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Hermann and Arthur Goering: The Nazi and the Renegade by James Wyllie
RRP: €15.46€11.45They were the most unlikely siblings - one, Adolf Hitler's most trusted henchman, the other a fervent anti-Nazi. Hermann Goering was a founder member of the Nazi Party, who became commander of the Luftwaffe, ordering the terror bombing of civilians and... -
History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova 9781857152906
RRP: €23.80€18.20The 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... -
Betty Boothroyd Autobiography by Betty Boothroyd 9780099427049 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73The enormous respect and affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for: fair play, an unshakeable sense of honour and a passionate belief in the sovereignty of Parliament. Her convictions, she... -
Betty Boothroyd Autobiography by Betty Boothroyd
RRP: €15.46€10.82The enormous respect and affection of the British public for Betty Boothroyd has its roots in a strong belief in what she stands for: fair play, an unshakeable sense of honour and a passionate belief in the sovereignty of Parliament. Her convictions, she... -
When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss 9780684870182
RRP: €24.98€16.72Apologies 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)... -
Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
RRP: €15.46€10.82Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from the Lives, a... -
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson 9780684807614
€28.24During 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
RRP: €9.51€7.07The 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... -
Turning the Tide by Prof. Angela V. John 9781909844728
RRP: €23.80€17.48This rich biography tells the remarkable tale of Margaret Haig Thomas who became the Second Viscountess Rhondda. She was a Welsh suffragette, held important posts during the First World War and survived the sinking of the Lusitania. A leading British... -
The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton
RRP: €11.89€7.63Now 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... -
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: €23.80€17.01A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the... -
Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story by Gabriele Vom Bruck
RRP: €41.65€37.18Mirrored Loss tells the story of Amat al-Latif al Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the autocratic imamate. Her relationship with her adored... -
The Big House: The Story of a Country House and its Family by Christopher Simon Sykes
RRP: €13.08€8.63The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years. 'The Big House' is the biography of a great country house and the lives of the Sykes family who lived there, with varying fates, for... -
Billington: Victorian Executioner by Alison Bruce
RRP: €15.46€11.45'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... -
The Foreigner Group by Carolus Loefroos 9781956887495
€32.06Apologies 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)... -
The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
RRP: €13.08€8.81Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in... -
Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
RRP: €22.60€21.46The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory "A perfectly paced biography."-Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer... -
Charles I (Penguin Monarchs): An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky
RRP: €9.51€6.89The 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... -
Tudor King in All but Name: The Life of Edward Seymour by Margaret Scard
RRP: €17.84€13.74In January 1547 Henry VIII lay dying. His heir was just 9 years old and all England waited expectantly to see who would hold the reins of power until Edward VI came of age. Within days of Henry's death, the privy council overturned the terms of his will... -
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee by Sam Kashner
RRP: €15.46€10.09A 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: €13.08€8.63Not 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 First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty by Neal Thompson 9780063268593
RRP: €17.84€15.11"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... -
Tomorrow to Be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers 9780743200028
€19.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743200028Author Susan TraversFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors by Alison Weir
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Stunning... Weir has brought those five queens to life like never before. I just raced through it - it has all the drama and suspense of a novel' Tracy BormanCrusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens,... -
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell by Donald Worster 9780195156355
RRP: €27.95€19.74If 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... -
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage 9780857201058
RRP: €41.65€39.04Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023 Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyWinner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and DiplomacyWinner of the American History Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2023... -
Cnut the Great by Timothy Bolton
RRP: €15.46€13.64A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire "A gripping and revelatory biography of Britain's Danish conqueror."-... -
Elfrida: The First Crowned Queen of England by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: €13.08€8.63Contrary to popular belief, Anglo-Saxon England had queens, with the tenth-century Elfrida being the most powerful and notorious of them all. She was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England, sharing her husband King Edgar's imperial coronation at... -
You Can't Win by Jack Black 9781936239610
RRP: €22.60€15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239610Author Jack BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 566g -
Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville by Gemma Hollman
RRP: €15.46€11.45'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle - and her husband was about to fall from grace. ... -
Jesus by A. N. Wilson
RRP: €22.60€16.20The Jesus of Faith and the Jesus of History are two different beings, with two different stories. In this brilliant and bestselling biography, A. N. Wilson reappraises our readings of the Gospels and, with extraordinary insight and clarity, reinterprets... -
1950s Childhood Spangles, Tiddlywinks and The Clitheroe Kid: Spangles, Tiddlywinks and the Clitheroe Kid by Derek Tait
RRP: €11.89€7.90With 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... -
Hell's Half Acre by Susan Jonusas
RRP: €11.89€7.63A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier-shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war. 'A carefully researched and horribly compelling... -
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: €15.46€10.82Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his... -
Ever the Diplomat: Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin by Sherard Cowper-Coles
RRP: €15.46€10.09In this entertaining and engaging memoir, former ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on embassy life throughout the world. In 1977 fresh-faced Oxford graduate Sherard Cowper-Coles entered the hallowed portals of the Foreign Office... -
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper 9780743266253
RRP: €20.23€12.34Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.Helene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of... -
Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood 9780553815214 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73'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 by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: €15.46€10.82'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
€17.73Apologies 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 -
A Yorkshire Boyhood by Roy Hattersley 9780349116556 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.28It 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...