop the composer soon after his...

'This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read.' - Eleanor Mills in the Sunday Times Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780434599226Author Anthony PowellFormat HardbackImprint William Heinemann LtdPublisher CornerstoneWeight(grams) 162g

Da Chen was born in 1962, in a town over 50 hours' train journey from Beijing. Here, he draws a vivid picture of his childhood, boyhood friendships, the beauty of the Chinese countryside and the madness of the cultural revolution.Book InformationISBN...

After making his debut in the Argentine First Division at the age of 15, Aguero's sharp, intelligent play at Independiente and Atl tico Madrid made it clear that he was a world-class player in the making. Since arriving at Manchester City in 2011, he has...

In this comprehensive, interdisciplinary work, Susan Gubar asks who Judas Iscariot was and why he betrayed Jesus, exploring the meaning of Jesus' betrayer over twenty centuries. Despite the recent recovery of a Gnostic Gospel bearing his name, the...

This true story tells of the hardship endured by a Moroccan family incarcerated for 20 years by King Hassan II of Morocco; punished for a crime perpetrated by their father.Book InformationISBN 9780385601245Author Malika OufkirFormat HardbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375502941Author Amanda ForemanFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House (NY)Publisher Random House (NY)Weight(grams) 880g

Describes the emotions of Queen Elizabeth I. For although her great passion was for power, she was capable of more human feelings such as her love for the worthless Earl of Leicester. Also brought to life are the monarch's vanities, her favourites and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565660779Author Jean-Claude SuaresFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Thomasson-Grant PublishersPublisher Thomasson-Grant PublishersWeight(grams) 940g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557500113Author William RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Naval Institute PressPublisher Naval Institute Press

'Like a master class in memoir writing. Honest, perceptive and properly funny' Neil Gaiman 'A wonderful and very special book' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt'Glamorous. Heart-breaking. Hilarious. Feminist. Life-changing' Katherine Ryan...

In this sequel to her acclaimed biography of T.S.Eliot, Lyndall Gordon continues her exploration of the ties between Eliot's work and the events and relationships which influenced it. T.S.Eliot's search for a new life after the traumatic break-up of his...

Peter Medawar was an extremely succesful scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1960. Nine years later, at the age of 54, he was crippled by a cerebral haemorrhage. This is his widow's story of her life with Sir Peter. It provides an insight into the life...

The story of one of the greatest footballers of all time, Lionel Messi. Lionel Messi's career has been a stellar ascent, and shows no signs as yet of slowing down. Born in Rosario in Argentina in 1987, he began playing football at a very young age, and...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about Rotten Rulers, including who gave the job of high priest to a donkey, who choked to heath while eating a crow and who celebrated victory by eating his enemy's head? With a bold, accessible new look and a heap...

Peter Medawar was an extremely succesful scientist who won the Nobel Prize in 1960. Nine years later, at the age of 54, he was crippled by a cerebral haemorrhage. This is his widow's story of her life with Sir Peter. It provides an insight into the life...

Written to her sister Cassandra and other near relatives and intimate friends, this selection of almost one-third of Jane Austen's surviving letters makes a delightful introduction to her life and work. Although they rarely mention her novels, the...

In this powerful and honest memoir, Laurie Matthew takes the reader with her as she revisits her childhood in 1950s and 1960s Dundee. Raised in a home which consisted of an emotionally neglectful and physically violent mother, a distant father, a...

Only Sir Bobby Charlton and Ryan Giggs have played more games for Manchester United than Bill Foulkes, the granite bulwark of the Red Devils' rearguard for 15 years and a key figure in the history of the club. He played at right-back for the original...

During the last six years of her life, the philosopher, feminist, novelist and author of the landmark work, "The Second Sex", gave Deirdre Bair her unqualified co-operation and time. In interviews, she provided new insights and material that...

When your husband (or wife, in Denis Thatcher's case) becomes Prime Minister, and the doors of No.10 close behind you, every aspect of life is suddenly changed. This was what Cherie Booth discovered. Intrigued, Cherie and social historian Cate Haste set...

Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captures Kafka's heart and kept his literary flame alive for decades. It was Dora Diamant, an independent spirit who fled her Polish Hasidic family to pursue her Zionist dreams, who persuaded Kafka to...

A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788172236519Author Singh KhushwantFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 161g

At the end of the nineteenth century European pimps and 'white slavers' established a hugely successful global market for commercial sex and for three turbulent decades before the First World War, Joseph Silver was central to this hidden world of...

The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters...

The life of Willie Donaldson ended in June 2005 when he was found dead in the seedy rented flat in Chelsea where he had lived for 35 years. His computer, situated in the study he used to call 'the literary room', was still logged on to a website called...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780007776917Author Toni MaguireFormat Hardback

A compilation of some of the most well-known speeches of modern times. These speeches span the years 1940 - 1987. Among others listen to Winston Churchill's First Radio Address As Prime Minister, John F Kennedy's Inaugural Address and Richard Nixon's...

Published on the 20th anniversary of his death, and containing substantial new material never before seen in print, Lennon Remembers presents a portrait of a complex musician at the height of his career.Book InformationISBN 9781859846001Author Colin...

Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840301342Author Gloria KearneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Ambassador PublicationsPublisher Ambassador PublicationsWeight(grams) 166g

A joyful celebration of amateur theatre This is the story of amateur dramatics in Britain. In a triumphant mix of memoir, social history, interviews and manifesto, Jenny Landreth opens our eyes to am-dram and shows us a vibrant world that is a crucial...

Written with honesty and humour, this is the engaging story of Tiff Needell's life around cars and motor racing. For nearly 25 years Tiff has been a well-known television personality, first on "Top Gear" - where he worked alongside Jeremy...

An in-depth study of one of Hollywood's great leading men: philanthropist, model husband, world-class racing driver, and authentic silver-screen icon, one of the last and greatest living links between Hollywood's golden age and its post-studio-system era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909757998Author John WaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint Melrose BooksPublisher Melrose BooksWeight(grams) 246g

During the nineteenth century it became increasingly common for merchant service masters to take their wives to sea, particularly in the whaling industry, where voyages of 2-3 years were not uncommon. Reflecting the sailor's traditional dislike of women...

Roman Halter is an optimistic and boisterous schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family gather behind net curtains to watch the Volksdeutsch neighbours of their small town in western Poland greeting the arrival of Hitler's armies with kisses and swastika...