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Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career by Patricia Fara
RRP: $61.41$42.78The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius... -
Today Everything Changes: Quick Read by Andy McNab 9780552168984 [USED COPY]
RRP: $7.78$3.67Abandoned as a baby, Andy McNab's start in life was tough. Growing up in South London with foster parents, and surrounded by poverty, he attended seven schools in as many years, disillusioned and in remedial classes. It wasn't long before his life... -
The Illustrated Provence Letters of Van Gogh by Martin Bailey
RRP: $33.13$21.04'I cannot help that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless, the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint ...' Vincent van Gogh Discover the moving story of Vincent van Gogh, with his artistic genius and... -
London's Mayor at 20: Governing a Global City in the 21st Century by Jack Brown
RRP: $48.75$34.79A few months into the new millennium in May 2000, Ken Livingstone became the first ever Mayor of London. In the succeeding two decades, London has undergone a dramatic evolution under three very different mayors, but how has the mayoralty itself changed?... -
Nansen: The Explorer as Hero by Roland Huntford 9780349114927 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13$5.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Nansen: The Explorer as Hero by Roland Huntford
RRP: $33.13$22.50Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration,... -
The Choice by Philly McMahon
RRP: $21.43$15.15BGE Irish Sports Book of the Year and eir Sports Book of the Year In The Choice Dubs star Philly McMahon shares the deeply personal story of his brother, John, a heroin addict who died at the age of 31. Structured as a series of choices - in sport, in... -
Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap by David Roberts
RRP: $46.78$39.99By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed Gino), a... -
A Cat Called Norton by Peter Gethers
RRP: $31.18$22.64Peter was a confirmed loner and cat hater, until he was given a small, grey (and impeccably handsome) kitten with folded ears by his then girlfriend. The girlfriend went but Norton stayed - in fact, he and Peter became inseparable. Trotting along beside... -
Boyhood: Scenes from provincial life by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $21.43$15.15In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both... -
Farmer's Glory by A. G. Street 9781908213556
RRP: $31.20$22.66First published in 1932 and written in simple, direct prose, Farmer's Glory is a portrait of a farming life in southern England and in western Canada, and is a model of the genre: warm and humorous as well as an astute and unflinching account of the... -
Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
RRP: $25.33$16.77This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind senator from Oklahoma, T.P. Gore, and in the various... -
Grafters: The Inside Story of the Europe's Most Prolific Sneak Thieves by Colin Blaney 9781901746921
RRP: $19.40$12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901746921Author Colin BlaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 317Imprint Empire Publications LtdPublisher Empire Publications LtdWeight(grams) 294g -
Maradona: The Hand of God by Jimmy Burns
RRP: $21.43$15.15'The definitive work on Diego Maradona' The 42 'One of football's greatest stories ... this is the best football book in ages' Goal 'A modern footballing classic' FHM _________________________ Anyone doubting that Diego Maradona was more than just a... -
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin
RRP: $21.43$15.46Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscript caught in the middle of a vicious civil war, and then as an... -
Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis
RRP: $39.00$27.03SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARIn Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the... -
Richie Who Cares?: Lost Childhood and a Boy's Journey for Justice by Richie Barlow 9781838489960
RRP: $25.33$24.47Richie Barlow recently celebrated his 40th birthday, a landmark date he never thought he would reach. Many were the times - when struggling to survive a desperate childhood and adolescence - that he clinged to a dream of simply making it to 22. ... -
Gaudi by Gijs van Hensbergen 9780006548782 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23$4.47The first critical biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest architects At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He had created some of the greatest and most controversial... -
Gaudi by Gijs van Hensbergen
RRP: $29.23$21.35The first critical biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest architects At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudi was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He had created some of the greatest and most controversial... -
Treasure Islands: True Tales of a Shipwreck Hunter by Alec Crawford
RRP: $19.48$12.71An extraordinary true story of danger, innovation and deep sea discovery. In 1971 Alec Crawford is determined to make his fortune from ship salvage. Early attempts lead nowhere until he teams up with a new partner, Simon Martin. Diving in Hebridean... -
Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris
RRP: $21.43$14.43A collection of surprising, disarming and 'extremely funny' essays from the internationally bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sunday Times) Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender... -
My Whispering Angels: The incredible true story of a life transformed by Angels by Francesca Brown 9780340994955 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$4.19My Whispering Angels is the extraordinary story of an ordinary Irish wife and mother blessed with an incredible gift.Francesca faced the dawn of the new millennium debilitated by ill-health and despair, without any hope or faith in her future. This was... -
My Whispering Angels: The incredible true story of a life transformed by Angels by Francesca Brown
RRP: $25.33$16.77My Whispering Angels is the extraordinary story of an ordinary Irish wife and mother blessed with an incredible gift.Francesca faced the dawn of the new millennium debilitated by ill-health and despair, without any hope or faith in her future. This was... -
Tribute to Freud by H. D. 9780856355998
$21.00Bringing together "Writing on the Wall," composed some ten years after H.D's stay in Vienna, and "Advent," a journal she kept at the time of her analysis there, Tribute to Freud offers a rare glimpse into the consulting room of the father of... -
From Berlin to England and Back by Peter Prager
RRP: $29.15$22.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034209Author Peter PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Live Art and Performance by Adrian Heathfield 9781854375018
RRP: $48.75$36.31Live, or performance, art is one of the most controversial and hotly discussed areas of art practice to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century. The history of live art is one of challenge to audiences, art traditions and cultural values. With... -
Orphan Boys - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child by Phil Mews 9781786068996 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.58$3.651976, the hottest summer for a generation and life was perfect for the two young brothers Philip and Roger. They lived an idyllic life on a farm in the picturesque dales of the north of England. With their days spent on the farm, playing on Tarzan... -
Orphan Boys - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child by Phil Mews
RRP: $15.58$10.921976, the hottest summer for a generation and life was perfect for the two young brothers Philip and Roger. They lived an idyllic life on a farm in the picturesque dales of the north of England. With their days spent on the farm, playing on Tarzan... -
A Life in Letters by John Steinbeck
RRP: $58.50$41.63Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent. Opening with letters written during Steinbeck's early years in California, and closing with an unfinished, 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York, this collection of around 850 letters... -
Street Boys: 7 Kids. 1 Estate. No Way Out. A True Story. by Tim Pritchard 9780007267064 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$4.47The shocking, powerful true story of the lives of 7 young kids, marred by guns, gangs and violence on one of Britain's toughest estates. 'Eight years old. That's when life went downhill. From eight years old nobody looked after me. I just... -
Street Boys: 7 Kids. 1 Estate. No Way Out. A True Story. by Tim Pritchard
RRP: $19.48$12.95The shocking, powerful true story of the lives of 7 young kids, marred by guns, gangs and violence on one of Britain's toughest estates. 'Eight years old. That's when life went downhill. From eight years old nobody looked after me. I just... -
Finding Peggy by Meg Henderson
RRP: $25.33$17.73Glasgow in the 1950s was a deprived and often violent place. Meg Henderson was part of a large family, and when the tenement block in which they lived collapsed they had to move to the notorious Blackhill district where religious sectarianism and gang... -
Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $25.33$17.73Heralded as a genius, the forerunner of modern fantasy and credited with the invention of the psychological drama, science fiction and the detective story , Edgar Allan Poe had a life as dramatic and tragic as his art. Poe's life was dominated by dying... -
Vet in a Spin by James Herriot 9780330443579
RRP: $21.43$15.46James Herriot, strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, feels rather out of place, but he hasn't found a new profession and it surely won't be long before the RAF come round to his point of view . . .From the author whose books inspired the BBC... -
Churchill & Son by Josh Ireland 9781529337754
RRP: $39.00$26.81'A compelling tragedy, but one which casts valuable new light on the outsized human dimensions of both men ... Agonising but excellent' The Telegraph'In this fascinating account of the turbulent Churchill father-and-son relationship, Josh Ireland shows... -
Up With The Lark: My Life On the Land by Joan Bomford
RRP: $19.48$11.62'An evocative portrait of a forgotten period of Britain's farming history... is an ode both to the soil, and those who have worked it alongside her' Daily TelegraphJoan Bomford wanted to be a farmer so much she always wore a tie like her dad. She ran... -
Walking To Greenham by Ann Pettitt 9781870206761
RRP: $17.53$12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870206761Author Ann PettittFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 281g -
The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography by Barnaby Rogerson 9780349115863
RRP: $21.43$14.43The Prophet Muhammad is a hero for all mankind. In his lifetime he established a new religion, Islam; a new state, the first united Arabia; and a new literary language, the classical Arabic of the Qur'an, for the Qur'an is believed to be the word of God... -
The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography by Barnaby Rogerson 9780349115863 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$4.35The Prophet Muhammad is a hero for all mankind. In his lifetime he established a new religion, Islam; a new state, the first united Arabia; and a new literary language, the classical Arabic of the Qur'an, for the Qur'an is believed to be the word of God... -
The Happy Hoofer by Celia Imrie 9781444709292 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$4.47'I've always been wilful... I've always been stubborn and always determined'One of our best-loved actresses, Celia Imrie would rather have been a dancer. As a child she planned to join the Royal Ballet and marry Rudolf Nureyev. Now she has become one of...