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A relationship was a mathematical formula: the correct variables of age, beauty, morality and finances were entered and the output was a successful, peaceful marriage. It couldn't be, therefore, that their Iranian son could feel desire for someone six...

After the Battle of Hastings, King Harold's tattoos were used to identify his body.Elizabeth of York was the model for the Queen in the first deck of cards.Queen Victoria appears on the 1851 Census. She lists her occupation as 'the Queen'.Henry VIII used...

Alys Morgan was admitted to hospital on the 19th of April, with an unexplained sickness which had rendered her too weak to move. The next day she was diagnosed with Covid-19 - though staff understood her symptoms as little as the virus itself. This is...

Knock 'em Cold, Kid is the autobiography of award-winning Welsh writer Elaine Morgan. Born in the Rhondda Valley in 1920, Elaine vividly describes the relationship between her father and mother as they coped with life on the dole. Her grammar school...

So what does happen when someone dies? What does it feel like? Why do some people find it hard to leave places and loved ones behind? And how do people who die in accidents and other sudden deaths fare? How does our grief affect those who have passed on?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885767516Author Douglas WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Canon PressPublisher Canon PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 141mm * 7mm

'We will overcome it [and] I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge, and those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any' Her Majesty The QueenThe...

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

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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,...

_______________ '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

You may be a kid, but you are mighty - and now is the time to put your strength to use! This is a book to inspire you and show you how to be a change-maker. Being a good citizen means standing up for what's right and here's just the way to start...

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...

A memoir of theatrical life and much more by Tim Pigott-Smith, one of the best known and most prodigiously talented actors of his generation. From his appearance as Ronald Merrick in the television adaptation of The Jewel in the Crown to his recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434305251Author John LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 394gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909245488Author Paolo CondoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint De Coubertin BooksPublisher De Coubertin Books

One midlife crisis, a horse and the diet of a lifetime Dominic Prince, journalist, documentary-maker, racing enthusiast and bon viveur hit the scales at nearly 16 stone on his 47th birthday. It was not always so. His first love was and still...

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...

'I always wanted everything so frantically, and I'm just the person that can't have them.' Based on family papers and memories, this picture of middle class life at the end of the nineteenth century tells the poignant story of Winnie Seebohm, Victoria...

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...

Since her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular characters - the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and the...

When Bruce, an abandoned collie-cross puppy, is adopted by a lively family, he encounters more affection than ever before in his short life.With humour and a unique charm, he describes his life with his loving but troubled owners, and offers a sometimes...

Life's too short...but she's not. At 4'11", Kristin Chenoweth is famous for creating the role of Galinda the Good Witch in the smash musical Wicked. She's also been a regular on shows like The West Wing, Pushing Daisies, and Sesame Street , costarred in...

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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He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. Last summer, this little-known outsider rode a wave of popular enthusiasm to win the Labour Party...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653442Author Kris NeedsFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

'Today as I was leaving home, I saw a guy in the street. Just by exchanging glances, we decided to make love.' Valerie Tasso is an unashamedly promiscuous French woman who becomes a high-class prostitute in Madrid. This is her story, told in riveting...

Amanda Holden always knew her destiny was to become a star. At the age of three she was singing, acting and directing plays for family and friends, 'I wanted to be a household name, like Fairy Liquid,' she told them. Ever the joker, for once Amanda...

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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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'Touching and funny, Alison Gangel's memoir is an exceptionally honest and brave piece of writing.' Anne Donovan 'A gleaming gem of a memoir' Daily Express ________________________ Seven-year-old Ailsa Dunn's Ma is prettier than all the other mothers,...