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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528926249Author John D. RowbottomFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

As heard on Radio 4 Book of the WeekLina Prokofiev was alone in her Moscow apartment one night when the telephone rang. The caller insisted that she come downstairs to collect a parcel, but when she reached the courtyard she was arrested for treason...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088076699Author Victor OgunniyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Everyone knows the hits 'Hanky Panky', 'Mony Mony', 'I Think We're Alone Now', 'Crimson and Clover', 'Crystal Blue Persuasion'. They are nuggets of rock and pop history. However, few know the unlikely story of how these hits came to be. In 1966, Tommy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566560320Author Rajie CookFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 2259gDimensions(mm) 292mm * 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122324Author Tony BawsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 568g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062007308Author Tim TebowFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 240g

James Kingston loves to climb. Whether he's scaling a tree at his local park or ascending to the very top of a crane, looking down always brings about the best kind of rush. And yet it wasn't always this way.Afraid of heights as a child, James vowed to...

Each night when the House of Commons rises, throughout the Palace of Westminster policemen shout, 'Who goes home?', a relic of the days when Members of Parliament were escorted safely to their beds. WHO GOES HOME? is Roy Hattersley's witty and...

Each night when the House of Commons rises, throughout the Palace of Westminster policemen shout, 'Who goes home?', a relic of the days when Members of Parliament were escorted safely to their beds. WHO GOES HOME? is Roy Hattersley's witty and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060514914Author Jill WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 353Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The story of a young girl, her sister and mother who are forcibly removed from their home in Eastern Poland at the beginning of World War II by the Red Army and deported into the interior of Soviet Russia.Book InformationISBN 9780557504299Author Barbara...

'In the last couple of years I realised that, as one of the last witnesses, I must speak out.' Tomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust, gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp. He was...

A frank, gripping, moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic and effective politicians of the last fifty years. His political convictions, his distance from New Labour, and his direct, plain-speaking style and...

A frank, gripping, moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic and effective politicians of the last fifty years. His political convictions, his distance from New Labour, and his direct, plain-speaking style and...

'There's great power in talking, but there's greater power in laughing. Even the best doctor in the world would be hard pushed to find a treatment with better medicinal properties than a good laugh. This is why you can't beat the wit of real-life Irish...

Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) directed the Platonic Academy in Florence, and it was the work of this Academy that gave the Renaissance in the 15th century its impulse and direction. During his childhood Ficino was selected by Cosimo de' Medici for an...

He was born in the year Dr Johnson died, and died in the year A.E. Houseman and Conan Doyle were born. The 75 years of Leigh Hunt's life uniquely span two distinct eras of English life and literature. A major player in the Romantic movement, the intimate...

Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the robber baron's robber baron, the most astute financial and business strategist of his time and also the most...

Leon Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, an authoritarian organizer, who might have succeeded Lenin and become the ruler of the Soviet Union. But by the time the Second World War broke out he was in exile, living in Mexico...

Carol Thatcher has one of the most famous surnames in the world.The daughter of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, Carol is a national treasure with a unique story to tell. Her remarkable mixture of bravery, honesty and humour won her a place in...

Carol Thatcher has one of the most famous surnames in the world.The daughter of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher, Carol is a national treasure with a unique story to tell. Her remarkable mixture of bravery, honesty and humour won her a place in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954706845Author Paul "Sailor" VernonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Music Mentor BooksPublisher Music Mentor BooksWeight(grams) 382g

Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244867027Author Harry LimeFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

To Hell with the Bank is the story of Paul Eustice's fight against Barclays Bank in 1995 which became an important test case. He was an early pioneer of fruit growing in Cornwall and had a successful career in farming but the business suffered setbacks...

Welcome to the wonderful world of Lauren Goodger! Before The Only Way is Essex Lauren was just an ordinary girl, working as a secretary and trying to build a life with her long-term boyfriend Mark Wright. Now she's constantly followed by the paparazzi;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902578132Author James BerrymanFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Mirage PublishingPublisher Mirage Publishing

Sarah Merriman is just like any other urbane young woman in her twenties... She has a job in a Central London hotel, a boyfriend, commutes to work on the Tube, eats out, goes to films and theatre... This is all the more remarkable (though not to her)...

At age 28, Frances Kermeen gave up her life in California to follow her dream of owning an inn - little did she realize that she was being drawn to her destiny. In the eight years that Frances owned the Myrtles Plantation, she was confronted by...

Jo Brand is one of Britain's funniest and best-loved comedians. With a sharp eye for the absurd and in her own unique voice, she tells her story for the first time. What possessed her to become a professional comedian in the cut-throat world of stand-up...

Jo Brand is one of Britain's funniest and best-loved comedians. With a sharp eye for the absurd and in her own unique voice, she tells her story for the first time. What possessed her to become a professional comedian in the cut-throat world of stand-up...

"Shen Fu's Six Records of a Life Adrift is the most intimate document at our disposal of private life in late imperial China. Graham Sanders now provides us with a new translation for the 21st century, which is not only well researched but also highly...

Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922633620Author Jacquie HouldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244925529Author Danny GillFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g

For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the ""last explorer"" and a fierce advocate for the protection and preservation of Maya sites and monuments across Mexico,...

Son of the victor of Jutland, George Jellicoe has enjoyed power and privilege but never shirked his duty. His war exploits are legendary and, as a founder member of Stirling's SAS and first Commander of the Special Boat Service, he saw action a-plenty. ...

Alexander Cordell was born into a military family in Ceylon and spent much of his youth in the Far East. He worked his way up through the ranks fo the British Army to become a major. To many, he must have seemed the quintessential Englishman, and yet his...

Alexander Cordell was born into a military family in Ceylon and spent much of his youth in the Far East. He worked his way up through the ranks fo the British Army to become a major. To many, he must have seemed the quintessential Englishman, and yet his...