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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901927351Author Ian ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Route PublishingPublisher Route Publishing

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He had been strongly advised against doing so. At 12,000 square feet, the ceiling represented one of the largest such projects ever attempted; and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580626590Author Antonia FelixFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Adams Media CorporationPublisher Adams Media CorporationWeight(grams) 476g

In September 2012, a Yougov poll conducted in Britain found that the person British workers would most like as their manager was Sir Richard Branson. With over 40 years in business, Richard Branson is an inspiring pioneer of humanitarian projects and an...

Hospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS. Amy Hoffman, a writer, lesbian activist, and former editor of Gay Community News, chronicles with fury and unflinching honesty her experience serving as primary...

The author of the Somerset Maugham award-winning The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing, and the brilliant biography Life In A Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford, Laura Thompson turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to arguably the greatest...

This is the combined life story of Mick Foster and Tony Allen, revealing how these most unlikely of stars toured the world and entered the record books. A charming narrative told with heaps of Celtic charm, it is filled with nostalgic reminiscences about...

Books by Western specialists have compiled many observations and facts about the headhunters of Borneo, but the culture has never before been described from the inside, by an indigenous person born and reared in the rain forest listening to the stories...

'He crashed on to the pillow next to me, heavy as a felled oak. I slapped His face and told Him to wake up. Our daughter, B, appeared in the doorway, woken up by the screaming - I must have been screaming but I don't remember - and she was crying and...

Ronnie is snooker's most written and talked about player, and its greatest showman. His supreme talent and style have made him the People's Champion and, as one commentator put it, 'the question is not how much does Ronnie O'Sullivan need snooker, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753197165Author Elizabeth BowtellFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint ISIS PublishingPublisher ISIS Publishing

Louise Luiggi's Come to the Table is a highly original memoir of the author's journey towards a passion for food - which ultimately led to her running her own restaurant. Focusing on the French influence that changed her eating patterns - a...

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered...

An illustrated volume of letters from around the globe (plus one from beyond the grave), written to George Bernard Shaw together with his witty and unpredictable replies. George Bernard Shaw calculated that he could have written about twenty more plays...

We could ride our bikes and not worry about cars or lorries. Our food was fresh and locally-grown, and bodily we were allowed, nay even encouraged, to catch every available ailment to ensure we built up our immunities. Nothing was wasted. Even the...

This is the story of the Venerable Palden Gyatso who, in 1992, was released after 33 years of incarceration in Chinese prisons in Tibet, and fled to India, bringing with him tales of his torture. The book begins with his early childhood, his ordination...

Donatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), one of the most perplexing personalities of Western culture, has been called 'the freest spirit who ever lived' and 'a frenetic and abominable assemblage of all crimes and obscenities'. Yet scant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850895015Author Terry ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint ISIS Large Print BooksPublisher ISIS Large Print Books

Ems and Ian dig deep into the issues that all young people struggle with both out loud e.g. sex and relationships coping with your family being a Christian in school and in silence e.g. self harm homosexuality eating disorders drug use. With a mixture of...

Katie Price has led a rollercoaster life and the excitement, glamour and emotional twists and turns show no signs of slowing down. Although happily married to Peter Andre, the past few years have been troublesome for Katie. She has overcome a string of...

From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated and operated on, in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother's mind. This title tells the story of how she survived Munchausen By Proxy (MBP), a form of child...

G H Lewes was a deeply unconventional Victorian. Though he is best remembered for the liaison with George Eliot - marriage in all but name - which occupied the last twenty-five years of his life, he was also a man and writer of strikingly varied...

On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought - the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside, they made a grim discovery: Scott's frozen body lay between the...

Lost and Found could very easily have been called the unpublished Eric Morecambe, collating as it does the very best of this British comedy great but also a plethora of neverbefore- seen material. Pulled together from a variety of dusty archives and...

This is selected as a Book of the Year in the Telegraph & the Lady. As read on BBC Radio 4. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers - the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother...

A behind-the-scenes look at Daphne du Maurier, author of "Rebecca", "Frenchman's Creek" and "My Cousin Rachel". This biography explores, amongst other things, her stifling relationship with her father, actor-manager Gerald...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714506326Author R. N. StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 566Imprint Calder Publications LtdPublisher Alma Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906120696Author Robin Lloyd-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Two Ravens PressPublisher Two Ravens PressWeight(grams) 136g

Arthur Meyerowitz was on his second air mission over France when he was shot down in 1943. He was one of only two men on the B-24 Liberator known as Harmful Lil' Armful who escaped death or immediate capture on the ground. After fleeing the wreck,...

The author of the international bestsellers Watching the Tree and Falling Leaves has always been fascinated by proverbs and their importance and use in China. Both her book titles are based on such proverbs. The majority of Chinese proverbs are drawn...

Rebecca West was talented, unpredictable and enigmatic, with a fearsome persona and a colourful private life. In reviewing her image as a great writer, the author of this book had exclusive access to her personal archives, providing details of her love...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955508608Author Barry PotterFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Barry PotterPublisher Barry Potter

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977262738Author Amber HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977241832Author William F F YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977237774Author Virginia EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977232144Author Kathie Wennes TaitanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 152g

This book is non fiction on a british government scandal. Forged documents were made and used by staff in a british university. These criminal activities were arranged by a high level british government official. In 1987 the police confirmed they had the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954286002Author Lino PiresFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Live Wire BooksPublisher Live Wire Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951097953Author Arthur James WestcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Congresbury History GroupPublisher Congresbury History Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948385391Author Rod HumphriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint St Ives Printing & Publishing CompanyPublisher St Ives Printing & Publishing Company