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Turn into the Wind, Volume II. US Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy, and Royal Canadian Navy Light Fleet Aircraft Carriers in the Korean War and through end of service, 1950-1982 by Wesley Pippenger 9780788408694
RRP: £25.50£22.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788408694Author Wesley PippengerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 440g -
About Friel: The Playwright and the Work by Tony Coult
RRP: £8.99£6.08This series contains what no other study guides can offer - extensive first-hand interviews with the playwrights and their closest collaborators on all of their major work, put together by top academics especially for the modern student market. As well... -
Maeve Brennan: Wit, Style and Tragedy: An Irish Writer in New York by Angela Bourke
RRP: £12.99£9.09Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan's childhood in Ireland was moulded by the cultural ideologies of nationalism and lit by the creative energy of the Abbey and Gate theatres. She was seventeen when her father was... -
Glam Rock: Dandies in the Underworld by Alwyn W. Turner 9781851777648
RRP: £25.00£19.54Drawing on the collections of the V&A, Glam Rock narrates the story of glam and explores its impact on fashion, theatre and film. In the early 1970s, glam rock changed the face of popular culture in Britain and, against a backdrop of a nation racked by... -
King of Fashion: The autobiography of Paul Poiret by Paul Poiret
RRP: £9.99£7.71Paul Poiret (1879-1944) led the fashion world in the first decade of the twentieth century and his autobiography tells the extraordinary story of his meteoric rise to fame. From his humble Parisian childhood to his debut as a couturier, to his... -
Butch by Warren Snaith 9780620513234 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.95£6.63The most capped Springbok fly half of all time, Butch James, tells his fascinating story, holding nothing back in his tell - all autobiography. James has had a more interesting career than most. Having been banned from the game for his controversial... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 5 (English): The Swiss Years: Correspondence, 1902-1914. (English translation supplement) by Albert Einstein 9780691000992
RRP: £62.00£48.62Every document in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein appears in the language in which it was written, and supplementary paperback volumes present the English translations if all non-English materials. For those desiring a supplement to Volume 5, for... -
A Faith in Archaeological Science: Reflections on a Life by Don Brothwell 9781784913014
£57.01This is the first memoir by an internationally known archaeological scientist, and one who has been particularly research active for over fifty years in the broad field of bioarchaeology. Written with humour and a critical concern to understand the... -
Caroline and Charlotte by Alison Plowden
RRP: £12.99£9.62Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George Prince of Wales and Prince Regent, and her daughter, Princess Charlotte, lived out their lives surrounded by a cast of characters who might have been lifted straight from the pages of some Gothic novel. Theirs was a... -
Fat, Forty And Fired: The year I lost my job and got a life by Nigel Marsh
RRP: £10.99£7.40Approaching forty, Nigel Marsh's life seems almost perfect: he has moved with his family from the UK to Sydney and runs the Australian office of a leading advertising agency. However, he is also stressed, overweight and struggling to balance a career, a... -
The Maximalist: The Rise and Fall of Tony O'Reilly by Matt Cooper 9780717167210
RRP: £31.99£23.27An Irish epic, The Maximalist documents in unflinching detail and with great subtlety the meteoric rise and slow unravelling of an Irish icon. 'Biography of the Year.' The Sunday Times 'Biography of the Year.' Sunday Business Post ... -
Jane Slade of Polruan: The Inspiration for Du Maurier's First Novel by Helen Doe 9781850221623
RRP: £9.99£5.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850221623Author Helen DoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint TruranPublisher TruranDimensions(mm) 240mm * 175mm * 15mm -
Rabindranath Tagore: An Interpretation by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya 9780143440307
£18.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143440307Author Sabyasachi BhattacharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Maria Sabina: Selections by Maria Sabina 9780520239531
RRP: £30.00£23.29A shaman and visionary - not a poet in any ordinary sense - Maria Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jimenez, and yet her words, always sung or spoken, have carried far and wide, a principal instance and a powerful... -
Faithless by Seth Walker
RRP: £8.99£6.20This is no ordinary parish, and no ordinary priest - a true story of poverty, haunting, exorcism, birth, death and murder. Seth was a priest. He served for 10 years and 163 days. Then he decided to die. "Have you ever questioned whether you are... -
Escape to Ikaria: All at Sea in the Aegean by Nick Perry 9781846973765 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.65Leaving their Welsh hill farm behind, Nick, Ros and their children arrive on the little-known island of Ikaria in 1978, having impulsively boarded the first ferry leaving Athens. Escape to Ikaria tells the story of how they become involved with the... -
Escape to Ikaria: All at Sea in the Aegean by Nick Perry
RRP: £9.99£9.69Leaving their Welsh hill farm behind, Nick, Ros and their children arrive on the little-known island of Ikaria in 1978, having impulsively boarded the first ferry leaving Athens. Escape to Ikaria tells the story of how they become involved with the... -
A Shepherd's Watch by David Kennard
RRP: £10.99£7.40Charismatic David Kennard lives a life most people can only dream about. Farming on a spectacularly beautiful part of the Devon coast he has an almost telepathic bond with nature and with his working sheepdogs. His is a life filled with daily challenges,... -
Byrds: Requiem for the Timeless: Volume 1 by Johnny Rogan 9780952954088 [USED COPY]
£134.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952954088Author Johnny RoganFormat HardbackPage Count 1216Imprint Rogan HousePublisher Rogan House -
The Krays: A Violent Business: The Definitive Inside Story of Britain's Most Notorious Brothers in Crime by Colin Fry
RRP: £15.99£11.61Twins Ron and Reg Kray were without doubt the most powerful, violent and deadly gangsters that London has ever known. They ran protection rackets, clubs and casinos, as well as fraudulent 'long firms'. They blackmailed, intimidated and killed - for many... -
Ascent of Everest by John Hunt
RRP: £14.99£9.80'This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not... -
Levi-Strauss: A Biography by Emmanuelle Loyer 9781509511983
RRP: £17.99£13.14Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete - Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. In this award-winning biography, historian... -
If Walls Could Speak by Moshe Safdie
RRP: £25.00£16.59Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures - from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as Habitat to the Marina Bay Sands development in Singapore... -
Deacon by design: The ups and downs of an Anglican deacon by Gill Kimber 9781910719794
£8.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910719794Author Gill KimberFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Verite CM LtdPublisher Verite CM Ltd -
Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times by Allen James Fromherz 9780748644834
RRP: £23.99£21.85The first complete, scholarly English-language biography of Ibn Khaldun. Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) is one of the most influential and important Muslim thinkers in history, inspiring at least as much interest among modern scholars as his immediate... -
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 2 (English): The Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909. (English translation supplement) by Albert Einstein 9780691085494
RRP: £62.00£48.62Every document in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein appears in the language in which it was written, and this supplementary paperback volume presents the English translations of all non-English materials. This translation does not include notes or... -
The Crucible of Experience: R. D. Laing and the Crisis of Psychotherapy by Daniel Burston
RRP: £61.95£49.06One of the great rebels of psychiatry, R. D. Laing challenged prevailing models of madness and the nature and limits of psychiatric authority. In this brief and lucid book, Laing's widely praised biographer distills the essence of Laing's vision, which... -
The Schumanns and Johannes Brahms: The Memoirs of Eugenie Schumann, Daughter to Robert and Clara by Eugenie Schumann 9780359747771
RRP: £12.06£11.01Eugenie Schumann, youngest daughter of the famed composer Robert Schumann and his wife Clara discusses her memories of her life, and her studies with Johannes Brahms. Drawing upon correspondences between members of the Schumann family, Eugenie relates... -
The Rabbit Between Us by Victor Menza
RRP: £18.99£16.18One morning as they parted, Victor Menza's young daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder anew why rabbits were their symbol of visitation: "How did this kind of creature become such a powerful way of feeling your presence?" ... -
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524761486Author Sarah McBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
Behind Open Doors by Ingrid MacLean 9780244702496
RRP: £17.00£15.52Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, the Acid Messiah of 101 Cromwell Road: His life and times. 101 has become legendary over the decades, being regarded as the hub of Swinging London, where the Beautiful People went to turn on and tune in. But NOT drop out! With a... -
Queen Victoria: Gender and Empire by Susan Kingsley Kent
RRP: £31.99£13.80Part of The World in A Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of Queen Victoria. As one of the longest reigning monarchs in British history, Queen Victoria gave her name to an age filled with enormous possibilities and... -
Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler: With an introduction by Nikolaus Wachsmann by Margarete Buber-Neumann
RRP: £18.99£13.61This book is a unique account by a survivor of both the Soviet and Nazi concentration camps: its author, Margarete Buber-Neumann, was a loyal member of the German Communist party. From 1935 she and her second husband, Heinz Neumann, were political... -
Chasing the Sixpence: The Lives of Bradford Mill Folk by Rachel Bellerby 9780954743185
RRP: £9.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954743185Author Rachel BellerbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd -
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 by Stephen F. Cohen 9780195026979
£15.60This classic biography carefully traces Bukharin's rise to and fall from power, focusing particularly on the development of his theories and programmatic ideas during the critical period between Lenin's death in 1924 and the ascendancy of Stalin in 1929... -
Present Past Past Present: A Personal Memoir by Eugene Ionesco 9780306808357
£15.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorEugene Ionesco (1910-1994), a Romanian-born Frenchman, was central to the theatre of the Absurd, a dramatic movement that abandons logical plot development,... -
Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki's Western Jihad by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
RRP: £31.95£25.57The definitive account of the career and legacy of the most influential Western exponent of violent jihad.Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, "the main man who translated jihad into English." By the time he was killed by an American... -
Diaspora Dreams by Andrew Chatora 9781637460290
RRP: £14.99£8.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637460290Author Andrew ChatoraFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Kharis PublishingPublisher Kharis PublishingWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson 9780747596707
RRP: £12.99£9.09Come On Shore and We Will Kill And Eat You All is a sensitive and vibrant portrayal of the cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris, from Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 to the author's unlikely romance with a Maori man. An... -
L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home by David Lebovitz
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804188401Author David LebovitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA Inc