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Like No Other Soldier: The Shadowy World of Security, Protection and Surveillance Rob Lewis 9781913543556
RRP: £8.99£6.39Like No Other Soldier continues the true story told in Fishers of Men of Rob Lewis's life after he leaves the Force Research Unit (FRU). Staying on in Northern Ireland as a civilian after years of working on undercover missions against terrorists, Rob... -
The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria by Max Adams
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A triumph - a Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages' TOM HOLLAND. The magisterial biography of Oswald Whiteblade, exiled prince of Northumbria, who returned in blood and glory to reclaim his birthright. A charismatic leader, a warrior whose prowess in... -
The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin 9780486290737
RRP: £5.99£2.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486290737Author Benjamin FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Vuelta Skelter: Riding the remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain, in a facemask by Tim Moore
RRP: £20.00£14.51*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... -
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £20.00£8.87'Whatever Uglow writes about she makes absolutely fascinating.' DIANA ATHILLThe story of Sybil Andews and Cyril Power, two artists who changed each other in an age of experiment and turmoil.'In all her books, she makes us feel the life behind the facts.'... -
Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns by Claire Martin 9780750999984
RRP: £20.00£15.27Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns uncovers the story and the family behind England's most obsessed-over queen, Anne Boleyn.From the fields of Norfolk to the royal court, via city commerce, local government, liberal education and numerous... -
Company Commander by Russell Lewis
RRP: £18.99£13.82In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment on a six-month tour in the most dangerous part of Afghanistan.Company Commander is his story, a riveting first-person account of... -
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise And Fall Of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister Robert Hutchinson 9780753823613
RRP: £12.99£7.61The rise and fall of Henry's notorious minister - the most corrupt Chancellor in English history'Gripping... Hutchinson tells his story with infectious relish and vividly evokes the politics and personalities of this extraordinary decade' LITERARY... -
The Rebecca Notebook: and other memories Daphne Du Maurier 9781844080908
RRP: £10.99£7.61BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA INTRODUCED BY ALISON LIGHT'The genuine, thoughtful voice of a woman whose works have been loved by millions' NEW YORK TIMES'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Du Maurier created a scale by which modern... -
Edward I (Penguin Monarchs): A New King Arthur? by Andy King
RRP: £7.99£5.98The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward I (1272-1307) is one of the most commanding of all English rulers. He fought in southwest France, in Wales, In Scotland and in northern... -
Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey by T. G. Otte 9780141991474
RRP: £20.00£14.69'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and... -
Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814 by Rory Muir
RRP: £18.99£17.18A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against... -
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Hawksley
RRP: £25.00£15.48Over 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... -
Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography by Noah Van Sciver 9781786636874
RRP: £11.99£9.96Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party in the early twentieth-century to federal and state office across the country, helped to pioneer a fighting union politics that organized all workers, and became the beloved figurehead of American radicalism... -
Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life by Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781408125083
£15.53'[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'... -
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105329Author Huey P. NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 419g -
For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years' - Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the YearA prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time'Absolutely,... -
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown 9780061774737
RRP: £17.99£16.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061774737Author Daniel James BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint HarperLuxePublisher HarperLuxeWeight(grams) 626g -
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon 9781444762129 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29**Explore the fascinating history of the real Downton Abbey as the Crawley family saga makes its way on to the big screen with Downton Abbey, the major motion picture**'An excellent depiction of English aristocratic life ... a compelling portrait'... -
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon
RRP: £10.99£7.61**Explore the fascinating history of the real Downton Abbey as the Crawley family saga makes its way on to the big screen with Downton Abbey, the major motion picture**'An excellent depiction of English aristocratic life ... a compelling portrait'... -
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin 9781513208053
RRP: £10.99£7.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208053Author Benjamin FranklinFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g -
An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Princess Vicky: Princess Vicky Hannah Pakula 9781842126233
RRP: £16.99£12.11The life of Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm.AN UNCOMMON WOMAN is an enthralling biography of Princess Vicky - the Empress Frederick of Germany, the eldest daughter of Queen... -
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders 9780571239795
RRP: £14.99£10.06A gripping account of the life and fate of the woman who almost assassinated Benito Mussolini. 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises her old revolver and fires at the... -
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum by Kathryn Hughes
RRP: £14.99£9.96'Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while' Daily Mail A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking account of what it... -
Morozov: The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection by Natalya Semenova
RRP: £25.00£13.96The first English-language account of Ivan Morozov and his ambition to build one of the world's greatest collections of modern art"A century of Russian culture distilled in the story of the life, family and collection of the lavish, lazy, kindly,... -
Buster Crabb: Ian Fleming's Favourite Spy, The Inspiration for James Bond by Don Hale 9780750993784
RRP: £14.99£11.72The true story of Crabb's colourful life and his mysterious disappearance in 1945.About the AuthorDON HALE is a writer, journalist, editor and investigative journalist. He has taken part in several programmes about railways and has previously written... -
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper
£17.79In this remarkably human portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Emperor of Iran, Andrew Scott Cooper examines the life of an infamously complex personality in a bold new light. The recent wave of instability in the Middle East has led Iranians and... -
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
RRP: £16.99£12.47Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone... -
Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria, 1918-1943 by Stephane Groueff 9781568331140
RRP: £25.00£18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568331140Author Stephane GroueffFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm... -
Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg 9780199642427
RRP: £28.99£20.68This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with a... -
And the Band Played On: The enthralling account of what happened after the Titanic sank: The enthralling account of what happened after the Titanic sank by Christopher Ward
RRP: £10.99£7.61On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... -
Napoleon: A Brilliant Leader Who Helped Shape the Modern World - or a Brutal Tyrant? by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: £9.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912568017Author Adam ZamoyskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
One Party After Another: The Unruly Life of Nigel Farage by Michael Crick
RRP: £25.00£16.24'Enormously readable...excellent' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'A superb piece of thorough journalism' David Aaronovitch, The TimesNigel Farage is arguably one of the most influential British politicians of the 21st century. His campaign to take the... -
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Loung Ung 9781840185195
RRP: £11.99£8.66Soon 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... -
King David: A Biography by Steven L. McKenzie 9780195132731
RRP: £33.99£30.71One of the most important and complex characters in the Bible, King David has been the subject of innumerable portraits, both artistic and literary. Michaelangelo's magnificent sculpture of him is perhaps the single best known work of art in the world,... -
George III (Penguin Monarchs): Madness and Majesty by Jeremy Black 9780141993423
RRP: £8.99£6.65King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant for America's Founding Fathers, and for his madness, both... -
Mother Country: A Story of Love and Lies by Monique Charlesworth 9781915635990
RRP: £10.99£9.18A 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... -
Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives by Plutarch
RRP: £11.99£8.66Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I... -
Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England by Steven Gunn
RRP: £32.49£29.81The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart of his... -
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century James Buchan 9781848666085
RRP: £14.99£10.05At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for...