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'For those old enough to remember Duncan Edwards, watching Professor Williams, Best's doctor, was to be reminded of the slower, grainier days of 1958 when, in the words of Don DeLillo, "things were not replayed and worn out and run down and used up...

A biography of the Queen Mother which also provides an account of the twentieth century. The Queen Mother has lived through the years of the most rapid progress in mankind's history and two world wars yet retains the charm, elegance and dignity that...

In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers among the Kikuyu people, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases and discovered - the hard way - the world...

Listed in the Sunday Times 'Books of the Year' and Daily Mail 'Biographies for Christmas 2011', Outsider is the life of a child, boy, adolescent, student and young man in London between the Great Depression of the 30s and the sudden prosperity and social...

Kilvert's classic diary, which paints a picture of mid-Victorian English country life. Closely-written in 22 notebooks, the notes of the vicar of Langley Burrell, Wiltshire, cover a span of nine years (1870-9). This is an abridged, one-volume edition...

Mary Wesley published her first novel when she was 70 - and went on to write 9 more bestsellers before her death in 2002 at the age of 89. Wesley was a pen-name, derived from the family name of Wellesley. She was born Mary Farmar, descended from the Duke...

For this biography of Raymond Chandler, Hiney had access to previously unseen personal papers and also to unrecorded reminiscences by those who knew the writer well. In the light of new discoveries, a more raw, complex, twisted and brilliant Chandler...

In "Bravo Two Zero", Andy McNab gave an account of his experiences as commander of an SAS patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq. Now he tells the story of his life, from the day he was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the...

A Doctors Occupation is the story of Dr John Lewis running his general practice in Jersey during 1940-1945. The Channel Isles were the only part of Britain to be occupied by German forces during the Second World War. This book gives a first hand account...

When Alan left school at fifteen little was expected of him. An 'O' level in art is not the most obvious passport to success, but in the ancient greenhouses of the local nursery Mrs T's little lad found his spiritual home, learning his trade and the...

Alex Alexandrowicz spent 22 years in custody protesting his innocence. This book explains how something which began with a plea bargain in the belief that he would serve a 'short' sentence turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare. His 'Prison Chronicles' are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781406755367Author Jean. GionoFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 325g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449057152Author Lois PerrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477223048Author Gerald C MearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927543009Author Matthew III GaasenbeekFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint CybercomPublisher CybercomWeight(grams) 404g

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Tells the story, via the letters that the two characters wrote to each other, of the relationship between Evelyn Waugh, author of "Brideshead Revisited", and Lady Diana Cooper, actress and hostess. The two endearments of Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch were used in...

Born Lucie Dillon, to a half-French mother and an Anglo-Irish father, her world was Versailles and the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She married a French aristocrat, and narrowly survived the French Revolution, escaping to America at the time...

Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mother's dance studio. He was older and just a bit cocky; she was the gorgeous waif who refused to worship the ground he walked on. It didn't take long for them to fall in love. Their...

Few have tested the limits of the old maxim 'for better or for worse; for richer, for poorer' more thoroughly than Mary Archer. Married to a philanderer, fabulist and convicted criminal, her marriage has consistently been the stuff of front page news...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401063597Author Samuel C CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 2Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953731975Author Michael CoccariFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Booktrail PublishingPublisher Booktrail PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665595339Author Tom SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781413493368Author Jack K PaquetteFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 503g

At the age of 15 Rebecca Ridgway wanted to do something amazing. The chance came nine years later in January 1992 when she was the first woman to paddle a kayak right around Cape Horn Island. This foray into one of the world's most notorious waterway...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395083802Author Meriwether LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton Mifflin

A collection of letters between Tom Courtenay and his mother interwoven with a portrait of what was going on in his life at the same time, during the heady days of the early sixties when successful young working-class actors were coming to the fore for...

There is no unlisted telephone number in Los Angeles that is harder to get than that of Alex Adams - for the last 20 years "madam to the stars". Sex provided by Alex has been the town's ultimate guilty pleasure, the most whispered secret of the...

"Anyone entering Iraq must travel the road from Amman to Baghdad along the Fallujah by-pass and around the Ramadi Ring Road. It's the most dangerous trunk route in the world used as a personal, fairground shooting gallery by insurgents and Islamists...

'Why the hell have you come to a place like this?' These are the words of a twelve-year-old pupil upon meeting one of the Prime Minister's key strategists in the playground. Why has Peter Hyman, the Prime Minister's chief speech writer, swapped the...

When Phil Ball left university with a workmanlike English degree to his name and no discernible ambitions, he wasn't entirely sure what to do next. So like many before him he thought he'd giving teaching a go. Why not? This is the comic story of one...

'What's the worst that could happen? Seriously. Where do your darkest fears lie? The one that knots your gut; that you push from your mind with a prayer and a shudder. Probably your loved ones feature; your partner, parents, friends. Or, more likely,...

Jim Davidson is a popular face in the entertainment world, but how well do you really know him? His autobiography reveals him to be a complex man who has lived a fascinating life. Read about the tough times as well as the good. This autobiography focuses...

"Like the swallows, Ollie came in the spring and left in the autumn. Dancing, singing, swooping - there was something birdlike about his energy, joy and laughter - but also the fleeting, transitory, enigmatic quality of his life. At the age of two...

'When a man walks on to a pitch there's always a chance something magic can happen, that's what keeps us coming back...'. In A Man Walks On to a Pitch, Harry shares a lifetime's experience of obsessing over football, during which he has seen it all first...

'There was a lot that we kept from my mother. My dad would say to me as a teenager "Don't tell your mother." We couldn't face the disapproval.' Sue Johnston always seemed to be disappointing her mother. As a girl she never stayed clean and tidy...

Piers Morgan never really got on with America. And America had never really got on with him. But flitting between British shores and the Land of the Free, he discovers his burgeoning celebrity as the 'nasty Brit' on a top-rated US TV series gives him...

This is my autobiography, the exciting story of how I, Ronald Corbett, the son of an Edinburgh baker, became convinced that I had to seek my fortune and become an actor, of how I pursued that goal, found fame on television as one of The Two Ronnies, and...

Bringing an informed perspective to this new account of Diana's life, Holden writes of her selfless pursuit of often unpopular causes, her qualities as a mother, her beauty and charisma, and the powerful influence she had begun to exert on political and...

A collection of precious moments and characters, enhanced by affectionate and illuminating anecdotes from one of Great Britain's most enduring and best-loved actors.Book InformationISBN 9780091793913Author John MillsFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint...