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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol.2: No Priest But Love by Anne Lister
RRP: £9.99£6.90ANNE 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... -
Garibaldi: Hero of Italian Unification by Christopher Hibbert 9780230606067
RRP: £16.99£15.63Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as the "Hero of Two Worlds," Garibaldi's military prowess extended to the Americas, where he played a major role in the Brazilian struggle for... -
The Life and Death of St. Kilda: The moving story of a vanished island community by Tom Steel
RRP: £12.99£8.71The extraordinary story of the UK's most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel's acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan's lives is now updated in this reissued edition. Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom,... -
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £12.99£9.34Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his... -
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £20.00£14.29A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the... -
John Hume by Stephen Walker 9780717196081
RRP: £26.99£19.25Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What... -
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £10.99£7.33Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times'Enthralling' Daily TelegraphFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those... -
The Man With the Iron Heart: The Definitive Biography of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Dougherty
RRP: £30.00£19.40A fascinating portrait of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the darkest figures of Hitler's elite, featuring words with those who knew him best, including in-depth and rare interviews with his wife, Lina. He was called the 'Hangman of the Gestapo' and the... -
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy Kim Philby 9781787461284
RRP: £10.99£7.99In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H. A. R. "Kim" Philby, the ringleader of the legendary Cambridge spies. A member of the British establishment, Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head... -
Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny by Michael Broers
RRP: £16.99£11.58Napoleon Bonaparte: a man of intense emotion, iron self-discipline, acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Michael Broers brings this remarkable man to life, from his dangerous Corsican roots to the epic battles of Austerlitz, Jena and Friedland... -
First They Killed My Father: Film tie-in by Loung Ung 9781910948033 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.15A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken... -
First They Killed My Father: Film tie-in by Loung Ung
RRP: £10.99£7.99A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. She was a precocious child who loved the open city markets, fried crickets, chicken... -
When the War Is Over: Far from home, far from family, safe from the war - a true story of two Second World War evacuees Barbara Fox 9780751561395
RRP: £10.99£7.61THE TOUCHING TRUE STORYTwo young Second World War evacueesFar from home, far from family, safe from the warGwenda and Douglas Brady were among the millions of British children sent to live with new families for their own safety during the Second World... -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris by Livia Manera Sambuy
RRP: £25.00£17.90'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that... -
Henry V (Penguin Monarchs): From Playboy Prince to Warrior King by Anne Curry
RRP: £7.99£5.98The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackHenry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the political... -
Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power by Christopher Clark
RRP: £14.99£11.11Christopher Clark's Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power is a short, fascinating and accessible biography of one of the 20th century's most important figures.King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the... -
The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780199537198
RRP: £10.99£7.21Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who... -
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
RRP: £12.99£9.34They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . . Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for millions of black men and women the equality and respect denied them by their white neighbours, Malcolm X... -
Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival by Amira Keidar 9781913543075
RRP: £8.99£3.05A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of World War II, in a Polish ghetto, a baby girl named Rachel is born. Her parents, Jacob and Zippa, are willing to... -
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
RRP: £12.99£9.34This is the classic life of Cromwell by one of the great radical historians of the English Civil War'A triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose ... Hill introduced nuance into the character of Cromwell and the nature of his revolution ..... -
Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir by Margaret Forster
RRP: £15.99£11.61Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave. Where had she spent the first 23 years of her life? Who was the woman in black who paid her a mysterious visit shortly before her death? How had she borne living so close to... -
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate 9780008167455
RRP: £10.99£7.46A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 'Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact' Financial Times ... -
Bring Me the Arse of Saddam: A True Story of an SAS Man at War with the British Establishment by Nigel Ely 9780995660502
RRP: £9.99£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995660502Author Nigel ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint TrebletapPublisher TrebletapWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome Harry Sidebottom 9780861546855
RRP: £10.99£7.21What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old... -
The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore by Lynn Knight
RRP: £10.99£7.99A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight's family - each one with its own tale to tell...Tracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s,... -
Richard III's Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince by Anne F. Sutton 9781803996318
RRP: £20.00£15.44Richard III, the most notorious and most discussed of English kings, was also unusual among his contemporaries in regularly signing his books. This characteristic, among others, has enabled Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs to reconstruct his library,... -
Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova by Leo Damrosch
RRP: £25.00£21.32A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch "Fully succeeds in communicating that 'vivid presentness,' that 'joyful eagerness' for life, which is what keeps us reading Casanova-and... -
To War with Whitaker by Hermione Ranfurly, Countess of Ranfurly
RRP: £10.99£8.15Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly, kept a diary all her life. To War with Whitaker is an account of the most adventurous, most defiant and most valiant of those years. Hermione and Dan Ranfurly married only months before the Second World War erupted. So... -
Hannah Arendt by Samantha Rose Hill
RRP: £12.99£9.34Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of 23, before turning away from the... -
Works by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: £24.95£23.76Stoic musings of a philosopher-emperor at war.Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his guardian and uncle emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138-161), who adopted him. He was converted to... -
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint by David Potter 9780190692759
RRP: £18.49£15.23Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's... -
Agrippina: The Defiant Story of Rome's First Empress Emma Southon 9781800183315
RRP: £10.99£7.48They said she was a tyrant, a murderer and the most wicked woman in history.She kicked her way into the male spaces of politics and demanded to be recognised as an equal and a leader. For her audacity, she was murdered by her son and reviled by history... -
The Ladies of Llangollen: A Study in Romantic Friendship by Elizabeth Mavor 9780953956173
£15.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I Stephen Alford 9780300170887
RRP: £19.99£17.37The first modern biography of the most powerful politician in late Tudor England William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), was the closest adviser to England's Queen Elizabeth I and-as this revealing and provocative biography shows-he was the driving... -
Parallel Lines: A Journey from Childhood to Belsen Peter Lantos 9781905147571
RRP: £9.99£7.00"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing" OBSERVER"A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's If This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON"A child's clear-eyed journey to hell" ANNE SEBBAThis is a story of a young boy's journey from a... -
Michael Collins: A Biography by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: £10.99£7.99'The unofficial voice of modern Irish history' EconomistWhen President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.' In August 1922 at... -
Napoleon Volume 2: The Spirit of the Age by Michael Broers
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Masterly.' Daily Mail 'Stunning.' History Today'Magnificent.' Literary ReviewNapoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage between 1805 and 1810. At war with Britain, Russia, and Austria, he unleashed his magnificent Grande Armee. The first... -
A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby by Mary S. Lovell 9781857024692 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and Queen A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce... -
A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby Mary S. Lovell 9781857024692
RRP: £14.99£9.96The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and Queen A celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce... -
Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard
RRP: £12.99£8.83Alfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political supporters, not the sycophantic gift of an official biographer, nor a self-styled title. It was the gift of history. Justin Pollard's enthralling,...