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Remarkably, there has been only one biography of Ford Madox Brown in the past century and none at all of the four women in his life, his two wives, Elisabeth Bromley and Emma Hill, and his secret passions, the artist Marie Spartali and the author...

Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an...

The sequel to "Aristocrats", this tells the story of the headstrong and passionate 18th century Irish revolutionary, Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Son of a duke, heir to estates and influence, Lord Edward died in a Dublin gaol, a rebel and a traitor...

This work is a tribute to the unique character of Quentin Crisp, a flamboyant, gifted and genuine British eccentric and artist. It is designed to explore Quentin Crisp's life from a variety of angles. Many pieces in the book are reminiscences of Crisp's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780515105070Author Aline Countess of RomanonesFormat PaperbackImprint Jove BooksPublisher Jove BooksWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440207764Author Shaun ConsidineFormat PaperbackImprint Dell Publishing CompanyPublisher Dell Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679452355Author Christopher ReeveFormat HardbackPage Count 309Imprint Random House (NY)Publisher Random House (NY)Weight(grams) 599g

"Denis was the best in the business, he could score goals from a hundredth of a chance never mind half of one". George Best. In the 1960s, Denis Law was the King of Old Trafford. When it came to scoring goals, Law was the master, a mercurial...

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedy-While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her mother, Eddress, is struggling for courage. Though bound by an indestructible love, their journey through a world that is...

Who are the new philanthropists? And how is their philanthropy 'new'? In this remarkable and inspiring book, the eminent management writer Charles Handy and his wife Elizabeth, a portrait photographer, have collaborated to portray a new generation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399138607Author Nigel DempsterFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint Putnam Publishing GroupPublisher Putnam Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 685g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394578903Author Phillip KnightlyFormat HardbackPage Count 12Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

This is the life story of the legendary Liverpool and Scotland 1960s footballer known as 'The Saint'. Bought by Bill Shankly from Motherwell in 1961, Ian St John was widely thought of as one of the most significant signings ever made by Liverpool FC, and...

Having visited each Coleridge haunt, the author also covers Coleridge's childhood in Devon, his formative school years at Christ's Hospital in London, his days at Jesus College, Cambridge and escape to the 15th Light Dragoons, his marriage and eventual...

A collection of letters spanning 50 years. Joyce Grenfell and Virginia Graham were best friends from the age of 7 until Joyce's death. When they were apart they wrote daily letters to each other. The letters date from 1929-1979, and mention such events...

A collection of letters spanning 50 years. Joyce Grenfell and Virginia Graham were best friends from the age of 7 until Joyce's death. When they were apart they wrote daily letters to each other. The letters date from 1929-1979, and mention such events...

John Keats is described as the last of the great romantic poets, and his brief life, full of poetry, epitomizes the image of tragic genius. The author here reveals Keats to be a man of his time, rediscovering a poet who reacted strongly against an...

Telling the sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious adventures of a journalist with Operation Mobilization, this book gives an insider's view of life aboard OM's three ships, and also the wider work of this international missionary organization. These...

An appraisal of how the image of the monarchy has been affected by recent royal behaviour both in public and private. Elizabeth Longford here uses her historical knowledge of previous royal crises to assess the seriousness of the present situation.Book...

A biography of Edward VII and his Queen Consort, Alexandra, two people who were so different yet so interdependent that the part they played on the public stage for half a century was at once unique and unrepeatable. It is also the story of high-living,...

Stuart Heritage got where he is today by being decent, thoughtful, hardworking and kind. He is, in short, a model citizen. The favourite son. His younger brother Pete is quick-tempered, peevish and aggressively pig-headed and, for a while, known to his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310289029Author Beth CarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 408g

Forthright memoirs of a singular personality - former MP and STRICTLY COME DANCING star, Ann Widdecombe. With characteristic verve and integrity, Ann Widdecombe recalls her life and highlights the people and events that most influenced her along the way...

Wallis Warfield was the fatherless poor relation of two distinguished American families, who enjoyed life but learned to be tough and self-reliant in her youth, and went on to become one of the most celebrated women of the 20th century as Edward...

A wonderful Ladybird souvenir edition to celebrate the birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Filled with official photographs and information about her childhood, coronation, family life, political significance and becoming a great-grandmother, this book is...

Waiting for the mysterious interventions of medical science, the author becomes fascinated with her new existence in the sealed world of hospital. And, as she waits, she begins to write - about her childhood, her parents, and her own history.Book...

In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist. Drawing not only on interviews...

A biography of the Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, arguably one of the most brilliant physicists of his generation. Gell-Mann is also a self-taught linguist, an archaeologist and a bird-watcher, and is regarded as having revolutionized the way we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195206234Author Chilton Automotive BooksFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 789g

This second part of Frank McLynn's biography covers the period 1877-1904. At the heart of the story lies Stanley's relationship with Leopold II, with whom he duped the great powers of Europe into carving a Belgian empire on the Congo. Their acrimonious...

Now available in paperback, Gissing: A Life in Books is widely regarded as the definitive biography of this last great Victorian novelist.Book InformationISBN 9780192820167Author John HalperinFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Oxford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780099744801Author James SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Arrow Books LtdPublisher CornerstoneWeight(grams) 242g

In June 2007 a very special event will happen in the aviation world. A restored Avro Vulcan Mark 2 - XH558 - will take to the air again to help commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Falklands conflict. To coincide with this the memoirs of one of its...

From the best-selling author of The Circle - the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war Mokhtar Alkhanshali...

A tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, this book celebrates her life and reign. It profiles key royals, such as Princess Diana and Prince Harry, and features celebrations including Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding, the births of Prince George and...

Special Deluxe by Neil Young - the second installment of the iconic musician's memoirs. Quirky and wonderfully candid, Neil Young's new book of reminiscences is as compelling as his first book. He returns with more unforgettable stories about his six...

'Feeling the way I do now, it's not a feeling I ever want to have again.' - Andrew Flintoff speaks for a nation. The Ashes, 2006/07: Australia 5 England 0 - the nightmare returns. For twenty years, Australia has produced competitors so gritty they order...

In the summer of 1911 David Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, hired a young schoolteacher called Frances Stevenson to tutor his daughter in the summer holidays. He was forty-eight, and married with four children. She was twenty-two and had...

No footballer has ever captured the imagination of the world as fast and as furiously as David Beckham. Julie Burchill tracks his rapid ascent from most villified man in Britain to national hero. In 1998 he made two terrible mistakes - he got a red card...

The self-deprecating image of man - an amalgam of Pascal's "thinking reed" and Falstaff's "forked radish" - that provides a title for Peter Medawar's autobiography stems from his belief that the professional lives of scientists usually make dull reading...