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Pryde and the Infernal Device by Malcolm Archibald 9780727878991 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79€3.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780727878991Author Malcolm ArchibaldFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Severn House Large Print BooksPublisher Severn House Publishers Ltd -
Summer in February by Jonathan Smith 9780349139128 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.73Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy, chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern Art. The effect of his diatribe is doubly shocking, leaving not only his distinguished audience gasping but also many people... -
Friends Indeed by Rose Doyle 9780340771341 [USED COPY]
RRP: €8.32€2.73Nineteenth-century Dublin is a city riven by the greed of an emerging middle class and the unspeakable poverty of the poor. Alicia Buckley and Sarah Rooney, growing up there, embody that divide. Despite their different backgrounds, the girls enjoy an... -
Lion Let Loose by Nigel Tranter 9780340586983 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€3.15James the First of Scots was an extraordinary man: poet, thinker warrior, athlete and statesman. And prisoner - for he was held captive for almost half his adult life. He possessed that fatal Stewart capacity to arouse both love and hatred; to attract... -
Lord of the Isles by Nigel Tranter 9780340368367 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€2.73By the power of his sword arm, his dragon fleet and his sheer personality, Somerled Norse Slayer carved an enduring name for himself in Scottish legend. Inheriting his father's shattered thanedom in Argyll in the twelfth century, he enlarged it by... -
Four Days in June by Iain Gale 9780007201051 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73A remarkable debut novel, Waterloo is an imaginative but accurate reconstruction of five men -- all real figures -- five points of view, and four days of battle of one of the world's most famous battles. In June 1815, Napoleon has just escaped from Elba,... -
A Crowning Mercy by Bernard Cornwell 9780007168231 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€3.15A highly entertaining, wonderfully colourful story, now revealed to be written by one of our favourite historical novelists. In mid seventeenth-century England, the nation was in upheaval. In the Dorset countryside, one sunlit afternoon, a young girl -... -
Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell 9780007127160 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.731820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung. But one could petition the King... -
A Complicated Woman by Sheelagh Kelly 9780006496502 [USED COPY]
RRP: €8.32€2.73The warm-hearted sequel to Shoddy Prince, set in 1920s York and Australia, by the bestselling Yorkshire author of the `Feeney' Saga. In an attempt to start life over again, the Prince family - Bright, Nat and Oriel - move from York to Melbourne,... -
Mightier than the Sword by Jeffrey Archer 9780230748262 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€3.33Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic - but how many passengers lose their lives? When Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as... -
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble 9780140297164 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.41€2.73It is 1905, and Bessie is a small child living in a South Yorkshire mining town. Unusually gifted, she sits quietly and studies hard, waiting for the day when she can sit the Cambridge entrance exam and escape the way of life her ancestors have never... -
Plague by C. C. Humphreys 9780099581178 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€9.34From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The French Executioner, an epic and thrilling tale of a serial killer who threatens London's rich and poor during the Great Plague of 1665. If you enjoy novels by CJ Sansom and SJ Parris, you will love PLAGUE... -
The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth 9780091937126 [USED COPY]
€2.74The Quality of Mercy opens in the spring of 1767, in the immediate aftermath of the events in Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger. It follows the fortunes of two central characters from that book: Sullivan, an Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, the son of a... -
The Marriage Game by Alison Weir 9780091926250 [USED COPY]
€3.15Bestselling historian Alison Weir brings all her knowledge of Elizabeth I to vivid life in a novel of intrigue, sex, plots, mysteries and tragedies, amid all the colour and pageantry of the Tudor court. Their affair is the scandal of Europe. Queen... -
Sharpe's Prey by Bernard Cornwell 9780007130559 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73The eighteenth novel in this bestselling series takes Sharpe to battle in Copenhagen. It is 1807 and Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, newly returned to England, now wants to leave the army. He is offered one last job: go to Copenhagen, help deliver a bribe and... -
Conquest: Book 1: Daughter of the Last King by Tracey Warr 9781907605819 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€4.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907605819Author Tracey WarrFormat PaperbackImprint Impress BooksPublisher Impress Books -
Adam Runaway by Peter Prince 9780747579410 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€2.73The year is 1721 and handsome young Adam Hanaway has arrived in Lisbon, where his uncle is a merchant, hoping to restore the family fortune that was devastated the previous year. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family's welcome is cool... -
The Upstart by Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust 9780552140379 [USED COPY]
RRP: €8.32€3.89Suddenly risen to power and influence, Samuel Fairbrother, manufacturer and retailer of boots, shoes and clogs, decided that his new station in life deserved a more imposing residence. Accordingly he bought himself a thirty-four-roomed mansion situated... -
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy by Scott McMillin 9780393963342 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.73The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations. The close relationship between theater and society during the period continues to be the focus of "Contexts." The editor offers contemporary... -
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters 9780349004365 [USED COPY]
