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Truman Capote by George Plimpton 9780385491730
RRP: £20.00£16.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385491730Author George PlimptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
I Saw It: A Survivor's True Story of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa
RRP: £9.99£7.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198959Author Keiji NakazawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 170g -
God's Pauper by Nikos Kazantzakis 9780571204939
RRP: £12.99£8.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorNikos Kazantzakis was born in 1883 in Herakleion on the island of Crete. During the Cretan revolt of 1897 his family was sent to the island of Naxos, where he... -
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy... -
And There Was Light: The Autobiography of a Blind Hero in the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran 9780863155079
RRP: £14.99£9.87'Light is in us even if we have no eyes.'It is a rare man who can maintain a love of life through the infirmity of blindness, the terrors of war, and the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. Such a man was Jacques Lusseyran, a French underground... -
Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals 9780671866396
RRP: £18.99£11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (Runner Up, Memoir) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780671866396Author Melba Patillo BealsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Pocket... -
Handel in London: The Making of a Genius by Jane Glover
RRP: £12.99£9.50'How refreshing, to read a book about music written for a music lover and not a musicologist. In clear, lucid, entertaining prose, Jane Glover makes those of us who lack musical literacy better understand and appreciate Handel's divinity.' - Donna Leon,... -
From Phantom to Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot by Steven K Ladd 9781526761248
RRP: £25.00£18.02Fighter pilots! Images of Baron Manfred von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker in the Great War, Johnnie Johnson, Robert Stanford Tuck and Richard Bong in the Second World War, or Robin Olds in Vietnam, all spring to mind. Volumes have been written about... -
The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream by Christina Lamb
RRP: £10.99£7.99Christina Lamb's The Africa House is the bestselling account of an English gentleman and his African dream. In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a sprawling country estate... -
Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche by Ben Macintyre 9781408838150
RRP: £16.99£12.47'Startling, dark and absorbing' Independent 'Excellent travel writing: vivid, sympathetic, humorous' Guardian 'Fascinating, provocative and highly eccentric' New York Times _______________________ In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, the philosopher... -
Katherine Howard: Henry VIII's Slandered Queen Conor Byrne 9780750990608
RRP: £18.99£15.89Over the years Katherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, has been slandered as a 'juvenile delinquent', 'empty-headed wanton' and 'natural born tart', who engaged in promiscuous liaisons prior to her marriage and committed adultery after. Though she was... -
The Courtesan's Revenge by Frances Wilson 9780571205240
RRP: £14.99£10.06Harriette Wilson was the most desired and the most dangerous woman in Regency London. This highly acclaimed biography reveals for the first time the true story behind her sensational life and scandalous 'Memoirs'. When her former lovers - including much... -
The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen's Cousin Margaret Rhodes 9781780270852
RRP: £9.99£6.90This is the intimate and revealing autobiography of the late Margaret Rhodes, the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and the niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of... -
Captain Oates by Sue Limb 9781848840881
RRP: £15.99£11.79'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... -
3 Commando Brigade by Ewen Southby-Tailyour 9780091926960
RRP: £15.99£11.61'The 3 Commando Brigade's six month deployment in Helmand Province was among the finest pieces of soldiering I have come across' General Sir Richard Dannett, Chief of General StaffIn October 2006, the Royal Marine Commandos took up their six month tour... -
King Charles II Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753814031
RRP: £16.99£11.54Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660.Spanning his life... -
Etta Lemon: The Woman who Saved the Birds by Tessa Boase
RRP: £12.99£8.83Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon. A heroine for our times, Etta Lemon campaigned for fifty years against the... -
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Described by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. According to popular legend, her angry ghost can be glimpsed among church ruins, clutching the beating heart of her murdered... -
Catherine the Great and Potemkin: Power, Love and the Russian Empire Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614832
RRP: £14.99£10.05'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' EconomistIt was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual... -
Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99£12.28Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a... -
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink by Anthony McCarten 9780062790767
RRP: £22.99£16.88May, 1940. Britain is at war. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one Western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. Invasion seems mere hours away. Just days after becoming prime minister, Winston Churchill... -
Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II by John Van der Kiste 9781781554357
RRP: £20.00£14.51Kaiser Friedrich III and his consort Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain, had six children who lived to maturity, the eldest being Kaiser Wilhelm II. The three younger sisters, Victoria, Sophie and Margaret, were particularly supportive of their... -
Napoleon: Life of an Emperor by Mike Lepine 9781915343420
RRP: £21.99£15.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343420Author Mike LepineFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing Limited -
The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £12.99£9.34Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.A... -
Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell 9780330529525
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Freud's Women Lisa Appignanesi 9780753819166
RRP: £16.99£12.11A groundbreaking book which explores the impact of women on the development of Freud's ideas.No modern writer has affected our views on women as powerfully as Sigmund Freud. And none has been so virulently attacked for both his theories of femininity and... -
Captain Scott's Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans by Isobel Williams 9780752458458 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£4.09Petty Officer Edgar Evans was Captain's Scott's 'giant worker' and his 'invaluable assistant'. He went with Scott on both the British Antarctic Expeditions of the early 1900s - the 'Discovery' expedition of 1901 and the 'Terra Nova' expedition in 1910 -... -
Captain Scott's Invaluable Assistant: Edgar Evans by Isobel Williams 9780752458458
RRP: £15.99£12.43Petty Officer Edgar Evans was Captain's Scott's 'giant worker' and his 'invaluable assistant'. He went with Scott on both the British Antarctic Expeditions of the early 1900s - the 'Discovery' expedition of 1901 and the 'Terra Nova' expedition in 1910 -... -
Stephen (Penguin Monarchs): The Reign of Anarchy by Carl Watkins
RRP: £7.99£5.98'Stephen risked being seen as a man who never quite transcended the essential flawed-ness of his claim to be king. His actions betrayed uneasiness in his new skin' Remembered as a time in which 'Christ and his saints slept', Stephen's troubled reign... -
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A monumental yet intimate biography, a vivid portrait of the man, the statesman and the saint' The TimesMahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own time. A tireless fighter for human rights and for Indian independence, his strategy of satyagraha, or... -
Mala's Cat: The moving and unforgettable true story of one girl's survival during the Holocaust by Mala Kacenberg
RRP: £10.99£7.99The remarkable true story of friendship, resilience and survival against the odds'A remarkable tale of survival' Jeremy Dronfield, bestselling author of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz'It's an account of astounding courage and... -
The Hours of Richard III by Anne F. Sutton 9781803996325
RRP: £17.99£11.87As a person's religious convictions, especially in times past, can be considered fundamental to their character and behaviour, the nature of King Richard III's piety has been the subject of considerable debate. Much of this controversy has focused on the... -
Codename Tricycle: The true story of the Second World War's most extraordinary double agent by Russell Miller
RRP: £12.99£9.34A wealthy lawyer, debonair ladies' man, consummate actor, and courageous gambler, Dusko Popov played the role of playboy amongst the top echelons of British society to become one of Germany's most trusted spies. In fact, he was one of Britain's most... -
The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure by Neil Churches 9781529060355 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£3.40The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944, the most successful POW escape of the Second World War... -
The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure by Neil Churches 9781529060355
RRP: £10.99£7.99The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944, the most successful POW escape of the Second World War... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
RRP: £4.99£4.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644672Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
The Wicked Wit of Prince Philip Karen Dolby 9781782438823
RRP: £9.99£7.32His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE was at the forefront of British public life since he married Princess Elizabeth in 1947. In the seventy years since, his wit (and the occasional 'gaffe') continued to endear him to the nation, as... -
Charles I (Penguin Monarchs): An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky
RRP: £7.99£5.98The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackThe tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a... -
Hereward: The Definitive Biography of the Famous English Outlaw Who Rebelled Against William the Conqueror by Peter Rex
RRP: £12.99£8.71After the Norman victory in Hastings in 1066, William the Conqueror's oppression of the English led to widespread famine, death and destruction, culminating in the brutal Harrying of the North and the deaths of 100,000 people. Did the English submit to... -
In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2 by Sauer, Arno 9781526797704
RRP: £14.99£11.11On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa -Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knock-out blow that the Germans had anticipated, the war against the Soviets ground on relentlessly for almost four years. It was...