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This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book offers fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all the major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244638023Author Neville DrinkwaterFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992815615Author Professor Ian HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Ian HallPublisher Ian HallWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

The first biography of Robert Harley (1661-1724)-a dominant figure in English politics in the late seventeenth century and throughout the reign of Queen Anne, when British political institutions underwent crucial changes. Brian W. Hill sets Harley's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (Adult Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780312674151Author Mara ShalhoupFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399594939Author Anna AkanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander who sent his troops to slaughter in vast numbers at the...

Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander who sent his troops to slaughter in vast numbers at the...

William Yarrell (1784-1856) was an influential naturalist at a time when natural history was becoming an important factor in 19th century society. He wrote two notable books: A History of British Fishes and A History of British Birds, that were being...

Andrew White is something of a legend: a man of great charm and energy, whose personal suffering has not deflected him from his important ministry of reconciliation. Andrew grew up in London, the son of strongly religious parents: by the age of five he...

Andrew White is something of a legend: a man of great charm and energy, whose personal suffering has not deflected him from his important ministry of reconciliation. Andrew grew up in London, the son of strongly religious parents: by the age of five he...

Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world...

The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast.Book InformationISBN 9780446394000Author...

Based on years of archival research, 'The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto' is the most detailed study ever undertaken into the fate of more than 800 Jewish doctors who devoted themselves, in many cases until the day they died, to the care of the sick and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914399855Author Olivia NorfolkFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Sparsile Books LtdPublisher Sparsile Books Ltd

"A tour de force of storytelling." -Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series"Jobb's excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read." -The New York Times Book Review "When a doctor does go wrong,...

'Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful' Mail on Sunday'I read most of it in one exciting sitting. It is brilliant, gripping and sad' Harry MountRestoration Heart is a story of love, double divorce and redemption. It is a biography of the...

'Breathtaking untold story . . . riotously colourful' Mail on Sunday'I read most of it in one exciting sitting. It is brilliant, gripping and sad' Harry MountRestoration Heart is a story of love, double divorce and redemption. It is a biography of the...

For all those people who say they aren't cat people, but deep down know they are.'Possibly the next Marley & Me' Red 'A reminder of the gratitude humans owe to our companion animals' Daily MailHelen Brown wasn't a cat person, but her nine-year-old son...

For all those people who say they aren't cat people, but deep down know they are.'Possibly the next Marley & Me' Red 'A reminder of the gratitude humans owe to our companion animals' Daily MailHelen Brown wasn't a cat person, but her nine-year-old son...

'I'm not taking my clothes off.' My words bounced off the walls of the empty changing room. I was ten years old. I folded my arms tightly across my chest. I'd seen them outside. Naked Mum tried a smile. 'Nobody minds here.' But I minded. I'd never seen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851514512Author Arnold DallimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint The Banner of Truth TrustPublisher The Banner of Truth Trust

Ben Hatch is on the road again. Commissioned to write a guidebook about France (despite not speaking any French) he sets off with visions of relaxing chateaux and refined dining. Ten thousand miles later his family's been attacked by a donkey, had a...

'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.' - Small ad in the New York Review of BooksJane Juska placed her ad in the New York Times and the response was...

This is an utterly charming history of life at Yew Tree Farm, North Cheshire, over the last eighty years. Beginning in the era when shire horses pulled the plough and country news passed from mouth to mouth at the blacksmith's forge, it explores a world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374499Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

'Alister McGrath is a brilliant guide to Jim Packer's invigorating theological vision. Crisp, incisive commentary on every page!' - Andrew Atherstone, Wycliffe Hall, University of OxfordJ. I. Packer was one of the most influential evangelical theological...

The author's story begins in 1946. He recalls a UK canalside cottage and an early family crisis. He moves rapidly onwards to his sporting school years and forward to his active service at sea from age 16. His narrative includes accounts of early...

The story of Emma and Carl Jung's highly unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud, and their part in the early years of Psychoanalysis. Emma Jung was clever, ambitious and immensely wealthy, one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398478978Author Mark JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

In August 1970 Elton John achieved overnight fame after a rousing performance at the Troubadour in Los Angeles; over the next five years he was unstoppable, scoring seven consecutive number 1 albums and sixteen Top 10 singles in America. But behind his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993137716Author George RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Virtuoso BooksPublisher Virtuoso BooksWeight(grams) 667g

If a single life exemplifies the inner drive that fires a great inventor, it is the life of Edwin Land. The major innovations that he was able to achieve in photography, optics, industry, and science policy carry priceless lessons for readers today...

The London monsterAbout the AuthorJan Bondeson is a senior lecturer and consultant rheumatologist at the University of Wales College of Medicine. His many critically acclaimed books include Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear and...

In August 1970 Elton John achieved overnight fame after a rousing performance at the Troubadour in Los Angeles; over the next five years he was unstoppable, scoring seven consecutive number 1 albums and sixteen Top 10 singles in America. But behind his...

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHThe extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth in 2022On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance,...

'That night I lay in my new bed and the pain came. I thought about Irene. I would find her again. I had to.'Alan and Irene first met in a cold, regimented children's home when he was seven and she was nine. Both had lost their mothers when they were very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028339Author Pamela D. TolerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

A stolen past, a search for the truth, two lives changed forever Born out of wedlock in Dublin in 1937, Phyllis grew up in a tough, church run orphanage. She thought by fulfilling her dream to become a nurse in England, her life might change, but her...