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Nobody's Child described John Robinson's journey from brutal foster homes, through borstal, prison and life on the streets, to his discovery of the transforming love of Christ. Today he leads the astonishingly effective Eden Bus Ministry in Manchester...

The Royal Line of succession can be traced back over 2,000 years of British history. This book includes the genealogies of Britain's Royal Families, from the days of the Kings of Wessex in the 6th century to the present day, together with brief...

At a time when military commanders in Europe were royal princes and dukes, Napoleon's marshals were often the sons of peasants or clerks. And they were usually half the age of their opponents - whom they thrashed soundly with almost monotonous regularity...

The heart of the book is the account, not only of Guntrip's dream sequences over a period of forty years, but also of his two analyses, the first with W.R.D. Fairbairn, and the second with D.W. Winnicott.Book InformationISBN 9781853433320Author Jeremy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852916237Author Bob HowittFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Queen Anne PressPublisher Macdonald & Co

This shocking memoir by the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas is a book about sexual, political and artistic freedom. In Before Night Falls, Arenas recounts his journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba to his death in New York four decades...

The founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 turned a brand new page of Chinese history. For Wang Mingdao, this was an extraordinary time. Living under the harsh conditions and cruel realities of the Japanese occupation, he fought a fierce...

Spoken in Whispers is the autobiography of a remarkable woman. Nicci Mackay is a horse whisperer, one of only a few people in the world who can translate what horses say. Nicci, who has had the extraordinary gift of being able to communicate with animals...

John Smith died on 12 May 1994, less that two years into his leadership of the Labour Party. In this biography, some of those people closest to Smith express their feelings about the man. His widow, Elizabeth, writes about how his life in politics and...

Matt Roper is a journalist working in the human rights field. He is also the author of the popular StreetGirls.Book InformationISBN 9781850784791Author Matt RoperFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Authentic MediaPublisher Authentic MediaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897959565Author J.M. SyngeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SerifPublisher SerifWeight(grams) 270g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874538639Author Annie Harris-GrinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Old Bakehouse PublicationsPublisher Old Bakehouse Publications

This beginners guide introduces the complex ideas in Hawking's book, "A Brief History of Time". Hawking has made discoveries about where the two theories of relativity and quantum mechanics break down or overlap, such as at the edge of a Black...

Surprisingly funny, and refreshingly different from any other writings on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law, describes Suad Amiry's experience of living on the West Bank from the early eighties to the present. Amiry tells us...

This is the third volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography, following "The Tongue Set Free" and "The Torch in My Ear". It is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937, at a time when the European catastrophe was already clear to anyone with...

This is the second volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography, following "The Tongue Set Free" and preceding "The Play of the Eyes". It is above all else an account of his admiration for the first great mentor of his adult years, the...

Following the publication of The Link, Matthew Manning found himself taken up by the media, and in danger of becoming part of the psychic circus that the appearence of Uri Geller had inaugurated. This text records those turbulent and inspiring years.Book...

An exceptionally haunting memoir that also shows us what it is to be really human. In a hardware store, Joe sits on a display toilet amidst the throng of customers and wees, smiling serenely. He thumps crying babies. He is amazed when the car he runs in...

Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most admired and controversial figures of the twentieth century, and he remains so today. In this book leading Gandhi scholar Douglas Allen presents a new, challenging approach to understanding Gandhi's life and the contexts...

Entertaining insight into aspects of naval life normally hidden Explanatory notes put Lowry's world in context Never previously published Never intended for publication, these frank and revealing memoirs were written by an adventurous Irish surgeon, and...

Horatio Nelson was a vivid and frank letter writer and his collection of letters has been compared with those of Pepys, Byron and Keats. The one edition of these letters was first published between 1844 and 1846 and is here reprinted in seven volumes...

Horatio Nelson was a vivid and frank letter writer and his collection of letters has been compared with those of Pepys, Byron and Keats. The one edition of these letters was first published between 1844 and 1846 and is here reprinted in seven volumes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861059680Author David BretFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Robson Books LtdPublisher Robson Books LtdWeight(grams) 341g

Severiano Ballesteros is charismatic and can be charming, but his personality comprises layers of intrigue. Robert Green was written an amazing portrait of the man whose mind has been described as 'a private forest, a place impenetrable, indeed dangerous...

The popular comedy actress and raconteuse Maureen Lipman reveals how she found herself trussed up backstage in Birmingham, ponders the more peculiar aspects of cricket terminology and explores the miracle of plastic tablecloths.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860744303Author Martin JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Sanctuary Publishing LtdPublisher Sanctuary Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 306g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860741494Author Steven RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Sanctuary Publishing LtdPublisher Sanctuary Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 328g

A fascinating, powerfully evocative account of four generations of Cuban women: Naty Revuelta, born in 1925, a socialite during the Batista era, who became intoxicated with Castro and his revolution; Naty's mother, an unregenerate reactionary, and Naty's...

The true story of Nick Battle, former bass guitarist with 80s Christian rock band After the Fire, who became a music industry mogul. He was involved in introducing the Spice Girls to their music publisher. Personal tragedy and triumph are never far from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860199479Author Bryan PerrettFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Caxton EditionsPublisher Caxton PublishingWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859833681Author Sheila BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Breedon Books Publishing Co LtdPublisher Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858339658Author Jackie ModlingerFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Bramley BooksPublisher CLBWeight(grams) 1247g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858338811Author Lesley BellowFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Bramley BooksPublisher CLBWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858338682Author P. DonnellyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Colour Library Direct LtdPublisher Colour Library Direct LtdWeight(grams) 223g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858214351Author Edward BeckFormat HardbackPage Count 227Imprint The Pentland PressPublisher The Pentland Press

All of us have to face suffering at some time during our lives. We do not live in a fair world and suffering is not distributed equally. Suffering, in particular the suffering of children and the innocent, disturbs us and it is right that we should be...

Having succeeded George Davies at NEXT plc in a blaze of publicity, he turned it around from nearly going broke to becoming the most talked about and successful retailers of the last 20 years -an astounding turn around which saw the NEXT stockmarket...

The Queen's life is dedicated to her public - every move is scrutinised, every word noted. But her homes are havens where peace can be found, away from watchful eyes; sanctuaries of private calm in a whirlwind life of public duty. In The Queen's Houses,...

In 2011 Tina Renton used her law degree to put the man who had abused her from the age of six behind bars. That man was her stepfather, David Moore, a predatory paedophile who pounced on Tina while she innocently lay sleeping at night. From the age of...

A car mechanic turned internationally acclaimed opera star, Alfie Boe has taken Broadway by storm, conquered the West End and has won the hearts of the nation. The first official bad boy of opera, this is the story of his life - the ups and the downs,...