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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
RRP: €11.89€7.63KRAUS FAMILY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR AT THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDSWINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE'Beautifully told' - John le Carre 'More than just history' - Michael PalinIn this remarkably moving memoir, Ariana... -
Captain Oates by Sue Limb 9781848840881
RRP: €19.03€13.82'I am just going outside and may be some time.' With these words, on 17 March 1912, Captain Oates walked out to his death in an Antarctic blizzard and won a place for himself in history as 'a very gallant gentleman'. His reputation for courage and... -
Edmund Burke: The Visionary who Invented Modern Politics by Jesse Norman
RRP: €15.46€10.09Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern... -
Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day by Brian Groom
RRP: €23.80€16.35A Waterstones Best History Book of 2022 The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. 'Entertaining' The Times ... -
The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston's Daughters by Rachel Trethewey
RRP: €23.80€18.37Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in any other family, they were Churchills and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From... -
The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom by Adam Czerniakow 9781566632300
RRP: €20.22€18.46Adam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23, 1942-on the face of it not an uncommon occurrence in those times. But there is more to the story than the tragic death of one man among so many millions. Czerniakow was for almost three... -
Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life by Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781408125083
€18.12'[A] deeply considered and stimulating book, informed throughout by the author's intimate knowledge of the literature and society of Shakespeare's age...' Stanley Wells, TLS 'It is unquestionably the best Shakespearean biography of the new century'... -
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
RRP: €13.08€8.63'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the... -
Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII by Sarah-Beth Watkins 9781782795858
RRP: €11.89€10.22Katherine Knollys was Mary Boleyn's first child, born in 1524 when Mary was having an affair with King Henry VIII. Katherine spent her life unacknowledged as the king's daughter, yet she was given prime appointments at court as maid of honour to both... -
A History of Islam in 21 Women by Hossein Kamaly 9781786078780
RRP: €11.89€7.63Khadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice. At a time when strongmen quickly seized power from any female Muslim ruler, Arwa of Yemen reigned alone for five decades. In nineteenth-century Russia, Mukhlisa Bubi... -
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar 9780241977255 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€3.15WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS WRITING AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time... -
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar
RRP: €13.08€9.25WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH BEST SPORTS WRITING AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021'One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who proves time... -
Blanketmen: An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike by Richard O'Rawe
RRP: €16.65€10.03Richard O'Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. One of the 'Blanketmen', he took part in the dirty protests that led to the hunger strikes of the early 1980s. In Blanketmen, O'Rawe gives his personal account of those... -
Judith Kerr's Creatures: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith Kerr by Judith Kerr
RRP: €35.70€24.00A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of 100 years since Judith Kerr's birth, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and many other iconic books. Judith Kerr was one of the best-loved authors and... -
Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger by Stephen, H. Grant 9781421411873
RRP: €34.51€31.04In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885,... -
My Early Life by Winston Churchill 9780907871620
RRP: €17.84€11.66Winston Churchill wrote this account of the first 25 years of his life in 1930. It reveals him struggling with Latin grammar at prep school, charging the Dervishes at Omdurman and preparing his first political speech for a Conservative fete.Book... -
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid 9781911547099
RRP: €11.89€7.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547099Author Jamaica KincaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 130g -
Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die by Tom Gallagher
RRP: €17.84€16.23Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still divides opinion. Some see him as a reactionary and oppressive figure who kept Portugal backward, while others... -
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert
RRP: €22.60€16.67The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerWith a foreword by King Charles III.'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' - Piers MorganWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a... -
The Black Prince by Michael Jones 9781784972943
RRP: €13.08€9.25A major new biography of the Black Prince. 'A clear-eyed and thrilling vision of the man behind the legend' DAN JONES. 'Pacy, vivid and extremely readable' TLS. In 1346, at the age of sixteen, he won his spurs at Crecy; nine years later he... -
Diana: The People's Princess by Nicholas Owen 9781780979328 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€3.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780979328Author Nicholas OwenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Carlton Books LtdPublisher Welbeck Publishing Group -
Dreadnought: Britain,Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie
RRP: €22.60€16.67A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany during the decades leading up to WW1 from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill: A Treasury of More Than 1000 Quotations by James C. Humes 9780060925772
€13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925772Author James C. HumesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol.2: No Priest But Love by Anne Lister
RRP: €11.89€8.09ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, THE ACCLAIMED BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them... -
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
RRP: €17.84€12.14'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have... -
Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri
RRP: €11.89€7.09The first biography in more than a generation of the father of modern political Zionism and in effect the state of Israel.Drawing extensively on his diaries as well as his published works, this intellectual biographical follows Herzl's transformation... -
A History of My Times by Xenophon
RRP: €15.46€10.82Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this is a fascinating chronicle of the... -
The Long and Winding Road by Alan Johnson
RRP: €13.08€9.25Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson's multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary... -
Liverpool Miss by Helen Forrester
RRP: €13.08€8.63The second volume of Helen Forrester's powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival... -
John Henry Newman: A Biography by Ian Ker
RRP: €16.05€15.32This full-length life of John Henry Newman is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the thinker and writer. It draws extensively on material from Newman's letters and papers. Newman's character is revealed in its complexity and contrasts:... -
Life of St Columba by Adomnan of Iona
RRP: €15.46€10.82Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death in 597, St Columba was born into one of the ruling families in Ireland at a time of immense expansion for the Irish Church. This account of his life,... -
The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by The Countess of Carnarvon
RRP: €23.80€16.35Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. Between November 1922 and spring 1923, a door to the ancient Egyptian world was... -
Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson
RRP: €14.28€9.20A thrilling new account of the tragic life and troubled times of Henry VI. 'The best life of Henry VI now in print' DAN JONES. 'Vivid, absorbing and richly detailed' HELEN CASTOR. 'A well-crafted moving account of a tragic reign' MICHAEL JONES. ... -
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
RRP: €15.46€10.82Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been... -
A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier by Diana Preston
RRP: €13.08€9.25William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research. Dampier was the... -
White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: €15.46€9.90The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The prize-winning biography of Charles I * Winner of the HWA Crown for Best Work of Historical Non-Fiction 2018 ** Times Book of the Year ** Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Biography Award 2019 *Less than... -
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens by David Stuttard 9780674660441
RRP: €29.69€24.15Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial... -
A Time to Risk All: The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes, the Irish woman who saved children from Nazi Concentration Camps by Clodagh Finn
RRP: €22.60€16.20'I am truly grateful to Mary Elmes for the life I might not have had, had it not been for her brave actions to save us and many others. She was truly a heroine.' Michael Freund Mary Elmes was an extraordinary woman. Sometimes known as the 'Irish... -
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole 9781529040326
RRP: €14.27€9.70Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse, entrepreneur and intrepid traveller. Soon to be a major motion picture starring GuGu Mbatha-Raw.Part of the Macmillan Collector's... -
Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick 9780300071580
RRP: €29.75€26.08Henry VIII's forceful personality dominated his age and continues to fascinate our own. In few other reigns have there been developments of such magnitude-in politics, foreign relations, religion, and society-that have so radically affected succeeding...