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Ambush at Central Park: When the IRA Came to New York by Mark Bulik 9781531502607
RRP: $41.98$33.96A compelling, action-packed account of the only officially sanctioned I.R.A attack ever conducted on American soil. In 1922, three of the Irish Republican Army's top gunmen arrived in New York City seeking vengeance. Their target: "Cruxy" O'Connor, a... -
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: $42.00$29.11"I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular (journal). I have myself lost recollection of much that was interesting and I have deprived my family and the public of some curious information by not carrying this resolution into effect."... -
The Outsider: Pope Francis and His Battle to Reform the Church by Christopher Lamb 9781626983618
RRP: $41.98$30.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626983618Author Christopher LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA) -
Bowen's Court & Seven Winters by Elizabeth Bowen
RRP: $27.28$19.09Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved. Bowen reviews ten generations of her family, representatives of... -
The Little Book of Bob: Everyday wisdom from Street Cat Bob by James Bowen
RRP: $20.98$14.28**NOW A MAJOR FILM A Christmas Gift from Bob, starring Luke Treadaway as James and Bob himself. A gift book of wisdom from everyone's favourite street cat.**'One thing I've known about Bob from the very beginning is that he possesses a wisdom that is... -
At the Fireside: True South African Stories by Roger Webster 9780864864871
RRP: $25.18$20.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864864871Author Roger WebsterPage Count 158Imprint David Philip PublishersPublisher New Africa Books (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett by John Calder 9780714542836
RRP: $20.98$16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714542836Author John CalderFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Calder Publications LtdPublisher Alma Books Ltd -
Twelve Babies on a Bike: Diary of a Pupil Midwife by Dot May Dunn
RRP: $20.98$14.28A young midwife's account of her training in the Midlands in the 1950s. A SUNDAY TIMES bestseller.It's 1957, and in a shattered post-war world, life goes on. Dot, a pupil midwife, negotiates the streets on her trusty old bicycle - come rain or shine - to... -
The Long Goodbye: A Memoir by Meghan O'Rourke
RRP: $23.08$15.54Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the aftermath: the rage she felt, not only at what had happened to... -
Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words: The Authorised Biography by Boel Westin
RRP: $35.68$24.70The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious... -
Marshal K.K. Rokossovsky: The Red Army's Gentleman Commander by Dr Boris Sokolov 9781909982109
RRP: $125.90$89.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982109Author Dr Boris SokolovFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Keats by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $39.88$27.78First published in 1997, Keats was the first major biography of this tragic hero of Romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the story is well known - has become, in fact, the stuff of... -
You Don't Have to Be a Champion... to Be a Winner!: A journey from Xerox to F1 by Brian Sims 9781528934053
RRP: $29.38$21.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528934053Author Brian SimsFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place by Annie Proulx 9780007231997 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$20.50Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. ... -
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place by Annie Proulx 9780007231997
RRP: $23.08$15.23Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. ... -
Burned Alive by Souad 9780553816303 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$3.89When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her... -
Burned Alive by Souad
RRP: $20.98$14.93When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her... -
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal 9781250811271
RRP: $37.80$25.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250811271Author Edmund de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story by John Holt 9780201567632
$30.14If I could learn to play the cello well, as I thought I could, I could show by my own example that we all have greater powers than we think that whatever we want to learn or learn to do, we probably can learn that our lives and our possibilities are not... -
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
RRP: $27.28$19.09The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented and most eccentric in European history. The domineering paternal influence of Karl Wittgenstein left his eight children fraught by inner antagonisms and nervous tension. Three of his sons... -
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China by Jonathan Kaufman
RRP: $37.80$23.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735224438Author Jonathan KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
The Nightfisherman: Selected Letters of W.S. Graham by W. S. Graham 9781857544459
RRP: $39.80$28.06William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) was born in Greenock, Scotland, `beside the sugar house quays' - a setting open to the sea. He remained a Celt, moving from Scotland to Cornwall where he found seascapes without urban clutter, just an occasional ruined... -
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
RRP: $20.98$14.93The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Chateau de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised... -
Without Mercy: A Mother's Struggle Against Modern Slavery by Miriam Ali 9780751516357 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.81Providing an account of her battle with an abusive man and with bureaucracy, this is the story of a woman's fight against a violent and tyrannical relationship, and her struggle to reclaim her two daughters, sold into marriage in the Yemen. Mirian... -
Without Mercy: A Mother's Struggle Against Modern Slavery by Miriam Ali 9780751516357
$31.23Providing an account of her battle with an abusive man and with bureaucracy, this is the story of a woman's fight against a violent and tyrannical relationship, and her struggle to reclaim her two daughters, sold into marriage in the Yemen. Mirian... -
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks 9781401309442
RRP: $41.98$24.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401309442Author Elyn R SaksFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 138mm * 25mm -
A Short Life on the Ocean Wave by Robert Howe 9780244770242
RRP: $16.78$14.93Robert Howe's short time in the Merchant Navy gave him a wealth of experiences and took him around the world. He saw some of Africa and Hong Kong when they were still British Protectorates, and South Africa under apartheid. He has had such diverse... -
Pull Up a Bollard... HMS Ganges and Beyond... by Chris Neylan 9780244148409
RRP: $15.50$13.88Join Chris Neylan as he walks through the gates of HMS Ganges on the start of a remarkable journey with the Royal Navy of the 60s and 70s. From raw recruit to experienced sailor, enjoy this first-hand account of the ups and downs of life in the Senior... -
Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution by Kevin Booth 9780007198306 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.81Written by Bill Hick's lifelong friend, producer, and co-creator, Kevin Booth offers the inside story into the man who was only along for the ride for a tragically short time, yet left an indelible mark on comedy enthusiasts and freethinkers everywhere. ... -
Sectioned by John O'Donoghue
RRP: $23.08$15.54'I'd been in Claybury for four months before I was given ECT. I was sixteen. The day I went down for it I was wearing a striped hospital dressing gown and yellow pyjamas. I'd been given the Last Rites.'John O'Donoghue was first admitted to Claybury... -
Let There Be Rock: The Story of AC/DC by Susan Masino 9781913172145
RRP: $35.68$32.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913172145Author Susan MasinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Omnibus PressPublisher Omnibus Press -
Lives from a Black Tin Box: Martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion, Their Chinese Church Today, and the Power of Prayer by Prudence Bell 9781860249310 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.03This is the history of Prudence Bell's family, going back several generations to set the scene for the missionary couple,Herbert and Elizabeth, who went out to Xinzhou, Shanxi Province, China, and were brutally killed in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. It... -
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London by Andrew Nagorski
RRP: $42.00$29.11'Astonishing... In the American journalist Andrew Nagorski this tale has found its ideal narrator'SEBASTIAN FAULKS, Sunday Times'[A] thrilling book, as edge-of-your-seat gripping as any heist movie'Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Book of the Day'A gripping... -
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen 9781250033314
RRP: $39.90$23.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250033314Author Rich CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 20mm -
A Shed Of One's Own: Midlife Without the Crisis by Marcus Berkmann
RRP: $23.08$13.59For many men, middle age arrives too fast and without due warning. One day you are young, free and single; the next you are bald, fat and washed-up, with weird tendrils of hair growing out of your ears. None of it seems fair. With age should come dignity... -
Unforgivable by Collette Elliott 9781405918237 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58$3.91Unforgivable is the shocking real-life story of suffering and survival from child abuse victim Collette Elliott."I brought you into this world and I can take you out with one click of my fingers."What if Baby P or Daniel Pelka had lived to tell their... -
Please, Miss: The true story of a trainee teacher in 1960s Liverpool by Bernadette Robinson
RRP: $20.98$14.28Bernadette was just ten years old when her father packed her off to a convent school in Dublin. Seven gruelling years later, she returned home to Liverpool at the start of the swinging sixties. Bernadette had dreamed of being a teacher ever since she was... -
If Clouds Were Sheep: A Tale of Sheep Farming in the Cotswolds by Sue Andrews 9781999870553 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$5.57'An enchanting picture of farming life, full of warmth and humour' ~ Katie Fforde It seems an impossible dream at first for Sue and Aubrey. She is a horse-mad girl strongly attracted to the idea of farming, Aubrey is the son of a farm manager without... -
If Clouds Were Sheep: A Tale of Sheep Farming in the Cotswolds by Sue Andrews
RRP: $18.88$13.55'An enchanting picture of farming life, full of warmth and humour' ~ Katie Fforde It seems an impossible dream at first for Sue and Aubrey. She is a horse-mad girl strongly attracted to the idea of farming, Aubrey is the son of a farm manager without... -
Life, death and the journeys in between by Jakki Cowley 9780244280765
RRP: $32.55$29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244280765Author Jakki CowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g