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Mary Boleyn: 'The Great and Infamous Whore' by Alison Weir 9780099546481 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Sister to Anne Boleyn and seduced by two kings, Mary Boleyn has long been the subject of scandal and myth. Her affair with Henry VIII fuelled the shocking annulment of his marriage to Anne, and Mary is rumoured to have borne his child in secret. In this,... -
Mary Boleyn: 'The Great and Infamous Whore' by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sister to Anne Boleyn and seduced by two kings, Mary Boleyn has long been the subject of scandal and myth. Her affair with Henry VIII fuelled the shocking annulment of his marriage to Anne, and Mary is rumoured to have borne his child in secret. In this,... -
The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America’s most famous family by James Patterson 9781787465350 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.43Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan's rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style'... -
The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America’s most famous family by James Patterson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan's rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style'... -
Dracula, Prince Of Many Faces: His Life and Times by Radu R. Florescu 9780316286565
RRP: £17.00£11.24A biography of the 15th Century Prince of Romania, Vlad Dracula (1431-1476), nicknamed the Impale and on whom Bram Stoker based his fictional character. It covers his career as ruler of Wallachia, terror of Transylvania and crusader against the Turks... -
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus
RRP: £7.95£5.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451529107Author Carolina Maria de JesusFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 171mm *... -
James I (Penguin Monarchs): The Phoenix King by Thomas Cogswell
RRP: £7.99£5.79'First and foremost, he survived, and that was no mean achievement' James's reign marked one of the rare breaks in England's monarchy. Already James VI of Scotland, on Elizabeth I's death he became James I of England and Ireland, uniting the British... -
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert by Gertrude Bell
RRP: £9.99£7.11The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century - the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' - and the subject of a new film starring Nicole Kidman.In the last century, few people lived more astounding - or influential - lives than... -
King Charles III: A Modern Monarch by Alison James
RRP: £21.99£15.61A boy born to be king, he had to wait 73 years to fulfil his destiny - the longest wait by an heir apparent in British history. 'King Charles III' looks back at his life thus far - how his childhood shaped him into the man and monarch he is today, his... -
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £25.00£16.38From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She also had a merciless wit and talent for mimicry. She... -
The Nine Lives of John Ogilby: Britain's Master Map Maker and His Secrets by Alan Ereira
RRP: £12.99£8.63Four hundred years ago, every barrister had to dance because dancing put them in harmony with the universe. John Ogilby's first job, in 1612, was to teach them. By the 1670s, he was Charles II's Royal Cosmographer, creating beautiful measured drawings... -
Vuelta Skelter: Riding the remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain, in a facemask by Tim Moore
RRP: £20.00£14.29*A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*Tim Moore, the author of the Sunday Times bestselling French Revolutions, completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an... -
Mother Country: A Story of Love and Lies by Monique Charlesworth 9781915635990
RRP: £10.99£8.94A true story of the passionate and tragi-comic relationship between a mother running from her past in Hitler's Germany and a daughter running towards it. Inge was German, half-Jewish and a Holocaust survivor, all of which she chose to deny until the... -
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £16.99£12.28From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate... -
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler's Valkyries by Clare Mulley
RRP: £10.99£7.77A riveting double biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women test pilots - Hitler's personal Valkyries.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their... -
Never Will I Die by Toby Gutteridge
RRP: £20.00£14.29PRAISE FOR NEVER WILL I DIE'Toby's sheer grit and determination is a powerful testament to his character. His story demonstrates the true nature of inner strength and courage. I think he's an inspiration to all of us.'Tom Hardy'Inspirational. An amazing... -
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport by Deborah Oppenheimer
RRP: £14.99£10.95___________________ BASED ON THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY ___________________ 'Wonderfully moving ... a noble story, beautifully told' - Daily Mail With a preface by Lord Richard Attenborough, this is a moving collection of... -
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer
RRP: £20.00£14.29How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence... -
The Secret Queen: Eleanor Talbot, the Woman Who Put Richard III on the Throne by John Ashdown-Hill 9780750968461
RRP: £12.99£9.62When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of his sons (the 'Princes in the Tower'). The crown therefore passed to Edward IV's undoubtedly legitimate younger brother, Richard, Duke of... -
