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Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, and Phoenix Queen – the true story of Charles I’s wife by Leanda de Lisle 9781529111040
RRP: £12.99£9.19A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZEHenrietta Maria, Charles I's queen, is the most... -
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass 9780198835325
RRP: £9.99£7.32'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life... -
The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew at His Side by Damien Lewis
RRP: £17.99£12.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476739151Author Damien LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Napoleon and Wellington Andrew Roberts 9781842127407
RRP: £16.99£11.71A dual biography of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated on one another, by a bestselling historian.'Thoroughly enjoyable, beautifully written and meticulously researched' ObserverOn the morning of the battle of... -
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee by Sam Kashner
RRP: £12.99£8.71A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else-Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill-from the authors of Furious Love.When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her... -
Richard III by David Baldwin
RRP: £10.99£7.46Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of... -
The Best of Benn by Tony Benn
RRP: £10.99£7.99Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians. The Best of Benn showcases his powers of original thinking and communication over seven decades.From 'the baby of the house' to a retired widower, he was a consistently radical... -
Albert Camus and the Human Crisis: A Discovery and Exploration by Robert E. Meagher
RRP: £20.00£13.06A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus's life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, "cannot live without dialogue and friendship."As... -
The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding by Ryan S. Walters
RRP: £22.00£14.05"Presidents are ranked wrong. In The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding, Ryan Walters mounts a case that Harding deserves to move up-and supplies the evidence to make that case strong. -Amity Shlaes, bestselling author of CoolidgeHe's the... -
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
RRP: £18.00£11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780767929714Author Candice MillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House... -
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty by Neal Thompson 9780063268593
RRP: £14.99£12.96"Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon MeachamBased on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first book to explore the inspiring story of the poor Irish... -
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell by Donald Worster 9780195156355
RRP: £23.49£16.59If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the... -
Eclipse by Nicholas Clee
RRP: £16.99£13.09Epsom Downs, 3rd May, 1769: a chestnut with a white blaze scorches across the turf towards the finishing post. His four rivals are so far behind him that, in racing terms, they are 'nowhere'. Watching Eclipse is the man who wants to buy him. An... -
Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age by Max Adams
RRP: £9.99£7.32The story of Aelfred the Great, his war against the Vikings and the foundations of modern Britain. In AD 865, a 'great host' of battle-hardened Norse warriors landed on England's eastern coast, overwhelmed East Anglia with terrifying swiftness and laid... -
Seven Days on the Roads of France, June 1940 by Vladimir Lossky 9780881414189
RRP: £11.99£11.11June 1940: Vladimir Lossky joined the massive exodus from Paris before the advancing German Army. In his diary of the upheaval, this theologian of Orthodox mysticism reflects on civilisation, war and the place of Christianity in East and West.Book... -
Kersten's Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell Francois Kersaudy 9781914495748
RRP: £25.00£14.48It dawned on me that I was henceforth under his thumb. The vagaries of war had chained me to the man who, apart from Hitler, was considered to be the most powerful and the most dangerous of them all ...Oskar Schindler is well known for having saved a... -
One Dog at a Time: Saving the Strays of Helmand - An Inspiring True Story by Pen Farthing 9780091928810 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.09'Thick with rolls of gleaming new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound's thick mud walls. Today, however, it had only succeeded in stopping a terrified-looking small white dog. I knew that the Taliban... -
One Dog at a Time: Saving the Strays of Helmand - An Inspiring True Story by Pen Farthing
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Thick with rolls of gleaming new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound's thick mud walls. Today, however, it had only succeeded in stopping a terrified-looking small white dog. I knew that the Taliban... -
The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton
RRP: £9.99£6.61Now an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+ featuring Kim Kardashian, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, Wanda Sykes, Megan Thee Stallion and more She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father... -
Sniper on the Eastern Front by Albrecht Wacker 9781781590041
RRP: £9.99£7.32This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi invasion of Russia. Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger was an Austrian conscript who qualified as a Wehrmacht... -
Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood 9780553815214 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29'It is Arbella they would proclaim Queen if her mistress should happen to die' Sir William Stanley, 1592Niece to Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter to the great Tudor dynast Bess of Hardwick, Lady Arbella Stuart was brought up in the belief that she... -
Arbella: England's Lost Queen Sarah Gristwood 9780553815214
RRP: £12.99£9.34'It is Arbella they would proclaim Queen if her mistress should happen to die' Sir William Stanley, 1592Niece to Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter to the great Tudor dynast Bess of Hardwick, Lady Arbella Stuart was brought up in the belief that she... -
In Search of Dracula by Radu Florescu
£14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395657836Author Radu FlorescuPage Count 320Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 500g -
Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs): The Quest for Fame by John Guy
RRP: £7.99£5.98The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackHenry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. Magnificent, tyrannical, a strong ruler, a 'pillager of the... -
The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston's Daughters by Rachel Trethewey
RRP: £20.00£15.67Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in any other family, they were Churchills and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From... -
A Yorkshire Boyhood by Roy Hattersley 9780349116556 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.09It was not until he was dead and I was forty that I realised my father was once in Holy Orders,' Roy Hattersley tells us in the opening pages of A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD; so setting the tone for an elegant, continually surprising book.A somewhat precocious... -
Daisy: The life and loves of the Countess of Warwick by Sushila Anand
RRP: £10.99£7.61Daisy Warwick was an heiress in her own right and a renowned beauty when she married Lord Brooke, heir to the Earl of Warwick, in 1880 at the age of 18. But she soon embarked on a passionate affair with Lord Charles Beresford who subsequently brought her... -
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder 9781398506084
RRP: £12.99£9.89THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 2 BESTSELLER ** THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER'More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly, heart-poundingly thrilling than any fiction I have read for years, but it is all true' Stephen... -
Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen by Sara Cockerill
RRP: £14.99£9.96Eleanor of Castile, the remarkable woman behind England's greatest medieval king, Edward I, has been effectively airbrushed from history; yet she had one of the most fascinating lives of any of England's queens. Her childhood was spent in the centre of... -
10 Scotland Street: With a foreword from Val McDermid Leslie Hills 9781910895979
RRP: £14.99£10.93This 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. –... -
Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History by Janina Ramirez
RRP: £10.99£7.99Over six hundred years ago a woman known as Julian of Norwich wrote what is now regarded as one of the greatest works of literature in English. Based on a sequence of mystical visions she received in 1373, her book is called Revelations of Divine Love. ... -
The Genius of their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment by S. Frederick Starr 9780197675557
RRP: £22.99£16.68A vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding figures and rivals, Ibn Sina and Biruni. In The Genius of their Age, S. Frederick Starr follows up his acclaimed Lost... -
The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne De Courcy 9780753812556 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful.Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most... -
The Viceroy's Daughters Anne de Courcy 9780753812556
RRP: £12.99£8.83The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful.Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most... -
Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True Story by Mitchell Zuckoff 9780007410958
RRP: £11.99£9.24An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, Lost in Shangri-La is an untold true story of war, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months before the end of World War II, a U.S. Army plane flying... -
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett
RRP: £14.99£11.11The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the heir-providing Jane Seymour or the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her twenties with a passion she had... -
Cartimandua: Queen of the Brigantes by Nicki Howarth
RRP: £14.99£11.72This is the first major study of Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes tribe in Northern Britain in the first century AD. Little is known about the tribal ruler, who fought off rebellion and civil war and managed to keep her lands when many other British... -
The Autobiography Of Andrew Carnegie And The Gospel Of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
RRP: £7.99£5.42Apologies 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 -
Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line by Judith Mackrell
RRP: £10.99£8.15'They were not just reporters; they were also pioneers, and Judith Mackrell has done them proud.' -SpectatorGoing with the Boys follows six intrepid women as their lives and careers intertwined on the front lines of the Second World War.Martha Gellhorn... -
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
RRP: £9.99£7.32The gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the surprising life of an ordinary Nazi officer.'Totally exhilarating' Philippe SandsIt began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal...