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A major biography of one of literature's most romantic and enigmatic figures, published in hardback to great acclaim: 'one of the great biographies of recent times' (Sunday Telegraph). Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is indisputably Russia's...

Maggie McCune was born in India during the last vestiges of the British Raj. Her daughter, Emma, whose passion for Africa led her to aid work in Sudan where she fell in love with and married a guerrilla commander of the Sudan People's Liberation Army,...

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George Jacobs is generally considered 'the last of the Rat Pack', a member of the exclusive club that has fascinated us for decades. He was Sinatra's valet and confidant from 1953, when Ava Gardner had just left him, until the end of his marriage to Mia...

"This is my story, the story of an Arab woman. It is the story of a lost world. It begins in 1917, in Lebanon, when I was seven years old." So opens this haunting memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, who eloquently describes her personal experience of the...

Davey Sommers should've ended up in a nice job, with a nice wife, living in a nice house... Instead, he ends up an eight-man unlock in prison, serving 17 years for assaulting a police officer, possession of firearms, obtaining money by intimidation and...

The future is alongside us, sometimes closer, sometimes further away. Hidden Valleys starts from the perception that the human world is an eerie place, particularly in relation to its stories and dreams. It also starts from events that took place in...

Donovan is one of the musicians who defined the 1960s. From his humble, working-class roots as a teenager with big dreams, he rose to become an icon of the times, the troubadour of the flower power generation. His story is one filled with tales of...

'This is a wonderful, rather special book: funny, warm and loving but also thought-provoking and deeply moving. Absolutely unforgettable - ironically.'ADAM KAY, Sunday Times bestselling author of This Is Going To HurtInadvertent cross-dressing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760761271Author Abigail CromptonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 1247gDimensions(mm) 277mm *...

The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship - and quarrel - between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy, shared ambition and subsequent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992929930Author Bryan BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Oxford Brookes UniversityPublisher Oxford Brookes University

John McLaren has dedicated his life to rescuing mistreated donkeys. When he finds Pollyanne at a livestock auction - unloved and horribly frail - he knows immediately that if he doesn't take her home to the sanctuary he has made his life's work, she...

John McLaren has dedicated his life to rescuing mistreated donkeys. When he finds Pollyanne at a livestock auction - unloved and horribly frail - he knows immediately that if he doesn't take her home to the sanctuary he has made his life's work, she...

A fascinating look at the lives of twenty rebels and rule-breakers throughout history and what made their contributions to society-in science, politics, art, and more-transformative. By the author and host of the popular Unruly Figures Substack...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528911498Author Tom WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805208511Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 170mm *...

Drawing extensively on Tchaikovsky's uncensored letters and diaries, this biography explores the composer's life in the artistic culture of nineteenth-century Russian society, revealing how he became a figure of international renown. Yet his success came...

George Borrow - brilliant linguist, expert on gypsy culture and author of "Wild Wales" (1862) - remains an enigmatic character whose fiction and travel writing mix autobiography and invention. From 1835 to 1840, he worked as an agent of the British and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398481695Author Sara RowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Invention, passion, war and exile are but some of the elements in this revealing new insight into Paddy Leigh Fermor's many Romanian journeys. Starting with the `great trudge' on foot through Romania in 1934 and ending in 1990 with his assignment for...

Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995469921Author Penny MinneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Taniwha Press UKPublisher Taniwha Press UK

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914671534Author Scholastique MukasongaFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

Most biographies of the Celtic saints are filled with legends and were written centuries after they lived. But the places where they lived and worked, generally in the more remote parts of their home or adopted countries can still be visited. Their...

Set amid the glamour and bravado of 1980s Formula 1, The Power and the Glory tells the story of a rivalry unsurpassed in motor-racing history. By the mid-80s Alain Prost had firmly established himself as leader of the F1 pack. Winning Grands Prix almost...

Jason Padgett was an ordinary, not terribly bright, 41-year-old working in his father's furniture shop when he was the victim of a brutal mugging outside a karaoke bar in 2002.That same night his stepfather died of cancer, and two weeks later his only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528977302Author Dr Patrick TreacyFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398401020Author Tony BeddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955312472Author John Blashford-SnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Live Wire BooksPublisher Live Wire BooksWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244875817Author Joan DudmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Is the voice of James Connolly, silenced by a British bullet in 1916, coming back? This book offers a measured consideration of Connolly, alive to his continuing political relevance. It seeks to explain Connolly's political development in dialogue...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807059Author Elizabeth MonsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

"Internetainers" Rhett & Link met in first grade when their teacher made them miss recess for writing profanity on their desks, and they have been best friends ever since. Today, their daily YouTube talk show, Good Mythical Morning, is the most-watched...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909983939Author Margiad EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 123g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544501949Author Chris DuffinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

"In this outstanding memoir, chef and restaurateur Matsuhisa...shares lessons in humility, gratitude, and empathy that will stick with readers long after they've finished the final chapter." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Inspiration by example"...

Eric Liddell, the Scottish 400m Olympic champion from the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was immortalized in the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire. His refusal to race on a Sunday is now legendary. His story, however, goes far beyond the restrictions...

In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528991858Author Robert ChickenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers