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The Anne Boleyn Papers by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: £14.99£9.96Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, caused comment wherever she went. Through the chronicles, letters and dispatches written by both Anne and her contemporaries, it is possible to see her life and thoughts as she struggled to become queen of... -
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime by Susannah Stapleton 9781509867325 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again.' - Jill Paton Walsh, author of the Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries.Maud West ran her... -
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime by Susannah Stapleton
RRP: £9.99£7.48'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again.' - Jill Paton Walsh, author of the Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries.Maud West ran her... -
Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel by Rachel Holmes
RRP: £16.99£12.47'A wonderful book ... Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia's extraordinary life' The Times 'A masterpiece' Vanessa Redgrave _______________ Born into one of Britain's most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a natural rebel. A free... -
The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy by Ian Arthurson
RRP: £14.99£11.72Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York & Norfolk, the younger of the two sons of Edward IV imprisoned in the Tower of London by Richard III, and whose true fate is unknown to this day. He led... -
The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS: In Their Own Words by Gordon Stevens
RRP: £15.99£11.61'We've been approached something like 25 times since the war. I kicked each out the window because they weren't going to make it with the integrity we require the story of the SAS to be told.' - Colonel Sir David Stirling, OBE, DSO, Founder of the... -
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps 9781784703578 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy...Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge... -
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean Roland Philipps 9781784703578
RRP: £12.99£9.19Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy...Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge... -
My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla
£5.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868143Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm -
Sir Henry Royce: Establishing Rolls-Royce, from Motor Cars to Aero Engines by Peter Reese
RRP: £17.99£13.84It's hard to imagine a history of British engineering without Rolls-Royce: there would be no Silver Ghost, no Merlin for the Spitfire, no Alcock and Brown. Rolls-Royce is one of the most recognisable brands in the world.But what of the man who designed... -
Napoleon Alan Forrest 9781780872506
RRP: £12.99£7.72On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Napoleon was solemnly carried on a riverboat from Courbevoie on its final journey to the Invalides. In this book Alan Forrest tells the remarkable story of how the son... -
The Life and Times of Mary Attenborough (1896-1961) by Richard Graves
RRP: £12.99£9.35Mary's own story is here revealed and given value in its own right, not merely as 'the wife of ...' or 'the mother of ...'. This remarkable woman deserves her own place in history. Mary Clegg was a spirited young woman from a liberal, non-conformist... -
Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life by Ian Thomson 9780099515210 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99£2.30'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi's birth, now featuring a new introduction from the author.Discover the definitive biography of... -
Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life by Ian Thomson
RRP: £20.99£14.94'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi's birth, now featuring a new introduction from the author.Discover the definitive biography of... -
A Spitfire Girl: One of the World's Greatest Female ATA Ferry Pilots Tells Her Story Mary Ellis 9781526756619
RRP: £14.99£11.11We visualise dashing and daring young men as the epitome of the pilots of the Second World War, yet amongst that elite corps was one person who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft and that person was Mary Wilkins. ... -
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
RRP: £14.99£10.01**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one... -
Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth by John Darnell and Colleen Darnell
RRP: £25.00£18.94Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom... -
Brazilian Adventure Peter Fleming 9781780602004
RRP: £14.99£9.50It began with an advertisement in the agony column of The Times: Leaving England June, to explore rivers Central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Fawcett; abundance game, big and small; exceptional fishing; room two more guns. Colonel Fawcett... -
Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 by Stella Rimington
RRP: £10.99£7.99'The story of MI5's transformation - is fascinating. So, too is Rimington's account of her rise in what was very definitely a man's world.' Guardian____________________________The eye-opening memoir from the first female Director-General of MI5Stella... -
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
RRP: £12.99£9.34A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but on the Eastern Front. History has it that the role of women in Nazi Germany was to be the perfect Hausfrau and a loyal... -
My Life by Fidel Castro
RRP: £18.99£13.61The acclaimed autobiography of Fidel Castro, one of the towering political figures of our age, who dominated both Cuba and the world stage for over half a century.Here Castro tells his story in full for the first time, speaking openly about ... -
Upstairs & Downstairs: My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid by Tim Tate
RRP: £10.99£7.69The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gowns; of tiaras and a coronation. As personal maid to Lady Coventry, Hilda Newman had a unique insight into the leisured life of... -
The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
RRP: £12.99£9.34WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013'Completely absorbing' Amanda Foreman'Enthralling' Guardian'The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of courseare fiction. But here a prize-winning author shows us that the inspiration... -
History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova 9781857152906
RRP: £20.00£15.29The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798), in now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in him memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In his time he was diplomat, business... -
The Essential Writings by Mahatma Gandhi
RRP: £10.99£7.99'those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means' Mahatma Gandhi was a profound and original thinker as well as one of the most influential figures in the history of the twentieth century. A religious and... -
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £25.00£16.39From 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... -
Augustine: A Very Short Introduction by Henry Chadwick
RRP: £8.99£6.65By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but also the West since his time. This Very Short Introduction traces the development of Augustine's thought,... -
Peter the Great: A Biography by Lindsey Hughes 9780300103007
RRP: £14.99£13.03The definitive short biography of the enigmatic Peter the Great Peter the Great (1672-1725), tsar of Russia for forty-three years, was a dramatic, appealing, and unconventional character. This book provides a vivid sense of the dynamics of his life-both... -
When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss 9780684870182
RRP: £20.99£14.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684870182Author David MaranissFormat PaperbackPage Count 541Imprint Simon & Schuster AustraliaPublisher Simon & Schuster AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
RRP: £19.00£11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (History) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780375705243Author Joseph J. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House... -
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson 9780684807614
£23.88During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America's best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer. He was also one of its most practical political thinkers. America's first great publicist, he carefully crafted his... -
Her Father's Daughter: Two families. One man's secrets. A moving true story. by Beezy Marsh 9781509892686 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£1.87The international bestseller.From the Sunday Times bestselling author Beezy Marsh, comes a moving true story of two women fighting to survive scandal, poverty and war.When Annie marries Harry after years of heartache in a London slum she believes she's... -
Her Father's Daughter: Two families. One man's secrets. A moving true story. by Beezy Marsh
RRP: £7.99£6.13The international bestseller.From the Sunday Times bestselling author Beezy Marsh, comes a moving true story of two women fighting to survive scandal, poverty and war.When Annie marries Harry after years of heartache in a London slum she believes she's... -
The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France by Ruth Harris 9780141014777
RRP: £14.99£11.11Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2010 and the 2010 National Jewish Book Award for BiographyRuth Harris writes beautifully and engagingly on a moment in French history that polarized society and undermined the French state; the repercussions of which... -
Eileen: The Making of George Orwell Sylvia Topp 9781800180260
RRP: £9.99£6.63This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century,... -
1950s Childhood Spangles, Tiddlywinks and The Clitheroe Kid: Spangles, Tiddlywinks and the Clitheroe Kid Derek Tait 9781445609775
RRP: £9.99£6.84With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the local... -
William the Conqueror by David Bates
RRP: £17.99£16.39A landmark reinterpretation of the life of William the Conqueror-a pivotal figure in British and European history"[The] definitive biography of the man who forever changed England with his invasion of 1066."-Tony Barber, "Best books of 2016," Financial... -
Billington: Victorian Executioner by Alison Bruce
RRP: £12.99£9.87'An insightful and gripping account that will take you into the dark but fascinating world of a Victorian executioner.' - Stewart P. EvansBetween 1884 and 1905 James Billington and his three sons, Thomas, William and John, were responsible for 235... -
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer by Tina Gaudoin
RRP: £25.00£18.02TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' - Lynn Barber, Telegraph *****'Gaudoin's book is revealing and hugely entertaining. Highly recommended.' - Daily Mail'Gaudoin tells these delicious stories with brio' - Sunday... -
The Foreigner Group by Carolus Loefroos 9781956887495
£26.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887495Author Carolus LoefroosFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...