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'He was Mummy's favourite. I was the little sister, and his victim.'When Vicky was growing up she idolised her big brother David. Their mother worshipped the ground he walked on and as far as she was concerned, David could do no wrong. But then he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416576051Author Julie Nixon EisenhowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm)...

THE HILTONS is a sweeping saga of the success - and excess - of an iconic American family. Demanding and enigmatic, patriarch Conrad Hilton's visionary ideas and unyielding will established the model for the modern luxury hotel industry. But outside the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784619527Author Elfyn LlwydFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784619527Author Elfyn LlwydFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

In this captivating and complex portrait of an American sports legend, Russell Sullivan confirms Rocky Marciano's place as a symbol and cultural icon of his era. As much as he embodied the wholesome, rags-to-riches patriotism of a true American hero, he...

At 35, despite his determination to be different from his parents, Jonathan Self found his life echoing theirs: he was a twice-divorced absent father with three young children, one in the UK and two in Australia. In this frank, moving and often funny...

Vienna, 1938: Trudi Miller, young, beautiful and chic, designs hats for the smartest women in the city. She is falling in love with Walter, a charming and charismatic businessman. But their idyll is about to end. Trudi and Walter are Jewish, and as...

Vienna, 1938: Trudi Miller, young, beautiful and chic, designs hats for the smartest women in the city. She is falling in love with Walter, a charming and charismatic businessman. But their idyll is about to end. Trudi and Walter are Jewish, and as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374521042Author Flannery O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294499Author Steve CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Ally was seven years old when she was bitten by a tick and contracted Lyme disease, but she didn't know it for eleven years. For the next decade, she suffered from constant joint and muscle pain, chronic fatigue, brain fog, recurrent strep throat and...

While COVID-19 is reshaping our lives, this must-read book for 2021 provides some of the answers to our most pressing global challenges. Peace in an Age of Chaos offers a new way of conceptualising how to create a peaceful world, from Steve Killelea,...

Adam Goodfellow and Nicole Golding run a stable in the Cotswolds and specialise in curing problem horses. It's never an easy task, and often requires changing the habits of the owner as much as the horse. The pair have travelled a long way to get where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061231353Author Omid SafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

David Bellamy is a natural story teller whose memoir is packed full of funny anecdotes and observations. He depicts wonderfully a childhood of discovery and adventure growing up in Carshalton during the second world war. Despite rationing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532362002Author Jill HammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Independent PublisherPublisher Independent Publisher

From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899750535Author Robert JH DavidsonFormat HardbackImprint Aureus PublishingPublisher Aureus Publishing

Fifteen years on from Anthony Holden's undisputed classic BIG DEAL, the poker world has changed beyond recognition. When Holden played in the 1988 World Series of Poker there were 167 entrants competing for a prize of $270,000. At the 2006 WSOP, where...

Fifteen years on from Anthony Holden's undisputed classic BIG DEAL, the poker world has changed beyond recognition. When Holden played in the 1988 World Series of Poker there were 167 entrants competing for a prize of $270,000. At the 2006 WSOP, where...

A definitive biography of the iconic actor and Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and his extravagant, sometimes tawdry life, drawing on never-before-seen excerpts from Rooney's diary and exclusive interviews with Mickey, and with those who knew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681929392Author Patrick Mary Briscoe OpFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Our Sunday VisitorPublisher Our Sunday VisitorWeight(grams)...

In 1937 aged just 19, Edmund Murray left his family and a comfortable job in London, caught the boat train to France and signed up for the minimum of five years' service with the French Foreign Legion. Armed with little more than school-boy French and a...

Ralph Milne was born in Dundee and lived out many a young footballer's dream. On leaving school he signed for Dundee United and gradually forced his way into a team full of great players. With electrifying pace and exceptional talent he quickly...

Innocents abroad they certainly were. Nick and Sue knew nothing of diplomatic life when they set sail in 1960 for Burma and the unknown. The adventures they and their family were destined for was beyond their wildest imaginings. Earthquakes, terrorists,...

Synergetics can be defined as the exploratory strategy of starting with the whole. It was in the 1940s that Buckminster Fuller developed a series of spherical models which embodied the synergetic theory within geometry. This study of Fuller's sacred...

den describes her work with a sad, silent, autistic girl named Sheila. Now, in a powerful sequel, readers see how Sheila, now a young woman, has finally come to terms with her nightmare childhood of abuse.Book InformationISBN 9780062662880Author Torey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622824649Author Maria Ruiz ScaperlandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Sophia Institute PressPublisher Sophia Institute PressWeight(grams)...

Charles Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the most misunderstood figures in popular culture. Now, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of Schulz: at once a...

No Echo in the Sky is a delightfully written book where Harald Penrose draws on personal experiences from his long and distinguished career. Harald Penrose was chief test pilot at Westland Aircraft Ltd from 1931 to 1953 and his flying experience spanned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244941840Author Peter Gordon ElliotFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 156g

Beloved actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine contemplates a wealth of subjects from the mundane to the esoteric in this all-new collection of musings that begin with two simple words: What if... What if hope is the most dangerous emotion? What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937269302Author Lynette HollowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Amber Communications Group, Inc.Publisher Amber Communications Group, Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785622359Author Ifor LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press

The span of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg's life (1884-1966) illuminates the religious and intellectual dilemmas that traditional Jewry has faced over the past century. Rabbi Weinberg became a central ideologue of modern Orthodoxy because of his positive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120100Author Leslie Marmon SilkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Lorna Goodison's family made their home in the Jamaican village to which her great-grandfather gave his name: Harvey River. Her mother Doris was a big-hearted lover of big stories and raised Lorna on tales of their family's - and Jamaica's - history...

'A rallying cry for privacy justice' New York Times'We need more warriors like Carrie' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movementIn an era of doxing, revenge porn and online stalking, the law is failing us. Tech companies are untouchable and often women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838059835Author Dr Anthony RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Patrician PressPublisher Patrician Press