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The son of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson tells his own story of soldiering, publishing, politics and authorship.Nigel Nicolson grew up in the world of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsberries, one of three sons of the unconventional parents, MP...

'I believed Rose had a secret plan for the farm, a detailed map in her head that showed exactly where all her ewes and lambs and humans ought to be. Though I was nominally the herder, I wasn't privy to the map. My job was mostly to latch and unlatch the...

Slavery in Britain did not end with William Wilberforce at the beginning of the nineteenth century. They may be largely invisible to us, but living in our midst are thousands of slaves. Rahila Gupta seeks out five escapees and persuades them to tell us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903529140Author John HumphriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Glyndwr PublishingPublisher Glyndwr Publishing

Daoud Hari lost a way of life in Darfur. But amidst the carnage and turmoil, he found a new calling...As a Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur region of Sudan, Daoud Hari grew up racing camels across the desert, attending gloriously colourful weddings and,...

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_______________ 'Few writers can match her evocations of individual suffering in wartime.' - Newsweek 'A gifted and humane reporter with a novelist's eye for detail.' - Literary Review 'One of our generation's finest foreign correspondents.' -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903087732Author Stuart BurgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Day One PublicationsPublisher Day One Publications

When Jon took on a troublesome two-year-old Border Collie in A Dog Year, it turned his sedate life upside down and culminated in a move from suburbia to a rural farm.But the contrary Collie - incredibly loyal but incredibly misbehaved - never settles...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845990862Author Satsvarupa Dasa GoswamiFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Intermex Publishing LtdPublisher Intermex Publishing Ltd

First full-length biography for 30 years of the great First World War poet.Siegfried Sassoon praised Isaac Rosenberg's 'genius' and T.S. Eliot called him the 'most extraordinary' of the Great War poets. Rosenberg died on the Western Front in 1918 aged...

With his recent theatrical success, The Play What I Wrote, Braben shows that the audience for the spirit of the incomparable Eric and Ernie is just as alive today as it was in their glory years. Now, the key figure behind their success, scriptwriter...

Ten inspiring stories of faith and mission from Asia and the Arab World from the mission agency Interserve. In The Plum in the Desert Naomi Reed tells stories of difficult situations in the mission field; some of victory, some which left the mission...

Few other historians have shaped our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German-born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis, The Face of the Third Reich, his biographies of...

Alexander Cordell was born into a military family in Ceylon and spent much of his youth in the Far East. He worked his way up through the ranks fo the British Army to become a major. To many, he must have seemed the quintessential Englishman, and yet his...

The oldest daughter of Sarah Palin and single mother goes beyond the headlines, offering readers an inside look at her life, her world, and the things that matter most, including her family and the faith that keeps her centered. When her mother became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861511638Author Angela CousinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 300g

Rediscovered after 80 years gathering dust on a family bookshelf and first brought to public attention on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, A VERY UNIMPORTANT OFFICER is a detailed and intimate account of the experience of Captain Stewart, an ordinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Global Business Book Award 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780684834603Author John P. KotterFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573226882Author Nick HornbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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'I am one of the old school and believe that a woman's place is within the home ... However, I cannot, I will not, condone unfairness amongst females. I suggest that in due course you send your Matron a letter of thanks. You had after all a most unusual...

The great leader of the women's suffrage movement tells the story of her struggles in her own words.Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior to women. When she was just fourteen she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724767Author Vernon HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press

The children's novel "Black Beauty" written by Anna Sewell wrote the children's novel "Black Beauty" in her fifties, and sold it outright for GBP20. She did not live to know of its success. This work chronicles her extraordinary life from the tragic...

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The sequel to the popular Kicking the Habit! When Eleanor Stewart abandoned her vows and her life as a nun, she found herself in the middle of the swinging Sixties - and soon joined in. Boyfriends, parties, and mini-skirts took the place of silence and...

'"Mrs Byrne, you've a beautiful, very pale, ginger-haired baby boy with a wonky eye." As she was handed me by the midwife, my mother wept for all the wrong reasons. She could have shagged a platypus and I still would have come out better than this.' ...

'Dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside Korem it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the Twentieth Century.'Those words opened Michael Buerk's first report on the Ethiopian famine for the 6 o'clock news on...

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Maggie is John Sergeant's mordant analysis of Margaret Thatcher's career and, more importantly, the legacy she has left to the Conservative party, which he would argue has been little short of disastrous. He takes us from the glory days of three...

A woman's fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accident In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding...

John F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theatre, music and clothes, his personality reflected his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906600082Author Janet BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Jeremy Mills PublishingPublisher Jeremy Mills PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842404720Author Tim FootmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Chrome DreamsPublisher Chrome DreamsWeight(grams) 523g

'A life-affirming book' Daily Mail'An uplifting personal story of a year lived like no other' Daily ExpressTwo days after her husband of sixty-seven years dies, nonagenarian Miss Norma is diagnosed with cancer. When given her treatment options - surgery,...

Jack Sutherland, the narrator and protagonist of this memoir has, you might say, led a charmed life in the face of seeming damnation. A confirmed alcoholic in his early teens, by his twenties he was PA and bodyguard to the Hollywood stars most notably...

The first biography of the enigmatic coach who has completely transformed the England rugby team.After Eddie Jones began coaching England's rugby team, they won 22 of their next 23 matches. The side that limped out of the 2015 World Cup was thoroughly...

Ita Doyle: 'In all my life I have lived in two houses, had two jobs, and one husband. I'm a very interesting person'Rory & Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives. They remember...