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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro 9781847923653
RRP: £30.00£22.29The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro is 'simply one of the best non-fiction books in English of the last forty years' (Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times): a riveting and timeless account of power, politics and the city of New York by 'the greatest political... -
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath by Bill Browder 9781398506107
RRP: £10.99£7.10THE 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... -
Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld 9780753560808
RRP: £22.00£14.71'Haunting and powerfully resonant... this is a story not just of remarkable individuals, but also a tribute to the wider indomitability of the human spirit at the darkest moment in European history' - Sinclair McKay, bestselling author of Berlin and... -
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £18.99£14.01THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, ECONOMIST, DAILY TELEGRAPH, EVENING STANDARD, OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA magnificently fresh and... -
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel 9781399813884
RRP: £25.00£17.03'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of the Year'Magical . . ... -
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite by Michel Foucault 9780394738628
£10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394738628Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)... -
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
RRP: £10.99£7.33THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Affectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book' Nigel Slater'Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies,... -
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 9780141183053
RRP: £8.99£6.65'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish... -
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors. The 'Explosive' new book from 'Britain's Top Investigative Author' by Tom Bower
RRP: £22.00£15.31THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER 'Explosive' The Sun 'Accounts from insiders who have never spoken before' The Times 'Bombshell' The Mirror The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebrated... -
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
RRP: £10.99£7.10Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened she would be next. An international bestseller, her life story... -
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
RRP: £21.99£13.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316001946Author Stacy SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller by Jeremy Dronfield
RRP: £10.99£7.87THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, ALSO AVAILABLE FOR YOUNG READERS AS FRITZ AND KURTDAILY MAIL & SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEARThe inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and survive the Holocaust, for anyone captivated... -
Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths by Suzie Edge 9781472294234
RRP: £12.99£8.83'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle ParanqueTHIS PAPERBACK FEATURES ADDITIONAL MATERIAL ON HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH IIHow the monarchs of England and Scotland met... -
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
RRP: £16.99£12.01You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story. I thought it 'out-Dickens' Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man's rise from his humble beginnings in... -
The Ticket Collector from Belarus: The Extraordinary Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial by Mike Anderson 9781398503274 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.30'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail; 'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Excellent' The Times; 'Engrossing' Independent The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but... -
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
RRP: £10.99£7.35THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people ... Larson tells the story of how that feat was accomplished ..... -
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird 9780375412028
£33.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards and Pulitzer Prize.Book InformationISBN 9780375412028Author Kai BirdFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House USA... -
The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money by Jennifer O'Leary 9781785374616
RRP: £17.99£14.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374616Author Jennifer O'LearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer 9780345404374
RRP: £20.00£15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345404374Author Norman MailerFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 692gDimensions(mm)... -
The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
RRP: £18.99£12.71THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE DECADE WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE 2013 COSTA BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR ... -
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £18.99£14.01'A Napoleonic triumph of a book, irresistibly galloping with the momentum of a cavalry charge' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Simply dynamite' Bernard CornwellFrom Andrew Roberts, author of the bestsellers The Storm of War and Churchill: Walking with Destiny,... -
George II (Penguin Monarchs): Not Just a British Monarch by Norman Davies
£17.19From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George IIGeorge II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elector of Hanover, came to Britain for the first time when he was thirty-one. He had a terrible relationship with his... -
The Lost Men: The Harrowing Story of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party by Kelly Tyler-Lewis
RRP: £14.99£11.11In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. He sailed into the Weddell Sea aboard the Endurance, while a ship called the Aurora sailed into the Ross Sea to create a lifeline of vital... -
With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic by Eugene B. Sledge
RRP: £14.99£10.95The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICThis was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recruit to... -
Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick 9780349106519
RRP: £14.99£8.77This is the first of two volumes that make up what is arguably the definitive Elvis biography. Rich in documentary and interview material, this volume charts Elvis' early years and his rise to fame, taking us up to his departure for Germany in 1958... -
Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman 9781529063417
RRP: £20.00£14.81A Sunday Times Book of the YearQueen Of Our Times is the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II by one of Britain's leading royal authorities, Robert Hardman. This commemorative edition includes an epilogue reflecting upon Her Majesty's Platinum... -
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time by Karen Armstrong 9780061155772
RRP: £14.99£9.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061155772Author Karen ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Caesar Adrian Goldsworthy 9780753821589
RRP: £16.99£10.09The story of one of the most brilliant, flamboyant and historically important men who ever lived.'A superb achievement' LITERARY REVIEW'Combines scholarship with storytelling to bring the ancient world to life: in his masterly new CAESAR he shows us the... -
Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £14.99£10.95As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair. Prelude to Power is the first of four volumes, and covers the... -
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein
RRP: £25.00£14.21THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'A modern classic' OBSERVER 'An unforgettable epic of... -
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: £14.99£10.36A smaller, cheaper edition of this acclaimed illustrated biography of Beatrix Potter. Respected biographer Sarah Gristwood discovers a life crisscrossed with contradictions and marked by tragedy, yet one that left a remarkable literary - and... -
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £18.99£12.71SHORTLISTED 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... -
Life of St Columba by Adomnan of Iona
RRP: £12.99£9.34Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death in 597, St Columba was born into one of the ruling families in Ireland at a time of immense expansion for the Irish Church. This account of his life,... -
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
RRP: £12.99£9.34One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henry's six wives vividly to life, revealing each as a distinct and compelling... -
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell 9780349115054
RRP: £14.99£10.05'A sensational saga' Mail on Sunday'A cracking read' Lynn Barber, Observer'Engrossing from beginning to end' Vogue'Fascinating, the way all great family stories are fascinating' New York Times Book ReviewEven if the six daughters, born between 1904 and... -
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson 9781501139154
RRP: £40.00£26.24The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and... -
Salvador Allende: Revolutionary Democrat by Victor Figueroa Clark
RRP: £24.99£16.63This is a political biography of one of the 20th century's most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973. Victor Figueroa Clark guides us through... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: £7.99£5.98WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is... -
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams 9781250024114
£11.35"I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." This is what Terry Tempest Williams' mother, the matriarch of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah, told her a week before she died. It was a shock... -
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
RRP: £10.99£7.99THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE FATHER OF MODERN GEOLOGYHidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a...