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For every brave soldier putting their life on the line for Queen and country, there is a second, more subtle sort of heroism at work back at base in Britain. "Daffodil Girls" is the story of the women behind the soldiers of The 2nd Battalion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753193877Author Alan WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint ISIS PublishingPublisher ISIS Publishing

When Brian Johnston was a schoolboy, his reports were full of phrases such as 'talks too much in school' and 'apt to be a buffoon'. Later millions of radio listeners would be delighted to discover that some things never changed! Johnners brought his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753197547Author Eve DayFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint ISIS PublishingPublisher ISIS Publishing

Offering an irreverent inside look at American entertainment, from the heyday of Hollywood and Las Vegas and the rise of television, this is a biography of Dean Martin. Born in Ohio, Dino Crocetti came up the hard way, pumping petrol, boxing, working in...

Omnibus edition of 'A House by the Shore' which documents the author's retreat from urban life to the ragged landscape of the island of Harris, and 'Scarista Style', a collection of her recipes.Book InformationISBN 9780708834046Author Alison...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780747205111Author Nancy NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Headline Book PublishingPublisher Headline Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 650g

The author chronicles her eight years as First Lady of the United States, looking back on her husband's two administrations, the challenges she faced during the period, the impeachment crisis, and her own political work.Book InformationISBN...

Join Union J as they embark on their journey to become THE next big boyband in Our Story! Only a few months ago Union J were just average guys, dreaming of performing on the X Factor stage, making music and having legions of fans screaming their names...

On 24 September 2000 at the Sydney Olympics, Denise Lewis won the gold medal for the heptathlon. Although quite badly injured after the fifth event, she gritted her teeth and pulled through to achieve an excellent throw in the javelin, and finished the...

This astute biography brilliantly captures, in one volume, the full range of Winston Churchill's astonishing career. perhaps the greatest political figure of modern times, Churchill's achievement extended well beyond his emblematic role in the Second...

Jonathan Swift is an infinitely intriguing figure in the literary and political history of England and Ireland. Best known as the author of GULLIVERS TRAVELS, he was an ordained clergyman whose enemies thought did not believe in God. He became a...

Agatha Christie was the author of over eighty novels and over a dozen plays, including The Mousetrap, the longest continuously running play in theatrical history. Her books have been translated into more languages than the works of Shakespeare. Agatha...

This biography of Marilyn Monroe based on her personal archive of over 35,000 documents - including letters, diaries, billets doux and suicide notes - aims to reveal the truth about Monroe's death and names the names. It overturns many myths about...

'One Man Tango' is distinguished by honesty that has marked actor Anthony Quinn's 60-year career as one of the true originals of stage and screen.Book InformationISBN 9780747215042Author Anthony QuinnFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Headline Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780747206774Author Piers DudgeonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Headline Book PublishingPublisher Headline Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 248g

British, young, beautiful and exceptionally talented, Darcey Bussell has crossed from the dance world to become a household name. Consequently, Darcey is caught up in the media whirl which surrounds all modern celebrities. In this candid memoir she talks...

Blundy journeys to discover the fate of her father, the investigative journalist David Blundy, who was shot and killed in San Salvador in 1989. She also recounts her childhood spent hanging out with hacks in New York hotels, how she lost her father to...

The story of a lawyer's battle to win compensation from two of America's largest industrial giants. He fought on behalf of 21 families whose lives were wrecked by illness and death due to the alleged poisoning of their town well. This case became...

Leni Riefenstahl, who died in 2003, will always be remembered for her film of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. After the war, Riefenstahl was shunned by the film industry both in Europe and America, despite a 1952 court ruling proclaiming her not guilty...

Dannie Abse's rich mixture of Welsh and Jewish backgrounds, and his dual occupations of doctor and author, have led to what is widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies since the war. Goodbye, Twentieth Century...

The first night of Sheridan's "The School for Scandal", on 8th May 1777, was one of the great dates in theatrical history. From then on, Sheridan was launched by his fame as a playwright into the "little great world" of 18th-century...

Born in suburban London, Robert Robinson progressed via grammar school and Oxford to become one of the most successful broadcasters of his generation in a career spanning programmes such as "Today", "Stop the Week", "Brain of...

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...

"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...

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...