€2.73'There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional echoey plink of drips from the tap...'Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms... -
Deafening by Frances Itani 9780340828939 [USED COPY]
RRP: €8.32€2.73Born on the shores of Lake Ontario, Grania O'Neill suffers a childhood illness that destroys her hearing. Grania's life without sound is also a life bounded by a powerful family love that tries to protect her from suffering. But when it becomes clear... -
The Emperor's Bones by Adam Williams 9780340828151 [USED COPY]
RRP: €8.32€2.73Beautiful, headstrong and unconventional, Catherine Cabot is twenty years old when she arrives in China. Against an uneasy political background a bittersweet, triangular love affair develops between Catherine and Edmund and George Airton. And all the... -
The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel 9780340821961 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.73Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them. Jondalar's family are initially... -
David the Prince by Nigel Tranter 9780340279106 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€3.15Half-Celt and half-Saxon, King David determined to take hold of his backward, patriarchal, strife-ridden country and, against all the odds, pushed and dragged it into the forefront of Christendom's advancing nations. This is a story of independence,... -
Lights of Liverpool by Ruth Hamilton 9780330522250 [USED COPY]
€2.73The O'Neils, who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels of London's East End, keep watch over their one remaining young male, a boy named Seamus. Hardworking and good-hearted, they cling together and help each other, and a whole community... -
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton 9780330477581 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.73The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, author of the bestselling The House of Riverton, is a heart-breaking story of love and loss with a devastating secret at its heart. Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives... -
Flame for the Fire by Nigel Tranter 9780340696712 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€2.61It was the outstanding beauty of his sister Janet with her flame-red hair which was to bring David Kennedy of Carrick to the attention of Scotland's romantic and personable monarch, James IV. But whatever its cause, the association between the King and... -
High Kings And Vikings by Nigel Tranter 9780340696699 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€2.73As Christendom approached the first Millennium, conflict and war prevailed throughout a troubled Scotland. The population remained under constant threat from bloodthirsty Viking raids, and the High Kings of Scots came and went, their brief reigns usually... -
Marchman by Nigel Tranter 9780340659953 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€3.15During the 16th century, the Borderland between Scotland and England was something of a world apart, with its own strange laws, beliefs and customs. Young John Maxwell, Warden of the West March, did his best to control a motley crew of dalesmen and... -
Crusader by Nigel Tranter 9780340579275 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€3.15Alexander III of Scotland was just seven years old when he inherited the throne. South of the border, England's King Henry III saw this as his chance to assert his paramouncy over the kingdom. At the age of ten, the boy was married to Henry's daughter... -
Children of the Mist by Nigel Tranter 9780340570999 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€2.73'Our race is royal,' is the proud claim of the MacGregors. Yet for all their history and fighting prowess, they are a small clan and their lands too close for comfort to the great Clan Campbell. By the end of the 16th century, the heritage of their new... -
Margaret the Queen by Nigel Tranter 9780340265451 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€2.73First she was Margaret the refugee. A Saxon princess, sister of Edgar Atheling who, but for William the Conqueror, would have been King of England. She came to Scotland in 1069. Beautiful, sympathetic and devout, whe was an unlikely consort to the rough... -
The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart 9780340258293 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€2.73With the great sword Caliburn in his hand and Merlin the enchanter at his side, Arthur comes out of hiding to claim the crown he was born to wear. Merlin, Arthur's protector, sees the glories and horrors that await the new king ...and to save him Merlin... -
Montrose, the Captain General: Montrose 2 by Nigel Tranter 9780340186190 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€2.73A brilliant leader, a renowned strategist, a talented moderate in a bigoted age: James Graham, the Marquis of Montrose, is a man of great charm and steadfast loyalty. Devoting his life to King Charles I leads him to reluctant involvement in national... -
Monsoon by Wilbur Smith 9780333637715 [USED COPY]
€3.33Monsoon is a Wilbur Smith 'Courtney' novel: a story of anger and passion, of peace and war. Action, romance and adventure shape a family's destiny as they contest a prize beyond any of their dreams...It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the... -
Mightier than the Sword by Jeffrey Archer 9780330517966 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€2.73Mightier than the Sword opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic - but how many passengers lose their lives? When Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as... -
Be Careful What You Wish For by Jeffrey Archer 9780330517959 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€2.73Be Careful What You Wish For, the fourth instalment in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But... -
Best Kept Secret by Jeffrey Archer 9780330517942 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€2.731945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to... -
As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer 9780330518697 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.73As the Crow Flies is an epic rags to riches tale from Jeffrey Archer, author of the bestselling The Clifton Chronicles. If your dream is big enough, not even your enemies can stop you . . . Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his... -
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason 9780330492690 [USED COPY]
€2.73On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erhard grand piano. The piano belongs to...