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Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £14.99£10.46'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have... -
The Arcanum by Janet Gleeson
RRP: £15.99£11.61Imprisoned in a fairy-tale castle and under constant threat of execution by his ruthless captor an 18th century apothecary struggled to realize the alchemist's dream. His name was Johann Frederick Bottger. But instead of transforming base metal into gold... -
A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England by Vanessa Wilkie 9781982154288
RRP: £18.99£12.27This extraordinary true story transports us to Tudor and Stuart England as Alice Spencer, the daughter of an upstart sheep farmer, becomes one of the most powerful women in the country and establishes a powerful dynasty that endures to this day. Perfect... -
A Time to Speak by Helen Lewis 9780786704866
£14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786704866Author Helen LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers IncPublisher Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc -
Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Lownie 9781639361410
RRP: £48.00£39.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639361410Author Andrew LownieFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 145mm *... -
From Yellow to Golden: The Stately Heritage of the Golden Retriever by Malcolm Morecroft 9780955672231
£12.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Amy Stanley
RRP: £9.99£7.21Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change'Compelling... Deeply absorbing'... -
Diarmait King Of Leinster by Nicholas Furlong 9781856355056
£14.89Diarmait Mac Murchada was a king through misadventure. Owing to a series of fatal family mishaps he was elected to power in 1126 at sixteen. He ruled through a turbulent period and became one of the most dominant figures in Irish history. Furlong... -
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
RRP: £17.99£13.87At once a heart-wrenching personal narrative and a unique historical document, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the ultimate example of the personal as political. Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world's greatest humanitarians, having... -
Milligan's War: The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
RRP: £16.99£12.47Milligan's War is the one-volume selected edition of Spike Milligan's war memoirs, published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Britain's funniest old soldier on 16 April 1988. Adolf Hitler, Monty, Mussolini, Rommel (who?) - all played their modest... -
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
RRP: £10.99£7.99**WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography**NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS. 'We are doubly blessed that Beethoven should have led such an extraordinary life. Laura has combined the two - the... -
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon 9781444762105 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29Sometimes the facts are even more extraordinary than the fiction...Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story of the beautiful American heiress who lived at Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes' award winning drama Downton... -
Charles Dickens: The Man, The Novels, The Victorian Age Lucinda Hawksley 9780233006055
RRP: £20.00£13.75Charles Dickens is the definitive illustrated guide to the man and his works with images of documents from Dickens' personal archive written by one of descendants. It follows Dickens from early childhood, including his time spent as a child labourer, and... -
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler by Laurence Rees
RRP: £12.99£9.34Fuelled by hate. Unable to form normal human relationships. Unwilling to debate political issues.In many ways Adolf Hitler seemed an unlikely leader, yet he inspired millions, leading Germany into the cataclysmic events of the Second World War.But how... -
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474610926
RRP: £25.00£17.90'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals' Sunday TimesCAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for women.Poet, pamphleteer and artist's... -
Genghis Khan by John Man 9780553814989 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's immortals. In Central Asia, they still use his name to frighten children. In China, he is honoured as the founder of a dynasty. In Mongolia he is the father of... -
Genghis Khan by John Man
RRP: £14.99£10.95Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's immortals. In Central Asia, they still use his name to frighten children. In China, he is honoured as the founder of a dynasty. In Mongolia he is the father of... -
Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust Robert Marshall 9781800326422
RRP: £10.99£7.21An extraordinary true story of survival and courage through the Holocaust.Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews... -
Somerled by John Marsden
RRP: £20.00£14.27Through most of eight hundred years, Somerled of Argyll has been variously denounced as an intractable rebel against his rightful king and esteemed as the honoured ancestor of the later medieval Lord of the Isles, but he can be recognised now as a much... -
Goebbels by Peter Longerich
RRP: £16.99£12.68Joseph 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... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: £16.99£12.89The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of... -
