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'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...

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...

Integrity matters. We expect it of leaders in all walks of life. But why is integrity so rare? Jonathan Lamb looks at the example of the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians and offers us a model of integrity in leadership that spans the centuries.Book...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988777828Author Norma BuddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Blue Line Publishing House, IncorporatedPublisher Blue Line Publishing House,...

Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school at Uppingham and Win was taking music lessons in...

A provocative reappraisal of Wellington's military career, his victory at Waterloo, and the source of his genius as a general Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992811402Author Meniere ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Page AddiePublisher Page AddieWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Gold Medallion Book Awards (Biography/Autobiography) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780785268482Author Beth NimmoFormat PaperbackPage Count 181Imprint Thomas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988777811Author Norma BuddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Blue Line Publishing House, IncorporatedPublisher Blue Line Publishing House,...

Jimmy Holland was born into a family suffering at the hands of their drunk and abusive father. At the age of just two weeks, he was placed into care. The beginning of a life lived in a constantly changing environment of homes, authorities and...

"Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have ...

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...

In 2003, an independent film called The Room - starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau - made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as 'like getting stabbed in the...

Jack Sutherland has, you might say, led a charmed life in the face of seeming damnation. After a childhood spent in London, his family moved to California and by his twenties Jack was PA and bodyguard to the Hollywood stars - most notably Michael Stipe,...

Lisa Shannon had what some would call a good life,her own business, a successful fiance, a secure home. Then one day in 2005, shortly after her father's death, an episode of Oprah changed everything. The show about women in the Congo depicted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898218647Author Tom RalstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Scottish Cultural PressPublisher Scottish Cultural Press

__________________ 'Lyrical and compelling ... wonderfully crafted' - Sunday Telegraph 'A superb account' - Literary Review 'Far more than a biography... allows us to experience the evolution of great science' - The Independent 'Uplifting and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847714237Author Garry Monk with Peter ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192038Author Ian BirchallFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 54g

Death is a subject modern society shies away from. Even doctors avoid the word. But if we regard death as a failure in our desire to prolong life, can we ever arrive at a humane approach to those whose lives have lost meaning? Are we keeping people alive...

Anwyn Moyle was born at the end of the First World War in a small mining village in Wales. At the age of sixteen, she was sent to London to earn her living, where she found a live-in job as a scullery maid. Her day began at 5 a.m., cleaning grates and...

MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a new direction. Lisa St Aubin de Teran travelled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-travelled life, felt at home - in a place 'so remote that few have visited it since the time of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870855327Author David Guy FountainFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint The Wakeman TrustPublisher The Wakeman Trust

Julian Rushton jumps right into the debate with this fascinating and readable history, dispensing with the myth, conjecture ,and popular iconography that frequently distorts our notions of what Mozart and his times were really like. What emerges is a...

The book details the history of the 10th Battalion of the East Yorkshire, known as the Hull Pals, from September 1914 to May 1919; the battalion which will be featured in the four part BBC2 programme called "The Trench" to be aired at the end of March,...

Abused by those who were supposed to love and cherish him, Michael Seed had to fight for survival against his violent and emotionally deranged father in a broken family home. Born into a life of poverty, Michael was starved, beaten, and sexually abused...

Read all about these two teen heartthrobs and how they have learned to stay grounded throughout their meteoric rise to fame, while the entire world is thirsting for their blood. Vampire or werewolf, Team Edward or Team Jacob - whose side are you on?Book...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown explores the lives of eight outstanding twentieth-century figures, in order to better understand courage. These eight heroes are very different people, with very different strengths and frailties, but all share an...

The first truly insider guide to being a Premiership footballer, from Britain's funniest sporting icon. Shortlisted for the Sports Entertainment Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards 'The funniest man in British sport' - Metro ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954641078Author John KirkbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Christians Against Poverty BooksPublisher Christians Against Poverty Books

This volume provides an introduction to the Life and thought of Rene Girard.Book InformationISBN 9780232525267Author Michael KirwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Darton, Longman & Todd LtdPublisher Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852346235Author Faith CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Evangelical PressPublisher Evangelical PressWeight(grams) 370g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940213033Author Iris BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Punk Hostage PressPublisher Punk Hostage PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Since exploding on to our screens as part of the MTV show The Valleys, diva Lateysha Grace has caused quite a stir with her kick-offs, cat-fights and confident Beyonce-like behaviour. But before all the glamour, Lateysha had a bleak childhood; born into...

"John Wayne remains a constant in American popular culture. Middle America grew up with him in the late 1920s and 1930s, went to war with him in the 1940s, matured with him in the 1950s, and kept the faith with him in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . In his...

A rollicking autobiography from the legendary producer of Goodfellas, Rocky, and Raging Bull, and an insider's account of making movies in Hollywood over half a century The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year...