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The dialogues in this book take place during the last decade of Pablo Picasso's life in his last home, at Mougins in the south of France. As well as reported conversations, they are based on the artist's published statements and a small number of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983478331Author David LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Rain Mountain PressPublisher Rain Mountain PressWeight(grams) 476g

On the morning of 24th February 1944 following a devastating Luftwaffe raid, Donald Wheal and his family were homeless refugees with bulging suitcases and faces blackened by soot blast. In "World's End", the first part of his bestselling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525937371Author James WhitakerFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Dutton BooksPublisher Dutton BooksWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555841447Author Elspeth HuxleyFormat HardbackPage Count 287Imprint George Weidenfeld & NicholsonPublisher George Weidenfeld & NicholsonWeight(grams) 998g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671852498Author Sandy SchofieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Star TrekPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 161g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999837990Author James Roose-EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Port Meadow PressPublisher Port Meadow PressWeight(grams) 195g

One golden summer afternoon in 1862, on the banks of the River Thames, the young Oxford mathematics don Charles Dodgson shared a picnic with three little girls, who asked for a story. The adventure he created for one of the sisters, Alice Liddell, under...

From her captivating debut in Roman Holiday in 1953, Audrey Hepburn redefined notions of Hollywood elegance and sophistication. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates Audrey's popularity as an enduring icon, providing a unique insight into her career,...

John Skoyles guides us through 1960s New York, a city we only thought we knew. Against a backdrop of late-night radio airwaves featuring talk-show kings like Long John Nebel, the sixteen-year-old pairs up with his Uncle Fred, a Mob associate and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780613001175Author John HockenberryFormat HardbackPage Count 367Imprint Econo-Clad Books, Div. of American Cos., Inc.Publisher Econo-Clad Books, Div. of...

"This book is an original, important, and interesting contribution to the literature on President Eisenhower and on American history in the years before and after World War II. It will make a difference in the way historians and political scientists...

Covering the lives of 1750 men and women, who, whether by deed or thought, set their mark on our times, this 20th-century biography spans all countries and cultures. It covers all fields of human activity, from politics, science and the arts to sport and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140058567Format PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 129g

Written together with friend and journalist Boyd Hilton, "Inside Little Britain" follows a year in the lives of Matt Lucas and David Walliams - the good, the bad, the mundane and the monumental - a year that includes at its core a mammoth...

This highly controversial and compelling biography of George Formby presents a very different Formby from the one known to his many fans. His life was fiercely dominated by his wife Beryl, a woman who was single-handedly responsible for his tremendous...

Alistair Cooke offers a gallery of portraits and sketches of many of the people he has known, admired, or covered during his career. He provides stimulating and candid protraits of some of the most important people of the past and present.Book...

The Water Road is the story of a four month circumnavigation by narrowboat of 'The Grand Cross', the name given to the inland waterway linking the Thames to the Humber, Severn and Mersey. Starting in London, Paul Gogarty follows a figure of eight through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948400285Author Sally GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint The Larks PressPublisher The Larks Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860518297Format PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Robson Books LtdPublisher Robson Books LtdWeight(grams) 431g

In this sequel to `The Autobiography of a Supertramp', Davies describes his early career as a writer, and his friendships with Belloc, Thomas, Shaw, and other eminent literary figures of the period.Book InformationISBN 9780192818645Author W. H...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140156157Author Michael WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams) 219g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684192031Author Walter LaqueurFormat HardbackImprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 717g

In 1982, the American-born anthropologist Eric Michaels went to Australia to research the impact of television on remote aboriginal communities. Over the next five years, until his death, he became a major intellectual presence in Australia. Unbecoming...

As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088049983Author Valarie J AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679456582Author Monty RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House (NY)Publisher Random House (NY)Weight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688050450Author Robert SheltonFormat HardbackPage Count 573Imprint Beech Tree Paperback BookPublisher Beech Tree Paperback BookWeight(grams) 962g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789871129430Author Jacinto PadaleFormat HardbackImprint VisorPublisher Visor

In a captivating and compelling voice that ranks with many of our greatest memoirists, Laura Bush tells the story of her unique path from dusty Midland, Texas to the world stage and the White House. An only child, Laura Welch grew up in a family that...

This is the unauthorized biography of the hugely successful British band One Direction, who shot to fame after taking the seventh series of "The X-Factor" by storm. "1D: The One Direction Story" explores the backgrounds, early lives...

"I'll Go and Do More" is the story of Annie Dodge Wauneka (1918-1997), one of the most well-known Navajos of all time, an indefatigable, passionate, and controversial woman whom the Navajo Nation called 'Our Legendary Mother'. A daughter of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860190636Format HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Brockhampton PressPublisher Caxton PublishingWeight(grams) 211g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948265990Author Judith RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press Ltd

Nancy Hanks, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from 1969 to 1977, turned this fledgling organization into a major instrument for government support of the arts-accomplishing thereby a virtual revolution in the public arts policy of...

From Cripple Creek to the Santa Fe Trail, Mesa Verde to the mountain towns of Leadville and Steamboat Springs, Colorado provides travelers and natives with a spectrum of beauty that is both awesome and austere. Drawn by the lingering mystique of...

'This is aimed at anyone interested in a thoughtful, humorous, poignant and honest look at love and marriage and family. Since not one of us can lay claim truly to being a specialist in this field - we are all amateurs when it comes to matters of the...

Richard James Oglesby is best known for introducing the rail-splitter image into Abraham Lincoln's successful presidential campaign of 1860, and in many ways his career ran parallel to Honest Abe's. This biography of the three-time governor of Illinois...

'I'm just a country boy,' says Willie Gary when he addresses a jury. 'If I just talk in plain, ordinary talk, you won't hold that against me, will you?' The son of migrant corn-pickers, Gary is one of America's most successful lawyers: diamond-encrusted...

As Izzy settles down to life on Bedlam Farm, Jon is amazed that all signs of the troubled rescue dog who first arrived have disappeared. More than this, the Border collie demonstrates an uncanny sensitivity to, and tenderness towards, humans who are...