Last Team Out of Kabul: Surrounded by the Taliban H. Collins 9781802471113
RRP: £9.99£6.63As a Royal Marine Commando, H. Collins served in Afghanistan in 2001 on combat operations. He took part in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and returned for a second tour the following year. In 2005, now a private security contractor, he spent five years in... -
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by John Meacham
RRP: £19.99£14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780812973464Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Solitude of Self: Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Vivian Gornick 9780374530563
RRP: £7.99£6.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530563Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackPage Count 135Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Great Stink of London by Stephen Halliday
RRP: £16.99£13.53'An extraordinary history' PETER ACKROYD, The Times'A lively account of (Bazalgette's) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated' HERMIONE HOBHOUSE'Halliday is good on sanitary engineering and even better on cloaca, crud and putrefaction . . ... -
A Lady of Cotton: Hannah Greg, Mistress of Quarry Bank Mill by David Sekers 9780752490083 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.34In 1789 Hannah Lightbody, a well-educated and intelligent young woman of means, married Samuel Greg and found herself at the centre of his cotton empire in the industrial heart of England. It was a man's world, in which women like Hannah were barred from... -
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold by John Guy
RRP: £12.99£9.34From Thomas Becket's early life as a merchant's son and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury to his assassination in the Cathedral itself, this enlightening book brings to life a colossal figure of British history. 'Lively, effortlessly readable,... -
The Earp Brothers of Tombstone: The Story of Mrs. Virgil Earp by Frank Waters 9780803258389
RRP: £12.99£11.76The Earp Brothers of Tombstone and the famous fight at the O. K. Corral are well known to American history and even better known to American legend. This composite biography of Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, James, and Warner Earp is based on the recollections... -
Liam Lynch: To Declare a Republic by Gerard Shannon
RRP: £17.99£17.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788558211Author Gerard ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
King of the North Wind: The Life of Henry II in Five Acts by Claudia Gold
RRP: £12.99£8.71Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced from the French king; his son Richard the Lionheart; Thomas Becket, murdered in his cathedral... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate 9780008425005
RRP: £10.99£7.46A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote,... -
Black Water: By Strength and By Guile by Don Camsell
RRP: £15.99£11.79Don Camsell joined the men in black of the SBS in 1974. From the deserts of Oman to the hills of Port Stanley, from the bottom of Gibraltar harbour to the deep, cold, black waters of Loch Long and from the QE2 to the back alleys of Belfast, his new role... -
In My Life: A Music Memoir by Alan Johnson
RRP: £10.99£7.99From being transported by the sound of 'True Love' by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly on the radio, as a small child living in condemned housing in ungentrified West London in the late 1950s, to going out to work as a postman humming 'Watching the... -
The Nevills of Middleham: England's Most Powerful Family in the Wars of the Roses by K. L. Clark
RRP: £14.99£11.72In 1465, the Nevills must have thought they'd reached the pinnacle of power and influence in England. Richard Nevill was the king's right-hand man and married to the richest woman in the kingdom; John Nevill was an accomplished soldier who'd done much to... -
Lolek by Richard Teuchmann 9781837941254
RRP: £9.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837941254Author Richard TeuchmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers -
Sisters in Resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis by Tilar J. Mazzeo
RRP: £20.00£13.86The extraordinary true story of the unlikely friendship between three women - Mussolini's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite - who conspired to assist the Allies. In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator, gave her father... -
The Sisters of Battle Road: The Extraordinary True Story of Six Sisters Evacuated from Wartime London by J. M. Maloney
RRP: £9.99£7.32'A tale of survival.' Daily Mail'Survival against the odds ... [an] amazing story.' The SunIn 1939 Annie Jarman and her six young daughters were evacuated from their south London home and sent to the Sussex countryside to wait out the war. Refusing to be... -
Sword Of No-Sword by John Stevens 9781570620508
RRP: £26.00£16.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570620508Author John StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Wolsey: The Life of King Henry VIII's Cardinal by John Matusiak
RRP: £12.99£9.87Cardinal Wolsey is a controversial figure: a butcher's son, a man of letters and the Church, a divisive political expert, a man of principle - yet, to some, an arrogant upstart. As Lord Chancellor to the incorrigible Henry VIII he achieved much both at... -
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anthony Birley
RRP: £12.99£9.34One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic...