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Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it by Dr Julia Grace Patterson 9780008603526
RRP: €11.89€7.90The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. 'The NHS is an institution. But it's also a political football, kicked back and forth between politicians for... -
The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Lyndsy Spence
RRP: €11.89€8.98The shocking true story behind A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany Margaret, Duchess of Argyll's life was one of complexity and controversy. Born Ethel Margaret Whigham, the only child of a Scottish self-made millionaire and a... -
Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk 9780099433538
RRP: €22.60€16.67J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to... -
Evita: The Life of Eva Perón by Jill Hedges 9781350452022
RRP: €17.84€13.98Eva Peron remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Peron, himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and... -
The Benn Diaries: 1940-1990 by Tony Benn 9780099634119 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€14.35The Benn Diaries, embracing the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of political life. The selected highlights that form this single-volume edition include the most notable events,... -
The Benn Diaries: 1940-1990 by Tony Benn
RRP: €20.22€14.61The Benn Diaries, embracing the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of political life. The selected highlights that form this single-volume edition include the most notable events,... -
Shakespeare's Wife by Dr. Germaine Greer 9780747593003 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€2.73______________ 'Excellent ... a marvellous imagining of the life of Shakespeare's wife and a devastating exposure of the misogyny of the male biographers who have disparaged her' - Sunday Telegraph 'Greer dares to think the unthinkable ... this is... -
Shakespeare's Wife by Dr. Germaine Greer 9780747593003
RRP: €20.22€14.61______________ 'Excellent ... a marvellous imagining of the life of Shakespeare's wife and a devastating exposure of the misogyny of the male biographers who have disparaged her' - Sunday Telegraph 'Greer dares to think the unthinkable ... this is... -
The Unofficial Donald Trump Annual 2019 by Adam G Goodwin 9781911622079 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.73Following the success of the Unofficial Jeremy Corbyn Annual 2018 comes another hilarious spoof annual, featuring a rather different man: Donald J. Trump. It would be fair to say that 2018 was quite a year for the Donald, and what better way to... -
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici by Estelle Paranque 9781529109221
RRP: €23.80€16.07'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biography...accessible and unpretentious' The Telegraph'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman'Exciting and... -
Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken 9780805065893
RRP: €35.69€24.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805065893Author Gregg HerkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)... -
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary by Ernest Harsch
RRP: €15.46€14.01Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his government. Although his tenure in office was relatively... -
Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard 9780300274172
RRP: €13.08€11.15The 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... -
Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill
RRP: €11.89€7.97Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul and Philip Roth. From the pleasures, intrigues and... -
Tiberius by Robin Seager
RRP: €39.21€34.68Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor's complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor.Argues that... -
Mikhail Gorbachev: Memoirs by Mikhail Gorbachev
RRP: €22.60€16.67Mikhail Gorbachev is the man who changed everything. It was Gorbachev's initiative that raised the Iron Curtain; his actions that resulted in one of the era's most symbolic events, the demolition on the Berlin Wall; his reforms that set in train events... -
Selected Essays (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
RRP: €3.56€2.78HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words' Best known for his remarkable novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, George... -
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
RRP: €15.46€10.82This is the classic life of Cromwell by one of the great radical historians of the English Civil War'A triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose ... Hill introduced nuance into the character of Cromwell and the nature of his revolution ..... -
Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt by Charlotte Gray 9781398527720
RRP: €29.75€18.85A captivating biography of two famous women whose sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt, would change the course of the 20th century-by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray. Born into upper class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano... -
The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria by Max Adams
RRP: €15.46€10.82'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 Spite of Fortune: The Fabulous Story of an 18th-Century Heiress by Kishanda Fulford
RRP: €29.75€20.97This is the true story of Louisa Carolina Colleton, whose tale could have flown from the pages of a gothic novel. In 1777, at the age of fourteen, after many adventures, the beautiful heiress inherited valuable estates on two sides of the Atlantic. As in... -
Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero by Mordechai Bar-On
RRP: €23.79€20.19From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vivid portrait of one of the most powerful leaders in Israel's first decades of statehood Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was one of Israel's most charismatic-and... -
Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls by Marlene Wagman-Geller 9781642500172
RRP: €15.46€13.41A Glimpse Behind the Facade of Rich and Famous Women"...wild, witty, gossipy, and glamourous. A sheer delight." Becca Anderson, author of Badass Women Give the Best Advice#1 Best Seller in Women's Studies and Biographies of the Rich & Famous and... -
Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: €20.22€13.73The epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of Caesar.The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world and has been depicted in countless novels, plays... -
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
RRP: €23.79€17.47Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists-in what will prove... -
Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: €17.84€11.66'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' EconomistIt was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual... -
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
RRP: €22.60€15.12SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a long time to come' Sunday Times 'Seldom has... -
Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter by Robert Hutton
RRP: €13.08€8.81June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined to do all they can to hasten it.Throughout the Second World... -
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix 9780062560513
RRP: €17.84€11.54Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A startling work -- awesomely ambitious, faultlessly researched, daring in its thesis, and profound in its implications." - Business Week "Magnificent. . . . everything a political biography should be... -
The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind by Mahdi Obeidi 9780471679653
€22.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471679653Author Mahdi ObeidiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 454g -
Billy Biscuit: The Colourful Life of Sir William Curtis MP by J. H. Curtis-Dolby 9781844269211
€22.67The remarkable story of Sir William Curtis MP, who rose from humble beginnings as a baker in Wapping to become a self-made multi-millionaire, banker and shipping magnate who was at the centre of Georgian society for over fifty years. A friend and... -
Goebbels by Peter Longerich
RRP: €20.22€16.42Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. But how did this club-footed son of a factory worker rise from obscurity to become Hitler's malevolent minister of propaganda, most trusted lieutenant and personally anointed successor? In... -
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
RRP: €17.84€13.24On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their... -
Alastair Sim: The Real Belle of St Trinian's by Simpson Mark
RRP: €15.46€11.45Alastair Sim was an enigmatic character both on and off the screen. His idiosyncratic style of acting in films such as The Belles of St Trinian's endeared him to a cinema-going audience desperate to escape the day-to-day dreariness of an invasive,... -
By the Waters of Liverpool by Helen Forrester
RRP: €11.89€7.90The third volume in the classic story of Helen Forrester's childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s. Helen Forrester continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of her teenage... -
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
RRP: €20.22€14.61China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken... -
Forty Autumns: A family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall by Nina Willner 9780349141367
RRP: €15.46€10.23In Forty Autumns, Nina Willner recounts the history of three generations of her family - mothers, sisters, daughters and cousins - separated by forty years of Soviet rule, and reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Shortly after the end of the Second... -
The Verneys: Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England by Adrian Tinniswood 9781844134144 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.41€2.73Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.In this extraordinary saga, Adrian Tinniswood draws on tens of thousands of letters, which survived by chance in an attic, to reveal the remarkable world of the Verneys, a family of Buckinghamshire gentry in the... -
After the Annex: Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond by Bas von Benda-Beckmann
RRP: €29.75€20.59On 27 January 1945 Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. At that point not only his journey home started, but also his long quest to find out what had happened to his wife Edith, his daughters Margot and Anne and the four other... -
Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots by Kate Williams
RRP: €13.08€9.25___________________________________'Scintillating, provocative... An elegant synthesis of royal biography and political thriller.' Daily TelegraphA Times History Book of the Year: a story which inspired the Hollywood film MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.Mary, Queen...