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Blundy journeys to discover the fate of her father, the investigative journalist David Blundy, who was shot and killed in San Salvador in 1989. She also recounts her childhood spent hanging out with hacks in New York hotels, how she lost her father to...

The story of a lawyer's battle to win compensation from two of America's largest industrial giants. He fought on behalf of 21 families whose lives were wrecked by illness and death due to the alleged poisoning of their town well. This case became...

Dannie Abse's rich mixture of Welsh and Jewish backgrounds, and his dual occupations of doctor and author, have led to what is widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies since the war. Goodbye, Twentieth Century...

The first night of Sheridan's "The School for Scandal", on 8th May 1777, was one of the great dates in theatrical history. From then on, Sheridan was launched by his fame as a playwright into the "little great world" of 18th-century...

Born in suburban London, Robert Robinson progressed via grammar school and Oxford to become one of the most successful broadcasters of his generation in a career spanning programmes such as "Today", "Stop the Week", "Brain of...

The life of William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon is shrouded in mystery. There is no record of his having received an education, buying a book, or writing a single poem or play. There is no evidence of any one having had a conversation with him or...

In this book Richard Bisgrove, author of the bestselling Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll, analyses William Robinson and his remarkable contribution to gardening. William Robinson (1838- 1935) and Gertrude Jekyll were almost exact contemporaries and each made...

The sequel to "Aristocrats", this tells the story of the headstrong and passionate 18th century Irish revolutionary, Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Son of a duke, heir to estates and influence, Lord Edward died in a Dublin gaol, a rebel and a traitor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440207764Author Shaun ConsidineFormat PaperbackImprint Dell Publishing CompanyPublisher Dell Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 254g

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedy-While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her mother, Eddress, is struggling for courage. Though bound by an indestructible love, their journey through a world that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399138607Author Nigel DempsterFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint Putnam Publishing GroupPublisher Putnam Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 685g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394578903Author Phillip KnightlyFormat HardbackPage Count 12Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Having visited each Coleridge haunt, the author also covers Coleridge's childhood in Devon, his formative school years at Christ's Hospital in London, his days at Jesus College, Cambridge and escape to the 15th Light Dragoons, his marriage and eventual...

A collection of letters spanning 50 years. Joyce Grenfell and Virginia Graham were best friends from the age of 7 until Joyce's death. When they were apart they wrote daily letters to each other. The letters date from 1929-1979, and mention such events...

John Keats is described as the last of the great romantic poets, and his brief life, full of poetry, epitomizes the image of tragic genius. The author here reveals Keats to be a man of his time, rediscovering a poet who reacted strongly against an...

Telling the sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious adventures of a journalist with Operation Mobilization, this book gives an insider's view of life aboard OM's three ships, and also the wider work of this international missionary organization. These...

Waiting for the mysterious interventions of medical science, the author becomes fascinated with her new existence in the sealed world of hospital. And, as she waits, she begins to write - about her childhood, her parents, and her own history.Book...

A biography of the Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, arguably one of the most brilliant physicists of his generation. Gell-Mann is also a self-taught linguist, an archaeologist and a bird-watcher, and is regarded as having revolutionized the way we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195206234Author Chilton Automotive BooksFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 789g

This second part of Frank McLynn's biography covers the period 1877-1904. At the heart of the story lies Stanley's relationship with Leopold II, with whom he duped the great powers of Europe into carving a Belgian empire on the Congo. Their acrimonious...

Now available in paperback, Gissing: A Life in Books is widely regarded as the definitive biography of this last great Victorian novelist.Book InformationISBN 9780192820167Author John HalperinFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Oxford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780099744801Author James SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Arrow Books LtdPublisher CornerstoneWeight(grams) 242g

The self-deprecating image of man - an amalgam of Pascal's "thinking reed" and Falstaff's "forked radish" - that provides a title for Peter Medawar's autobiography stems from his belief that the professional lives of scientists usually make dull reading...

In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise. Within 15 years, Carr's of Carlisle had become one of the largest baking businesses in the world -and is a...

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I couldn't grieve for him. I couldn't speak to any of my family. It was like I'd been found guilty before I could be proved innocent' Losing a child is any mother's worst nightmare, but how do you grieve when you're being...

Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller. In it he told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherless when the Yorkshire Ripper killed his first victim, Richard's mother Wilma McCann. "Just A...

As a result of a genetically-transmitted gene, all three Bryan sisters, Felicity, Elizabeth and Bunny have had cancer. And, unusually, each of them suffered a different cancer; ovarian, breast and pancreatic. As the gene also has a dominant inheritance,...

From an early age Tom Sykes liked to drink. In fact, he loved it. Booze offered an escape from the drudge of school and the hurt of his rapidly disintegrating family. Though his troubled adolescence was littered with direction less toxic indulgence, it...

Shortly before his death in 1978, Paul Scott won the Booker Prize for Fiction. In this biography, the author explores Scott's family background in North London, his war years in India and the Far East, the development of his fiction and the characters on...

'It's amazing how some people can light up a room just by stepping into it. Ben was twenty-one months old and full of smiles. He spread happiness simply by being there.' In 1991 Kerry and her son Ben followed Kerry's parents to live on the Greek island...

I am proud of who I am and what I am. I teach my children to be proud too. Because being a traveller means everything to me. It's not just a label, it goes much deeper. It's an identity that is burned into my heart.' Paddy Doherty loves his life as an...

From Delia to Michael Palin, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to Alan Titchmarsh, David Attenborough to Jamie Oliver, the TV tie-ins that sell books are those with charismatic presenters. When you meet Jimmy you'll realise that this is television's big new...

Rohan Candappa, author of bestselling humour books such as the "Little Book of Stress" and "The Curious Incident of the Weapons of Mass Destruction", is the son of a Sri Lankan father and Burmese mother. He grew up small and round in...

You know him. He's the funny, sweet guy with the great eyes who asks you a million questions and seems mesmerized by every reply. He takes you on the greatest, longest date of your life. He swears he loves cats and cuddling. And his apartment is so clean...

The heroine of this nostalgic, moving and sweetly funny memoir is Evelyn Ryan - the author's mother - who supports her ten children and unhelpful husband by winning competitions. Terry Ryan recounts with warmth and love how her mom wrote rhymes,...

Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer and wit, Swift is best known as the author of "Gulliver's Travels". In this biography, Victoria Glendinning investigates the main events and relationships of Swift's life and provides a portrait set in a tapestry...

A collection of letters full of Wodehousian expressions. Every aspect of Wodehouse's career is covered, including his experiences during the war concerning the Berlin Broadcasts and his subsequent dealings with Cassandra who unfairly attacked him.Book...

Ruri Pilgrim tells the story of her family from the 1870s to the 1950s. She begins with the formality and security of the arrangements of life for a Japanese middle-class family, living in a walled compound with their servants, following exactly the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857701753Author Gregory HolyoakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint SB PublicationsPublisher SB Publications

An analysis of the problems faced by the UN and NATO in the post-Cold War era, this text is an account of peacekeeping in Bosnia in 1994. Taken from a diary, contemporary documents and photographs collected at the time, January 1994 to January 1995, this...