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Crime detection has gone to the dogs and squirrels are being busted for espionage. If you've never wondered about the new direction of 'intelligence-led policing' in our society, now is the time to start. It was a chance encounter with a police...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845276867Author Ryland TeifiFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312354794Author Jeffrey ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Of the many storylines to the Chicago Cubs incredible 2016 season was the late career renaissance of David Ross, the 39-year-old journeyman player affectionately known to his Cubs teammates as "Grandpa Rossy." Ross became the unlikely heart and soul of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847716347Author John Meurig EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

By the time Giggs made his Manchester United first team debut aged just 17, many considered him to be the greatest talent in English football since George Best. He made United's left wing his own until late in his career, when Sir Alex Ferguson switched...

As a widely respected cricket historian, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the game, and also a writer with a great sense of fun, Henry Blofeld is the ideal man to select the great characters of cricket who have livened up the sport.We learn of the...

Ed Hawkins grew up around gambling. Instead of going to school, he followed his father, a horseracing journalist, around the courses of the UK. From an early age he learnt that bookies never give anything away. So when he lost a misguided gamble on his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881048Author Alex ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956681508Author Diana RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Stand Sure PublishingPublisher Stand Sure Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060816131Author James BurgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781435719736Author Married to a Legend, Don Pepe Henrietta Boggs (MacGuire)Format PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams)...

In Two Minds is the first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller - the story of one of post-war Britain's most intriguing polymaths. Descended from immigrants who fled Tsarist anti-Semitism to become shopkeepers in Ireland and London's East End,...

"Scott Parazynski's drive, curiosity, inventiveness, and great humor shine through the pages of The Sky Below and will certainly inspire future generations to pursue their dreams with every fiber in their being." -John Glenn, NASA astronaut An epic...

Victoria Webster was born with cerebral palsy - and that meant, for many of those involved in her education, that she should limit her horizons. But Victoria had her eyes, and her heart, set on a high peak of achievement - to be a doctor. And, despite...

The scandalous love lives of the British Royal Family. The current Prince of Wales, our future King, has married his mistress and she will become, barring an accident, our next Queen Consort. This is a unique situation and one that is unlikely to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844013678Author Dorothy GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

A powerful and compelling memoir of growing up with a schizophrenic father, who hid his mental illness behind a charismatic larger-than-life, gluttonous personality and found logical explanations for the most bizarre ways of thinking. As a child Julie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125419Author Solomon NorthupFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Blends the brilliance of the scientific genius with the compassion, playfulness, and wit of the private figure "A fascinating read with more interesting material about Einstein as a human being than I have ever seen before."--Robert Jastrow,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442446236Author Gaby RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersPublisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young...

A concise biography of one of the most iconic revolutionaries of all time.Book InformationISBN 9780750918473Author Andrew SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 110gDimensions(mm)...

Michael Wharton, of course, was Peter Simple of the Daily Telegraph. A Dubious Codicil is the second and more rare volume of his autobiography. It takes up his story in 1957 when the author first started working for the Daily Telegraph where he remained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907499777Author David JamillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Pen PressPublisher Pen PressWeight(grams) 223gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 13mm

My Father's Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honour her father, her larger-than-life hero, but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating...

In May 2017, after waiting over a decade, Star Trek fans worldwide will be glued to their screens watching the debut of the new series, Star Trek: Discovery. In this biography, newly released in paperback, Lance Parkin, author of Aurum's acclaimed Magic...

This is the story of Southern Rhodesia, from a time of its earliest known inhabitants, the Bushmen, to their displacement by the Bantu; the invasion by the Matabele under King Mzilikaze; the advent of the white missionaries; and the arrival of Cecil...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study ballet and went on to become one of the greatest dancers of his generation. From a desperately poor village in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573240871Author Joan Kane NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Conari Press,U.S.Publisher Conari Press,U.S.

Millions know him as a loudmouth radio shock-jock and Sun columnist. Yet, in his life Jon Gaunt has had to overcome unimaginable hardship, solitude, bankruptcy and despair. His mother died suddenly when he was just twelve, his hard-drinking, womanising...

On the morning of 24th February 1944 following a devastating Luftwaffe raid, Donald Wheal and his family were homeless refugees with bulging suitcases and faces blackened by soot blast. In World's End, the first part of his bestselling childhood...

From her humble beginnings to her time in the spotlight as the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin has led an extraordinary life. "Going Rogue" will recount her political experiences, her time as Mayor of Wasilla and as the...

Roy Brindley has earned over a million pounds, has a contented family life, owns an incredible house and both a Porsche and a Ferrari. But he's not always had money to play with. In fact, he hasn't always had a home. Addicted to gambling like the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316031455Author Cherie BlairFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

The doomed love affair that united Ancient Rome & Egypt. The immortal lovers of novels, plays and films, Antony and Cleopatra were reviled by contemporary Romans, but history has transformed them into tragic heroes. Somewhere between their vilification...

William Stone died on 10 January 2009 aged 108. He received a hero's funeral. Born in rural Devon, he joined the navy during the First World War, travelled the globe just before the British Empire's light began to fade and saw action in some of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291640090Author John 'Ducksy' ReardonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 602gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 210mm * 14mm

Lord Louis Mountbatten achieved great things both in war and peace as a military leader and public servant. The First World War and its aftermath shaped his early life, in mid-career he was a victorious commander in the Second World War, and when peace...

All Julia Scheeres ever wanted was to have a normal, happy family. But when her fanatical mother decides they should all move to rural Indiana, Julia's life begins to unravel. In the blistering heat of the isolating community, Julia and her adopted...

An affectionate travelogue that conveys not only impressions of everyday life and descriptions of unique Tibetan customs and traditions but brings us Tibetan history, politics, and religion from a fresh, unstudied perspective Despite the determined...