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For the past three years, since he finished writing his children's book 'The Nine Lives Of Bella Simkins', Jack Swaab has carried round a battered leather notebook. In it, he has recorded the thoughts, memories, reflections and insights that the world...

To write this life of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Owen Chadwick had unrestricted access to the archives of Lambeth Palace and materials formerly in Lord Ramsey's possession. The resulting biography gives a uniquely perceptive account of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735146140Author Joseph WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Joseph WalshPublisher Joseph WalshWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

The Colliers are a pretty normal family: mum, dad, two kids, two dogs and two cats ... Oh, and a few wallabies, two lemurs, several owls, Ringo the bad-tempered crane and two cheeky, hand-reared meerkats named Wren and Rascal.THE MEERKATS OF SUMMER FARM ...

The Colliers are a pretty normal family: mum, dad, two kids, two dogs and two cats ... Oh, and a few wallabies, two lemurs, several owls, Ringo the bad-tempered crane and two cheeky, hand-reared meerkats named Wren and Rascal.THE MEERKATS OF SUMMER FARM ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496980946Author George StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496980946Author George StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864866844Author Paul MaylamPage Count 224Imprint David Philip PublishersPublisher New Africa Books (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781366846785Author Ian DownsFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 12mm

Ronald Wycherley, born on 17th April 1940, Smithdown Hospital, Smithdown Road, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK, better known by his stage name Billy Fury, was a musician singer-songwriter & actor from the late '50s to the mid '60s, having remained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982116255Author Rebecca CarrollFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244855918Author Matthew BraceyFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

From the team behind the acclaimed Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science comes a delicious and "lively" (Booklist, starred review) nonfiction picture book biography about pioneering chef Alice Waters who kickstarted the organic food movement.Whenever young Alice...

Imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs for his pacifist beliefs during the First World War, Morgan Jones made history by becoming the first conscientious objector to be elected an MP when he won the Caerphilly by-election for Labour in 1921. In Morgan Jones -...

Celia Wells always felt like an outsider. Her unconventional early life was shaped by her Communist Party parents, she grew up as `town' not `gown' in Oxford, surrounded by books but living in a council house. She has uncovered an intriguing backstory...

The Offaly War Dead, a comprehensive list of those from Co. Offaly who died during the First World War, is the fourth in this series, following the successful The Tipperary War Dead, The Wicklow War Dead and The Wexford War Dead. The men honoured in The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553272994Author Shirley MaclaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Richard Burton was one of Victorian Britain's most protean figures. A soldier, explorer, ethnographer, and polyglot of rare power, as well as a poet, travel writer, and translator of the tales of the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, Burton exercised...

Bright Star of the West traces the life, repertoire, and influence of Joe Heaney, Ireland's greatest sean-nos ("old style") singer. Born in 1919, Joe Heaney grew up in a politically volatile time, as his native Ireland became a democracy. He...

This work offers a modern appraisal of the Welsh Methodist leader and revivalist, Howell Harris. His influence on the development of early Methodism is charted and the period from his conversion in 1735 to his secession with Daniel Rowland is examined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353336363Author Abha SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Willy Messerschmitt (1898-1978) was indisputably one of the most significant of Germany's aeronautical design engineers. This book examines Messerschmitt's life as a designer, aircraft builder, and businessman; it begins with the Harth-Messerschmitt...

From Billy the Kid to President Roosevelt, this is a spectacular collection of true stories of Irish men and women who have changed the course of history: John Barry, the poor Irishman who made waves as the father of the US navy; William Brown, the Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732042148Author Pauline HaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint P. H. PublishingPublisher P. H. Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957628816Author Maria MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint easyBroomPublisher easyBroomWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476798059Author Daniel OkrentFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

Lost Vegas: The Redneck Riviera, Existentialist Conversations with Strippers, and the World Series of Poker... Las Vegas lures you to shed moral responsibility and piss away your money on indulgences like decadent food, entertainment, gambling, and sex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380788415Author David McCumberFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 318g

This volume presents in translation 100 previously unknown letters of Ippolita Maria Sforza (1445-1488), daughter of the Duke of Milan, who was sent at age twenty to marry the son of the infamously brutal King Ferrante of Naples. Sforza's letters display...

My interest in WW1 history came about late in life. My great uncle John Arthur Veysey from Abercarn signed up along with thousands of other men from the valleys to 'do his bit' for King and Country. Going to France in November 1914, with the 2nd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777220Author James SadlerFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780960087693Author St.Therese of Lisieux,Format PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint ICS Publications,U.S.Publisher ICS Publications,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649220189Author Ernest ShackletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Sastrugi Press LLCPublisher Sastrugi Press LLCWeight(grams) 803gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728315386Author Leon HesserFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint AuthorhousePublisher AuthorhouseWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Greta Garbo's enduring legend derives from her incandescent performances as a woman in love in such classics as Camille, Queen Christina and Grand Hotel. For half a century her apparently reclusive existence enhanced her reputation as a remote and...

In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at the Empire's great capital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412064361Author Dorotthy Minchin-CommFormat PaperbackPage Count 692Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 1007g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302818Author Jan PottkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861512444Author Joyce TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 350g

Fool for Love is Scott Donaldson's masterful biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald-written from a fresh and highly intimate perspective. Fool for Love follows Fitzgerald from his birthplace in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Princeton and upward into the highest...