Jumpin' Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock'n'Roll Underworld by Keiron Pim
RRP: £10.99£7.77'REVELATORY' - DAILY TELEGRAPH *****'FASCINATING' - OBSERVER'ENGROSSING' - DAILY MAIL'You'll worry at your hunger to keep on reading, but you won't be able to stop' - GUARDIAN, Book of the Year David Litvinoff was one of the great mythic characters of... -
Hereward: The Definitive Biography of the Famous English Outlaw Who Rebelled Against William the Conqueror by Peter Rex
RRP: £12.99£8.48After 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... -
The Man Who Sank Titanic: The Troubled Life of Quartermaster Robert Hichens by Sally Nilsson 9780752460710
RRP: £8.99£6.85Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who was given the famous order to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg and failed. Following this, his falling out with the 'Unsinkable Molly Brown' over the actions of the lifeboats saw him branded a... -
Letters To My Grandchildren by Tony Benn
RRP: £9.99£7.11As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it.The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could... -
The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino by Jane Stevenson 9781800241978
RRP: £30.00£20.95The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro. 'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King 'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's... -
The Autobiography Of Andrew Carnegie And The Gospel Of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
RRP: £7.99£5.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451530387Author Andrew CarnegieFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 173g -
Time the Present: Selected Stories by Tess Slesinger 9781913861605
RRP: £14.99£10.77Pull Devil, Pull Baker is one of the oddest autobiographies ever written.The novelist Stella Benson first encountered an eccentric Russiannobleman, Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec De Savine in the pauper'sward of a Hong Kong hospital. Striking up a... -
Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen 9780300078008
RRP: £16.99£14.61"A historian's biography of Philip II as Renaissance prince, refuting the Elizabethan propaganda picture of the spider of the Escorial."-New York Times Book Review (And Bear in Mind)"In humanizing a man too often viewed as a cardboard tyrant, Kamen has... -
10 Scotland Street by Leslie Hills 9781910895733
RRP: £24.99£17.31This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. - Sara Sheridan As a writer of fiction, I found myself itching to lift some of these characters from the page into the fertile fields of my own imagination... -
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Hawksley
RRP: £25.00£15.26Over 2,000 years of history seen through the eyes of 50 extraordinary women. Was Jane Austen a fan of her own work? What did Harriet Tubman want to tell Abraham Lincoln? And how did Greta Thunberg respond to her critics? This carefully curated selection... -
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
RRP: £11.99£8.43Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie PittUntil 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... -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
RRP: £20.00£14.29Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L... -
Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten by Pamela Hicks 9781780222844 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29A magical memoir about childhood in India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten; a glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the 20th century's leading figures.Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's... -
Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten by Pamela Hicks
RRP: £9.99£6.80A magical memoir about childhood in India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten; a glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the 20th century's leading figures.Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the 1920s into one of Britain's... -
Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend by Casey Tefertiller 9780471283621
RRP: £20.00£13.35"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a moredeeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, authorSon of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and... -
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... -
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey 9780099437246
RRP: £18.99£14.01Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survivedCATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir... ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... -
Chanel: The Fashion Icons by Michael O'Neill 9781915343215
RRP: £21.99£16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343215Author Michael O'NeillFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm)... -
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1998 by Niall Ferguson
£23.74This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating families of modern times. With all the depth, clarity and... -
Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Packed with vivid character sketches and lyrical description, Tremlett has told a gripping story, full of beauty and darkness' The Times WINNER OF THE 2018 ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE In 1474, a twenty-three year old woman ascended the throne of... -
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979480Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...